Pizza Blitza!: Pizza Blitza! I/2005 | Pizza Blitza! II/2006 | Pizza Blitza! III/2007
Pizza Blitza! IV/2008 | Pizza Blitza! V/2009 | Pizza Blitza! VI/2010
Armando's Pizza Blitza! II
PIZZA BLITZA! II: The Winners...
Congratulations to the winners of Pizza Blitza! II, the second annual Armando's Pizza speed-eating contest (the first and only pizza speed-eating contest in the Philippines).
Here are this year's top three winners:
|
--Robin Tanoy who bested six other fellow finalists, with a time of 3 minutes and 8 seconds, gobbling his way to a grand prize of P3,000 in Camalig Money and the title as the country's fastest pizza eater of 2006.
|
|
--Melvin Melchor who won second by a second, clocking in at 4 minutes and 23 and going home P2,000 richer in Camalig Money.
|
|
--Jonathan Rivera who finished a close third, with a time of 4 minutes and 24 seconds, taking home P1,000 in Camalig Money.
|
Complete list of Pizza Blitza! II winners:
Week 1 (May 3, 2006):
1. 00:05:25 Jonathan D Rivera/Angeles City
2. 00:07:49 Edison O Antonio/Angeles City
Week 2 (May 10, 2006):
1. ----- Christian John R Dinero/Angeles City
2. ----- Henrico M Rucker/Angeles City
Week 3 (May 17, 2006):
1. 00:04:53 James M Bulaon/Porac, Pampanga
2. 00:04:55 Melvin F Melchor/Angeles City
Week 4 (May 24, 2006):
1. 00:04:05 Alfredo T Mitra Jr*/Angeles City
2. 00:04:08 Robin Tanoy/Angeles City
Finals (May 31, 2006):
1. 00:03:08 Robin Tanoy/Angeles City
2. 00:04:23 Melvin F Melchor/Angeles City
3. 00:04:24 Jonathan D Rivera/Angeles City
* No-show at finals.
To all participants and their fans, thank you for making Pizza Blitza! II a fun-filled success!
Better luck and see you all next year when we hold Pizza Blitza! III.
And now for the pictures...

CALM BEFORE THE STORM. Blitza Emcee Lyskee dutifully reads the rules to the seven hungry finalists on stage before the contest proper: "Puking automatically disqualifies you. So please..."

ON YOUR MARK. Hands up, ready, set...

GO! GO! GO! Kawawang medium-size unsliced Bovine Divine... Pero sige lang, pare, banatan mo!

FAST AND FURIOUS. Break it. Roll it. Fold it. Just eat it!

SIZE DOES NOT MATTER. Grand prize winner Robin Tanoy (second from left) with 2nd placer Melvin Melchor and the towering 3rd prize winner Jonathan Rivera.
Check out the 1st Pizza Blitza! winners, including Claude Tayag's review of the first Pizza Blitza! published in the 6 June 2005 issue of The Philippine Star, right here.