Badlands Booker wins 2013 Meadowlands Nathan’s qualifier
update July 2 #2 Crazy Legs Conti has a contest report for Huffington Post where he calls the contest site a “crappy flea market”
update July 2 North Jersey has a gallery (via Dan Mangiapane)
update July 1 SFMVideo has a video
update Jun 30 Full men’s results have been entered into the database
| 1st | 28.5 | Eric “Badlands” Booker | East Rutherford, NJ |
| 2nd | 24.33 | Kevin “LA Beast” Strahle | East Rutherford, NJ |
| 3rd | 24 | “Buffalo” Jim Reeves | East Rutherford, NJ |
| 4th | 23.5 | Ronnie “MegaByte” Hartman | East Rutherford, NJ |
| 5th | 22 | Crazy Legs Conti | East Rutherford, NJ |
| 6th | 18 | Basil Elamir | East Rutherford, NJ |
| 7th | 15.25 | Tommy DeVito | East Rutherford, NJ |
| 7th | 15.25 | William “Wild Bill” Myers | East Rutherford, NJ |
| 9th | 12 | Jordan Rothman | East Rutherford, NJ |
| 10th | 11 | Kevin Sekulic | East Rutherford, NJ |
| 11th | 7.5 | Dan Mangiapane | East Rutherford, NJ |
Jim Reeves reports Terri Reeves won the women’s contest with 8 hot dogs
Top 5 men via George Shea & Ronnie Hartman
1) Eric “Badlands” Booker 28.5
2) Kevin “La Beast” Strahle 24.33
3) “Buffalo” Jim Reeves 24
4) Ronnie Hartman 23.5
5) Crazy Legs Conti ?
update 3:23 The contest has started
Interesting breakdown in strength of fields for today’s 2 qualifiers
Queens: 1 ranked entrant (Janus) 1 could possibly be ranked (Andrew Kossuth)
NJ: up to 8 ranked entrants (Booker, Conti, Subich, LA Beast, Seiken, Bill Myers, Jim Reeves, Maria E) 1 could possibly be ranked (Ronnie Harman)
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anonymous said
June 29, 2013 @ 4:58 pm
Go Badlands Whoaaa. You heard it from the pickle champ
Anonymous said
June 29, 2013 @ 5:00 pm
So Eric The Red gets the Wild Card ?
Anonymous said
June 29, 2013 @ 5:25 pm
Did any girls show?
anonymous said
June 29, 2013 @ 5:51 pm
Expect eater x to be homeless by end of night. He could have taken meadowlands book would have got wildcard and conti would have won citifield with 14
ojrifkin said (Registered July 27, 2005)
June 29, 2013 @ 5:53 pm
Erik Denmark (4th place in Vegas, 27.5 HDB) will receive the men’s wild card since MLE is not recognizing Tom Gilbert’s runner-up performance w/31.5 HDBi. I think this will be the first time a fourth place finish has wound up with the wild card.
https://twitter.com/eatingcontest/status/325746661982863360
It appears one woman might have competed according to this picture
http://instagram.com/p/bJ5BkxSps8/
Maria Edible was present but did not compete
https://twitter.com/MariaEdible/status/351068077263306753
At least one woman registered, but did not get a spot
https://twitter.com/KJNightingale/status/337283878500827136
anonymous said
June 29, 2013 @ 6:23 pm
Edible is done with the sport Remove her from ranking
Anonymous said
June 29, 2013 @ 6:58 pm
Vegas was stacked this year.. Miki , Jeff ” The BeastMan , Juan Rodriguez , Pablo Martinez, Cardboard shell and Denmark all ended up qualifying. I don’t think 6 eaters from the same qualifier have ever done this
my cup runneth over said
June 29, 2013 @ 8:22 pm
Wow that is super. MLE does not recognize the name Rhonda Evans for trivia and MLE does not recognize the name Goose Gilbert for the wild card Who could ask for more !
Erik the Red said (Registered January 9, 2006)
June 29, 2013 @ 9:30 pm
Yes OJ, try to get over it, Gilbert is not the Wildcard. Great guy, great eater, beat me in vegas, not the Wildcard. He had 31 in Vegas not 31.5.
I’m happy to be going back to Coney via any route, and not having to go to another qualifier to get there is a bonus.
anonymous said
June 29, 2013 @ 10:32 pm
What crawled up your ass Erik the Red? OJ is simply pointing out the facts jerk. You don’t deserve to go back to Coney cause you suck. Maybe you should give your spot to Seiken in good faith of your undeserved placement.
anonymous said
June 29, 2013 @ 10:48 pm
1032 nice attempt to set up Seiken for the kill out of your hatred towards Erik making everyone think he left that comment because you threw his name in the pot. Real clever
Anonymous said
June 29, 2013 @ 11:40 pm
Erik the Bitch lolssss gets a golden MLE CE manipulation pass
Anonymous said
June 29, 2013 @ 11:57 pm
I wouldn’t doubt it was Eric who cried to the Shea’s about Tom. Eric couldn’t beat Tom if his life depended on it. Question, why on earth would MLE allow Tom to compete in the qualifer fully knowing they were never letting him to compete on the 4th?
Historian said
June 29, 2013 @ 11:58 pm
Before the June 2002 Nathans finals , in an act of good faith Don Lerman asked George Shea if he could give up his spot at Coney to Brian Seiken because he was disgusted with the judge decision to give Charles Hardy 3rd place trophy in 2001 instead of him. The request was flat out denied. This answers 1032 question
Anonymous said
June 30, 2013 @ 12:17 am
At this point it is well known you have to sign the contract. With Gilberts connection to Stephanie, they may not include him even if he signed.
anonymous said
June 30, 2013 @ 1:31 am
It appears that Erik is not a very popular person on this site
Anonymous said
June 30, 2013 @ 8:23 am
Who IS popular on this site? Just about everyone is ready to pounce and trash other people. Eric wrote directly what he felt, I respect that and his take. I also think he is completely correct. This whole thing with “rules” by OJ is prissy. Like the person in school telling on others, kind of. Sorry to write this OJ but for all that eatfeats is, I think your take on these things goes overboard. It’s your site, your opinion. Whatever is written here, anything at all, brings out the dummies in full force. Some of them are just annoying, others write libelous things. That is just how it is. I can read or go away, it is my choice. If I do not like what I read or the comments, I can stop anytime. That is democracy.
Anonymous said
June 30, 2013 @ 8:25 am
Seiken you are worse than those occupy wall street people looking for hand me outs. Trying earning something for once in your life.
anonymous said
June 30, 2013 @ 8:34 am
What is this all about ? Shit on Seiken year? Ask OJ to compare IP address to confirm if the Stephanie comments originated from his PC. Stephanie has made other enemies in her lifetime by ripping people off.. In my opinion it is one of the lowest forms of indecency you can imagine. Subich and Goldstein were pretty darn lucky she completed those challenges when they paraded her around in restaurants in their neck of the woods. If not they would end up footing the bill
anonymous said
June 30, 2013 @ 9:54 am
OJ Rifkin seems to enjoy stirring the pot posting specific threads which he knows will cause controversy or heated debates. Nothing really wrong with that but sometimes it gets to the point where the responses become downright nasty and abusive. There are a few that think this site is gold. Rhonda Evans and the mom of one of the higher ranked eaters. They believe this site is not only delightfully informative, but a joy to the world
Anonymous said
June 30, 2013 @ 10:50 am
No Seiken OJ does not enjoy stirring the pot. He has a point of view and works hard on his site whereas you work hard at something else. Think about this. Take any eaters from 1 – 25 and ask OJ to make a chart showing your numbers at the table. Oh, I forgot. You call this site shitfeats. You talk a good game but that is all you do. And it is just nasty hateful talk. The person above is right. Try working for something, follow your contract, you are NOT a business or a journalist, just a shittalker who leaves people in the dirt. IP addresses do not matter. You always avoid the truth. Just my opinion.
anonymous said
June 30, 2013 @ 11:58 am
1050 why is this bullshit so important to you? Who cares . The blog is a goof so are you. The people come on here for that very reason .Get a real life jerk
anonymous said
June 30, 2013 @ 12:00 pm
Stop pointing the finger at Seiken 1050 . I left the 954 comment
Anonymous said
June 30, 2013 @ 12:32 pm
Congratulations to Badlands. Well done and well deserved, a long time in the game and he keeps coming back and entertains too. @ 12. hard to keep track with the multiple personalities here. Maybe the person meant another time. So many of those comments are just trash to sift through. There is no reason that Seiken should be the topic here. He did not even compete.
Anonymous said
June 30, 2013 @ 2:41 pm
where is the like button on this page 1050 got it all right!
anonymous said
June 30, 2013 @ 3:42 pm
seiken is the topic . Without seiken there is no comp eating withoiut seiken there is no eatfeats.com get it?
Anonymous said
June 30, 2013 @ 3:50 pm
Why didn’t Seiken compete? Maybe he was busy buying another kitchen appliance so he can make more demo videos.
Hard Facts said
June 30, 2013 @ 4:12 pm
Comp eating survived before Seiken and will survive long after he is gone….proof is all those relics from the past he brings up on his page and here, comp eating continues to be successful without them and surely will be successful without Seiken.
anonymous said
June 30, 2013 @ 4:28 pm
Making videos is like his scream for attention. What a waste of time. Nobody watches.
Anonymous said
June 30, 2013 @ 4:32 pm
@2:41, one anony to another, ty. BS uses photos of his friends without asking, then writes about them. With a friend like BS, who needs enemies? Speaking of old school Ed Cookie Jarvis celebrated his 15th wedding anniversary . I have one request of him. I wish he wouldn’t smile . It didn’t look that bad when he was fat but now that he lost weight the smile sort of resembles a patient with alzheimers disease
anonymous said
June 30, 2013 @ 4:38 pm
Says who? Everyone watches. 100 views per day. Traffic page doesnt lie. I guess the next thing is “all in his mind” Jealous haters
anonymous said
June 30, 2013 @ 4:40 pm
wow 241 you just cant resist visiting his site now can you? Another fan that knows great gossip but wont admit it. Thanks for the plug. I will let him know . Another thin skin piece of crap with no sense of humor that Seiken must have blasted somewhere down the line LOL LOL LOL
anonymous said
June 30, 2013 @ 4:42 pm
I think everyone knows without Brian Seiken there is no comp eating. I bet if Seiken comments were obscure on this site, there would not only be very few comments but the entire blog would be more boring than it is now
anonymous said
June 30, 2013 @ 4:46 pm
One phrase that sums up eatfeats.com . A few old anonymous farts that either never competed or made a dime in the sport with nothing else to talk about except Seiken. That is so so sad
anonymous said
June 30, 2013 @ 4:51 pm
4:28 then why do you watch his videos? Nobody asks you to watch them. Post your real name coward
anonymous said
June 30, 2013 @ 5:38 pm
Who said I watch them? Has Brian Seiken ever “won” any money in an eating contest?
Anonymous said
June 30, 2013 @ 6:29 pm
Who cares if he won any money the bigger question is has he beat anyone currently ranked and how many I ranked eaters have beat him
Anonymous said
June 30, 2013 @ 6:47 pm
I heard BB didn’t have the balls to show up yesterday knowing that he would come in dead last. Not the first time and hopefully the last. I bet he would have struggled to match Buffalo Jim’s wife’s number from yesterday
anonymous said
June 30, 2013 @ 8:20 pm
Brian Seiken finished in the money a number of times in the early days of MLE. Problem the contests he finished 3rd they didnt offer prize money. Ask OJ to look it up
anonymous said
June 30, 2013 @ 8:25 pm
Again no video footage of the contest which proves once again that without Seiken presence at the contest , there is no media
ojrifkin said (Registered July 27, 2005)
June 30, 2013 @ 8:39 pm
Brian Seiken has won $225 in MLE prize money according to
http://eatfeats.com/query.php?_table=contests&id=2276 & http://eatfeats.com/query.php?_table=contests&id=6381
This just in said
June 30, 2013 @ 8:44 pm
What will it take for seiken to realize he’s not the “media” or a “journalist” or a “reporter”? As if fabricating stories and talking shit on a crappy web site makes one a reporter…. He’s an insult to actual journalists.
beautifulbrian said
June 30, 2013 @ 8:50 pm
I finished 3rd in Brooklyn Cheesecake in 2003 behind Oleg and Booker . 3rd in Pasta in little italy 2003 behind Jarvis and Hardy 3rd in Shoe fly pie 2004 in Lancaster PA behind Janus and Subich , 3rd in Watermelon in Dayton Ohio in 2004 behind Rich and Carlene . No prize money offered for 3rd in any of those contests . I did receive a PA road map for finishing 3rd in shoe fly pie which i tossed in the garbage
Ronnie said
June 30, 2013 @ 8:57 pm
If anyone has any video of the contest, if they could share the link, that would be cool
anonymous said
June 30, 2013 @ 9:07 pm
So who is the media 844? Eatfeats? OJ Rifkin relies on twitter and open FB accounts to get his info. Everyone has their own style of reporting the news., How do you know the stories are fabricated> To refer to his site as “crappy” because of personal hatred or because he called you out for the asshole you are and always will be Who the hell gives you the right to pass judgement . Anyone that is willing to go out in the field and cover an event is a reporter. OJ Rifkin is not a reporter . When you find someone that is willing to videotape full contests with indepth stories and interviews without asking for $$$$ then get back to me, You damn lucky he went out of his way to provide video of MLE events over the years that nobody else would ever think of doing you ungrateful bastard
anonymous said
June 30, 2013 @ 9:10 pm
and $200 of that $225 prize money was only because the sponsor decided last minute to hand everyone who did not place in the actual money $200 for their participation. It was like everyone on the kids t-ball team receiving an mvp trophy.
anonymous said
June 30, 2013 @ 9:41 pm
857 there is none and wont be
anonymous said
June 30, 2013 @ 9:44 pm
You should know 910 you were one of the eaters that finished out of the money too LOL
anonymous said
June 30, 2013 @ 9:49 pm
If this site shut down tomorrow nobody would miss it. Maybe a few days but life would go on. Everyone would end up flocking to Seiken site cursing him out on his blog but the only difference is that he would have each and every one of your IP locations .
Gentleman Joe said (Registered December 8, 2005)
June 30, 2013 @ 10:15 pm
$225.25 one of the Shea’s gave him a quarter for the meter once. 🙂
anonymous said
June 30, 2013 @ 10:37 pm
j believe what Joe said was a true story
Anonymous said
July 1, 2013 @ 4:02 am
This anonymous remembers that too. Seiken is the perpetual whiner. It makes no sense. MLE is supposed to be his organization. He is the poster boy, immature and negative, me, me, me and he has not much to offer. People paid him for his CD in the past, he trashes everyone one way or another. There is nothing more to say but it keeps having to be said. Feels like we are stuck with BS and nowhere to turn. Ungrateful bastards? Us? This is no way out.
Clark Kent said
July 1, 2013 @ 6:42 am
Maybe OJ is an undercover reporter and we just don’t know it. He could be in the field watching you compete without you even knowing and I doubt he would be asking questions with a fake stutter.
Anonymous said
July 1, 2013 @ 7:11 am
BB take a step back and see what years you just spat off. Trying winning something in this decade!
Anonymous said
July 1, 2013 @ 9:14 am
BB won’t win anything unless MLE has a title rally just for him or he goes indy on the nursing home circuit.
anonymous said
July 1, 2013 @ 9:21 am
Seiken passenger window was busted completely due to vandalism but Seiken remained loyal and showed up in Coney for George Shea hot dog bootcamp. When George heard about the situation, he offered to pay a quarter for the meter
Anonymous said
July 1, 2013 @ 3:33 pm
Thought without BB there be no video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qqt_TvkLukI