Forget the long lines of people waiting for "Wii Fit." At the Nintendo World Store in New York City this afternoon, I witnessed one of the last things any passersby would expect to see...
A watermelon-eating competition.
Who could eat the most slices in six minutes?
In celebration for next month's "Major League Eating: The Game" WiiWare title, Mastiff Games held a watermelon-eating contest between two real-life competitive eaters featured in the game.
So why make Major League Eating into a game? "We wanted to do a sport that had never been done before, and that was Major League Eating," said Mastiff head Bill Swartz. "Since no one has done an eating game since 'Pac Man,' and since no one has used the Wii controller as an eating device, that was an added bonus."
The event was a showdown between the new Sushi-eating world champ, Tim "Eater X" Janus, who is ranked fourth internationally, and his roommate, "Crazy Legs" Conti, ranked 11th in the world. I was told that Crazy Legs is known as the "Evil Knievel of the Alimentary Canal," and has eaten his way out of a 96-cubic foot sarcophagus of popcorn.
This was to be an epic contest, and the Multiplayer blog would record it in text and photos for posterity. A watermelon-eating champ would be crowned...
(See all the watermelon-eating pictures below.)
In what was a horrible turn of events for me yesterday, a trip to the Nintendo World Store resulted in an unfortunate amount of disappointment.