update May 22 Examiner.com has an article and gallery

update May 21 Matt Stonie has a gallery and Caitlin Donnely has a video

4:11 Top 3 announced
1) Pat Bertoletti 18 gyros
2) Matt Stonie 15.5
3) Adrian Morgan 12.5
4) Jake LloydLarry 9 update May 22 Examiner.com has correct name
5) Nate Biller 8.5

3:45 The contest has started

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update May 22 Larell Marie has a gallery

update May 20 NBC40 has a video

update 3:15 Results part 1 | part 2
1) Tim Janus 45 hot dogs
2) Eric “Badlands” Booker 30, wild card leader
3) Marcos Owens 25, top 2012 debut so far
1W) Larell Marie 18.5, personal best

update 2:49 Katelyn D reports that Tim “Janice” won with 45 hot dogs. Larell Marie appeared to be the only woman, so she is probably the female winner.

update 2:33 Richie Romero is also posting pictures.

update 2:26 The contest has started. Hustle Marsalez has uploaded a picture.

The contest will start at 2 pm. The Morning Edge radio show will be present and hopefully posting twitter updates.

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update May 23 I Love Dorney 23 has some videos

update May 22 MCall.com has a gallery

update May 21 The rest of the results are available. Brian Seiken has uploaded some contest videos and “Badlands” Booker has a video of his performance.

Results (Part 1 | Part 2):
1) Pat Bertoletti, 20 sandwiches
2) Joey Chestnut, 17
3) Bob Shoudt 14.5
4T) Sean Gordon 12
4T) Kevin “LA Beast” Strahle 12
6T) Brian Dudzinski 10.5
6T) Brian Subich 10.5

update The Dorney Park twitter announces Pat Bertoletti won with 20 cheesesteaks

MCall has a blog entry about Stacey “Eatorama” McCarthy competing in the cheesesteak eating contest at Dorney Park in Allentown, PA. The contest will start at 1 pm.

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update May 13 NaplesNews.com has a gallery

7:09 MarcoNews.com has a contest report

2:14 Official top 4 (Part 1 | Part 2)
1) Adrian Morgan 33 HDB
2) Kevin “LA Beast” 24
3) Kyle Nestel 19
4) Jon Bello 17
1W) Laura Riehman 4.5

Rich LeFevre retains the wild card lead with 27

1:56 Jim The Candleman reports Adrian Morgan won with 33 hot dogs.

1:43 The qualifier has 3 minutes left according to Jim The CandleMan

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update May 6 Kerry Speckman has a contest report with pictures.

The 10:36pm comment noticed that Jon Bello’s 125 wings almost doubled tripled 125 the 65 45 wings he was credited with in the Augusta qualifier in April. I am not aware of any equivalent quantum leaps during a qualifier circuit. (Sonya Thomas 2003 Nathan’s 18 HDB -> 25 HDB, Joey Chestnut 2005 Nathan’s 20.5 HDB -> 32 HDB)

Announced Results:
1) Adrian Morgan 150 wings, Hooters circuit record
2) Jon Bello 125 wings
3) Tim Janus 124.5 wings

Kerry Speckman is at the contest and posting updates on twitter.

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update May 2 BeautifulBrian.com has a page about the contest
AmerFitnessNetwork has a trailer for a longer upcoming video

update May 1 The Palm Beach Post has a gallery of the contest. Picture #18 is a picture of Crazy Legs Conti’s post-contest ears with about 75% of the kernels remaining. His pre-deduction score was 48.5 ears, so he might not have received credit for those ears.

update Apr 30 The Sweet Corn Fiesta and thealliebritt have videos

update 6:22 Palm Beach Post has a contest report

update 5:48 Joe LaRue retains the record w/46 ears in 2010

George Shea has posted the results from today’s contest at the Sweet Corn Fiesta in West Palm Beach, FL (Part 1 | Part 2)

1) Crazy Legs Conti 44 ears, new record according go George Shea
2) Sonya Thomas 43.5
3) Bob Shoudt 40.5
4) Erik Denmark 31.5
5) Kyle Nestel 28.75
6) Yasir Salem 23.25
7) Brian Seiken 23
Sean Brockert 21.8

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update Apr 30 The Las Vegas Sun has a gallery

update Apr 29 Haute Living has an article and NCAADave has a video

Men
1) Sean Gordon 30 HDB, defends Las Vegas qualifier title
2) Rich LeFevre 27 HDB, takes wild-card lead
3T) Juan “More Bite” Rodgriguez 22 HDB, MLE debut
3T) Ron Koch 22 HDB

Women
1) Juliet Lee 27 HDB, will compete in Nathan’s finals for 6th straight year
?) Mary Bowers 9.5 HDB, takes apparent lead in women’s wild card race

update 6:51 Winners have been announced. Sean Gordon has repeated as the male champion w/30 HDB. Juliet Lee is the female winner w/ 27.

The contest is about to start.

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update May 4 Matt Stonie has a blog entry, short video and long video

update May 2 Recordnet.com has a gallery and LA Beast has a video.

update Apr 29 Matt Stonie has a gallery and mikeyoung0, Dave301978 and AnneDeher (Part 1 | Part 2) have videos

update 5:00 Official results are available (Part 1 | Part 2)

update 4:16
1) Joey Chestnut 8 lb 5 oz 3rd victory in a row, 7 out of 8
2) Matt Stonie 7 lb 14 oz, first victory over Chestnut, Bertoletti or Janus
3) Pat Bertoletti 6 lb 11 oz
4) Adrian Morgan 6 lb 9 oz
5) Meredith Boxberger 4 lb 14 oz
6) Kevin “LA Beast” 4 lb 3 oz

update 4:06 The contest is over and results have yet to be announced. Phil Stevenson thinks Joey Chestnut probably won.

update 3:45 The contest has started. Phil Stevenson is posting pictures.

The contest was supposed to start at noon Pacific, 3 pm eastern, but has apparently not started.

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update April 28 NewsDispatch.com has an article about the contest

Will Millender has the results from this morning’s Wakefield chicken salad sandwich eating contest:
1) Eric Dahl 15 sandwiches
2) Stephanie Torres 14
3) Will Millender 13.5
4T) “Mansfield Monster” 9.5
4T) Chris Abatsas 9.5
6) Tom Cortina 7

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update Apr 20 Cardboard Shell has uploaded a video of the entire contest. Tim Brown competes throughout the contest and does not appear to have been disqualified, it is not clear why no result was announced for him.

update Apr 16 WCFCourier has an article saying #2-#5 all received $1K making the payouts ($1500/$1000/$1000/$1000/$1000). The original payouts were $1500/$1250/$1000/$750/$500. If runner-ups Tim Janus & Aaron Osthoff split the original 2nd and 3rd place amounts after tying, they would have received $1125 each.

update Apr 15 WCFCourier has a contest video. Tim “Gravy” Brown competed, but did not have a result announced. Did he DQ?

7:14 KGAN has a short article about the celebrity contest.

5:39 Kevin “LA Beast” has posted a picture of the cupcakes used in the contest.

4:56 8 people beat Tim Janus’ winning total of 42 last year including (Kevin “LA Beast” Maria “Edible” (48) and “Cardboard Shell” (48)) despite the contest terminating after about 6 minutes due to a lack of cupcakes. This might be the first time an IFOCE record has almost been doubled since 2001 Nathan’s. Aaron Osthoff almost doubled his 2011 amount of 35.5 cupcakes. If the contest was the planned 8 minutes, Bertoletti probably would have doubled the 2011 winning total Tim Brown was reportedly present, but his result was not announced.

4:37 Full Results Part 1 | Part 2 (without LA Beast who says he ate 54)

3:51 Lindsey Newcomb is tweeting the top 5 as they are announced
1) Pat Bertoletti 76 72 contest truncated to about 6 minutes due to lack of cupcakes
2T) Tim Janus 66
2T) Aaron Osthoff 66
4) Eric “Badlands” Booker 60
5) “Notorious” Bob Shoudt 56

3:50 The contest is over and terminated early due to running out of cupcakes.

3:44 The contest has started

KWWL has an article and video about Tim “Eater X” Janus

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update April 20 Super4everFun has a video of the entire contest and Houma Today has an article about Buddy “The Bricklayer” Prejean. (via comment)

update April 15 The WayWard Path has a blog entry and gallery and video. NOLADefender has an article.

3:33 The top 3:
1) Sonya Thomas 3.3 pounds in 10 minutes, third victory in a row
2) Crazy Legs Conti 2.8 pounds
3) Adrian Morgan 2.45

2:24 James Karst won the amateur contest and Travers Mackel, the 2011 amateur winner, was the runner-up.

2:14 pm The amateur contest is over.

2:04 pm The amateur contest has started.

BestOfNewOrleans.com has an interview with Adrian Morgan (via Rich Shea).

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update March 30 IdeaFilmFactory has a video and Will Millender has a gallery

update March 25 The Havasu News has an article which made the front page.

update 7:50 Will Millender has the top 3: 1) Stephanie Torres 2) Matt Siverio (from Denver) 3) Kevin Ross

update 7:40 Naader Reda announces Stephanie Torres won the contest.

update 7:30pm eastern The contest has started

Will Millender has posted a picture of the field for today’s cheese fries eating contest in Lake Havasu City, AZ. Naader Reda and Jessica “Queen of Cuisine” are last minute entries. Stephanie Torres is dressed appropriately for the National Spring Break Eating Championship. The contest received coverage on the front page of the local paper.

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update March 27 Adrian Morgan has a gallery

The Rhythm City Casino twitter has posted the top 5 in todays catfish eating contest in response to a request from JimTheCandleman.

The rest of the results

1) Pat Bertoletti 9.5 pounds, new record
2) Tim “Eater X” Janus 9 pounds
3) Tim “Gravy” Brown 7.13 pounds
4T) Adrian Morgan 7 pounds
4T) Aaron Osthoff 7 pounds
6) Kevin “La Beast” 5 pounds
7) Justin Mih 4.2 pounds, first contest in 4 years
Mark Williams 3.5 pounds
9) Matt Raible 3.2 pounds
10) Andrew Kogutkiewicz 2.5 pounds
11) Clint .5 pounds

I think Justin Mih is the first former member of the IFOCE top 50 to be allowed back into the IFOCE/MLE after competing in an AICE/All Pro Eating contest. (Larry McNeil competed in last year’s Atlanta Nathan’s qualifier after joining the WLOCE.)

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update March 23 Steve Dahl has a blog entry with a video recorded from Pat Bertoletti’s point of view
Matt Stonie has a video of the entire contest and JimTheCandleMan has a video of the awards announcements
Downtown at the Gardens has a facebook gallery

update March 19 TooJay’s has a gallery and more amateur results and Matt Stonie also has a gallery.

update March 18 PBPulse has a gallery WPTV has a news video and Badlands Booker has a rap video

update 8:45 The Palm Beach Post has an article focusing on Rebecca Oey’s victory. Sean Brockert says he will retire and open a competitive eating restaurant.

3:49 The top 6 | 7-11
1) Joey Chestnut 20 sandwiches in 10 minutes
2) Pat Bertoletti 18.5
3) Matt Stonie 14.5
4) Bob Shoudt 14
5T) Eric “Badlands” Booker 9.25
5T) Brian Dudzinski 9.25
7) Micah “Candy Man” Collins 9 fixed
Kevin “LA Beast” 8
9) Maria “Edible” 7.5
10) “Wild” Bill Myers 4.75
11) Sean Brockert 3.5
12) Bruce Ollis 3

3:41 Joey Chestnut won the contest with a record 20 sandwiches

3:39 The contest is done. Badlands Booker and Brian Dudzinski tied for 5th

3:18 The pro contest is about to start

2:30 Rebecca Oey, the only woman in the under card event, won the amateur contest with a total of 6.5 sandwiches in 10 minutes. 2:12 The amateur contest is under way. @KendallRumsey is posting updates

Matt Stonie has a blog entry about his corned beef training

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