update Nov 2 The Rake & Herald has a contest report

TuniCams has a video

update Oct 30 Crazy Legs Conti has a Huffington Post blog entry in which he says he finished 6th (he was actually 7th after taking into account the tie for 5th place).

update Oct 28-2 Hostess has a video

update Oct 28 The Huffington Post has a video

Official results: Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3
1) Joey Chestnut 121
2) Matt Stonie 111 fixed
3) Miki Sudo 71
4) Adrian Morgan 57
5T) Brett Campbell 40
5T) Josh Miller 40
7T) Crazy Legs Conti 28
7T) Matthew Raible 28
? Don Potts

update Joey Chestnut has been announced as the winner with 121 Twinkies in 6 minutes

Matt Stonie, Miki Sudo and Adrian Morgan are at the contest site

Crazy Legs Conti has a preview of today’s Twinkie Eating Championship at Tunica-Bally’s Casino in Tunica, MS.

Matt Stonie has a picture of the 100 Twinkies he purchased for a training session.

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In the recent poutine and bratwurst contests, Joey Chestnut has almost doubled the previous contest record. He also broke the Sparks, NV rib contest record by a lower percentage.

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update Oct 27 Matt Stonie has a video and gallery

update Oct 25 The Rake & Herald has an interview with Joey Chestnut after the contest

The Milk and Coco has a video and blog entry

update Oct 23 #2 Rake & Herald has a contest report
Full amateur contest results
The Discovery Channel of Canada has a segment about Meredith Boxberger calling her Canada’s top competitive eater (via Dan Riskin)

update Oct 23 York Region reports that Steven Dorgo won the amateur contest with 8 pounds in 6 minutes

update Oct 22 K’s Random Vlog has a video

CanCulture has a blog entry

update Oct 21 CNN has a segment using footage from the amateur contest

The top official top 5 | Part 2
1) Joey Chestnut 24 pounds in 10 minutes
2) Matt Stonie 20
3) Bob Shoudt 16.75
4) Yasir Salem 12
5) Meredith Boxberger 9
6T) Jesse Kankula 8.5
6T) Jim Reeves 8.5
8) Ben Do 7.5
9) Bill Myers 6.75
10) Mike Landrich 6
11) Larell Marie Mele 5.25
12) “Rake & Herald” 4

update Joey Chestnut has won with a reported total of 24 pounds in 10 minutes.

Joey Chestnut, Matt Stonie, Bob Shoudt, Larell Marie Mele, Ben Do and “Rake & Herald” are expected to compete.

Joey Chestnut appeared on 102.1 The Edge yesterday.

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update Oct 15 Huffington Post has a blog entry

Shout Out Minnesota has an interview with Joey Chestnut

update Oct 14 CityPages has a gallery

update Oct 13 CBS Local has an article and video

Bryan Beard has the top 5 in today’s brain taco eating contest at the Zombie Pub Crawl in Minneapolis:
More results Part 2 | Part 3

1) Joey Chestnut 54 tacos
2) Matt Stonie 53.5
3) Mark Williams 17.5
4) Andrew Kogutkiewicz 12.5
5) Bryan Beard 12
6) Sam Brunner 11
7) Mitch Gillen 10
8) Rikki Olsen 9.5
9) Mary Bowers 5
10T) Joe Smith-Cunnien 2.5
10T) Dave Senst 2.5

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update Oct 8 Two days after the contest, the official top 4 has been announced. Ronnie Hartman was #5 with 40

update Oct 6 WDBR has an article and video

The News Enterprise has an article

Matt Stonie has the top 4
1st- Joey Chestnut- 141 eggs
2nd- Matt Stonie – 132
3rd- Miki Sudo – 109
4th- Sonya Thomas – 92

update Joey Chestnut reportedly ate 141 eggs in 8 minutes, which is a rate of an egg every 3.4 seconds.

WDRB.com has an article on amateur competitor Nick Holeman.

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update Sept 30 The Dallas News has a gallery

SCNTX.com has an article

update OK Sure has a video

The contest was truncated to 10 minutes (previous contests were 12 minutes) due to running out of tamales. This is the third MLE contest in the past 18 months to have issues with food shortages (April 2012 cupcakes | July 2012 pulled pork)

Lewisville, TX tamale contest results
1) Joey Chestnut 92 announced as official result (Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3)
2) Tim Janus 78
3) Miki Sudo 76
4) Jeff Butler 54
5) Michelle Lesco 47
6) Josh Miller 42
7) Nate Biller 36
8T) Bam Martinez 29
8T) Wade Peck 29
10) John Harding 21
11T) Alex Perez 18
11T) Tony Chacon 18
13) Ray Hernandez 14
14) Mark Poland 9

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Results Part 1 | Part 2

1) Joey Chestnut 70
2) Miki Sudo 61.5
3) Adrian Morgan 46
4) Bill Myers 21.25
5) Andrew Kogutkiewicz 19.6
6) Matt Raible 17.5
7) Sean Mulcahey 16
8) Jacob Halicek 15
9) Tracy Goode 11
11) Megan Hartman 5

Joey Chestnut won with a total of 70 sausauges. Miki Sudo was runner up with 61.5. Both totals smash the previous event record of 42:

Joey Chestnut is the only expected entrant listed on the festival website. Miki Sudo has also said she will compete.

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update Sept 15 Time.com has a video
update Sept 14 The Medina Gazette has an article claiming that Joey Chestnut competed in Thursday’s cannoli contest.

WSNet5 has a video and article.

update #2 Fox 8 has a video and article.

update All pie counts have been cut in half: Part 1 | Part 2

Results Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3

1) Joey Chestnut 8.75 pies (reported weight 3 lb for a total of 26.25 lbs.?) 4.375 three pound pies
2) Tim Janus 7.25 3.625
3) Sonya Thomas 6.75 3.375
4) Yasir Salem 5 (15 pounds?) 2.5
5) Jim Reeves 4.5 2.25
6) Scott Thomas 3.25 1.625
7) Bill Myers 2.25 1.125
8) Adam Friedrick 2/ 1
9) Ted Merg 1.5/ .75
10) Greg Clemente 1 .5

Joey Chestnut reportedly ate 13.5 pounds

According to the eatfeats database, tonight’s contest will be the first IFOCE/MLE contest held on Friday the 13th. A listing of previous contests held on the 13th follows after the jump.

Joey Chestnut has 5 defeats in 2013, the same of losses he had in 2011 and 2012 combined. He is not expected to face anyone who has beaten him in 2013 in this contest.

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update Sept 5 Crazy Legs Conti has posted part 2

update Sept 3 Crazy Legs Conti has a blog entry focusing on his pre-contest activities
Jkozela has a video
Article about Michelle Lesco finishing 2nd
Dutch articles: Volksrant | WTF.nl Serbian article

update Sept 2 BuffaloNews.com has a blog entry about Joey Chestnut’s absence, which reports that he did not appear to be ill Saturday night.

Winging it TV has an interview with Miki Sudo

WGRZ has a video and Buffalo News has an article and gallery ODV Vicious has a video of the stadium screen.

Joey Chestnut says he had a sore throat and fever. YNN has an article. Ghostline Entertainment recorded videos on UStream

The top 8
1 6.7 lb / 178 wings Miki Sudo
2 4.6 Michelle Lesco
3 4.32 Sonya Thomas
4 3.5 Yasir Salem
5 3.44 Jim Reeves
6 3.06 Badlands Booker
7 3 Steve Hendry
8 2.5 Mike Landrich

Miki Sudo has won the contest with 178 wings. Sonya Thomas, Michelle Lesco and Miki Sudo are the top three finishers. This is probably the first time all top 3 in a MLE/IFOCE contest have been women (excluding the Nathan’s female divisions).

A female reportedly won the wing eating championship at the Buffalo Wing Festival festival. Joey Chestnut did not compete.

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update August 29 RGJ.com has an article and video. Scott Ruen has a video

Top 5 | Rest
1) Joey Chestnut 13.76 lb in 12 minutes, new record
2) Matt Stonie 11.2 lb, would have broken old record (9.8)
3) Miki Sudo 7 female record
4) Juan Rodriguez 6
5) Steve Hendry 4.67
6T) Don Brown 3.9
6T) Douglas Ken 3.9
8) Anthony Melchiorri 3.85
9) Drake Nelson 3.4
10) Melissa Vojtko 1.87
11) Lee Hantzsche 1.8

update Joey Chestnut has won the contest with a record 13.76 pounds

RGJ.com has a transcript of today’s chat session with Joey Chestnut, who says he is going to [expletive] Matt Stonie. RGJ.com has has a contest preview.

Matt Stonie produced a rib training video.

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A listing of head to head results for Joey Chestnut vs. Matt Stonie follows after the jump. They are tied in their past six contests after Joey finished ahead in the first 10 meetings.
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update August 23 Rake & Herald, Rafu Shimpo and last place finisher Chris Erskine have contest reports. Matt Stonie has a video

update August 19 #2 TMZ, Deadspin and USA Today have reports

update August 19 Stephanie Snipes, Tifftanstic and Tom Maciejewski have videos

The LA Daily News has an article

Results Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3

1) Matt Stonie 268 gyoza record
2) Joey Chestnut 251
3) Miki Sudo 204
4) Jeff Butler 160
5) Juliet Lee 155
6T) Michelle Lesco 142
6T) Juan Rodriguez 142
8) Pablo Martinez 141
9) Rich LeFevre 139
10) Steve Hendry 117
11) Dax “The Ginger” Swanson 93
12) Chillin Peng 75
13) Neslie Ricasa 59
14) Mary Bowers 53
15) Ms Takei 34
16) Mr. Erskine 30

Rich LeFevre has won the auction for the final spot and will be competing.

John McCoy has some videos on tout.com Joey Chestnut is hoping to break 260 and Mary Bowers’ goal is to hit triple digits.

Joey Chestnut guest hosted The Sports Special with Liz Habib with NBA player Matt Barnes on KTTV.

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