update Jun 13 The Phoenix New Times has a gallery and report.

update Jun 12 Fox 10 and ABC 15 have articles and videos.

update 4:31 Mike Corak has the winners (the rest of the results)
men
1) Erik Denmark 29
2) Chiun Peng 21.5
3) Kobi Bauer 18
4) Ryan McKillop 13 women
1) Michelle “Cardboard Shell” 21.5 (sixth woman to break 20: Sonya, Juliet, Carlene, Stephanie Torres, Takako Akasaka)

update 4:28 Two entrants have reversed and been disqualified

update 4:21 The contest is under way.

Joey Chestnut’s 59.5 hot dogs in 12 minutes at Arizona Mills in 2007 is still the all time best qualifier result.

The contest should start at 1 pm Mountain Standard time, 4 pm eastern.

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update Results. The Center Square Journal has an article and gallery

1) Pat Bertoletti 5.24 pounds
2) Tim “Gravy” Brown 3.64
3) Erik Denmark 3.44
4) Ben Taylor 3.18
5) Tomas Cortina 2.7
6) Maurice Nores 2.26
7) Eric Hucke 2.1

The contest should start at 6 pm central, 7 pm eastern

Erik Denmark, Tim Brown and Ben Taylor appeared on WCIU this morning to promote the contest. (Part 1 | Part 2) via Erik Denmark

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update Nov 15 Val Bromann has a blog entry about post-contest events.

update Nov 13 #2 Val Bromann has a blog entry and gallery

update Nov 13 NBCChicago has an article with some pictures.

The eatingcontest twitter has full results (but not full names): “CLC&Jake Larry w/25, TCortina–22, BTaylor/DSolomon/JSander w/19, GFacini–15, JBrown–13″

Jake Melnick’s facebook has a gallery

9:07 Crawfish has the top 3
1) Erik Denmark 35
2) Pat Bertoletti 34
3) Tim Brown 33
4T) Crazy Legs Conti 25
4T) Jake Larry 25
6) Tom Cortina 22
7T) Ben Taylor 19
7T) Dave Solomon 19
7T) J. Sander 19
10) G Facini 15
11) J Brown 13

7:17 Joey Chestnut is reportedly at Jake Melnick’s

AOLNews has a preview of the contest in which Pat Bertoletti, Tim “Gravy” Brown and Crazy Legs Conti offer their techniques for minimizing the peppers’ spiciness.

Geri Salmon, runner-up to Jo “Gavonne” Rose in last week’s Doritos eating contest, interviewed Pat Bertoletti about his training regimen.

Sean “Wrecking Ball” Brockert is broadcasting live on facebook. (via Will Millender)

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(Bumped & Modified originally posted June 27)

The following people won a slot in the 2010 Nathan’s finals by winning a qualifier. The second column is the number of hot dogs eaten in the qualifier (click on the names to see their contest history)

Allen Goldstein received a slot by leading the wild card standings. Here are the wild card standings according to results in the eatfeats datbase (qualifier winners not listed):

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Tim “Gravy” Brown has produced a poster of Erik “The Red” Denmark

Full-size verson (1.1 MB, PDF format)

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update The MLE facebook has the top 3 in today’s qualifier in Arizona Mills

1) Erik Denmark, 29 HDB
2) Adrian Morgan (Nathan’s debut), 25 HDB
3) Damon Wells, 22 HDB
DQ) Ryan McKillop (18 HDB before reversal)

KPHO has a video of a promo contest against Ron (not Ron Koch)

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