Joey Chestnut wins 2011 Niko Niko Gyros, Matt Stonie 3rd
update May 16 #2 Houston Press has a gallery.
update May 16 Dana Miller has four videos.
update Niko Niko’s has a facebook gallery
The top 8:
1) Joey Chestnut 21.5 gyros
2) Pat Bertoletti 21
3) Matt Stonie 17
4) Adrian Morgan 14.75
5) Sean Gordon 14
6) Nate Biller 12
7) Donovan Busta 9.5
8T) Gary Klucken 5.5
8T) Bam Martinez 5.5
update 4:18 The eatingcontest twitter reports Joey Chestnut ate 21.5 gyros to win, Pat Bertoletti was the runner up with 21.
update 3:33 The contest has started
update The festival facebook is posting pictures.
The MLE facebook lists Joey Chestnut, Pat Bertoletti, Sean Gordon, Adrian Morgan, Nate Biller, Matt Stonie, Gary Klucken, Bam Martinez and Randy Harrison as expected competitors.
The contest page on the festival’s website has not been updated from last year except for the new date; Ben Monson is listed as an expected entrant.
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WOWZER! said
May 15, 2011 @ 4:49 pm
WOW! ONCE AGAIN, THE TOAD HOPS AND SMASHES THE RABBIT, ALONG WITH EVERYBODY ELSE. THE RABBIT SEEMS LIKE A NICE GUY THOUGH.
Larell Marie Mele said
May 15, 2011 @ 4:57 pm
Will be awesome to see the #s Megatoad puts forth in his 1st NF qualifier! 🙂 Nice job everyone!!!!
Jamminjoe said
May 15, 2011 @ 5:13 pm
Wait till stonie figures out what he’s doing
Anonymous said
May 15, 2011 @ 5:45 pm
Wow good job Matt!
Matt "Mega Toad" Stonie said (Registered June 22, 2010)
May 15, 2011 @ 7:06 pm
Thanks guys haha, Im really glad i decided to sign up for this one, the whole contest was great fun.
Glad to meet up with Gordon, Nate, and Bam for the first time, cant wait to meet up with them alone the circut later
BTW, it think there was a miscount of my Gyros, They put what they expecet people to eat in front of them, Joey/Pat had 20, Nat and gordon 15, and me and Adrian 10, so they were having a hard time getting gyros to me at least, i almost had to wait but the like threw some gyros at me right at the last moment and i cramed 1 or 2 in, so i think i had 16, not 17, but im not completely sure
Johnnie Excel said (Registered October 5, 2010)
May 15, 2011 @ 8:32 pm
That was impressive Matt, you’re like the Justin Bieber of competitive eating!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOI4OF7iIr4
Matt "Mega Toad" Stonie said (Registered June 22, 2010)
May 15, 2011 @ 9:53 pm
Whats that spoce to mean Johnnie….
(i take that with offence… lol)
Johnnie Excel said (Registered October 5, 2010)
May 15, 2011 @ 11:43 pm
lol
Cutter said (Registered November 9, 2010)
May 17, 2011 @ 1:20 am
Joey has 2 first place finishes in about 24 hours. Pat had 2 second place finishes in that same time. Is there something special about those potatoes that they go right through the system? Anyway that is one hell of a weekend for those 2, traveling halfway across the country as well.
SyKoBOZO said (Registered September 17, 2007)
May 17, 2011 @ 1:30 am
nice job again Matt!, Joe is kinda right you but your already kicking ass, and great comment Johnnie, i like that, Have A Nice Day, 🙂
Mega Munch said
May 17, 2011 @ 10:49 am
Two wins for Joey in a 24 hour span (true, right?). I have to ask, OJ … how many other times in MLE history has that been done? (Or two wins in two days if we aren’t sure about specific times of events.)
ojrifkin said (Registered July 27, 2005)
May 17, 2011 @ 12:21 pm
Kobayashi won 5 contests in 3 days to win the 2005 US Open of Competitive Eating, a tournament with 32 competitors.
Mega Munch said
May 17, 2011 @ 12:35 pm
That’s right. Forgot about the US Open. Is Joey’s feat the first for contests in separate locations though?
Stallion Italian said (Registered August 27, 2010)
May 17, 2011 @ 12:48 pm
And another zinger from ojrifkin, putting perspective into place.
Cutter said (Registered November 9, 2010)
May 18, 2011 @ 12:05 am
Not the same thing. The US Open consisted of the same competitors competing in a tournament so all eaters that advance were kind of at the same level of fatigue. Kind of like the different elimination stages of wing bowl etc.
The Salt Potatoes and Gyros were two guys going against independent sets of rested competitors located a thousand miles away. That could have been a busy bathroom on the airplane.
In the big picture i am not sure of the significance of these back to back beatdowns by #1 and #2. But i am certain that they cannot be compared to kobayashi competing against others with the same amount of rest. Just sayin. maybe OJ is not trying to compare it but in the database shows up 5 contests in 3 days, so technically a busier weekend.
Everything Equal said (Registered April 28, 2011)
May 18, 2011 @ 10:40 am
Bob beat Hall, Red, Monsoon in burritoes and next day beat Hall, Joey, Bertie, Xman in grits. we all no oj is a big bob fan lol
I think usa open was a different thing to
now we are on vegas anyone have the results of the vagas qualifer?