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Done! I win!

DotEd and I had no idea we would have a small audience following these battles (yes, there will be several ).

It got hyped a bit, but we will do our best to entertain you. Maybe it will inspire you to do something similar with someone here at My Opera as well, that would've been cool!

To us, it's not as much the contest (or the coffee for that matter) thats cool, but the fact that two people, on different corners of the planet can have a public coffee drinking challenge spur of the moment and already have an audience waiting feverishly. It's awesome.

Below you see a chat log from yesterday when Ed was on his morning train to work that inspired to the first battle:

[07.06.2007 15:30:32] Ed Palumbo sier : yo

[07.06.2007 15:30:55] Ed Palumbo sier : i just accidentally called you

[07.06.2007 15:35:12] Espen A. sier : heya, no probs. was out getting coffee anyway

[07.06.2007 15:35:52] Ed Palumbo sier : we should have a day wehere we compete between ourselves as to who can have the most cups of coffee

[07.06.2007 15:36:06] Espen A. sier : i've had 6 so far, but is soon 4 pm here so...

[07.06.2007 15:36:17] Espen A. sier : what are u up to?

[07.06.2007 15:36:22] Ed Palumbo sier : and blog a picture of each cup before and after

[07.06.2007 15:36:29] Espen A. sier : ye

[07.06.2007 15:36:33] Espen A. sier : "The Race"

We had talked about doing this for some time, so we just decided to do it. There will be updates throughout the day on our blogs so you can follow each of us as we're chugging down coffee. Ed and I are not allowed to look at each others blogs due to time difference (so he don't see that I've had six cups and he just push for seven). We also encourage everyone who's following this to not reveal how many cups of coffee we've had to each other (but feel free to cheer for one of us ).

The first cup

Time: 09:43:16 AM

Arrived at work a bit late today. I have to remember to drink a lot of water today if I'm gonna win this. I have no idea how many cups of coffee Ed drinks, but I have a feeling it's a lot.

Number two

Time: 10:11:13 AM

The first cup went fast. Went straight for another one. I'm feeling strong today.

Third cup

Time: 10:33:13 AM

Have to calm down. Got some water as well. Don't want to hit the wall.

Four and five

Time: 12:07:08 PM

Back from lunch. Had a cup of coffee with my meal, and another one when I finished.

Six!

Time: 12:27:10 PM

Stacey took this photo of me. Thomas will shoot one of me taking a piss later.

Startin' to get messy

Time: 13:29:01 PM

But it goes surprisingly well. Number seven is going down now.

Artistic

Time: 14:44:42 PM

Thomas: "Geez, another cup of coffee?"

Black box of evil

Vetle was right.

Nine aaaand ten!

Time: 15:56:57

Two went down with lightning speed. I can really feel the coffee now. Hard to concentrate. Restless. A tasty cappuccino is next. That pure black coffee really messed my stomach up at the end. One hour left at work - kamikaze style now!

Stop!

After the cappuccino I didn't feel so good. But I managed to bring down one more. That brings me to twelve (12) cups of I feeil I could've done better. But it's now DotEd's turn! Point your browser over to his blog! I hope it will be an exciting race ...