2016 Washington DC Nathan’s qualifier
update Jun 26 MLE has a facebook live video of the end of the contest
Joey Chestnut ate 73.5 hot dogs in 10 minutes as a non-competitor to set a new record. Results Part 1 | Part 2
1) Carmen Cincotti, 42 only 40+ qualifier performance of circuit
2) Erik Denmark 32, takes wild card
3) Pablo Martinez 26
4) Bill Myers 13.5
5) Lloyd Ingling 8
6) Jesse Rifkin 5
1W) Hillary Andrews 9
2W) Lesley Ryder 7.5
Lesley Ryder and Hilary Andrews are the females expected to compete.
The July 4 schedule for all ESPN channels is out now, and it does not appear the men's or women's finals will be shown live on any of them and will be relegated to ESPN3.com streaming. From 10 am - noon, ESPN Classic will show reruns of men's contests instead of showing the 206 women's contest live.
Coney Island Wahlburgers is holding a rooftop party July 4 overlooking the Nathan's finals. Tickets are $150.
Erik Denmark, Pablo Martinez and Carmen Cincotti have said they will compete in tomorrow's Nathan's qualifier in Washington, DC.
Crazy Legs Conti has a Huffington Post blog entry about his plans to eat hot dogs on the Wonder Wheel in Coney Island tomorrow. He will also attend "The Art of Competitive Eating" Gallery Show at THE COUNTING ROOM in Brooklyn on July 2.
The new poll asks what woman do you think is most likely to finish win money (finish top 5) for the first time in the Nathan's finals. Stephanie Wu noticed that Sophia DeVita was added to the
http://www.majorleagueeating.com/rankings.php
>MLE top 50 at 37, ejecting Liz McClurg. On her instagram, Sophia says she had not practiced with hot dogs before winning the women's division of the Queens qualifier.
2016 Nathan’s Finals field as of June 20
With one qualifier left, here are the winners of the previous competitions:
Wild Card Leaders
| 2016 Jun 12 | 2nd | 31 | 10 min | Steve Hendry | Nathan’s Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest Qualifier – men | Norfolk, VA |
| 2016 Apr 23 | 2nd | 29.75 | 10 min | Erik “The Red” Denmark | Nathan’s Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest Qualifier – men | Las Vegas, NV |
| 2016 Jun 12 | 3rd | 28 | 10 min | Darron Breeden | Nathan’s Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest Qualifier – men | Norfolk, VA |
| 2016 Jun 19 | 2nd | 14.5 | 10 min | Daniella Gioia | Nathan’s Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest Qualifier – women | Queens, NY |
| 2016 Apr 23 | 2nd | 12.5 | 10 min | Carlene LeFevre | Nathan’s Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest Qualifier – women | Las Vegas, NV |
| 2016 Jun 5 | 2nd | 8 | 10 min | Tess “Tessie Tornado” Siciliano | Nathan’s Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest Qualifier – women | Long Pond, PA |
San Antonio Magazine has an article about "Princess" Kassie Zapata.
2016 NY Mets Nathan’s qualifier
update June 20 Full results Part 1 | Part 2
| 1st | 33 | Yasir Salem | puts Steve Hendry into sole possession of wild card lead |
| 2nd | 15.25 | William “Wild Bill” Myers | |
| 3rd | 13 | “Beautiful” Brian Seiken | 1st contest since June 20, 2015, finishes 3rd in men’s Queens qualifier 3rd year in a row |
| 4th | 8 | Andy Flamm | |
| 4th | 8 | Ryoo Jessoo | |
| 4th | 8 | Matthew Kiebus |
| 1st | 16.5 | Sophia Devita | maybe best showing for woman whose 1st contest is Nathan’s qualifer since Sonya Thomas |
| 2nd | 14.5 | Daniella Gioia | takes women’s wild card lead |
| 3rd | 4.75 | Prudence DiBenedetto |
Darron Breeden, 3rd place finisher in Sunday's Nathan's qualifier in Norfolk, has a youtube channel with a video of that contest. In May, he was denied the $500 prize for Benny DeLuca's pizza challenge because the restaurant considered him a "professional" even though he had not previously done an eating contest.
2016 Norfolk Nathan’s qualifier
update June 14 Debbie has videos Part 1 | Part 2
update June 13 The Virginia-Pilot has a gallery and video
Robbie Hickman has a facebook gallery
update
1) Gideon Oji 33
2) Steve Hendry 31, new wild card leader update tied with Yasir Salem for wild card lead
3) Darron Breeden 28 (record for total unknown?)
1W) BeeJay Alexander 16.5
Steve Hendry, Gideon Oji and BeeJay Alexander are expected to compete.
The youtube channel for Nathan's Famous just uploaded a lot of promo videos for the Nathan's finals starring Matt Stonie and Joey Chestnut.
2016 Nathan’s finals field as of June 6
With three qualifiers left here is the current field for the 2016 Nathan’s finals:
Men
Women
Presumably previous champions Joey Chestnut and Sonya Thomas will receive byes
Nathan’s 2015 Top 10 yet to qualify:
Tim Janus (retired), Erik Denmark, Yasir Salem, Pablo Martinez
Daniella Gioia, BeeJay Alexander, Carlene LeFevre
Men’s wild card leaders
| 2016 Jun 4 | 2nd | 31 | 10 min | Yasir Salem | Nathan’s Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest Qualifier – men | Syracuse, NY |
| 2016 Apr 23 | 2nd | 29.75 | 10 min | Erik “The Red” Denmark | Nathan’s Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest Qualifier – men | Las Vegas, NV |
| 2016 Apr 23 | 3rd | 27 | 10 min | Steve Hendry | Nathan’s Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest Qualifier – men | Las Vegas, NV |
Women’s wild card leaders
| 2016 Apr 23 | 2nd | 12.5 | 10 min | Carlene LeFevre | Nathan’s Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest Qualifier – women | Las Vegas, NV |
| 2016 Jun 5 | 2nd | 8 | 10 min | Tess “Tessie Tornado” Siciliano | Nathan’s Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest Qualifier – women | Long Pond, PA |
| 2016 Apr 16 | 2nd | 7 | 10 min | Taylor Coombs | Nathan’s Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest Qualifier – women | St. Louis, MO |
2016 Nathan’s Pocono qualifier
update Pocono Record has a contest report
Full Results Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3
1) Badlands Booker 23.75
2) Kevin Ambs 23.33
3) George Chiger 19.5
4) Jim Reeves 18
5T) Michael Deitz 13
5T) Ryan Siciliano 13
7) Bill Myers 12.75
8) Tom Serpico 6
1W) Larell Marie Mele 12
2w) Tess Siciliano 8
update It appears Eric “Badlands” Booker narrowly won the men’s contest
Larell Marie Mele won the women’s contest, which puts Carlene LeFevre back in the wild card lead.
Larell Marie Mele, Jim Reeves and Bill Myers are expected to do 2 qualifiers in less than 24 hours. “Badlands” Booker is another listed entrant. A victory by Larell Marie would restore the women’s wild card lead to Carlene LeFevre.
2016 Nathan’s Syracuse qualifier
Syracuse.com has an article and video about the qualifier
Ryan Siciliano has the winners from today’s Nathan’s qualifier in Syracuse. Larell Marie Mele says she took the women’s wild card lead. Results part 2
1) Geoff Esper 34.5
2) Yasir Salem 31, takes men’s wild card lead
3) Jim Reeves 23
4) Ryan Siciliano 16
5) Steven Dorgo 15
6) Bill Myers 14.5
7) Jesse Kanula 13
8) Don 8
9T) Kevin Belbey 7
9T) Derek 7
1W) Meredith Boxberger 21
2W) Larell Marie Mele 14.5, takes women’s wild card lead
Geoff Esper, Eric "Badlands" Booker, Meredith Boxberger and Larell Marie Mele are expected to compete in the Nathan's qualifier at Taste of Syracuse Saturday. Crazy Legs offers some tips for spectators and Rich Shea claims that a town record will be set (Takeru Kobayashi ate 110 bunless Hoffman hot dogs in 2012)
The new poll asks what man currently ranked in the MLE top 13 is most likely to finish in the Nathan's finals top 3. The race for third place should be wide open after Tim "Eater X" Janus announced his retirement.
2016 Nathan’s Charlotte qualifier
update May 31 Charlotte Agenda has a contest report with a full roster
update May 29 The Sporting News has a contest report. The men’s top 3
1) David Schuster 21.5
2) Ronnie Hartman 18.5
3) Damien Boykin 16
Native New Yorker Elizabeth Petra was the sole woman, perhaps the female Carolinians boycotted due to the HB2 transgender bathroom law 😉
WCCB has a gallery
Steve Shuster won the men’s division with 21 and Elizabeth Petra took the women’s with 6
Ronnie Hartman ad Corey Fanguy are the expected ranked eaters. Rich Shea says a female will make her debut.
Mitchell Johnson and Anthony V. Taddeo did a podcast about the contest
SpeedStreetAutograph is claiming Michael Alvarez is a “semifinalist” who “rocked” last year’s qualifier despite a total of 11 hot dogs.
Newsday has an article about Nathan's Famous centennial which reports that net income declined 81% after making interest payments to finance a bond to pay investors a $25 per share dividend.
Crazy Legs Conti faced off against a Daily Mail employee in a Nathan's hot dog eating contest streamed on facebook video today. George Shea was also present.
2016 Nathan’s finals on ESPN at 3pm
The ESPN schedule for July 4, 2016 lists the first showing of the Nathan’s finals at 3 pm. This will be a three hour tape-delay if the competition has its traditional noon start time, as the countdown counter on nathansfamous.com implies. There will also be three reruns on ESPN2. The July 4 web-streaming schedule for ESPN3.com, which shows the women’s division, is not yet available.
It appears that both ESPN and ESPN2 will be broadcasting tennis from Wimbledon while the Nathan’s finals competitions take place.
Te Waha Nui has an interview with Nela Zisser, who hopes switching to a one hot dog at a time strategy will put her in the top five in the women's division of the Nathan's finals.
On twitter, Tim "Eater X" announced that he will not be competing in Nathan's in 2016. This should result in a tight race for the men's third place in the Nathan's finals.
In Nela Zisser's video of last month's Nathan's qualifier in Houston, George Shea reuses Crazy Legs Conti's "popcorn sarcophagus" / "David Blaine of the bowel" biography to introduce a competitor around the 4 minute mark. In Sunday's gyro contest, he recycled Allen "Shredder" Goldstein's introduction.
The new poll asks what action, if any, Nathan's / MLE should take regarding HB2, North Carolina's controversial transgender bathroom law. Bruce Springsteen and Pearl Jam have cancelled concerts in the state to protest it and the NBA says it could move the 2017 All Star Game from Charlotte if the law is not repealed. The next Nathan's qualifier will be on May 28 at the Speed Street Festival in Charlotte.
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