Darron Breeden spliced footage of Wayne Algenio competing in the 2017 Mets Nathan's qualifier with the broadcast of the 2018 finals to make it appear he was competing in that event.
Tapinto.net has an article about Rene Rovtar and her daugher Kristina competing in the women's Nathan's finals.
On last night's Jimmy Kimmel Live, Adam Carolla criticized Nathan's Famous hot dog eating contest and proposed that every 10th hot dog in the contest should be a chili cheese frankfurter which had to be eaten conventionally.
In Asian Spaces has a blog entry about attending the 2018 Nathan's finals.
YourPHX.com has an interview with Michelle "Cardboard Shell" Lesco about her runner-up finish in the women's Nathan's famous finals.
Ken Hoffman's column about judging the 2018 Nathan's finals closes with a paragraph about Sony "The Black Widow" Thomas, who was reportedly caught reversing into her hands by an unnamed MLE official and disqualified. (Did anyone catch this? I haven't seen any pictures or video of it).
The broadcast of the Nathan's Finals on ESPN2 was the highest rated cable program for July 4 despite a ratings decline from .45 in 2017 to .43 this year.
The Outline has an article about Max Suzuki competing in the Nathan's finals. He started eating competitively to impress female competitive eater Moeno Azuki.
2018 Men’s Nathan’s finals
| 1st | 74 | Joey “Jaws” Chestnut | new record |
| 2nd | 64 | Carmen Cincotti | |
| 3rd | 43 | Darron Breeden | |
| 4th | 41 | Geoffrey Esper | |
| 5th | 40 | Matt “Megatoad” Stonie | |
| 6th | 37.5 | Gideon Oji | |
| 7th | 34 | Max Suzuki | |
| 8th | 33 | Adrian “The Rabbit” Morgan | |
| 9th | 32 | Juan “more bite” Rodriguez | |
| 10th | 31 | Nick Wehry | |
| 11th | 28 | Rich “The Locust” LeFevre | |
| 12th | 27 | Derek Jacobs | |
| 12th | 27 | Juan “Hungry Saiyan” Neave | |
| 14th | 25 | Matt “Hungry” Hazzard | |
| 15th | 24.75 | George Chiger | |
| 16th | 24 | Steve Hendry | |
| 16th | 24 | Pablo Martinez | |
| 18th | 21.5 | Erik “The Red” Denmark | |
| 18th | 21.5 | Ronnie “MegaByte” Hartman | |
| 20th | 21 | “Buffalo” Jim Reeves | |
| 21st | 20 | Eric “Badlands” Booker |
21 entrants have been announced, so apparently all expected entrants will compete and no sponsors exemptions have been added to the field.
2018 Nathan’s womens finals
Sonya Thomas competed according to this picture (via redrabbit comment, but was not listed in the results)
| 1st | 37 | Miki Sudo | |
| 2nd | 28 | Michelle “Cardboard Shell” Lesco | |
| 3rd | 25 | “The Lovely” Juliet Lee | |
| 4th | 21 | Sarah “Unstoppable Bab” Reinecke | |
| 5th | 19 | Larell Marie “The Real Deal” Mele | |
| 6th | 14 | Sophia Devita | |
| 7th | 13 | Jingru “Panda” Chen | |
| 8th | 12 | Kassandra Zapata | |
| 9th | 11 | Katie Prettyman | |
| 10th | 10.5 | Jocelyn Walker | |
| 11th | 8 | Tracie Dickerson | |
| 11th | 8 | Kathryn Tesch | |
| 11th | 8 | Holly Titus | |
| 14th | 7 | Brittany Powell | |
| 15th | 6.5 | Rene Rovtar | |
| 15th | 6.5 | Brynn Szeles | |
| 17th | 5 | Kristina Rovtar | |
| 18th | 4 | Prudence DiBenedetto |
19 competitors have been announced, so someone besides Steffi Valkov will not appear.
ESPNMediaZone reports that Adam Amin will replace Indy 500 annoucer Paul Page as the play-by-play voice for the coverage of the contest on ESPN2 at noon Eastern. Paul Page most famous line covering Nathan's was probably calling the champion "Joey Chitwood".
All 2017-18 Nathan’s qualfier results
update All today’s Mets results have been added.
A list of all the results in the database for the 2017-18 Nathan’s qualifier circuit follows.
| 2018 Jun 3 | 50 | Carmen Cincotti | Lancaster, PA |
| 2018 May 12 | 46.5 | Darron Breeden | West Friendship, MD |
| 2018 Jun 2 | 45 | Geoffrey Esper | Syracuse, NY |
| 2018 Apr 28 | 42.5 | Max Suzuki | Las Vegas, NV |
| 2018 Jun 24 | 34 | Nick Wehry | Queens, NY |
All 2017-18 Nathan’s qualifier winners
A list of all the qualifier winners in the 2017-18 Nathan’s qualifier winners follows. Joey Chestnut, Matt Stonie, Sonya Thomas and Miki Sudo receive byes to the finals as previous champions. Steffi Valkov has said she will not compete. Additional entrants might be added to the final roster.
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2018 Mets Nathan’s qualifier
Fink Beats the Stomach has the winners
| 1st | 34 | Nick Wehry | avoids being 1st person to eat 33+ hot dogs in qualifier and not make finals |
| 2nd | 28 | Brian “Dud Light” Dudzinski | |
| 3rd | 14 | Michael “Big Hoss” Deitz | |
| 4th | 13.25 | William “Wild Bill” Myers | |
| 5th | 10 | Oliver Brooks | |
| DQ | ? | John Sharkey |
| 1st | 7 | Prudence DiBenedetto | |
| 2nd | 6 | Bailey “Ott Dog” Ott | thought she should have won |
Bailey Otter might have eaten more than winner
If Nick Wehry does not win today’s qualifier, he will be the first person to do 33+ hot dogs in a circuit and not make the finals. Previous competitors who hit that mark either won a subsequent qualifier or received the wild card. The previous high for not making the finals was Pat “from Moonachie” Philbin’s 32 in 2009.
Non-winning 32+ qualifier performances
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2018 Washington, DC Nathan’s qualifier
| 1st | 21 | Gideon Oji | late to contest, started with 4:20 remaining |
| 2nd | 15 | Gregory Price | |
| 3rd | 13.5 | William “Wild Bill” Myers | |
| 4th | 11 | Jack Caldwell | |
| 5th | 7 | Shawn Redwine |
| 1st | 7 | Brittany Powell | |
| 2nd | 4 | Amanda Kulick |
OddsShark reports that Bovada is taking bets on whether PETA wil disrupt the Nathan's finals.
The ESPN schedule for July 4 is out. The men's Nathan's finals will be televised live on ESPN2 at noon Eastern and rerun three times later that day. The women's contest has yet to be added to the ESPN3 streaming schedule. (ESPN2 will broadcast First Take at 10am when the female division takes place.)
2018 St. Louis Nathan’s Cardinal qualifier
update Results via Brandon Clark & Kyle Hanner comments
1) Jim Reeves 21
2) Brett Healey 20
3) Crazy Legs Conti 19.5
1W) “Panda” Jin 12
“Buffalo” Jim Reeves was the male winner of the Nathan’s qualifier at the St. Louis Cardinals ballpark according to Matthew Theodore.
2018 Vallejo Nathan’s qualifier
update TheReporter article
Official results
1) Steve Hendry 28
2) Ryan “Max Carnage” Rodacker 20
1W) Katie Prettyman 14.5, highest female rookie total in 2017-18
2W) Mary Bowers 12
Exhibition: Joey Chestnut 72
Joey Chestnut will do an exhibition during the event.
2018 Nathan’s finals odds
LasVegasBetting.com is taking bets on the Nathan’s finals. The curent odds:
Men
Joey Chestnut -500
Matt Stonie +300
Carmen Cincotti +500
Field +700
Women
Miki Sudo -450
Field +325
2018 Norfolk Harborfest Nathan’s qualifier
update 13News Now video | Pilot Online article
Official results
1) George Chiger 30
2) Brian Dudzinski 24
3) Crazy Legs Conti 16
1W) Rene Rovtar 6
George Chiger, Crazy Legs Conti, Brian Dudzinski and Rene Rovtar are expected to compete.
Local competitiors Jack Saladino and Sam Roewer did interviews.
2018 Dutch Wonderland Nathan’s qualifier
update June 10 WGAL article
| 1st | 50 | Carmen Cincotti | |
| 2nd | 26 | George Chiger | |
| 3rd | 13 | Jack “Snack Jack” Diamond | |
| 4th | 11.5 | William “Wild Bill” Myers | |
| 5th | 7 | Patrick Ryan | |
| 6th | 4 | Brett Shepard |
| 1st | 17.5 | Larell Marie “The Real Deal” Mele | |
| 2nd | 5 | Rene Rovtar | |
| 3rd | 4.25 | Tysheema Holmes |
From Patch Ryan’s twitch video, it appears Carmen Cincotti won with 50 hot dogs. Larell Marie Mele was the female winner.
Carmen Cincotti, George Chiger, Bill Myers, Larell Marie Mele and Rene Rovtar are expected to compete at today’s Nathan’s qualifier at Dutch Wonderland in Lancaster, PA.
2018 Taste of Syracuse Nathan’s qualifier
update June 10 Syracuse NewTimes gallery
Official results
1) Geoff Esper 45
2) George Chiger 26
3) Jim Reeves 22
1W) Kristina Rovtar 6.5, daughter of Rene Rovtar
LocalSyr.com reports Geoff Esper won the men’s division with 45 hot dogs. From the picture, it appears there was at least one female entrant, so “uncontested” failed to defend the women’s division.
Geoff Esper is the favorite in the men’s division. We will see if “Uncontested” defends her Taste of Syracuse qualifier title in the women’s division.
Michelle "Cardboard Shell" Lesco has posted a video of a training session where she hopes to eat 38 hot dogs in 10 minutes. She will post a training video for every $110 she raises for Charity Water.
2018 Nathan’s Six Flags Over Texas qualifier
update May 30 WFAA reporter Sean Giggy has a video of him competing in the contest
update NBCDFW has a video
Results
1 Adrian Morgam 27
1W Jocelyn Walker 8.5
Nate Biller and Alex Perez appeared on Good Morning Texas yesterday to promote the competition.
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