Karaoke prize: Million dumplings

Published 5:58 pm Sunday, September 26, 2010

By Associated Press

MOSCOW — A technician for an American telephone company has won the top prize of 1 million Russian dumplings in the Karaoke World Championships.

Edward Pimentel won the unusual prize early Sunday in Moscow after getting the most votes from audience members.

Organizers said the dumplings are enough to last 27 years if someone eats 100 of them a day.

A panel of judges chose two Finns as the male and female champions — Sam Moudden and Maria Saarima-Ylitalo. They were awarded karaoke machines.

Amateur singers from 16 countries took part in the three-day competition.

Pimentel, from Albuquerque, N.M., favors the R&B genre.

For his song in the final round, he chose Usher’s “DJ’s got Us Fallin’ In Love.”