update April 19 StLouis.CBSLocal.com has an article

update Juan Rodriguez and Mary Bowers won the contest. It appears their totals were 29 and 12. Taylor Coombs now has the women’s wild card lead.

Matt Stonie appeared on Fox2Now this morning.

Juan “More Bite” Rodriguez will face Matt Cohen, Matt Raible and Andrew Kogutkiewicz in his defense of his qualifier title.

Mary Bowers will seek her first victory in qualifier with multiple women when she faces off against Taylor Coombs. Marlene Wigginton will not attempt to threepeat the women’s qualifier due to her pregnancy.

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update April 4 Jen Eats has a spectator video

update Washington Post gallery | NBC Washington article & video | ABC7 article & gallery | Periscope video

Results: Part 1 | Part 2

1) Matt Stonie 200 in 5 minutes
2) Geoffrey Esper 160
3) Juliet Lee 140
4) Michelle Lesco 135
5) Brian Dudzinski 116
6) Gideon Oji 110
7) Crazy Legs Conti 75
8) Larell Marie Mele 58
9) “Wild” Bill Myers 51
10) John Gonzalez 40
11) Nick Ricci 17

Juliet Lee appeared on WJLA yesterday with John Gonzalez, who will be the celebrity entrant.

The Joey Chestnut / Matt Stonie non-compete streak will reach 6 months tomorrow (last meeting October 3, 2016 in Toronto poutine)

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update Feb 16 Santiago Castro has a video

update Feb 15 Nathan Figueroa, Fro Hungry and In Jaws We Trust have videos

update Feb 14 Palm Beach Post has a contest report

Full Results Part 1 | Part 2

1) Matt Stonie 12.81 lbs. in 8 minutes
2) Miki Sudo 12.5
3T) Geoffrey Esper 9.375
3T) Gideon Oji 9.375
5) Adrian Morgan 8.59
6) Yasir Salem 7.5
7) Nate Biller 6.25
8) Pedram Esmaelzaadeh 5.31

Matt Stonie ate 12.81 pounds of cake to defend his World Birthday Cake-Eating Championship title at the Palm Bech Outlets in West Palm Beach, FL.

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GQ has an article and video about Matt Stonie’s contest preparation techniques. update The inspiration for the picture in the article?

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ESPN terminated its Grantland.com sports / pop culture website on Friday. Here are the competitive eating articles it published, read them while they are still in the archive if you are interested

• June 2011, Patrick Michels on the inaugural Nathan’s women’s finals
• July 2012, “Cousin” Sal Iacono on his attempt at an eating challenge in 1993
• July 2013 Carles’ writeup of Honey Boo Boo episode where the star’s sister attempted the Pigzilla barbecue sandwich challenge at Papa Buck’s BBQ in Metter, GA
• August 2013 Danny Chau asks “Can Matt Stonie Bring About a New Golden Age in Competitive Eating?”
• August 2014, Danny Chau’s report on competing in the Little Tokyo gyoza contest

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update Oct 25 The Brister has a contest video

Full results Part 1 | Part 2:

Matt Stonie won the contest with a record 69 Moon Pies.

Matt Stonie, Badlands Booker, Yasir Salem and Gideon Oji are expected to compete.

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update Oct 22 The Las Vegas Sun has a gallery & contest report

update Oct 20 Food Beast has a minute by minute account of the contest.

update Oct 19 Paris Vegas has a video of the entire contest

update Oct 18 VegasNews has a report and LVRJ has a gallery

update There was a scoring mixup and all the totals below should be halved. | Part 2

update Official results Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3

update Matt Stonie won the contest with a record 20 pounds in 8 minutes. Miki Sudo was the runner up with 14 pounds.

Robin Leach of Lifestyles of the Rick & Famous is at the contest site.

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update Oct 7 Vlog by Pam

update Oct 6 CHCH and Flying the Nest have videos. Butter the Bagel has a video of the amateur contest. BlogTO has a gallery

update Oct 4 Results part 1 | part 2 | part 3

Xinhua Net has a gallery

Smoke’s Poutinerie reports Matt Stonie won with a total of 22 pounds.

Matt Stonie puts his undefeated 2015 on the line. Matt currently has an eight contest winning streak, which is the longest since Joey Chestnut won eight contests in a row in 2014.

Previous Winners

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Official Results Part 1 | Part 2

update Rainbow Entertainment claims Matt Stonie won the contest.

Matt Stonie will look to continue his 2015 winning streak. There has not been an undefeated year for an IFOCE/MLE competitor since Takeru Kobayashi in 2006. According the database, Joey Chestnut’s latest first loss of the year was in 2012 on May 19 (“That’s ‘Retha Franklin”)

Joey Chestnut interview on Reno.com

Previous winners
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>update Aug 29 Rafu Shimpo has a contest report

update Aug 28 LA Weekly has a contest report by last place finisher Matt Ralston and a video

update Aug 25 LAist has a gallery

classicalmucia1an and Mikey Mouse have videos

Psycho Gourmet has a contest report

Results Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3

Rafu Shimpo has a contest preview
KPCC has an interview with Mary Bowers

Matt Stonie is working on the 1st IFOCE/MLE undefeated calendar year since Kobayashi in 2006. (Joey Chestnut never went the first six months of the year without at least one loss.

Previous gyoza winners

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