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

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The MLE facebook announces that Pat Bertoletti, Tim Janus and Crazy Legs Conti will attempt to break the record for banana eating on tomorrow’s episode of Live with Regis & Kelly.

Regis Philbin had previous involvement with competitive eating before the debut of Live with Regis & Kelly. In 1963, he served as a referee for an eating contest between San Diego Charger defensive lineman / pro wrestler Ernie “Big Cat” Ladd and Nick Cordileone. Flickr has a picture of the program for the contest.

Pat Bertoletti will stay in New York City and compete in Thursday’s cannoli contest in an attempt to obtain his 36th record. Eric “Badlands” Booker and Maria “Edible” have also been announced as entrants.

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update 11:58 NBCDFW has an article and video about the contest.

update 3:32 Byran Beard has the top 6

1) Tim “Eater X” Janus 59 tamales
2) Sonya Thomas 56
3) Adrian Morgan 36
4) Erik Denmark 33
5) Nate Biller 32.5
6) Kevin Ross 31

3:20 The contest has started

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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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update #2 The top 3

1) Tim “Eater X” Janus 46 HDB
2) Pat “from Moonachie” Philbin 22
3) Brian “Dud Light” Dudzinski 21
? Andrew Kossuth 10.5

BeautifulBrian.com has an article and video

update The MLE facebook reports Tim Janus won with 46 HDB.

The MLE facebook lists Tim Janus & Pat “from Moonachie” Philbin as expected entrants.

NYBD has a picture

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update May 9 The Columbia Missourian has an article

8:34 The Missourian has a slideshow

4:07 Elissa Plastino reports the contest went into overtime and has the rest of the top 5

3:45 The top 3 from the Isle of Capri twitter

1) Tim “Eater X” Janus 7 lbs. 11.5 oz
2) Ben Monson 7 lbs. 9.5 oz
3) Sonya Thomas 5 lbs. 8 oz.
4) Damon Wells 3 lbs 1.5 oz.
5) Ben Taylor 2 lbs. 9.5 oz.

3:37 Photographer Joel Kowsky says the contest ended in a tie.

3:28 The contest is now over. Results will be announced on the IsleOfCapriBV twitter

The contest will start at 2pm central / 3pm eastern and be televised on http://www.ustream.tv/channel/isle-of-capri-mle-contest

Bob Shoudt reports that flight delays will result in him missing the contest.

A video of Tim “Eater X” Janus’ radio appearance yesterday is available.

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A commenter requested a listing of head to head results for “Notorious” Bob Shoudt and Tim “Eater X” Janus, which is provided after the jump. Shoudt has finished ahead of Janus in 6 straight contests.
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The eating contest has the top 3 for the pro & amateur division at the Billy Sims BBQ rib eating contest in Norman, OK.

Pros
1. Tim Janus, 71 oz in 8 minutes
2. Nate Biller, 49 oz
3. Nic Fry, 33 oz

Amateurs
1. Steve “Steve-O” Ramirez 46 oz
2. Greg Tate 35 oz
3. Troy Cox 34 oz

update Full (or at least more) results are available on the IFOCE facebook

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update #5 The KSO blog has the full results

update #4 George Shea has the top 4:

1) Tim Janus 55 points
2) Juliet Lee 49 points (originally had 51 but received 2 point deduction)
3T) Nate Biller 42 points
3T) Micah “Wing Kong” Collins 42 points

The two point deduction cost Juliet Lee a wild card slot since Erik Denmark was the only other non-winner to exceed 50 points.

update #3 The top 2 are now posted on the ksquareoff twitter – Tim Janus won with 55, Juliet Lee was second with 49.

update #2 The contest is over but results have not been announced. The KSO twitter reports that there is controversy about Juliet Lee’s result.

update The contest has started.

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Bryan Beard just posted funnel cake results:

1. Tim Janus
2. Hall Hunt
3. Bob Shoudt
4. Erik Denmark
5. Tim Brown
6. Bryan Beard

update CNN has a video and WCCO has a slide show (from A Bomb)

update #2 7th place finisher Jon Lapolla has posted full results and a contest report to a bodybuilding.com forum thread.

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