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Joey Chestnut’s margin of victory appears to be the largest since Takeru Kobayashi defeated Badlands Booker 50.5 to 26 in 2002.

Brazilian Corbucci Eats is doing an Instagram Live video from the crowd on https://www.instagram.com/corbuccieats/

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31 is the lowest high total for a female in the Nathan’s finals since Sonya Thomas ate 25 in her first Nathan’s finals in 2003. (She ate 32 in a 12 minute contest in 2004).

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A list of winners of qualifiers in the 2018-19 Nathan’s circuit follows:
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update July 1 DailyDemocrat and TimesHeraldOnline have articles

Here is the top 5 as best as I can figure out (twitter thread)

Steve Hendry won tonight’s Nathan’s qualifier in Santa Cruz. No females competed. updateMatthew White has a video | Preview video

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Rich Shea announced that Gideon Oji (25 hot dogs) and Juliet Lee (23) won today’s Nathan’s qualifier at the Giant National Capital BBQ Battle in Washington, DC. Juliet Lee extends her streak of years with a qualifier victory to 13.

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Covers has posted the following odds for the 2019 Nathan’s finals. (In gambling terminology, a minus signs implies you need to bet that amount to win $100. Betting $100 wins the amount followed by a plus sign). In other gambling news, David Purdum reports the New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement has denied requests from sportsbooks based in that state to offer betting on the Nathan’s finals. update Casino.org has an article about the denial

Joey Chestnut to win?
Yes -888
No +616

Hot dogs eaten by men’s winner?
O 73.5 (+120)
U 73.5 (-140)

Miki Sudo to win women’s contest?
Yes -1000
No +673

Hot dogs eaten by women’s winner?
O 38.5 (-115)
U 38.5 (-115)

5Dimes is also accepting Nathan’s bets

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updateQNS.com has an article

Official results from this morning’s qualifier at the Mets ballpark in Queens.

1) Adam “Beard Meats Food” Moran 32, first Briton to qualify since 2005
2) Eric “Badlands” Booker 28
3) Brian Dudzinski 23
4) Michael Dietz
5) “Beautiful” Brian Seiekn 13

1) Julie Goldberg 9.5
2) Prudence DiBenedetto 6

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With three qualifiers remaining in the circuit, here are the qualifier winners for 2018-19.
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Darron Breeden and Doris Garcia have been announced as the winner of today’s Nathan’s qualifier at the Norfolk Harborfest.

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The ESPN schedule for early July is now out. The men’s Nathan’s finals will be televised on ESPN at noon Eastern and rerun at 3PM and 4PM. The women’s finals will be streamed on ESPN3 for the ninth consecutive year. (ESPN2 will be showing First Take during the women’s Nathan’s finals). ESPN3 will also show camera feeds focused on Joey Chestnut and Miki Sudo.

The Good, The Bad, The Hungry will be televised on ESPN on July 2 at 8 pm and be rerun at 9:30 pm.

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