Dave Brunelli ate 21 1/4 lb. meatballs in 4 minutes to win the first prize of $1000 in today's contest at Mille's Old World in Morristown, NJ. Bob Shoudt was the runner up with 19.
The team of Wayne Algenio, Dave Brunelli and Dave Wood won the first prize of $1500 in today's pizza eating contest at Zoi's Pizza in Seymour, CT. update April 22 WPLR has a gallery
PhillyVoice.com has an interview with Dave Brunelli where he describes his wing eating techniques. He says his favorite Wing Bowl moment was finishing last year's competition without reversing.
StarNewsPhilly.com has a report on last week's Wing Off at SugarHouse Casino won by Dave Brunelli. The Wing Bowl website has a contest video.
Dave Brunelli won tonight's Wing Off at SugarHouse Casino.
Dave Brunelli wins Music City Bowl hot chicken contest
update Dec 31 Kyle Hanner video Naader Reda video (introductions)
Naader Reda has the top 3
1) Dave Brunelli 3 plates & 3 pieces
2) Naader Reda 2 plates & 2 pieces
3) Kyle Hanner 2 plates
Matthew Chang also competed and says he finished 4th
There was one reversal.
Dave Brunelli has been announced as the winner
It does not appear that defending champ Molly Schuyler was in attendance.
Philadelphia Weekly has interviews with Bob Shoudt and Dave Brunelli about competing in Saturday's Cheeststeak Festival eating contest.
2015 NYC Dumpling Festival
Top 7 men from the Ukraine Train
| 1st | 78 | David “Tiger Wings and Things” Brunelli | |
| 2nd | 67 | Dimitry “The Ukraine Train” Shchupak | |
| 3rd | 65 | “Notorious” Bob Shoudt | |
| 4th | 63 | Wayne “wayneywonder” Algenio | |
| 4th | 63 | “Gentleman” Joe Menchetti | |
| 6th | 60 | Marcos “The Monster” Owens | |
| 7th | 48 | Kevin “Qwazy” Ambs |
| 1st | 93 | Molly Schuyler | contest record |
| 2nd | 54 | Stephanie “Xanadu” Torres | |
| 3rd | 41 | Jennifer “The Black Hole” Cheng | round 2 winner |
| ? | 26 | Tricia Sardo | round 1 winner |
Molly Schuyler defends CA State Fair corn dog title
update Jul 20 Stephanie Wu has a contest video
Stephanie Wu has the results from tonight’s corn dog eating contest at the California State Fair in Sacramento. Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3
1) Molly Schuyler1 33 corn dogs $2,500 in 8 minutes
2) Pat Bertoletti 26.3-$2,000
3) Dave Brunelli 24.75- $1,000.
4) Michael Quattrocchi 13 $500
5) Kirk Taylor 11.67
6) Sergio Reyes-Raya 10 $100
7) Zane Glaser 9
8) Jacob Dena 8
9) Nathan Turton 7
No shows: Edward Chin, Ryan Ashburn
CA State Fair corn dog qualifier results
Corn Dog Qualifier results from Stephanie Wu Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 (3 minutes, top 10 advance)
1) Molly Schuyler 18
2) Dave Brunelli 12
3) Pat Bertoletti 11
4T) Edward Chin 7
4T) Zane Glaser 7
6) Michael 6
7T) Kirk Taylor
7T) Sergio Reyes-Raya
9) Nathan 5.5
10T) Jacob Debba 5
10T) Ryan Ashburn 5 Stephanie Wu reports that Joey Chestnut will be a special guest at the California State Fair corn dog contest in Sacramento. A qualifier will be held tonight and the finals tomorrow will award $6100.
Dave "Tiger Wings & Things" Brunelli won tonight's crab fries eating contest at Chickie's & Pete's in Philadelphia. Dave "The Termite" Wood was the runner up.
Dave Brunelli ate 25 hot dogs Saturday to defend his title at Fish Tales in Ocean City, MD. Jed Donahue ate 19.5 hot dogs to take runner up.
The Reading Fightins report that Dave Brunelli won the first prize of $500 at tonight's "Gluttony Night" contest. USA Today has an article about the event. (picture) update Jun 11 69 News has an article and video
Dave Brunelli wins Rock the Tot finals
Dave Brunelli won tonight’s Rock the Tot finals in Cleveland with a total of 3 pounds and 12.7 ounces. Guinness is crediting that amount a record even though Molly Schuyler ate over 6 pounds in last year’s contest. (via Chance DeWerth) update Oct 27 The Times Tribune has an article about runner up Dave Wood.
update Oct 28 The finals results are now posted on rockthetot.com
1) Dave Brunelli
2) Dave Wood
3) Bob Kuhns
4) Tedy Delacruz
5) Amory Ronquillo
Joe Menchetti was originally listed as a finalist. His place was taken by Amory Ronquillo
Dave Brunelli wins NYC Dumplings, Molly Schuyler repeats as top woman
update Oct 19 The Ukraine Train has most of the prizewinners
Men
1) Dave Brunelli 75
2) “Ukraine Train” 50
3) Wayne Algenio 47
Pat Bertoletti and Joe Menchetti were penalized for smashing
Women
1) Molly Schuyler 89
2) Stephanie Torres 46
According to a video by Team Subject to Change, Dave Brunelli was the top male at the New York City Dumpling Festival eating contest with 75. Wayne Algenio announced he was 3rd. The women’s totals are not included in the video. In a picture of the prize winners at the 5:13 mark, Molly Schuyler is holding a trophy and Stephanie Torres also appears to be a prize winner. (video of Molly Schuyler’s contest).
The top 3 nationally for Jake's Wayback Burgers Triple Triple Challenge have been announced: 1) Molly Schuyler 38.95s 2) Dave Brunelli 41s 3) Sam Soworda 54s.
A press release announces that Molly Schuyler and Dave Brunelli are expected to compete in the HandsFree Pumpkin Pie Eating Championship at the Great Pumpkin Farm in Clarence, NY on September 28. Last year's contest was the site of the only defeat of Molly Schuyler's competitive eating career.
TV Tokyo's "Battle of the Big Eaters" program from last month where a US team of Molly Schuyler, Dave Brunelli, Stephanie Torres and Tom Gilbert faced a Japanese quartet consisting of Angela Sato, Hitomi Sato, Tomoko Miyake and Takuya Yamamoto along with teams from Germany is available on youtube. (playlist | video list) (Via Will Millender)
Dave Brunelli won the hot dog eating contest held at Fish Tales in Ocean City, MD on July 4 with a total of 28 hot dogs.
Dave Brunelli comments that he ate 6.5 pounds of Curley's fries at Morey's Piers in Wildwood, NJ yesterday to defeat Jamie McDonald and Dave Goldstein.
Dave Brunelli ate 122 wings in 15 minutes to win today's eating contest at Amish Market in North Wildwood, NJ.
Philly Sports Jabronis have an article an article about Dave Brunelli with information about his amateur boxing career.
Dave Brunelli won the first place prize of Flyers suite tickets at the Sandwich Bowl held at Paesano's in Philadelphia Sunday.
Dave "Tiger Wings & Things" Brunelli ate a 4 pound Sicilian pizza this morning to qualify for Wing Bowl 22.
Updated Jake’s Wayback Burgers national list
The top 15 for Jake’s Wayback Burgers triple triple contest has been updated to include previously omitted competitiors. The top 8
1) David Brunelli 30 seconds
2) Jamie McDonald 48s
3) Wayne Algenio 1:15
4) Mike Rubolina 1:44
5) Joe Menchetti 1:50
6T) Jimmy Lin 1:54
6T) Dimitry Shchupak 1:54
8) Will Millender 2:00
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