Katherine Michelle announces Sonya Thomas won the Hooters qualifier in Augusta, GA by 40 wings and an unnamed competitior was DQed for reversing. The top 6: 1) Sonya Thomas 140 2) Badlands Booker 104 3) Damien Boykin 88 4) Bryan "Big Sexy" Beard (retired after contest) 76 5) Jason Cook 72 6) Don Potts 70
Sonya Thomas is expected to compete in tomorrow's Hooters wing qualifier in Augusta, GA.
2013 Panama City Beach Hooters qualifier
Article about Neil Sebree’s victories in Destin, FL ghost wing contests. He ate over 90% of what Joey Chestnut ate. If he can match that in a hot dog contest, it would correspond to around 65 hot dogs.
Results: Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3
1) Joey Chestnut 140 wings
2) Neil Sebree (Freeport, FL) 128
3) Jon Bello 125
4) Sean Gordon 94
5) Yasir Salem 92
6) Henry Victoria 90
7T) Crazy Legs Conti 66
7T) Don Potts 66
9T) Steve Martin 52
9T) Dee Martin 52
11) Warren McFarland 46
12) Carol Jones 38
update Ryan Pinkerton thinks the contest sponsor is Buffalo Wild Wings
Joey Chestnut, Sean Gordon, Crazy Legs Conti and Yasir Salem are expected to compete in today’s wing qualifier. This will be the first qualifier for Joey Chestnut. He was announced as a competitor in last year’s qualifier in Miami, FL but did not compete there and apparently received a bye to the finals.
It will be interesting to see if this year’s circuit follows the pattern of most contests last year and only announces wing counts even though the results were supposedly based on total weight consumed. If the 2012 Olympics 100m men’s sprint was reported in a similar manner, the medalists might look something like this:
- Gold: Usain Bolt 41 strides
- Silver: Yohan Blake 46 strides
- Bronze: Justin Gatlin 42.5 strides
2013 Hooters circuit announced
A press release announces the 2013 Hooters wing eating circuit. There will be five qualifiers:
- March 30 Panama City, FL
- April 11 Augusta, GA
- May 11 Terrell, TX
- June 26 Las Vegas, NV
- additional qualifier site to be named later
Finals: July 25, Clearwater, FL
The top 3 finishers in each Hooters wing qualifier will make the finals, which will be held in Clearwater, FL again in July.
The Dallas Observer reports that the Hooters wing eating circuit will return to the Real Texas Festival in Mesquite, TX on April 26 & 27. Contest details have not been posted on http://www.realtexasfestival.com/ yet. update The 2013 Hooters Wing circuit will start on March 30 in Panama City, FL.
“All You Can Eat” British documentary on youtube
All You Can Eat a documentary that was televised last week on the British channel ITV, can now be viewed on youtube. Featured competitive eaters include:
- Pat Bertoletti (shows a training session)
- Larell Marie (behind the scenes coverage of the Nathan’s finals)
- Hooters Finals sponsor’s exemption Lewis Richards (Hooters contest coverage labels finalist Nate Biller as “Nasty Nick” and calls Sonya Thomas the defending champion of the first-time event.)
- 72 year old Peter Dowdsewell (attempts 10 hard boiled eggs record)
2012 Hooters World Wing Eating Championship
update July 28 TampaBay.com and Patch.com have articles
TBO.com has a gallery
ClearwaterHag2 has a video of the pre-contest activities
update July 27 Full revised results are available inserting Pat Bertoletti and Juliet Lee at #4 and #5 which knocks Erik Denmark and Nate Biller out of the money.
| 1st | 144 | $7,500.00 | Joey “Jaws” Chestnut | San Jose, CA | |
| 2nd | 140 | $3,000.00 | Adrian “The Rabbit” Morgan | Baton Rouge, LA | |
| 3rd | 131 | $2,000.00 | Sonya “The Black Widow” Thomas | Alexandria, VA | |
| 4th | 120 | $1,000.00 | Pat “Deep Dish” Bertoletti | Chicago, IL | not in original results |
| 5th | 119 | $750.00 | “The Lovely” Juliet Lee | Germantown, MD | not in original results |
| 6th | 115 | $500.00 | Tim “Gravy” Brown | Chicago, IL | originally listed at 119 |
| 7th | 102 | $250.00 | “Notorious” Bob Shoudt | Royersford, PA | originally listed at 115 |
| 8th | 88 | Erik “The Red” Denmark | Seattle, WA | originally listed at 102 | |
| 9th | 85 | Nate Biller | originally listed at 88 | ||
| 10th | 55 | Lewis Richards | from England | ||
| 11th | 53 | Crazy Legs Conti | New York City, NY | about 1/3 of the 148 wings he was credited with in the qualifer | |
| 12th | 21 | Aasif Mandvi | The Daily Show contributor, claimed wings tasted like bleach after contest |
New poll: opinion on Joey Chestnut’s unannounced Hooters bye
Joey Chestnut will be competing in the finals of Hooters World Wing Eating Championship tonight despite not competing in a qualifier. No mention of a Joey Chestnut receiving a bye appears in the information about the contest and Joey Chestnut was listed as an expected entrant in the Miami qualifer where he did not appear. The new poll asks what you think about Joey Chestnut not needing to qualify.
WTSP has a gallery and video of Sonya Thomas’ appearance this morning and 620WDAE has a podcast of a Joey Chestnut interview.
Joey Chestnut and Lewis Richards from London, England along with the 10 qualifier winners are listed as expected competitors in the Hooters World Wing Eating Championship in Clearwater, FL on July 26. update July 20 Tim "Eater X" Janus was left off of the entrants list even though he won a qualifier.
CSNBayArea.com has videos of an interview and training session with Joey Chestnut from last night's (San Franscico) Chronicle Live. Joey says that he will be competing in the Hooters finals even though he did not win a qualifier and no byes have been announced. He says that is preferred competition beverage is hot water and that he thinks that Takeru Kobayashi will eventually return to the MLE.
A press release announces that the Hooters Wing-Eating World Championship will be livestreamed on facebook starting at 7 pm eastern on July 26. Sonya Thomas is the only competitor mentioned.
Hooters finals field
A list of the winners of Hooters wing qualifiers follows sorted by reported amount of wings eaten follows:
Juliet Lee wins Hooters Sacramento qualifier
update July 15 Results Part 1 | Part 2
1) Juliet Lee 137
2) Steve Hendry 117
3) Erik Franks 105
4) Yasir Salem 100
5) Dax “The Ginger” Swanson 89
6) Tony “The Tiger” 86
7) Tyler Morrow 59
8) Ken Douglas 49
9) Mark Garcia 44
10) John Artal 41
11) Kayla Rowe 29
Hooters of Bakersfield has a gallery
Juliet Lee has been announced as the winner of tonight’s Hooters wing eating qualifier at the California State Fair in Sacramento with a total of 137 wings. Joey Chestnut will not participate in the finals July 26 unless he receives a sponsors exemption. (A picture of Joey Chestnut and 1999 Women’s World Cup hero Brandi Chastian at tonight’s San Jose Earthquakes game).
Joey Chestnut will serve as a celebrity scooper at the San Jose Earthquake's A&W Root Beer Float Night on Saturday from 5:30 to 7:30 pm. The event is being held to benefit the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. (The Hooters Sacramento qualifier is expected to start at 6pm, so Joey Chestnut would not be able to make an unpublicized appearance at that contest.)
Dax "The Ginger" Swanson received billing as the headliner for the final Hooters wing qualifier at the California State Fair in Sacramento on Saturday with Joey Chestnut not having qualfied for the finals in Clearwater, Florida on July 26. (Joey was listed as a participant in the Miami qualifier on June 22, but did not compete.)
The MLE facebook confirms that the Hooters wing eating contest finals will take place in Clearwater, FL on July 26 instead of in New York City on July 27. The new finals site was mentioned in a June 26 press release about the Fresno pre-qualifier.
A press release announces a Hooters wing contest in Fresno on July 7 that will award the winner a berth in the Hooters qualifier at the California State Fair in Sacramento on July 14 to compete for a chance to participate in the finals in Clearwater, FL on July 26. The original finals date and site was July 27 in New York City.
Tim Janus wins Miami Hooters wing qualifier
update June 24 Getty Images has a gallery. None of the pictures show announced participants Joey Chestnut, Sonya Thomas or Rebecca Oey. Mark McGrath of Sugar Ray and Extra was a spectator.
update The top 3: (More results, Joey Chestnut and Rebecca Oey apparently did not compete, no results from the Sonya Thomas exhibition either)
1) Tim “Eater X” Janus 120 wings
2) Yasir Salem 117 wins
3) Juan Angel 110 wings
4) Joe Kennedy 97
5) “Beastly” Brody 78
6) Sam “The Bull” 46
7) Michael “Per Diem” Parish 34
The contest is expected to start at 7 pm and will take place at the Fontainbleu Hotel, where the James Bond classic Goldfinger begins. The competition is being held in conjunction with the 16th Annual Hooters International Swimsuit Pageant. Tim Janus is a late addition to the field.
The Miami New Times has an article about Sonya Thomas' wing eating exhibition at the Hooters qualifier at the Fontainebleu Hotel tomorrow night.
Registration will open at 2 pm eastern for a recently added Hooters wing qualifier in Sacramenton on July 14.
Wing Kong wins Atlanta Hooters qualifier
update June 6 Kicks105FM has a video
http://twitter.com/eatingcontest/status/209363209247928323“>Micah “Wing Kong” Collins has been announced as the winner of today’s Hooters wing eating qualifier in Atlanta with 122 wings. Yasir Salem was the runner up with 117. update Rest of the results
Tomorrow's Hooters qualifier in Atlanta will take place at Falcons Landing (the area between the Georgia Dome & Phillips Arena) at 2:15 pm (the time is not mentioned on the MLE websites). V103.CBSLocal.com has a gallery of an on-air contest Paul Barlow did Friday.
Review of Hooters wing circuit
The Hooters circuit is supposedly being judged according to weight of wing meat consumed, but results have generally been announced using count of wings eaten. In addition to the divergence in units of measurement, there have been interesting results from most of the qualifiers which are described after the jump. (Weights listed below are unofficial except for the Augusta qualifier.)
Nate Biller has been reported as the winner of tonight's Hooters wing eating qualifier in Oklahoma City with a total of 118 wings. update The rest of the results are available. Bryan Beard was the runner up with 44. update #2 News 9 has a video
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