update June 4 KS95Vids has a video of the female-runner up, Sally of KS95 who ate six hot dogs.

update 2:28 The female winner was Janice Deregla, Tim Brown’s girlfriend.

update 2:05 The unnamed female winner ate 6.5 hot dogs.

update 1:51 Gravy Brown has been announced as the men’s winner with 28 hot dogs.

The Nathan’s qualifier held at Grand Old Day has been over for at least a half an hour, but no one has bothered to post any results.

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update June 3 Brian Seiken has a video and Bob Shoudt has a video of himself throwing the first pitch at yesterday’s Mets game.

update Winners have been announced: Bob Shoudt won the men’s division with 40 and Maria “Edible” won the women’s with 20.
Badlands Booker takes the men’s wild card lead with 37.

The contest is underway according to this picture.

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update June 4 Nathan’s Famous Canada facebook has a http://www.calgarysun.com/2012/06/02/hotdog-win-worth-relishing“>gallery.

update June 3 Lee Vilinsky wrote a column for his student newspaper decrying the Food Network for its excess. (via Ryan Batty)

update #3 The Calgary Sun has an article which says Heather Osthoff ate 7 hot dogs.

update #2 CBC.ca lists the Canadian winners as Nicole Anderson and Lee Vilinisky, subject of yesterday’s profile in the Calgary Herald. Nicole signed up for the contest this morning.

update CJAY 92 has a gallery

Robert Firlotte reports that Aaron Osthoff won the men’s division of today’s Nathan’s qualifier in Calgary with 33 hot dogs. Aaron’s wife Heather appears to have won the women’s division according to this picture. update Heather ate 12 hot dogs as did the Canadian female champion Nicole. The male Canadian champion was Gino with 16 hot dogs.

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update May 13 NaplesNews.com has a gallery

7:09 MarcoNews.com has a contest report

2:14 Official top 4 (Part 1 | Part 2)
1) Adrian Morgan 33 HDB
2) Kevin “LA Beast” 24
3) Kyle Nestel 19
4) Jon Bello 17
1W) Laura Riehman 4.5

Rich LeFevre retains the wild card lead with 27

1:56 Jim The Candleman reports Adrian Morgan won with 33 hot dogs.

1:43 The qualifier has 3 minutes left according to Jim The CandleMan

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update Apr 30 The Las Vegas Sun has a gallery

update Apr 29 Haute Living has an article and NCAADave has a video

Men
1) Sean Gordon 30 HDB, defends Las Vegas qualifier title
2) Rich LeFevre 27 HDB, takes wild-card lead
3T) Juan “More Bite” Rodgriguez 22 HDB, MLE debut
3T) Ron Koch 22 HDB

Women
1) Juliet Lee 27 HDB, will compete in Nathan’s finals for 6th straight year
?) Mary Bowers 9.5 HDB, takes apparent lead in women’s wild card race

update 6:51 Winners have been announced. Sean Gordon has repeated as the male champion w/30 HDB. Juliet Lee is the female winner w/ 27.

The contest is about to start.

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update April 23 Video of Alex Loiselle and Pat Bertoletti

update The only other announced results are Ben Taylor and Craig Reed w/14 HDB.

Winners via eating contest twitter

Men Pat “Deep Dish” Bertoletti 37
Women Meredith “Deep Fried Diva” 17

The qualifier is expected to start at noon and is being held in conjunction with a celebration of Kmart’s 50th anniversary (the Garden City location was the first Kmart and is now 50 years old). Will Pat Bertoletti break 50 HDB in honor of the event?

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Pat Bertoletti, Meredith Boxberger and Ben Taylor are expected in the first 2012 Nathan’s qualifier in Garden City, MI on Saturday. Kevin “L. A. Beast” also says he will compete.

The next polls will ask which first-time Nathan’s competitors will have the best performances in the 2012 qualifiers. The current choices are listed below, additional ones will be added if requested.

Men: Kevin “LA Beast”, Marcos Owens, Juan “More Bite” Rodriguez, Dax “The Ginger” Swanson, Ben Do
Women: Jessica Abdul Hussain, Mary Bowers, Meredith “Deep Fried Diva” Boxberger

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