update Sept 4 Adrian Morgan has a different top 6 on his facebook. Full results can be found on the MLE contest page

1 Joey Chestnut 192 wings
2 Adrian Morgan 146
3 Steve Hendry 143
4 Michelle Lesco 141
5 Sonya Thomas 140
6 Jeff Butler 130
7 Marcos Owens 128
8 Badlands Booker 126
9 Jim Reeves 112
10 Yasir Salem 104
11 Brian Subich 102
12 Miki Sudo 99
13 Wild Bill Myers 72
14 Max Wojciechowski (amateur winner) 35

Buffalo Live and ODV Vicious have videos.

update Sept 3 The festival facebook has more results with the interesting exception of the MLE wing contest.

update Sept 2 The festival facebook has a larger picture of Joey holding the results sheet which appears to list Joey Chestnut’s weight as 6.02 pounds. This is well below the his winning total of 7.61 pounds two years ago which would make Sunday’s contest a non-record.

CW23 has an article and interview and with Michelle Lesco, confirming she got third place

Bufalo News reports that Joey’s weight was approximately 6 pounds, less than his winning total of 7.61 lbs. in 2012.

WGRZ.com has a gallery.

The top 5 according to this picture:
1) Joey Chestnut 192 wings
2) Adrian Morgan 146
3) Michelle Lesco 141
4) Sonya Thomas 140
5) Jeff Butler 130

Joey Chestnut has been announced as the winner with 192 wings. This was claimed as a world record even though the contest had previously been judged by weight.

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Richard Shea has the top 5:
1) Joey Chestnut
2) Adrian Morgan
3) Jeff Butler
4) Michelle Lesco
5) Sonya Thomas, first victory over Miki Sudo
? Miki Sudo
? Badlands Booker

The contest page on the festival website has last year’s field, but not the 2014 competitors.

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update Aug 28 The Reno Gazette Journal has an article and video

BlueMauMau has a gallery

Official results (Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3)
1) Joey Chestnut 9 lb. 2.7 oz
2) Matt Stonie 8 3
3) Miki Sudo 6 7
4) Erik Denmark 5 14.75
5) Juan Rodriguez 5 7.2
6) Michelle Lesco 5 7
7) Steve Hendry 4 14.6
8) Drake Nelson 1 13.5
9) Crazy Legs Conti 1 7

Emerson Marcus reports that Joey Chestnut won the Nugget Rib eating contest in Sparks, NV with a total of 9.27 pounds in 12minutes.

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update Oct 23 Matt Stonie has a video

update Aug 21 The contest facebook reports the resuls for Andrew “the Bear” Kogutkiewicz and Josh Miller were switched

update Aug 18 Danny Chau has a contest report for grantland.com TMZ also has an article

A video of the final 1:30 is available on youtube.

update Backyard Bite has a blog entry

The top 4 | Part 2 | Part 3
1) Joey Chestnut 384
2) Matt Stonie 377
3) Miki Sudo 199
4) Erik Denmark 181
5) Juan Rodriguez 180
6) Rich LeFevre 175
7T) Badlands Booker 157
7T) Marcos Owens 157
9) Steve Hendry 149
10) Pablo Martinez 139
11 Josh Miller 117
12T) Andrew Kogutkiewicz 66
12T) Danny Chau (Grantland.com) 66
14 Mary Bowers 61
15) Neslie Ricasa 53
16 Eddie “Linsatiable” Lin 37

Joey Chestnut has been announced as the winner with a total of 384 gyoza.

The undercard contests have started. The Los Angeles Fire Department has won a competition with a total of 137 gyoza.

A first person video recorded by Michelle Lesco at last year’s contest is available.

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update Press Connects has a gallery Fox 40 has an article and video

update Joey Chestnut ate 14 sandwiches in 10 minutes to win the contest.

Full Results: Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4

1) Joey Chestnut 13.75
2) Marcos Owens 9.5
3) Eric “Badlands” Booker 8.7
4) Jim Reeves 7.5
5) Brian Subich 7
6) Daniella Gioia 6.5
7) Crazy Legs Conti 6
8) Bill Myers 5.2
9) Larell Marie Mele 5
10) Brian Seiken 4.25
11) Tim Ryan 4.2
12) Leo Gioia 3.8
13) Ryan Siciliano 3.5
14) Nick Subich 3

Press Connects has a interview with Joey Chestnut about competing in tonight’s chicken spiedie eating contest at Tioga Downs in Nichols, NY.

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update July 24 The Las Vegas Review Journal has a contest report. The Las Vegas Sun has a gallery. TMZ has a post-contest interview with Joey Chestnut.

The top 5 according to Sarah Feldberg Full results
1) Joey Chestnut 182
2) Adrian Morgan 174
3) Matt Stonie
4) Juliet Lee
5) Miki Sudo 146
6) Michelle Lesco 142
7) Marcos Owens 140
8) Erik Denmark 132
8) Juan Rodriguez 132
10) Badlands Booker 118
11) Pablo Martinez 104

Joey Chestnut and Miki Sudo appeared on 8 News Now this morning.

Miki Sudo did an interview on KNPR

This will be the first time Joey Chestnut and Matt Stonie compete in a wing eating contest.

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update July 13DJournal and WTVA have articles

Results Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3
1) Matt Stonie 43 new record
2) Joey Chestnut 42
3) Juan Rodriguez 23
4) Nate Biller 13
5) Matt Raible 11
6) Steve Martin 9
7) Jeff Stark 7.75
8) Dee Martin 6.5
9T) John Russell 6
9T) Alex Perez
11) Taylor Coombs

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Official Top 3 (Full results – July 8)
1) Joey Chestnut 61 8th victory in a row, proposed to Neslie Ricasa before contest
2) Matt Stonie 56
3) Tim Janus 44
4T) Brian Dudzinski 34
4T) Erik Denmark 34
6) Juan Rodriguez 32
7) Adrian Morgan 29
8) Marcos Owens 26
9) Badlands Booker 25
10) Yasir Salem 19.75
11) Aaron Osthoff 19.5
12) Pablo Martinez 17
13) Ronnie Hartman, 14
14T) Sean Gordon, 10
14T) Sgt. Horacio Chanyau, 10
16) Colin Shirlow 3

Jeff Butler missed the contest due to a cancelled flight

Post contest coverage

• ESPN.com article
• Daily Beast contest report
• Brooklyn Paper article and gallery
• Rick Telander of the Chicago Sun Times calls MLE eaters “professional bulimics” and claims he witness much backstage vomiting when he attended a Nathan’s finals
• Guardian.com article
• Video of Sport Science segment about competitive eating seen during Nathan’s broadcast
• Village Voice gallery and animated GIF of Joey Chestnut eating 61 hot dogs
• Bleacher Report claims Matt Stonie is “ushering in a new era of competitive eating”
• Broadway World gallery
• Seacoast Online article about Matt Stonie
• Juan Rodriguez gallery – 32 hot dogs
• Aaron Osthoff article – 20 hot dogs
• Pablo Martinez article – 17 hot dogs
• Ronnie Hartman article – no total
• Crazy Legs Conti poem based on “The Night Before Christmas”

The men’s Nathan’s contest will be live at noon eastern on ESPNews and ESPN3.com. It will be rerun on ESPN2 at 2pm eastern. If the France / Germany World Cup game goes to overtime / penalty kicks, it will cut into that program. The contest will also be rerun at 6pm eastern today and July 5 and 6.

Matt Stonie has defeated Joey Chestnut in two of their last three matchups. He has also posted a training session video where he ate 66 hot dogs; if he can replicate that today, he could threatens Joey Chestnut’s Nathan’s streak.

Pre contest coverage

• Joey Chestnut
  The Atlantic asks if Joey Chestnut is the most dominant athlete of all time
  Joey Chestnut gives a minute by minute contest report to the Hollywood Reporter
  Appearance on Vice.com’s “Fat Jew Show” about Joey Chestnut’s bathroom experiences
  Esquire.com graphic about 27,6000 calories in 69 hot dogs
• Matt Stonie
  SeaCoastOnline of New Hampshire calls Matt Stonie a local
• The Daily Mail calls Matt Stonie “The World’s Youngest Competitive Eater”
• Erik Denmark
  Appearance on the Jason Smith show
• Colin Shirlow
  Dubbelin.com article about addition to finals field

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update May 26 Rake & Herald has a contest report
Niko Niko’s has a video

update May 19 ABC13 and Examiner have articles

Robb Zipp has videos: intro | contest | results

Adrian Morgan has a gallery

Full Results Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3
1) Matt Stonie 24
2) Joey Chestnut 21
3) Adrian Morgan 12.5
4) Miki Sudo 11.5
5) Juan Rodriguez 9.5
6) Steve Hendry 8
7) Nate Biller 6.5
8) Mark Preng 5.5
9T) Alex Perez 4.5
9T) Tommy Miller 4.5
11 Nicole Miller 3.5
12 Alex Brouskakis 3

Niko Niko’s reports Matt Stonie ate 24 gyros to set a new record.

Joey Chestnut and Matt Stonie appeared on Local 2 Houston this morning.

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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 May 5 Miki Sudo has a contest report

update April 27 The Record and binocularBob have videos

Recordnet has an article

The official top 4 | Part 2 | Part 3
1) Joey Chestnut 12 lb. 8.75 oz. new record
2) Matt Stonie 12 lb. 6 oz.
3) Miki Sudo 7 lb. 4 oz.
4) Steve Hendry 5 lb. 4 oz
5) Chad Cole 2 lb 8 oz
6) Jonathan Vincent 2 lb 4 oz
6) Cameron Sharp 2 lb 4 oz
8) Cameron Bidwell 2 lb
8) Jon Davis 2 lb
10) Muhammad Mahmoud 1 lb 12oz
11) Daniel Osuna 1 lb 4 oz
12) Ms Felicia Lopez 1 lb

The contest has started. This is the first meeting between Joey Chestnut and Matt Stonie since the “Megatoad” ended a 10 contest winning streak at the Wind Creek Throwdown.

The temperature is 64, which is generally lower than in previous years.

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Update April 15 – The Ledger has a contest report

Ronnie Hartman and Danielle Klein have contest videos

Miki Sudo has a contest report

Results  Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3

1 Joey Chestnut 15 pints
2 Miki Sudo 13.5
3T Ronnie Hartman 10.5
3T Michelle Lesco 10.5
5 Brian Dudzinski 9.25
6T Mike Jenkins 7.5
6T Bryan Weller 7.5
8 Daniella Gioia 7.25
9 Jason Smith 6
10 Sean Brokerct 4.5

5:14 pm Joey Chestnut has set a record with 15 pints in 6 minutes

Joey Chestnut, Miki Sudo, Michelle Lesco, Ronnie Hartman and Brian Dudzinski are expected to compete.

A podcast of Joey Chestnut’s appearance on AMTB yesterday is available.

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