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| 2012 Apr 28 | 1st | 8.3125 | 10 min | The World Deep-Fried Asparagus Eating Championship | Stockton, CA |
| 2012 Mar 17 | 1st | 20 | 10 min | TooJay's World Class Corned Beef Eating Championship - professionals | Palm Beach Gardens, FL |
| 2012 Feb 11 | 1st | 390 | 8 min | CP Biggest Eater Finals - MLE | Bangkok, Thailand |
Joey Chestnut earnings: 2010 vs 2011
ESPN.com has a list of the highest paid competitors by sport which lists Joey Chestnut’s 2011 earnings as $205,000, the same value given in a ninemsn.au.com article earlier this year and represents a $20,000 decline from the $225,000 he reportedly earned in 2010.
It is surprising that Joey Chestnut’s overall earnings decreased from 2010 to 2011 when the sum of the public prizes he was awarded in those years increased from $32,500 to $43,000. $43,000 to $32,250. (A raise in the TooJay’s corned beef contest first prize from $5,000 to $12,500 was responsible for $7,500 of that increase.) The discontinuation of two 2010 exhibition series Joey Chestnut participated in, Jimmy John’s sandwich makers vs. eaters and competitions sponsored by Pepto Bismol in which Joey Chestnut faced a team of amateurs, might have been responsible for some of the decline.
Listings of Joey Chestnut’s results and public prizes in 2010 and 2011 follow after the jump.
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Matt Stonie has uploaded a video of a beer chugging contest between Joey Chestnut and Pat Bertoletti held after the asparagus eating contest. Pat Bertoletti finished his pitcher in about five seconds.
The Modesto Bee has an article about Joey Chestnut's defense of his asparagus title at the Stockton Asparagus Festival on Saturday.
A press release announces Joey Chestnut will serve as judge at a hot dog eating contest between firefighters and police officers at the San Jose Earthquakes game on May 2.
A press release from the Mohegan Sun announces that Joey Chestnut will be competing in a rib eating contest held during the casino's BBQ Fest on June 2 in Uncasville, CT.
Joey Chestnut threepeats TooJays, Rebecca Oey wins amateur
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
A podcast of Joey Chestnut's interview on WRMF this morning is available. update WPTV.com has an article about Joey Chestnut. He says that he will graduate from San Diego State in May and might retire in 2013 if he wins seven Nathan's hot dog contests in a row.
The Fringe Collective has an audio interview with Joey Chestnut.
Joey Chestnut endorses Biker Jim's Gourmet Dogs of Denver in a commercial.
Razor TV has two videos recorded at the CP Biggest Eater finals: Interview w/ Joey Chestnut & Sonya Thomas, clip about Singaporean winners.
NineMSN.com.au lists Joey Chestnut's 2011 competitive eating income as $205,000, a $20,000 decrease from 2010. The article also claims that Nathan's contract with ESPN has reportedly been extended to 2017. update Hmm noted the article has been pulled, it is still available in the Google cache. update #2 New link for article on msn.com
Joey Chestnut sets record in 2012 CP Biggest Eater finals
update Feb 13 Full results | NineMSN video
update 7:30 pm NineMSN.com.au has an article about the Australian competitors.
update 10:30 Official MLE results
1) Joey Chestnut 390, new record
2) Pat Bertoletti 321
3) Tim Janus 315
4) Sonya Thomas 231, women’s record
5) Juliet Lee 219
udpate 10:07 am CP Brand has a new facebook gallery of the contest site with no pictures of the competition.
update 9:50 am Pat Bertoletti announces he lost.
The contests for the qualifier winners have taken place. Korapin reports that Helen Tan won the women’s contest with 125 wontons and Ng Chin Sheng won the men’s contest with 161. Both winners are from Singapore. The MLE contest should be starting soon.
Philly.com has an article about Takeru Kobayashi participating in Wing Bowl 20 in which Joey Chestnut asks if he will be a wingette.
The San Jose Mercury has a short article about Joey Chestnut and Matt Stonie completing the Coliseum pizza challenge at Tony & Alba's. The other two members of the team, Doug Blacksill and Christian Hill, are San Jose State football players. (via Tony & Alba's facebook) update Jan 18 A video of the challenge has bee uploaded.
A picture of Joey Chestnut competing in the Stockton Asparagus Festival made Clifford Otto's top 12 list of his favorite photographs of 2011.
Angie Romenesko has a picture of the page in the 2012 Guinness Book of World Records listing Pat Bertoletti and Joey Chesnut's record of 3 Mars bars in a minute set last year in San Diego.
The NY Times small business blog has an entry about grand openings reporting that the total budget for the "Hottest Dog" contest judged by Joey Chestnut at the Banfield Pet Hospital in Brooklyn was $10,000 (Joey Chestnut's appearance fee was not split out.)
CP Biggest Eater Hong Kong qualifier
update 11:33 pm AFPBBNews has a video of the professional contest
update 6:37 Professional and local results have been posted.
Local Men
1) “Chris” Yat Ming Lam, 131, 2011 July 4th competitor
2) “Johnny” Wu Hung Shing, 120
3) Chiu Sou Sang, 115
Local Women
1) Chin Hung Yuk, 74
2) Soong Mei Chun, 72
3) Cao Shu Ying, 62
Professionals
1) Joey Chestnut 225, 72 less than last week’s Melbourne result, 155 off his 2010 record
2) Juliet Lee 178, 3 more than last week’s Melbourne result, new women’s record
3) Erik Denmark 150 The final round of the Hong Kong qualifier for CP Biggest Eater is starting.
A picture of Juliet Lee has been posted.
Johnny Wu, who has previously competed against Takeru Kobayashi and Sonya Thomas, led the first round of the CP Biggest Eater Hong Kong qualifier with 98 wontons. 54 year old Wang Wenyu led the women with 72 wontons in her first eating competition. Joey Chestnut, Erik Denmark and Juliet Lee will compete in an exhibition held during the second round of the qualifier on November 27.
Tim Janus defeats Joey Chestnut in CP Biggest Eater Melbourne
The Herald Sun reports that Tim Janus ate the most wontons, 310 in 8 minutes, at the pro exhibition at the Melbourne qualifier for the CP Biggest Eater. Joey Chestnut ate 297, 83 less than his record last year, and Juliet Lee ate 175 to break her female record of 160. Final results for the Australians competing have not been posted.
update The MLE facebook reports that Felix Ariga and Brad Stokes tied for 1st place in the contest for Australian males with a total of 105 wontons, less than the 109 Helen Tan ate to win the Singaporean women’s contest. Milly Chow was the best Australian female with a total of 75 wontons.
According to the eatfeats database, this is Tim’s first victory over Joey since the 2009 grits contest in Bossier City, LA. (All of Tim’s previous three victories over Joey Chestnut were in grits contests.) This is also Joey’s first loss in a contest for a food other than chicken wings in over a year. A list of head to head results for Joey vs. Tim follows after the jump
The Brooklyn Daily reports on Joey Chestnut judging the "Hottest Dog" contest at the new PetSmart. The winning dog, Chloe, dressed as a hot dog.
Joey Chestnut will serve as chief judge in Brooklyn's Hottest Dog at the Petsmart in Brooklyn tomorrow. Free hot dogs from Nathan's will be served during the contest. update A picture of Joey Chestnut at the event (via 2centralphoto).
Joey Chestnut, Tim "Eater X" Janus and Juliet Lee are expected to compete in the Melbourne, Australia CP Biggest Eater qualifier on November 19.
Taste of DC Ben’s Chili Bowl contest
update Oct 13 Travel Seminar has a gallery from the chili eating contest held at A Taste of DC last Sunday.
update Oct 11 Ben’s Chili Bowl has 8 videos, including interviews with Joey Chestnut and Sonya Thomas.
update Oct 10 #2 NBC Washington and MyFoxDC have videos and DC.Eater.com has a gallery. The Washington Post calls fourth place finisher Sonya Thomas the runner-up.
update Oct 10 The rest of the results have been posted. Brian Seiken has a contest video and interviews with Sonya Thomas and Juliet Lee. Mix 107.3 also has a contest video.
update 11:24 WTOP has an article and gallery.
update 2:05 WJLA has a gallery
update 1:35 Melissa Savoy has the top 4
1) Joey Chestnut 2 gallons
2T) Tim Janus 1.5 gallons
2T) Bob Shoudt 1.5 gallons
4) Sonya Thomas 1.25 gallons
update 1:30 Joshua R Hicks reports that Joey Chestnut won the contest with a total of 2 gallons of chili (16 pounds).
The contest is expected to start at 12:35 eastern. Joey Chestnut, Sonya Thomas, Bob Shoudt, Juliet Lee, Micah Collins, Crazy Legs Conti, Brian Subich, Maria “Edible”, Brian Dudzinski, Bill Myers, Brian Seiken, Andrew Kossuth, Tim Connelley (amateur) and Andrew Petrick (amateur) are expected to compete.
I think this will be the first IFOCE non-qualifier contest on the east coast between Palm Beach and Atlantic City since the funnel cake eating contest at Kings Dominion in Virginia in May 2009.
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