2013 Nathan’s qualifier winners
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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
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Eater X wins Mets ballpark Nathan’s qualifier w/50
Pix11 video of qualifier, miscaptioned as having taken place in Coney Island.
Andrew Kossuth reports that Prudence from NY was the female winner with a total of 6. (She was not the sole female competing)
Tim “Eater X” Janus won the contest with 50 hot dogs. This is the highest qualifier total of 2013.
This might be the female winner / possible sole participant.
The qualifier to be held before today’s New York Mets game vs. the Washington Nationals has received minimal publicity; it does not appear to even be mentioned on http://newyork.mets.mlb.com/The game time is 1:10 so the qualifier will have an early start.
Andrew Kossuth is the only expected entrant besides Tim Janus.
Crazy Legs Conti, Brian Subich, Bill Myers and Jim Reeves are listed as entrants for tomorrow's Nathan's qualifier at the Meadowlands State Fair. Atlanta runner-up Ronnie Hartman and Brian Seiken are also expected to compete. Maria "Edible" is also expected to attend (but possibly not compete). FIOS1 has a video of an interview with Crazy Legs Conti. update Hudson Reporter has an article about local competitor Jordan Rothman.
MLE does not recognize Tom Gilbert as the current leader for the Nathan's wild card spot even though he has the highest total for a qualifier runner-up (31). Erik Denmark is listed as the official leader (27.5).
ABC15 has a segment about Jeff "The Beastman" Butler where he competes in a pie eating contest.
Visalia Times has a video of Pablo Martinez displaying techinques for competitive hot dog eating.
Jeff "The Beastman" Butler appeared on Fox 10 today to talk about competing in the Nathan's finals. (via email)
2013 Nathan’s Boston qualifier
update June 24 Full results via Bill Myers
Men
1st 47 Matt “Megatoad” Stonie San Jose, CA, personal best
2nd 21 “Buffalo” Jim Reeves Buffalo, NY
3rd 15 William “Wild Bill” Myers Breinigsville, PA
4th 12 Joao Paulo
5th 8 Pete Twiraga
6th 7.25 Robert Mulhausen
7th 6 Stuart Angus while wearing a hot dog costume.
8th 5.75 Thom Beck
women
1st Neslie Ricasa 13
2nd Terri Reeves 7
Winners
1M) Matt Stonie 47 personal best highest of 2013
1W) Neslie Ricasa 13
Richard Shea announced that Mia Davekos was the only woman to register as of March 20. Jim Reeves’ wife Terri will also be competing today.
NJ.com reports that Crazy Legs Conti will compete in the Nathan's qualifier at State Fair Meadowlands on June 29. An unnamed competitor capable of 40+ hot dogs is also mentioned. update June 22 Atlanta runner-up Ronnie Hartman will also be competing and he has made a video about the qualifier.
ESPN2 to show Sportscenter instead of Nathan’s womens finals
The 2013 Nathan’s TV schedule is now out (scroll down to “Great Events”). ESPN2 will start live coverage of the men’s finals at noon EDT while ESPN televises Wimbledon. The broadcast will be rerun on ESPN at 1 pm EDT and 7 pm EDT and on ESPN2 at 5 pm EDT.
The women’s finals will be webcast on ESPN3.com starting at 11:30. ESPN2 will be showing Sportscenter at that time, so the women’s finals could be televised live if the Sportscenter starting at 7 am EDT on that channel was truncated from five hours to 4:30.
Tim Janus has withdrawn from Saturday's Nathan's qualifier in Boston and is expected to compete in Queens June 29. This keeps Tom Gilbert's hopes of retaining the wild card lead alive.
Adrian Morgan wins 2013 Nathan’s Atlanta qualifier
update June 20 Beer Street Journal has a gallery
update June 18 BizJournals.com has a gallery
update June 17 WSBTV article | video segment. Paul Barlow’s retirement is covered at end
Galleries: Creative Loafing | Access Atlanta (via email)
The top 3 men,
1) Adrian Morgan 38
2) Ronnie Hartman 16 (active duty military)
3) Steve “Pi Guy” Martin 15
4) Damien Boykin 13
5T) Paul Barlow 10.5, retired after contest
Cristina Ginn, an executive producer for CNN, announces she won the women’s division.
Adrian Morgan won the men’s division with a total of 38. (vine video)
update A T-shirt listing the qualifier schedule lists a June 1 Moscow, Russia contest
Steve “Pi Guy” Martin is present at the contest, which presumably makes his wife the favorite for the women’s division (if she hadn’t already qualified in Savannah).
Paul Barlow will be on 92.9 The Game this hour to promote tomorrow's Nathan's qualifier in Atlanta. (listen live)
The television schedule for this year's Wimbledon tournament lists that ESPN will televise the women's semifinals from 9am - 1pm eastern on July 4, which will conflict with live coverage of the Nathan's finals on that channel. Last year's Nathan's finals were webcast live on ESPN3.com and tape-delayed on ESPN. update June 14 An IFOCE.com page about the finals (which lists the defending women's champion as Sonya Morgan) says they will be televised live on ESPN2.
The new poll asks what "changing of the guard" is most likely in the 2013 Nathan's finals.
Marcos Owens & Juliet Lee take Nathan’s Pittsburgh qualifier
update June 14 WTAE has a video, TribLive has a gallery and Rake & Herald has a contest report
update The Pittsburgh Post Gazette has an article and TribLive has a video. WPXI also has a video
(Results) Men
1) Marcos Owens 30
2) Brian Subich 20
3) Crazy Legs Conti 19.5
4) Bill Myers 17 (personal best)
Women
1) Juliet Lee 30
update Catherine Tsavalas reports that Marcos Owens and Juliet Lee both qualified for the finals with a total of 30.
Juliet Lee is at the contest and should qualify easily
Jennifer “The Wiener Slayer” Grabner is the first announced female contestant.
Crazy Legs Conti, Brian Subich and Marcos Owens are expected to compete in tomorrow's Nathan's qualifer in Pittsburgh. Micah "Wing Kong" Collins has withdrawn.
Matt Stonie announces that he will compete in the Boston Nathan's qualifier on June 22 and expects to face Tim Janus. If that matchup occurs, the runner-up will probably receive the men's wild card. Matt also has a new training vlog.
Patch.com announces that Adrian Morgan, Eric "Badlands" Booker and Damien Boykin will compete in Saturday's Nathan's qualifier at Cypress Street Pint and Plate in Atlanta.
Aaron Osthoff & Meredith Boxberber win Nathan’s Calgary qualifier
update June 9 The Globe and Mail has an article about Meredith Boxberger.
update Nathan’s Famous Canada has a facebook gallery
The Calgary Herald has an article reporting that Nicole Anderson was disqualified.
Men
1) Aaron Osthoff 31 hot dogs
Women
1) Meredith Boxberger 23
Meredith Boxberger appeared on CTV yesterday to promote the contest. The Calgary Herald also has a gallery of extreme eating contests.
Omaha.com has a short article about Molly Schuyler's qualification for the Nathan's finals.
Nathan’s wild card standings June 3, 2013
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Molly Schuyler breaks 30 at Grand Old Day
update TwinCities.com has some pictures Dawn Rossback has a video
Results – women
1) Molly Schuyler 31, 4th woman to break 30
2) Courtney Taylor 8
3) Lisa Murray 4
men
1) Pablo Martinez 29
2) Eric “Badlands” Booker 25
3) Steve Hendry 24
4) Craig Reed 20
5) Matthew Raible 12
7T) Jeff Munson 11
7T) Andrew Kog. 11
9) Tim Ryan 10
10) Nick Johnson 4
The contest will be held in a 21+ area, which caused issues for Matt Stonie at last year’s Boston qualifier.
KARE 11 had a promo contest (starts at 2:30 mark) for Sunday's Nathan's qualifier in St. Paul, MN. No expected competitors for that event were mentioned besides promo contest participant Nicholas Johnson.
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