2024 Siegel’s Bagelmania eating contest
James Webb is running a live video of today’s Siegel’s Bagelmania eating contest in Las Vegas
Official results: (8 minutes)
| 1st | 15 | Joey “Jaws” Chestnut | |
| 2nd | 14.5 | Geoffrey Esper | |
| 3rd | 13 | James Webb | |
| 4th | 10.5 | Nick Wehry | |
| 5th | 10.25 | Pat “Deep Dish” Bertoletti | |
| 6th | 10 | Miki Sudo | |
| 7th | 7.75 | Derek Hendrickson | |
| 8th | 7.5 | Darrien “Cheesecurd” Thomas | |
| 9th | 3.75 | Sergio Reyes-Raya | |
| 10th | 2.25 | Cherish “Five Pounds” Brown | |
| 11th | 1.75 | Elizabeth Salgado |
2023 St. Elmo’s Shrimp Cocktail contest
| 1st | 16.7 | Geoffrey Esper | defends title |
| 2nd | 16 | Joey “Jaws” Chestnut | |
| 3rd | 15 | James Webb | |
| 4th | 12.8 | Miki Sudo | |
| 5th | 11.5 | Nick Wehry | |
| 6th | 5 | Michael “Big Hoss” Deitz | |
| 7th | 4.5 | Mark Enstrom | |
| 8th | 2.4 | Alex “Moose” Perez |
St. Elmo’s is running a live video of the contest
Raina Huang ate 92 dumplings to win the first prize of $1,000 at today's Topanga Social eating contest in Canoga Park, CA.
The top 3 from Saturday's professional donut eating contest at the Sandusky, OH Donut Fest: 1) Dan Kennedy 68 donuts in 8 minutes $1,000 2) Molly Schuyler 56 3) Andrew Puhl 50
Wayne Algenio ate 48 pierogis yesterday to defend his title at Pierozek's eating contest in Brooklyn and claim the $500 first prize.
Raina Huang ate 15 hot dogs in 10 minutes on Saturday to win in Topanga Social's eating contest in Canoga Park, CA. Despite being larger than normal frankfurters, that total would have placed her 4th in the latest Nathans's Famous women's finals. Raina gave $250 from her $1000 prize to both of the second place finishers.
Dan Kennedy has posted the top 3 from Sunday's lumpia eating contest at the Philippines Fest in New York City: 1) Dan Kennedy 184 lumpia in 10 minutes ($1000 prize) 2) Andrew Puhl 147 3) Wayne Algenio.
NorthJersey.com has a gallery of tonight's ramen eating contest at Ani Ramen in Cranford, NJ. The results: 1) Dan Kennedy 10 bowls in 4 minutes $1000 2) Andrew Puhl $500 3) Wayne Algenio $250. Mo Mbengue, David Brunelli and Peter Ritter also competed.
Brandon Wood ate a contest record 11 quarter pound hot dogs in 7 minutes at the Topsfield, MA Fair Saturday to defend his title and claim the first prize of $205.
2023 Cheesesteak Egg Roll Bowl
| 1st | 46 | Joey “Jaws” Chestnut | |
| 2nd | 42 | Nick Wehry | originally announced as 34 |
| 3rd | 29 | Darrien “Cheesecurd” Thomas | |
| 4th | 20 | George Chiger | |
| 5th | 14 | Peter Ritter | |
| 6th | 12.5 | William “Wild Bill” Myers | |
| 7th | 11.5 | Michael “Big Hoss” Deitz | |
| 8th | 6.75 | Alex “Moose” Perez | |
| 8th | 6.75 | Rene Rovtar |
Resorts Casino is running a livestream of the contest.
2023 Lewisville tamales contest
| 1st | 80 | Geoffrey Esper | |
| 2nd | 79 | James Webb | |
| 3rd | 66.25 | Miki Sudo | |
| 4th | 51 | Derek Hendrickson | |
| 5th | 37.5 | Michelle “Cardboard Shell” Lesco | |
| 6th | 34 | Greg “The Savage” Wilson | |
| 7th | 25.5 | Albert Bravo | |
| 8th | 22.5 | “Nasty” Nathan Biller | |
| 8th | 22.5 | Zach “MEEF” Pappert | |
| 10th | 21 | Sergio Reyes-Raya | |
| 11th | 18 | Jocelyn Young | |
| DQ | ? | Sean “MEEF” Pappert |
James Webb will do a livestream of this afternoon’s tamale eating contest in Lewisville, TX.
Joey Chestnut ate 69 donuts in 5 minutes to win Sunday's eating contest vs. Cleveland area celebrities at Mapleside Farms in Brunswick, OH. Austin Love was runner up with 36. (WKYC video)
Geoff Esper defends pork roll title
update Official results were posted some time this morning:
| 1st | 43.5 | Geoffrey Esper | |
| 2nd | 43 | Joey “Jaws” Chestnut | |
| 2nd | 43 | James Webb | |
| 4th | 35 | Nick Wehry | |
| 5th | 20 | Josh “The Goat” Krady | |
| 6th | 19 | George Chiger | |
| 7th | 14 | Ryan “Max Carnage” Rodacker | |
| 8th | 13 | Chris Seely | |
| 9th | 11.25 | Larell Marie “The Real Deal” Mele | |
| 10th | 9.5 | William “Wild Bill” Myers | |
| 11th | 9.25 | Crazy Legs Conti |
Geoff Esper defended his title at today’s Trenton Thunder pork roll eating contest (via James Webb live video) Joey Chestnut was runner up.
On Saturday, Ben Welch won the Bailey Farms Pepper Eating Contest at the N.C. Hot Sauce Contest and Festival in Oxford, NC for the third year in a row and claimed a $1,000 prize.
Manny Cambra ate 18 lobster rolls Sunday to win the lobster roll eating contest held at the Hampton Beach Seafood Festival in New Hampshire.
2023 Buffalo Wing Festival Championship
Full official results were posted about 24 hours after the contest ended:
| 1st | 276 | James Webb | |
| 2nd | 240 | Joey “Jaws” Chestnut | |
| 3rd | 231 | Miki Sudo | |
| 4th | 220 | Nick Wehry | |
| 5th | 196 | Geoffrey Esper | |
| 6th | 194 | Gideon Oji | |
| 7th | 146 | Ronnie “MegaByte” Hartman | |
| 8th | 129 | George Chiger | |
| 9th | 128 | Eric “Badlands” Booker | |
| 10th | 119 | “Buffalo” Jim Reeves | |
| 11th | 57 | Mike Harris | |
| 12th | 40 | Crazy Legs Conti |
update James Webb’s total of 276 is being billed as a world record, but Geoff Esper ate 281 wings in 2019
George Shea has posted the top 4 on his twitter. The MLE twitter has yet to post any results.
1 James Webb 276
2 Joey Chestnut 240
3 Miki Sudo 231
4 Nick Wehry 220
The top 2: James Webb 276 in 12 minutes, Joey Chestnut 240
There was apparently controversy with the results
WGRZ is running a live video
FairfieldStags.com has an article about Mike Harris, who received his spot by being friends with the owner of contest sponsor Wing It On.
Miki Sudo wins Buffalo Buffet Bowl
The top 4 from today’s Buffet Bowl contest at the Buffalo Wing Festival. The competition is first to finish five pounds of Buffalo food items.
1 Miki Sudo 4:18, first contest victory since 2013
2 Joey Chestnut 5:17
3T Nick Wehry 5:28
3T Gideon Oji 5:28
James Webb wins Colorado State Fair Slopper contest
James Webb is the first person besides Geoff Esper to win the Slopper eating contest at the Colorado State Fair in the 2020s. Official results
| 1st | 32 | James Webb | first person besides Geoff Esper to win contest since 2019 |
| 2nd | 31.5 | Geoffrey Esper | |
| 3rd | 23 | Mo Mbengue | |
| 4th | 21.5 | Bartley Weaver, IV | |
| 5th | 20 | Steve “The Rabbit” Hammond | |
| 6th | 19 | Darrien “Cheesecurd” Thomas | |
| 7th | 16 | Michelle “Cardboard Shell” Lesco | |
| 8th | 10.75 | Jon Ansell | |
| 9th | 9 | Mark “toothless” Sutherburg | |
| 10th | 8.75 | Chris Sealey |
Molly Schuyler ate 54 hot dogs at Cricket Car Hop in Stratford, CT to break her women's record for a hot dog eating contest and claim the $2,000 first prize.
2023 Selsey, England Nathan’s qualifier
update Official results
1 Max Stanford 34
2 Radim Dvoracek 21.5
3T Ronnie Hartman 14.5
3T John Dawes 14.5
1 Rhea Jarvis 4
If accurate, Max Stanford’s total of 34 would break the UK record of 32 set by Beard Meats Food in 2019, but there might have been a miscount.
update Ronnie Hartman announced he was third with 14.5 hot dogs, Max Stanford was the male winner, and Radim Dvoracek was the runner up.
MLE is billing today’s contest in Selsey, England at Seal Bay Resort as the first British Nathan’s qualifier, but there was an qualifier in Birmingham, England in 2005 using pork pies instead of hot dogs.
The competition won by Rob Burns was the subject of a documentary, “The Big Eat”, which can be viewed on youtube.
Nat vs Food ate 10.875 bowls of katsudon in 8 minutes and Miki Sudo ate 368 fish balls in 8 minutes to win the first two contests at Thailand Food Kingdom in Bangkok. The venue will hold 6 more competitions this weekend.
Miki Sudo wins Great Midwest Rib Fest contest
Official results from today’s Great Midwest Rib Fest World Rib Eating Championship at Mystic Lake Casino in Prior Lake, MN (12 minutes, results in pounds)
| 1st | 5.2 | Miki Sudo | first victory over Esper since Buffalo Wing Fest contest in September 2022 |
| 2nd | 4.2 | Geoffrey Esper | |
| 3rd | 4 | Nick Wehry | |
| 4th | 3.8 | Mo Mbengue | |
| 4th | 3.8 | Darrien “Cheesecurd” Thomas | |
| 6th | 2.4 | Ethan Teske | |
| 7th | 2 | Seth Bower | |
| 8th | 1.8 | Matthew Raible | |
| 9th | 1.6 | Eric Hucke |
James Webb ate 100 pieces of sushi and 2 wasabi balls in a record 3:24 to win a contest at Niji Sushi Bar in Hurstville, NSW (Sydney area) (contest video)
Andy Puhl ate 38 hot dogs in 10 minutes to win the first prize of $1,000 in Saturday's ShuBrew hot dog eating contest at the Zelienople, PA Horse Trading Days festival. Sean Yeager was runner up with 37 hot dogs.
Dan "Killer" Kennedy ate a record 35.75 corn dogs to win the first prize of $2,500 at Milo's Corn Dog Eating Contest at the California State Fair in Sacramento. Molly Schuyler was runner up with 33. update The Sacramento Bee has an article with full results. Naader Reda was 3rd with 10.75
update July 26 Jon Davis has a video
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