BetOnline Quarantine Challenge Finals
Official Results – finals
1:50 Joey Chestnut (Penalized 1 Sec)
2:48 Gideon Oji (Penalized 5 Sec)
3rd place
2:36 Nick Wehry (Penalized 3 Sec)
2:40 Darron Breeden (Penalized 1 Sec)
The BetOnline Quarantine Challenge Finals between Gideon Oji and Joey Chestnut can be viewed at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDNkbtTZd-A The food will be 10 cups of Nissin Cup Ramen. There will also be a third place matchup between Darron Breeden and Nick Wehry.
BetOnline Quarantine Challenge semifinals
Results
Gideon Oji 1:45 (penalized 2 seconds)
Darron Breeden 2:10
Joey Chestnut 2:03
Nick Wehry 3:35
The semifinals can be viewed at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ro1DQ1YsDA4
The matchups are Darron Breeden vs. Gideon Oji and Joey Chestnut vs. Nick Wehry
The food is 10 pounds of baked beans
BetOnline Quarantine Challenge Round 1
Results
2:51 Gideon Oji (2 second penalty)
4:08 Badlands Booker
2:28 Darron Breeden (2 second penalty)
3:09 Matt Stonie
3:36 Joey Chestnut
3:40 Michelle Lesco (10 second penalty)
2:49 Nick Wehry
2:51 Miki Sudo
The round 2 matchups will be Wehry vs. Chestnut and Oji vs. Breedencan be viewed on the MLE youtube channel
The matchups are
(1) Gideon Oji vs. (8) Badlands Booker
(2) Joey Chestnut vs. (7) Michelle Lesco
(3) Miki Sudo vs. (6) Nick Wehry
(4) Matt Stonie vs. (5) Darron Breeden
According to the database, Michelle Lesco has never won a contest where Joey Chestnut has competed. The 2013 Chicago was her (2nd) only finish ahead of him (3rd). Head to Head results
Betonline Quarantine Challenge qualifying round
update Official times, first to finish 2 lbs of bologna ( video)
1 Gideon Oji 0:52
2 Joey Chestnut 0:55
3 Miki Sudo 1:01
4 Matt Stonie 1:03
5 Darron Breeden 1:15
6 Nick Wehry 1:17
7 Michelle Lesco 1:51
8 Badlands Booker 2:16
The round 1 matchups on Sunday will be Oji vs Booker, Chestnut vs. Lesco, Sudo vs. Wehry and Stonie vs. Breeden. The food will be milk and cookies.
The bologna round should start at http://youtube.com/majorleagueeating at 7pm eastern. This round will determine seeding for the remaining three.
The Quarantine Challenge is not the first video based MLE competition. In 2012, Jello announced the Pudding Prix in which amateurs would submit videos of themselves eating pudding. The event fizzled out with no winners announced after I pointed out that it was in complete violation of MLE safety policy.
Leah Shutkever has produced a video of all 6 of her Guinness World Records.
BetOnline Quarantine Challenge
Major League Eating announced today the BetOnline Quarantine Challenge today, a 4 round, 8 person tournament that can be viewed on youtube. The purse is $11,500 with $5,000 awarded to the winner. The schedule:
Apr 17 Qualifying Round, Bologna
Apr 19 Quarterfinals, Milk and Cookies
Apr 21 Semifinals, Baked Beans
Apr 22 Finals, Ramen
Joey Chestnut, Matt Stonie, Darron Breeden, Badlands Booker, Miki Sudo, Michelle Lesco, Gideon Oji and Nick Wehry are expected to compete.
"Meatballs", the 1979 summer camp comedy starring Bill Murray, can be viewed for free on youtube movies. One of the movie's notable scenes is a hot dog eating contest between the Fink and the Stomach.
Andrew Molitor has started a youtube channel documenting his quest to qualify for Nathan's titled "Making a Meat Murderer".
Darron Breeden collaborated with Kayo Nakajima of Japan to produce a cereal mukbang video.
Miki Sudo and Nick Wehry made a video inspired by "Tiger King" in which they ate 10 food items from the Netflix documentary purchased in the clearance section of Wal-Mart.
Hot Dang Show will host a League of Fire live spicy challenge eating contest at 5pm Eastern today at https://www.youtube.com/hotdangshow. Former WWE wrestler Ryback will host and UK Chilli Queen Shahina Waseem and others spicy specialists will participate. update Link to video stream
"I am Full" a short horror film about a burger challenge by Orlando Torres can be viewed at https://www.iamfullfilm.com/. The film's description is "Kyle, the local competitive eater is met against with the monstrous sized Meat Me Burger Challenge. If he doesn't finish he will have to face the consequences."
Matt Stonie has surpassed 11 million youtube subscribers. It has taken his channel slightly more than four months to gain an additional million after hitting 10 million on November 19, 2019.
Simpsons Treehouse of Horror XXIX, which opens with Homer taking on Cthulu in an oyster eating contest (for "The World Series of Gluttony") can be viewed in full online.
"Notorious B.O.B" Shoudt has passed 100,000 subscribers for his youtube channel.
Competitive eating youtube channels with 1M+ subscribers
Here is a list of competitive eating / food challenge youtube channels I am aware of with over one million subscribers.
| # Subs | # Views | Joined | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Matt Stonie | 10.9M | 2022023404 | Aug 23, 2012 |
| Yuka Kinoshita | 5.44M | 1973179670 | May 21, 2014 |
| Furious Pete | 5.16M | 1003903524 | Aug 10, 2006 |
| Hussain Sallam | 4.16M | 554140785 | Mar 2, 2006 |
| Esttik | 3.01M | 304460725 | Feb 28, 2013 |
| L.A. Beast | 2.53M | 409258475 | Aug 7, 2010 |
| Corbucci Eats | 1.64M | 203985439 | May 2, 2006 |
| Veronica Wang | 1.6M | 275202810 | Jun 26, 2010 |
| BadlandsChugs | 1.54M | 139427096 | Sep 25, 2012 |
| Chien Tsu | 1.4M | 173926809 | Jul 10, 2016 |
| Taniyaaan1125 | 1.26M | 250991764 | Sep 17, 2016 |
| ErikTheElectric | 1.11M | 185153067 | Aug 10, 2013 |
Youtube has a video of a CNN Headline News interview with former IFOCE employee Ryan Nerz about the 2006 Nathan's finals. He calls Joey Chestnut the top. A Crazy Legs Conti interview and hot dog eating exhibition follows. Unfortunately, Conti's claim in the interview that EMT on site makes competitive eating safe (or at least non-lethal) appears to have been disproven by last year's tragedy in Fresno.
In 2016, Ramsey Hilton interviewed Dr. Robert Ziff about his epidemiology models as part of a video in which he also attempted the Dare to be Great sundae challenge at the Parlour in Jackson, MI.
Logan Paul, who has over 20 million subscribers to his youtube channel, posted a request for competitive eaters on his twitter which has received over 2,000 responses.
Mimi "The Mini Monster" Zhang, Australia's top ranked female competitive eater, has started a youtube channel. update Mimi has posted her first food challenge video, the St. Patrick Day's Schnitzelmeister Challenge. Nela Zisser did the challenge at another location.
Darron Breeden wants to perform the national anthem at the Nathan's finals on his electric guitar.
Reclaim the Net reports that Kevin "LA Beast" Strahle's video in which he drinks a 20 year old bottle of Crystal Pepsi was age-restricted by youtube. Screen captures of the video recently appeared in a video titled "Images That Precede Unfortunate Events" produced by pewdiepie, the youtube channel with the most subscribers.
A commenter claimed that Raina Huang sped up her video to qualify for the Round Table Pizza Reign of Fire challenge finals. The video had background music added (contest rules require that the unedited video must be submitted.) (Youtube video)
Joey Chestnut has posted a video of him attempting 32 McDonald's Big Macs. He has passed 50,000 subscribers for his youtube channel.
The News Minute has an article about Indian food challenge youtube channels.
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