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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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 3 Crazy Legs Conti has a blog entry for Huffington Post

update Matt Stonie appeared on CBS Boston before the contest

Pete Davekos has full results
1 Matt “Megatoad” Stonie 10.5 lb. in 10 minutes
2 “Wild” Bill Myers 8 lb.
3 Micah “Wing Kong” Collins 7 lb. 15 oz.
4 Pruitt 5.75
5T Crazy Legs Conti 4
5T Larell Marie Mele 4
7 Mia Davekos 2
8 Brian Seiken 1

Rich Shea has the top 3

Matt Stonie, Pete Davekos, Micah Collins, Crazy Legs Conti, Larell Marie Mele and Brian Seiken are expected to 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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Vice.com has a blog entry calling Joey Chestnut vs. Matt Stonie competitive eating’s next great rivalry.

The new poll asks who you think should be #2 in the next MLE top 50. A listing of head to head results over the past year for Tim Janus, Matt Stonie and Miki Sudo follows after the jump.
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update July 16 Main St. Corinth has a video of the whole contest

Rake & Herald has a contest report

update #2 WCBI has an article and video

update WTVA has an article and video

Official results Part 1 | Part 2

Ronnie Hartman has the top 4:
1) Matt Stonie 31
2) Joey Chestnut 30
3) Juan Rodriguez 17.5
4) Ronnie Hartman 13
5) Matt Raible 9
6) Damien Boykin 8.75

Leslie Lewis reports that Matt Stonie defeated Joey Chestnut

Casey Greene reports that Joey Chestnut has yet to show up at the contest site. The contest start time is 4:30 central. upddate Joey Chestnut is at the contest site

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update June 24 Full results via Bill Myers
Men
1st 47 Matt “Megatoad” Stonie San Jose, CA, personal best
2nd 21 “Buffalo” Jim Reeves Buffalo, NY
3rd 15 William “Wild Bill” Myers Breinigsville, PA
4th 12 Joao Paulo
5th 8 Pete Twiraga
6th 7.25 Robert Mulhausen
7th 6 Stuart Angus while wearing a hot dog costume.
8th 5.75 Thom Beck

women
1st Neslie Ricasa 13
2nd Terri Reeves 7

Winners
1M) Matt Stonie 47 personal best highest of 2013

1W) Neslie Ricasa 13

Richard Shea announced that Mia Davekos was the only woman to register as of March 20. Jim Reeves’ wife Terri will also be competing today.

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