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Matt Thomas reported that Ken Hoffman, a longtime judge at the Nathan's Finals and columnist for the Houston Chronicle and Culture Map, suddenly passed away this weekend. His last article about competitive eating was about Mary Bowers' quest to find her birth parents.

2024 Great American Blueberry Championship

Announced results: 8 minutes
1 Pat Bertoletti 18.475 lb.
2 Geoff Esper 16.044
3 James Webb 15.319
4 Nick Wehry 12.6
5 Gideon Oji
6 Matt Raible
7 Cherish Brown
8 Rene Rovtar

James Webb has started a livestream video.

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The Birdhouse in Robbinsdale, MN will hold a hot dog eating contest Saturday awarding $200 to the winner. The runner-up will receive a $100 gift card.
James Webb, Nick Wehry, Geoff Esper and Pat Bertoletti are expected to compete in Saturday's Great American Blueberry Eating Championship in Grand Rapids, MI.
Jack Legath ate 114 donut holes in 4 minutes to win the first prize of $1,000 in a contest held July 4 at Paristown in Louisville.
Gauchos will hold a hot dog eating contest in Dublin, Ireland on July 14 awarding 400 Euros to the winner.
B-52 Burgers & Brews will hold a hot wing eating contest on July 13 awarding $300 to the winner.
Randy Santel ate 22 hot dogs in 15 minutes to win an eating contest at Dog Days of Summer in Vero Beach, FL on July 4. Katina DeJarnett was runner up with 21 hot dogs.
Registration is now open on majorleagueeating.com for the Wendy's Chicken Nugget Eating Championship. The contest will take place before the July 26 Long Island Ducks game in Central Islip, NY.
The ShuBru Hot Dog Eating Contest at Horse Trading Days in Zelienople, PA on July 20 will award $1000/$500/$250 to the top 3 competitors if they eat 20 hot dogs or more.
Raina Huang ate 15 hot dogs in 5 minutes to win the first prize of $2,500 in today's "Weenies & Bikinis" competition held at Stadium Swim in Las Vegas.
Joey Chestnut has started his live video for this afternoon's hot dog eating contest at Fort Bliss in El Paso, TX update Joey Chestnut ate 57 hot dogs in 5 minutes the four soldiers he was competing against combined for 49.

2024 Nathan’s Famous mens finals

1st 58 Pat “Deep Dish” Bertoletti personal best
2nd 53 Geoffrey Esper personal best
3rd 52 James Webb personal best, UK Commonwealth record
4th 51.75 Nick Wehry personal best
5th 46 Takuya Yamamoto best Japanese result since Kobayashi
6th 43 Ricardo Corbucci Latino record
7th 38.5 Sean “The Mouth” Yeager
8th 33 Gideon Oji
9th 32 Max Stanford
10th 30 Derek Hendrickson
11th 28.75 Darrien “Cheesecurd” Thomas
12th 28 George Chiger
13th 27.5 William Lyon
14th 23 Radim Dvoracek

Badlands Booker has defended his chugging championship. One of the other competitors had a “reversal” which appears to rival Sloth in the Wing Bowl as one of the greatest reversals in competitive eating history.

Dutch Mazz is also doing a live video that will hopefully have clearer audio than Gigi’s.

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Miki Sudo sets Nathan’s Famous women’s record

2024 Z Burger eating contest

Fox 5 DC has a live video of this afternoon’s Z burger eating contest in Washington, DC.

The top 5
1T Molly Schuyler 34
1T Dan Kennedy 34
3 Joel Hansen 30
4 Robert McGee 15
5 Andrew Krawczyk 10

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The BBC has an interview with Beth Hodges, who ate 64 feet of stinging nettles to win the women's division of an eating contest held June 22 at the Dorset Nectar Cider Farm.
Breed & Co. Ace Hardware in Austin will hold a hot dog eating contest on July 3 awarding a $1,199 grill.
The Dutch Pot Jamaican Restaurant in Lauderdale Lakes, FL will hold a patty eating contest on July 3 awarding $1000 to the winner.
Registration is now open on majorleagueeating.com for the Great American Blueberry Eating Championship in Grand Rapids, MI on July 13. The prizes are $4000/$2000/$1250/$500/$250
The New York Mets ballpark has not held a Nathan's hot dog qualifier since 2019, but it will hold a Premio sausage eating contest tomorrow. The winner will throw the first pitch for the game and the top 3 will receive Amex gift cards.
PAHomePage has an article about Larell Marie Mele competing in the Nathan's Famous finals for the 14th consecutive year and George Chiger qualifying for the 6th time in 7 years.
NBC DFW has a video about James Webb training for the Nathan's Famous hot dog eating in the Dallas area.

Joey Chestnut on breakup with MLE

Daily Mail has an interview with Joey Chestnut about his July 4 event at Fort Bliss in El Paso and his breakup with Major League Eating. He says he feels bullied by the organization and demands an apology to return to MLE events. He also discusses the possiblity of a Netflix hot dog eating contest on July 4, 2025.

However, he remains hopeful that he can get back to competing on July 4th next year, either with Netflix or at the Nathan’s Famous contest. For him to re-enter the Coney Island event though, he’d need to make up with the event organizers, Major League Eating.

‘I feel bullied,’ Chestnut shared. ‘If I’m ever going to work with them again, they’re going to have to apologize,’ Chestnut said.

According to a statement from spokesman George Shea, Major League Eating said it eventually conceded the sponsorship issue.

‘Unfortunately, this was not enough to get us to an agreement,’ the statement said. ‘We think this is a powerful tribute to our armed forces and we wish Joey the best of luck at his event.’

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Paristown in Louisville will hold a donut hole eating contest on July 4 awarding $1000 to the winner.
Greeneville, TN will hold a hot dog eating contest on June 29 awarding $200 to the winner. The runner up will receive $100
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