Archive for May, 2017

1st big MLE rankings update of 2017

The first big update of the MLE top 50 for 2017 have been made
In
#17 Darron Breeden
#22 Derek Jacobs
#23 Juan Neave
#35 Pedram Esmaeelzadeh
#36 Sarah Reinecke
#49 Andrew Kossuth (suprising given that his last MLE contest was in 2015)

Out (cached results)
#25 BeeJay Alexander
#33 Larell Marie Mele
#44 Corey Fanguy
#46 Ben Do
#47 Ron Koch
#48 Lesley Ryder

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In her latest video, Leah Shutkever attempted two challenges from the Flaming Grill in one session.
Adrian Morgan ate 44 dozen oysters in 8;15 on WGNO today to set the house record at the Acme Oyster House in New Orleans.

2017 Nathan’s Finalists as of May 30

With 5 weeks to go until the Nathan’s finals here are the current fields:

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Wassup Dog in Perth, WA, Australia will hold a hot dog eating contest on June 3 awarding $2000 to the winner.
Catcher Zach Fricke and pinch-hitter Austin Guzzo of the University of Iowa baseball team held a hot dog eating contest during their loss to the Univeristy of Minnesota. Guzzo won with a total of 5 hot dogs.

2017 Denver Outlaws Illegal Pete’s burritos

Molly Schuyler ate 29 corn dogs with a damaged tooth to win the first prize of $500 at the Sacramento County Fair.
Pat "from Moonachine" Philbin announces he was the runner up in today's ham eating contest at Meadowlands Racetrack in East Rutherford, NJ. Joe Menchetti was the winner. The contest was supposed to be pork rolls.

2017 Three Rivers Festival pepperoni rolls

update June 3 The Boston Globe has an interview with Geoff Esper about his victory

Darron Eats has a video

updateTheET.com has a press release spelling the winner’s name as “Jeffrey”

update Eric Shroder has a video

Results Part 1 | Part 2

1st 36 Geoffrey Esper
2nd 30.5 Miki Sudo
3rd 26 Darron Breeden
4th 20.5 Brian “Dud Light” Dudzinski
5th 20 “The Lovely” Juliet Lee
6th 13 Derek Jacobs
7th 9.5 William “Wild Bill” Myers
8th 8 Michael “Big Hoss” Deitz
9th 7 Jeff Chapman
10th 3.75 Brett Shepherd
11th 3.5 Alicia Hill

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600 Festival Nathan’s qualifier

update June 3 MLE videos: results announcement | Rene Rovtar interview

update First X Last and Byron Posadas have videos

Official results Part 1 | Part 2

Results announced on NBCCharlotte Facebook Live video

1) Eric “Badlands” Booker 24
2T) Damien Boykin 20
2T) Ronnie Hartman 20
4T) Ryan Siciliano 18
4T) Eric Vernsten 18
? Paul Barlow (1st MLE contest in two years)

1W) Rene Rovtar 7 (sole female)

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Elk Horn Tivoli Fest aebleskiver eating contest

update SWIowaNewsSource.com has an article

Blake’s Garage has a video

Official Results Part 1 | Part 2

1st 87 Matt “Megatoad” Stonie
2nd 73 Gideon Oji
3rd 53 Adrian “The Rabbit” Morgan
4th 45 Juan “more bite” Rodriguez
5th 32 Sophia Devita
6th 26 Mark “the muncher” Williams
7th 24 Matthew Raible

It appears Matt Stonie won the aebleskiver eating contest in Elk Horn, IA according to this picture.

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Food and Wine has a blog entry about restaurant eating challenges with quotes from Randy Santel and Ryan "Max Carnage" Rodacker of the Big Eaters Club. Randy Santel predicts he will have 600 successes by 2020 which he claims will be an unbreakable record.
The Napa Valley Register has a report on Joey Chestnut's appearance at the BottleRock festival yesterday where he helped build an 8 layer cake.
Figure competitor hj_jonesy ate a 1 metre pizza to win a contest at Criniti's in Woolloomooloo, NSW Australia on Tuesday.
Little Bones in Winnipeg will hold 5 wing eating contests tomorrow awarding a total of $1850.
Eric "Badlands" Booker appeared on Fox 46 Charlotte to promote tomorrow's Nathan's qualifier at the 600 Festival, so presumably he is the favorite for that competition. Ronnie Hartman will also compete.
Dale Boone won yesterday's eating contest at Heat Pizza Bar in Tuscaloosa, AL.
High Five in Dallas will hold a tater tot eating contest on June 8 awarding $250 to the winner.
The Sun has an article about Leah Shuktever titled "The Perfect Woman?" focusing on her video of eating 12 Krispy Kreme doughnuts in 72 seconds.
Matt "Sweet Tooth" Cohen appeared on WBIR yesterday to talk about competing in the Nathan's Finals.
Bob Shoudt will attend the Reading Fightins minor league baseball "Gluttony Night" on June 6. Fans will have the opportunity to purchase unlimited food and can also face off against "Notorious B.O.B" in eating contests that will be held throughout the evening.
Matt Stonie, Gideon Oji, Adrian Morgan, Juan Rodriguez, Yasir Salem, Sophia DeVita and Matt Raible are expected to compete in the Tivoli Fest World Æbleskiver Eating Championship in Elk Horn, IA Saturday.
The Belfast Telegraph reports that the Hillsborough Oyster Festival in Northern Ireland has been canceled after losing funding. The event's eating contest had brought in MLE competitors including Sonya Thomas, Matt Stonie, Miki Sudo and Bob Shoudt. Michelle Lesco broke Colin Shirlow's ten-year winning streak in the competition last year.
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