IFOCE head to head comparison table May 22, 2012
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Joey Chestnut vs. Pat Bertoletti head to head results since 2009
Pat Bertoletti’s victory at the Dorney Park cheesesteak contest yesterday is the first time he has finished ahead of Joey Chestnut since the Wingstop contest held in Dallas in April 2011. Pat’s previous finishes ahead of Joey Chestnut before then came at the Mars bar eating contest in San Diego in July 2010 and the September 2009 Reno rib contest. A listing of head to head results since 2009 follows after the jump.
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Crif Dog Classic field personal hot dog bests
The New York Daily News and Yahoo! Postgame have articles about the Crif Dog Classic. A list of the personal bests in 10-12 minute hot dog eating contests for the announced field for that competition follows:
| 2009 Jul 4 | 2nd | 64.5 | 10 min | Takeru Kobayashi | Nathan’s Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest | Brooklyn, NY |
| 2011 Sep 5 | 2nd | 29 | 10 min | Tom “Goose” Gilbert | West Coast Hot Dog Eating Championship | Mission Viejo, CA |
| 2011 Jul 4 | 3rd | 28.5 | 10 min | Stephanie “Xanadu” Torres | Nathan’s Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest – women | Brooklyn, NY |
| 2007 Jun 28 | 2nd | 26.5 | 12 min | Brad “The Lunatic” Sciullo | Nathan’s Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest qualifier | West Chester, PA |
| 2011 Sep 5 | 5th | 22.75 | 10 min | Johnnie Excel | West Coast Hot Dog Eating Championship | Mission Viejo, CA |
| 2010 May 29 | 5th | 20 | 10 min | Dave “U. S. Male” Goldstein | Nathan’s Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest qualifier | Atlantic City, NJ |
IFOCE head to head table, end of April 2012
With 2012 about a third over here is the list of head to head results over the past year for people who have competed in two or more IFOCE contests over the past 12 months
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Pat Bertoletti reports that Joey Chestnut has offered to bet him $10,000 that he will not come within 10 hot dogs at the Nathan's finals. The gap last year was 9 HDB, but that is the only year the difference has been in single digits. Here are the differences between their totals at Surf & Stillwell on July 4. List of results available after the jump
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Aaron Osthoff wing contest amounts
Aaron Osthoff’s total was announced as one pound in last night’s Hooters qualifier. This is the smallest reported amount he has had in a wing contest. (In a two minute charity contest earlier this year, he ate 1.3 pounds.)
| 2012 Apr 18 | 3rd | 125 wings | 10 min | Aaron “A-Train” Osthoff | Hooters World Wing-Eating Championship Qualifier | Indianapolis, IN | weight announced as 1 pound |
| 2012 Jan 28 | 1st | 1.3 lb. | 2 min | Aaron “A-Train” Osthoff | Wing Eating Contest | Dubuque, IA | |
| 2011 Oct 1 | 3rd | 3.64 lb. | 10 min | Aaron “A-Train” Osthoff | Jacksonville Wing Ding Festival Wing Eating Championship | Jacksonville, AR | |
| 2011 Sep 4 | 5th | 4.17 lb. | 12 min | Aaron “A-Train” Osthoff | US Chicken Wing Eating Championship | Buffalo, NY | |
| 2011 Aug 7 | 1st | 3.466 lb. | 12 min | Aaron “A-Train” Osthoff | Toronto’s Festival of Beer Wing Eating Championship | Toronto, ON, Canada |
Crazy Legs Conti wins Hooters Indianapolis wing eating qualifier
update The top 3
1) Crazy Legs Conti 148 wings
2) Tim “Gravy” Brown 101 wings (more weight than Aaron Osthoff)
3) Aaron Osthoff 125 wings (not 100% happy with the judging)
update Apr 19 If the reported amounts are accurate, there was a big discrepancy in the competitors’ weight per wing.
1) Conti 48 oz / 148 wings = .324 oz (9.1 g) / wing
2) Brown 17 oz / 101 = .168 oz (4.7 g) / wing
3) Osthoff 16 oz / 125 = .128 oz (3.6 g) / wing
Cities with the most Nathan’s qualifiers 2003-2012
Here is a list of cities / metros with two or more Nathan’s qualifiers over the past 10 years according to the eatfeats database and the 2012 schedule.
- 14 New York City (7 at Mets ballpark, 2 in Brooklyn, 5 South Street Seaport
- 10 Philadelphia (6 at Independence Hall, 3 at QVC Studio, 1 in Camden, NJ
- 10 Las Vegas (all at NYNY)
- 10 Tempe, AZ (all at Arizona Mills)
- 9 Atlanta (6 in Atlanta, 3 in Newnan)
- 9 Norfolk (8 at MacArthur Center, 1 at Oceana Station)
- 7 Hartford
- 6 San Francisco Bay Area
- 6 Charlotte, NC
- 6 Long Island (2 Elmont & 4 Islip)
- 5 Boston (3 Boston, 2 Foxborough)
- 5 Cranbury, NJ
- 5 Minneapolis / St. Paul
- 5 South Florida (3 Pembroke Pines, 2 Sunrise)
- 3 Pittsburgh
- 3 Atlantic City
- 3 Saratoga Springs, NY
- 3 Los Angeles
- 2 Fishkill, NY
- 2 Cleveland
- 2 Overland Park, KS
- 2 Thackerville, OK
2011 IFOCE head to head results
The IFOCE head to head results for people who have two or more results from 2011 IFOCE contests in the eatfeats database follows after the jump. The first table ranks the combined head to head results for each competitor.
Most eating challenge successes in 2011
Here are a list of the competitive eaters who have announced the number of eating challenges they completed in 2011. I will add other totals listed in the comments.
- 97, Naader Reda
- 47, Randy Santel
- 9, Andrew Lane
Top IFOCE / MLE calendar-year winning percentages
A list of the top calendar-year winning percentage in IFOCE / MLE contests is available after the jump. Kobayashi obviously has the top winning percentage of 100% for the years 2001-2006. Joey Chestnut in 2010 has the top percentage (81.25%) for someone competing in 10 or more contests. (He would have had a percentage of 85.7% (12/14) in 2011 if he won the CP Biggest eater qualifier). Percentages of 50% or more for people competing in at least four contests have been listed. The second column is number of wins, the third is number of contests and the fourth is the fraction of contests won.
The new poll asks what do you think is the best calendar year in IFOCE history.
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Most IFOCE / MLE victories in a calendar year
The MLE facebook announces that Pat Bertoletti was victorious in 18 MLE contests in 2011. (This apparently counts a victory over a team of amateurs in a pepperoni slice eating contest.) If you count every round of the US Open of Competitive eating as an individual contest, then Sonya Thomas exceeded that mark with 19 victories in 2005. A list of everyone with 10 or more victories in IFOCE/MLE contests in a calendar year according to the eatfeats database follows after the jump.
IFOCE head to head results: November 23, 2011
A list of the updated IFOCE head to head results over the past year for people with two or more results can be viewed after the jump. Read the rest of this entry »
IFOCE head to head table, October 30, 2011
The table of IFOCE head to head results for the past year has been updated with last weekend’s contests and can be viewed after the jump: Read the rest of this entry »
IFOCE head to head comparison table October 18, 2011
The updated IFOCE head to head comparison table can be viewed after the jump.
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IFOCE head to head comparison table October 11, 2011
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IFOCE head to head listings Oct 2, 2011
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Food Service Warehouse has produced an infographic titled An Unbalanced Diet: Competitive Eating.
IFOCE head to head results table Sept 25, 2011
The table of head to head results for the past 12 months for all competitors who have two or more IFOCE results in that time period has been updated with results from contests on September 24. (All people with two or more known placements have been listed even if they have subsequently been ejected from the IFOCE.) Here is the list of top 10 winning percentages, the entire list follows after the jump.
The first number represents the number of times someone has finished ahead of someone else in the list in the past 12 months, the second number represents the number of times some has finished behind someone else in the list and the third number represents the number of ties.
| 1 | Joey “Jaws” Chestnut (J Ch) | 97% | 97-3 |
| 2 | Pat “Deep Dish” Bertoletti (P Be) | 94.7% | 161-9 |
| 3 | Tim “Eater X” Janus (T Ja) | 86.2% | 59-9-1 |
| 4 | Sonya “The Black Widow” Thomas (S Th) | 84% | 63-12 |
| 5 | “Notorious” Bob Shoudt (B Sh) | 81.3% | 91-21 |
| 6 | Matt “Megatoad” Stonie (M St) | 75% | 44-14-2 |
| 7 | Rich “The Locust” LeFevre (R Le) | 72.7% | 8-3 |
| 8 | Sean “Flash” Gordon (S Go) | 67.7% | 41-19-2 |
| 9 | Stephanie “Xanadu” Torres (S To) | 66.7% | 12-6 |
| 10 | “The Lovely” Juliet Lee (J Le) | 64.7% | 61-33-1 |
Unified head to head records listing
The first attempt at a listing of combined head to head records for IFOCE and non-IFOCE eaters follows after the jump. The list compares the past two years of contest results for people with four or more contests with known placement in the past two years. The listing is probably not that accurate as a unified ranking even when people with 10 or less head to head matchups are removed, but improves if it is split into IFOCE and non-IFOCE lists.
The top 5 for IFOCE is 1) Joey Chestnut 2) Pat Bertoletti 3) Bob Shoudt 4) Sonya Thomas 5) Tim Janus. For non-IFOCE the top 5 (after omitting people with 10 or less match ups) is 1) Takeru Kobayashi 2) Tom Gilbert 3) Pete Czerwinski 4) Jon Squibb 5) Bob Kuhns.
Kobayashi’s position will decline in about a week when the 2009 Krystal Square Off falls outside the two year window.
IFOCE head to head results in list form
The head to head results displayed in a grid posted on Tuesday can be viewed as a list after the jump. Read the rest of this entry »
IFOCE comparison matrix, Sept 20, 2011
A table of head to head results for the past 12 months for all competitors who have two or more IFOCE results in that time period has been created. (All people with two or more results have been listed even if they have subsequently been ejected from the IFOCE.) Here is the list of top 10 winning percentages, the entire list follows after the jump:
| 1 | Joey “Jaws” Chestnut (J Ch) | 97.2% | 103-3 |
| 2 | Pat “Deep Dish” Bertoletti (P Be) | 93.6% | 160-11 |
| 3 | Tim “Eater X” Janus (T Ja) | 87.2% | 64-9-1 |
| 4 | Sonya “The Black Widow” Thomas (S Th) | 84.7% | 72-13 |
| 5 | “Notorious” Bob Shoudt (B Sh) | 81.4% | 92-21 |
| 6 | Matt “Megatoad” Stonie (M St) | 74.5% | 40-13-2 |
| 7 | Rich “The Locust” LeFevre (R Le) | 72.7% | 8-3 |
| 8 | Sean “Flash” Gordon (S Go) | 67.7% | 41-19-2 |
| 9 | Stephanie “Xanadu” Torres (S To) | 66.7% | 12-6 |
| 10 | “The Lovely” Juliet Lee (J Le) | 64.7% | 61-33-1 |
The MLE facebook announces that "Buffalo" Jim Reeves became the first person to compete in the same contest ten years in a row at the Buffalo Wing Festival earlier this month and that Crazy Legs Conti will also reach that mark in Thursday's cannoli eating contest. This claim must apply to IFOCE contests only; Lester Tucker has won a quail egg eating contest in Texas for 16 years in a row.
IFOCE top 30 head to head comparison table
A table comparing head to head records in 2011 of the current IFOCE top 30 follows after the jump. (Ben Monson is excluded as he has no 2011 contests). Here is a list of the competitors with the best combined head-to-head records:
| Joey “Jaws” Chestnut (J Ch) | 96.6% | 56-2 | |
| Pat “Deep Dish” Bertoletti (P Be) | 94.1% | 80-5 | |
| Tim “Eater X” Janus (T Ja) | 82.1% | 34-7-1 | |
| “Notorious” Bob Shoudt (B Sh) | 78.1% | 57-16 | |
| Sonya “The Black Widow” Thomas (S Th) | 76% | 19-6 | |
| Matt “Megatoad” Stonie (M St) | 65.6% | 20-10-2 | |
| Sean “Flash” Gordon (S Go) | 59.1% | 25-17-2 | |
| “The Lovely” Juliet Lee (J Le) | 52.9% | 27-24-1 | |
| Aaron “A-Train” Osthoff (A Os) | 50% | 21-21 | |
| Micah “Wing Kong” Collins (M Co) | 47.4% | 17-19-2 |
Losses / ties by the IFOCE top 5 to non-top 5 eaters
I think Tim Janus tying Matt Stonie in Friday’s taco eating contest in Puerto Rico was the first time someone in the IFOCE top 5 has been defeated or tied by someone outside the top 5 in 2011. Here are the times in 2010 that I could find where that happened
- April 17, 2010 Isle of Capri Lula Rib-Eating Championship Sean Gordon defeats Tim Janus
- April 24, 2010 World Deep Fried Asparagus-Eating Championship Ben Monson defeats Pat Bertoletti
- May 8, 2010 Isle Boonville World Boneless Buffalo Wing Eating Championship Ben Monson defeats Sonya Thomas
- Nov 11, 201
10 Battle Of The Bhut XXX Wing Eating Contest Erik Denmark defeats Pat Bertoletti
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