update The Savannah Morning News has a video

update SavannahNow.com has an article and gallery

Official Results
1) Adrian Morgan 28
2) Jim Reeves 24
? Neil Sebree

1W) Dee Martin 10.5

Steve & Dee Martin’s family is present at the qualifier and all dressed in tie-dyed shirts.

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update May 19 Rake & Herald has a contest report Part 1 | Part 2

gons041 has a video

update May 14 Crazy Legs Conti has a contest report for the Huffington Post

update May 13 Rebecca Tully has a video of the amateur contest Brian Seiken has a video of the professional competition and the weighing

update May 12 Kyle Hanner won the amateur contest with 58 wings in 5 minutes. Defending amateur champion Lauren Smith was 3rd w/44.

update DelMarvaNow has an article

Results Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3

1) Joey Chestnut 220 wings
2) Adrian Morgan 186 wings
3) Michelle Lesco 166 wings
4) Miki Sudo 164 wings,first loss to another woman
5) Tim Janus 144
6) Sonya Thomas 142
7) Juliet Lee 133
8) Marcos Owens 127
9) Steve Hendry 123
10) Yasir Salem 97
11) Bill Myers 87
12) Crazy Legs Conti 68
13) Brian Seiken 59

Kyle Hanner reports that Joey Chestnut won with 220 wings.

In last year’s contest the winner of the 6 minute amateur contest, Lauren Smith ate almost as many wings (69) as the last place professional, Crazy Legs Conti, despite the 12 minute duration of that event.

In honor of Mother’s Day, the new poll asks who you think is the top mother in competitive eating history.

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update June 20 Beer Street Journal has a gallery

update June 18 BizJournals.com has a gallery

update June 17 WSBTV article | video segment. Paul Barlow’s retirement is covered at end

Galleries: Creative Loafing | Access Atlanta (via email)

The top 3 men,
1) Adrian Morgan 38
2) Ronnie Hartman 16 (active duty military)
3) Steve “Pi Guy” Martin 15
4) Damien Boykin 13
5T) Paul Barlow 10.5, retired after contest

Cristina Ginn, an executive producer for CNN, announces she won the women’s division.

Adrian Morgan won the men’s division with a total of 38. (vine video)

update A T-shirt listing the qualifier schedule lists a June 1 Moscow, Russia contest

Steve “Pi Guy” Martin is present at the contest, which presumably makes his wife the favorite for the women’s division (if she hadn’t already qualified in Savannah).

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update May 6 Kerry Speckman has a contest report with pictures.

The 10:36pm comment noticed that Jon Bello’s 125 wings almost doubled tripled 125 the 65 45 wings he was credited with in the Augusta qualifier in April. I am not aware of any equivalent quantum leaps during a qualifier circuit. (Sonya Thomas 2003 Nathan’s 18 HDB -> 25 HDB, Joey Chestnut 2005 Nathan’s 20.5 HDB -> 32 HDB)

Announced Results:
1) Adrian Morgan 150 wings, Hooters circuit record
2) Jon Bello 125 wings
3) Tim Janus 124.5 wings

Kerry Speckman is at the contest and posting updates on twitter.

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update April 20 Super4everFun has a video of the entire contest and Houma Today has an article about Buddy “The Bricklayer” Prejean. (via comment)

update April 15 The WayWard Path has a blog entry and gallery and video. NOLADefender has an article.

3:33 The top 3:
1) Sonya Thomas 3.3 pounds in 10 minutes, third victory in a row
2) Crazy Legs Conti 2.8 pounds
3) Adrian Morgan 2.45

2:24 James Karst won the amateur contest and Travers Mackel, the 2011 amateur winner, was the runner-up.

2:14 pm The amateur contest is over.

2:04 pm The amateur contest has started.

BestOfNewOrleans.com has an interview with Adrian Morgan (via Rich Shea).

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The IFOCE rookie of the year is usually someone who qualifies for the Nathan’s finals. The most likely current choices for that honor are Adrian Morgan and Aaron Osthoff. A head to head breakdown based on information in the eatfeats database follows.

The new poll asks who you think will be the 2011 IFOCE rookie of the year and the Aaron Osthoff is interviewed in the new MLE podcast.

Adrian Morgan

• First IFOCE contest: January 9, 2010
• Number of IFOCE contests: 19
• Money won: $3,716.66
• Average place: 3.68
• Average Nathan’s qualifier performance: 23.5 HDB (5 qualifiers)

Aaron Osthoff

• First IFOCE contest: September 18, 2010
• Number of IFOCE contests: 11
• Money won: $4250
• Average place: 3.81
• Average Nathan’s qualifier performance: 27.25 HDB (2 qualifiers)

Head to head results: 2 (Morgan) – 3 (Osthoff) Results listed after the jump
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update June 13 KXII has an article and video.

update More results
1) Adrian Morgan 23 hot dogs, first Nathan’s finals
2) Nate Biller 17.75
3) Yasir Salem 17
1W) Katrina Klein 5

update 2:40 Adrian Morgan’s facebook page reports he won the contest with 23 hot dogs.

update 2:24 The contest has started.

The contest should start at 1 pm central, 2 pm eastern.

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