update June 7 Cait Plus Ate has a blog entry

update June 3 The top 5 was posted this morning:
1) Joey Chestnut 4.79 lbs.
2) Juliet Lee 4.56 closest defeat to Joey Chestnut
3) James McDonald 4.14
4) Kevin “LA Beast” Strahle 3.64
5) Brian “Dudlight” Dudzinski 2.68

7:37 Brian Dudzkinski says he ate 2.6 pounds and that an amateur received 3rd place with 4.1 pounds. “Dud Light” is not happy with the judging.

6:21 Joey Chestnut ate 4.5 lb. (The MLE twitter has yet to announce results (or the Canadian winners in Calgary))

5:56 The Lunch Belle announces that Joey Chestnut won the contest.

5:16 The contest is underway.

5:09 The introductions are underway. Caitlin Crosswell and Kim Knox Beckius think they are taking too long.

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update June 3 Brian Seiken has a video and Bob Shoudt has a video of himself throwing the first pitch at yesterday’s Mets game.

update Winners have been announced: Bob Shoudt won the men’s division with 40 and Maria “Edible” won the women’s with 20.
Badlands Booker takes the men’s wild card lead with 37.

The contest is underway according to this picture.

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update June 4 Nathan’s Famous Canada facebook has a http://www.calgarysun.com/2012/06/02/hotdog-win-worth-relishing“>gallery.

update June 3 Lee Vilinsky wrote a column for his student newspaper decrying the Food Network for its excess. (via Ryan Batty)

update #3 The Calgary Sun has an article which says Heather Osthoff ate 7 hot dogs.

update #2 CBC.ca lists the Canadian winners as Nicole Anderson and Lee Vilinisky, subject of yesterday’s profile in the Calgary Herald. Nicole signed up for the contest this morning.

update CJAY 92 has a gallery

Robert Firlotte reports that Aaron Osthoff won the men’s division of today’s Nathan’s qualifier in Calgary with 33 hot dogs. Aaron’s wife Heather appears to have won the women’s division according to this picture. update Heather ate 12 hot dogs as did the Canadian female champion Nicole. The male Canadian champion was Gino with 16 hot dogs.

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update May 31 Matt Stonie has a gallery

update May 29 results have been posted Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3

update Dax “The Ginger” Swanson says he had a 43 wing deduction due to insufficient cleaning. This is strange for two reasons: 1) A contest judged by weight should not penalize by wing count 2) There should be no penalty for insufficient cleaning in a weight based contest; wings not fully cleaned should simply result in a lower total weight

The top 3 from this evening’s Hooter’s wing qualifier in Fremont, CA:
1) Erik Denmark 140 wings
2) Steve Hendry 106
3) Ken Douglas 100

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update May 28 Aaron Osthoff says his total weight was reported as 4.82 pounds and Tim Brown’s weight was 4.93. This is more than 4 times the amount they were reportedly credited with in the Indianapolis qualifier.

StLouis.CBSLocal.com has a podcast of an interview with Aaron Osthoff.

Results Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3
1) Tim “Gravy” Brown 130 wings
2) Aaron Osthoff 122
3) Jake Larry 89
4) John Palmgren 88
5) Matt Raible 74
6) Andrew Goodwin 72
7) Eric Hucke 71
8) Mark Williams 70
9) Nick Blackburn 68
10) Ashlyn Ahlers 35 (Hooters waitress)
11) Dale Thompson 25
12) Justin Bertani 24

Tim “Gravy” Brown, Aaron Osthoff and Jake Larry are expected entrants in the Hooters wing qualifier that will take place in St. Louis at 4:30 pm central. Fox2 has a video of a promo contest.

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update May 27 WDTV and WVMetroNews have articles with videos.

update Results (Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3)
1) Pat Bertoletti 33 rolls in 10 minutes
2) Tim “Eater X” Janus 25.5
3) Adrian Morgan 23
4T) Sonya Thomas 22
4T) Bob Shoudt 22
6) Juliet Lee 21.5 (probably closest she has come to Sonya)
7) Sean “Flash” Gordon 18
8) Micah “Wing Kong” Collins 16.5
9) Marcos Owens 15.5
10) Kevin “LA Beast” Strahle 15
11) Brian Subich 14
12) Larell Marie 12
13) “Wild” Bill Myers 8.5
14) Jeff Simon 4

Pat Bertoletti is expected to defend his title at the pepperoni roll eating contest at the Three Rivers Festival in Fairmont, WV at 4pm eastern today, which would give the field four of the current IFOCE top 5.

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