2019 St. Elmo’s shrimp cocktail contest
Official results 8 minutes
1st | 10 | Joey “Jaws” Chestnut | wins for 7th year in a row |
2nd | 7 | George Chiger | |
2nd | 7 | Gideon Oji | |
4th | 6.2 | Derek Jacobs | |
5th | 5.1 | Steve “The Rabbit” Hammond | |
6th | 4.9 | Darrien “Cheesecurd” Thomas | |
7th | 3.2 | Andrew “The Bear” Kogutkiewicz | |
8th | 3.1 | John Gebhard | |
8th | 3.1 | Matthew Raible |
St. Elmo’s said they will stream the contest at https://www.facebook.com/stelmosteakhouse/ at 3:30 but a video has not started yet. update The video has started
Joey Chestnut, Gideon Oji, George Chiger, Derek Jacobs and Darrien Thomas are expected to compete.
The absence of Geoff Esper guarantees that Joey Chestnut cannot be tied for the most MLE non-qualifier victories in 2019, even if the San Jose Waffle matchup is not counted as an official competition.
2019 Circuit of the Americas Brisket
Official results Part 1 | Part 2
1st | 27 | Joey “Jaws” Chestnut | failed to break record due to larger sandwiches according to George Shea |
2nd | 17.5 | Nick Wehry | announced as 4th |
3rd | 17 | Matt “Hungry” Hazzard | |
4th | 16.75 | Ronnie “MegaByte” Hartman | |
5th | 16.1 | Michelle “Cardboard Shell” Lesco | |
6th | 15 | Adrian “The Rabbit” Morgan | |
7th | 14 | Juan “Hungry Saiyan” Neave | |
8th | 13.5 | George Chiger | |
9th | 10.25 | Greg “The Savage” Wilson | |
10th | 9 | Eric “Badlands” Booker | |
11th | 5.5 | Jocelyn Walker | |
12th | 5 | Alex “Moose” Perez |
George Shea said that larger sandwiches prevented Joey Chestnut from breaking the MLE brisket sandwich eating record (34.75) held by Bob Shoudt.
Live video of brisket eating contest at Circuit of the Americas in Austin
2019 Pacific Park tacos
1st | 82 | Joey “Jaws” Chestnut | |
2nd | 69.5 | Miki Sudo | |
3rd | 69 | Gideon Oji | |
3rd | 69 | Nick Wehry | |
5th | 47 | Michelle “Cardboard Shell” Lesco | |
6th | 24 | Sergio Reyes-Raya | |
7th | 16 | “Dr. Fantastic” Monte Cook | |
8th | 15 | Mary “I Love ’em HOT!” Bowers | |
9th | 14 | Cory Hayashi | |
10th | 12 | Jason Krause |
2019 Trenton Thunder pork roll eating contest
Official results with Rene Rovtar additions
1st | 61.5 | Joey “Jaws” Chestnut | new record |
2nd | 43.67 | Geoffrey Esper | |
3rd | 38 | Darron Breeden | |
4th | 31 | Nick Wehry | |
5th | 30 | Miki Sudo | |
6th | 23.5 | Ronnie “MegaByte” Hartman | claims he ate 27.5 |
7th | 21 | George Chiger | |
8th | 20 | Brian “Dud Light” Dudzinski | |
9th | 12 | Larell Marie “The Real Deal” Mele | |
10th | 10.5 | Crazy Legs Conti | |
11th | 7 | Rene Rovtar | |
12th | 6 | Julie Goldberg | |
13th | 4.67 | Prudence DiBenedetto |
Results from the live video
1) Joey Chestnut 61 pork rolls, new record
2) Geoff Esper 43
3) Darron Breeden 38
4 or 5 Miki Sudo 30
Aaron Cohen has a live video
Geoff Esper takes lead over Joey Chestnut for 2019 victories
With two victories at the Buffalo Wing Festival, Geoff Esper has moved ahead of Joey Chestnut for total MLE victories in 2019 (excluding qualifiers),
8 Geoff Esper
7 Joey Chestnut
3 Miki Sudo
2 Darron Breeden
1 Adrian Morgan
1 Gideon Oji
1 Matt Stonie
All first place results are after the jump
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2019 Buffalo Wing Festival wing championship
update Sept 2MLE has yet to post more than the top 3, but Miki Sudo has full results
1st | 281 | Geoffrey Esper | record |
2nd | 276 | Joey “Jaws” Chestnut | |
3rd | 221 | Miki Sudo | |
4th | 217 | Gideon Oji | |
5th | 212 | Joel Hansen | |
6th | 182 | Nick Wehry | |
7th | 134 | Ronnie “MegaByte” Hartman | |
8th | 133 | Darrien “Cheesecurd” Thomas | |
9th | 114 | “Buffalo” Jim Reeves | |
10th | 112 | Eric “Badlands” Booker | |
11th | 81 | William “Wild Bill” Myers |
https://www.instagram.com/buffalowingfestival/ will be showing videos of the contest on its stories.
2019 Fat Boy’s Pizza contest
update Sep 2 Darron Breeden has a video
Update: NOLA.com article | gallery
Adrian Morgan Instagram gallery
Podcast of WWL radio coverage
Official results 10 minutes, 2 ft slices
1st | 6.5 | Joey “Jaws” Chestnut | |
2nd | 6 | Geoffrey Esper | |
3rd | 4.5 | Darron Breeden | |
4th | 3.125 | Adrian “The Rabbit” Morgan | |
? | 1.33 | Jocelyn Walker |
Fat Boy’s Pizza is owned by Gabe Corchiani, the brother of Chris Corchiani who is #2 all time in assists for NCAA division I men’s basketball.
Joey Chestnut podcast from Friday about the contest.
2019 Day-Lee Foods Gyoza Championship
update: Russia Today has a video
videos: Two Big Bites | Ruptly
Official results Part 1 | Part 2
1st | 314 | Joey “Jaws” Chestnut | |
2nd | 256 | Darron Breeden | |
3rd | 238 | Matt “Megatoad” Stonie | |
4th | 188 | Juan “more bite” Rodriguez | |
5th | 180 | Matt “Hungry” Hazzard | |
6th | 175 | Derek Jacobs | |
7th | 162 | Juan “Hungry Saiyan” Neave | |
8th | 159 | Michelle “Cardboard Shell” Lesco | |
9th | 155 | Rich “The Locust” LeFevre | |
10th | 151 | Adam “Beard Meats Food” Moran | |
11th | 142 | George Chiger | |
11th | 142 | Derek Hendrickson | |
13th | 133 | Sarah “Unstoppable Bab” Reinecke | |
14th | 114 | Pablo Martinez | |
15th | 100 | Steve Hendry | |
16th | 94 | Eric “Badlands” Booker | |
17th | 85 | Doug “Cerebrus” Ecks | |
18th | 44 | Evans |
The contest is expected to be streamed on http://facebook.com/gyozachampionship
Previous winners of the contest
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2019 Nathan’s mens finals
1st | 71 | Joey “Jaws” Chestnut | |
2nd | 50 | Darron Breeden | |
3rd | 47 | Geoffrey Esper | |
4th | 46 | Matt “Megatoad” Stonie | |
5th | 39 | Max Suzuki | |
6th | 36 | Nick Wehry | |
7th | 34 | Matt “Hungry” Hazzard | |
7th | 34 | Gideon Oji | |
9th | 29 | Juan “Hungry Saiyan” Neave | |
10th | 28.5 | Ronnie “MegaByte” Hartman | |
10th | 28.5 | Adam “Beard Meats Food” Moran | |
12th | 27 | Derek Jacobs | |
12th | 27 | Pablo Martinez | |
14th | 26 | George Chiger | |
14th | 26 | Adrian “The Rabbit” Morgan | |
14th | 26 | Juan “more bite” Rodriguez | |
16th | 22.5 | Steve Hendry | |
16th | 22 | Darrien “Cheesecurd” Thomas |
Joey Chestnut’s margin of victory appears to be the largest since Takeru Kobayashi defeated Badlands Booker 50.5 to 26 in 2002.
Brazilian Corbucci Eats is doing an Instagram Live video from the crowd on https://www.instagram.com/corbuccieats/
Joey Chestnut vs. Geoff Esper results since Jan 1, 2018
Here are the head to head results for Joey Chestnut and Geoff Esper since Jan 1, 2018. They are tied at 8 victories each.
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Kobayashi vs. Joey Chestnut head to head results
Here are the results for Takeru Kobayashi and Joey Chestnut in the 15 contests they competed against each other. Kobayashi had the higher finish in 8 of the competitions.
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