A press release announces that the Nathan's finals will be televised on ESPN through 2017. The 2012 broadcast will begin at 3pm eastern and last one hour and coverage of the women's division will be included. Paul "Joey Chitwood" Page will continue as announcer.
2012 Nathan’s Atlantic City qualifier
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.
The Nathan' Famous facebook page is holding a sweepstakes awarding four VIP seats to the contest finals July 4.
"Cardboard Shell" has a blog entry about how her goal to eat more than 25 hot dogs at the Tempe, AZ Nathan's qualifier ties in with her efforts to raise money for Sudanese charity.
Tim "Eater X" Janus and Larell Marie have been announced as expected entrants in Saturday's Nathan's qualifier in Atlantic City. Marcos Owens has also said he will compete. update Badlands Booker, Steakbellie and Yasir Salem are also expected.
Adrian Morgan wins 2012 Nathan’s Naples qualifier
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
NaplesNews.com has a preview of tomorrow's Nathan's qualifier focusing on locals Jesse Schertell and Ryan Fantasia. Adrian Morgan and Kevin "LA Beast" are expected to compete. A promotional contest for the qualifier was held this morning on Fox 4 Rising (pictures at bottom of gallery).
Meredith "Deep Fried Diva" Boxberger has produced a video about her first (and also last) place finish in the women's division at the Nathan's qualifier in Garden City, MI two weeks ago. update May 8 The Barrie Examiner has an article about Meredith, who was a figure skater for 15 years and now owns a Little Caeasar's Pizza franchise. She will be competing in the Hooter's qualifier in Detroit Saturday.
A judgeship in the Nathan's finals is up for auction on biddingforgood.com. The current bid is $300 and bidding closes May 9. (via YPC_at_CMA).
"Cardboard Shell" is using her attempt to eat 25 hot dogs in the Nathan's Tempe, AZ qualifier (Sonya Thomas and Juliet Lee are the only women to eat more in a qualifier) to raise money for Sudanese schools and public healthcare.
2012 Nathan’s Las Vegas qualifier
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.
The Las Vegas Sun has a preview of tomorrow's Nathan's qualifier containing quotes from Rich LeFevre, who will not be competing in the contest.
Juan "More Bite" Rodriguez appeared on KTNV this morning to promote Saturday's Nathan's qualifier at New York New York. He said that Sean Gordon and Juliet Lee are expected to compete in the qualifier.
2012 Nathan’s field – In: Two “Deep”s
update April 23 Video of Alex Loiselle and Pat Bertoletti
update The only other announced results are Ben Taylor and Craig Reed w/14 HDB.
Winners via eating contest twitter
Men Pat “Deep Dish” Bertoletti 37
Women Meredith “Deep Fried Diva” 17
The qualifier is expected to start at noon and is being held in conjunction with a celebration of Kmart’s 50th anniversary (the Garden City location was the first Kmart and is now 50 years old). Will Pat Bertoletti break 50 HDB in honor of the event?
Pat Bertoletti reports that Joey Chestnut has offered to bet him $10,000 that he will not come within 10 hot dogs at the Nathan's finals. The gap last year was 9 HDB, but that is the only year the difference has been in single digits. Here are the differences between their totals at Surf & Stillwell on July 4. List of results available after the jump
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The polls asking who will be the top male and rookies on the 2012 Nathan's circuit have been started.
Bertoletti, Boxberger, (L. A.) Beast, Ben Taylor in Detroit qualifier
Pat Bertoletti, Meredith Boxberger and Ben Taylor are expected in the first 2012 Nathan’s qualifier in Garden City, MI on Saturday. Kevin “L. A. Beast” also says he will compete.
The next polls will ask which first-time Nathan’s competitors will have the best performances in the 2012 qualifiers. The current choices are listed below, additional ones will be added if requested.
Men: Kevin “LA Beast”, Marcos Owens, Juan “More Bite” Rodriguez, Dax “The Ginger” Swanson, Ben Do
Women: Jessica Abdul Hussain, Mary Bowers, Meredith “Deep Fried Diva” Boxberger
Meredith Boxberger, Benjamin Taylor and Craig Reed are expected to compete in the first Nathan's qualifier of 2012 in Garden City, MI on April 21.
Spaces are available for the May 12 Nathan's qualifier in Naples, FL.
A blog entry on salon.com claims that ESPN televised Nathan's hot dog eating contest in the mid-seventies. (ESPN was founded in 1979.) The first Nathan's telecast took place in 2004.
Registration for the May 12 Naples, FL Nathan's qualifier will open today at noon eastern.
Bob's Blitz claims that Nathan's will use tofu hot dogs in the 2012 hot dog eating contest circuit in response to a request from Mayor Bloomberg.
The new poll asks how many of the 13 Nathan's qualifiers in 2012 will have a female winner eating ten or more hot dogs. In 2011, seven women broke the 10 HDB threshold. Two of those qualifier winners (Stephanie Torres and Grace Lee) are not expected to compete in the 2012 qualifiers and Sonya Thomas might receive a bye as the defending female champion. Among IFOCE female rookies, Meredith Boxberger and Rebecca Oey appear capable of hitting double digits and Julie Dey ate 12 hot dogs in the 2009 Minnesota qualifier.
Nathan’s 2012 qualifier registration opens
Registration for the 2012 Nathan’s qualifiers (except Naples, FL) are now open on the contest pages on IFOCE.com. The Calgary qualifier is open to everyone regardless of citizenship.
Wild card berths will be awarded to both the top male and female runner-ups. Dee Martin would have taken last year’s women wild card with 9 HDB if it was awarded.
Cities with the most Nathan’s qualifiers 2003-2012
Here is a list of cities / metros with two or more Nathan’s qualifiers over the past 10 years according to the eatfeats database and the 2012 schedule.
- 14 New York City (7 at Mets ballpark, 2 in Brooklyn, 5 South Street Seaport
- 10 Philadelphia (6 at Independence Hall, 3 at QVC Studio, 1 in Camden, NJ
- 10 Las Vegas (all at NYNY)
- 10 Tempe, AZ (all at Arizona Mills)
- 9 Atlanta (6 in Atlanta, 3 in Newnan)
- 9 Norfolk (8 at MacArthur Center, 1 at Oceana Station)
- 7 Hartford
- 6 San Francisco Bay Area
- 6 Charlotte, NC
- 6 Long Island (2 Elmont & 4 Islip)
- 5 Boston (3 Boston, 2 Foxborough)
- 5 Cranbury, NJ
- 5 Minneapolis / St. Paul
- 5 South Florida (3 Pembroke Pines, 2 Sunrise)
- 3 Pittsburgh
- 3 Atlantic City
- 3 Saratoga Springs, NY
- 3 Los Angeles
- 2 Fishkill, NY
- 2 Cleveland
- 2 Overland Park, KS
- 2 Thackerville, OK
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