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The field for Saturday's Nathan's qualifier at the Giant National Capital BBQ Battle in Washington, DC has been announced: George Chiger, Crazy Legs Conti, Gordon Hazzard (first contest since 2021) and Valentin Ferrer from Spain. Three female rookies will also make their debut.
Jack Legath won the first prize of $1024 in today's 24 inch pizza eating contest at Toarmina's Pizza in Detroit. The WHIP Show was runner up.

2024 Alameda County Fair Nathan’s qualifier

update June 18 Results with full names are on the MLE contest page. Dan Downey has a contest video

Full results have been posted without full names:

1st 27.75 Derek Hendrickson
2nd 24.5 Steve “The Rabbit” Hammond
3rd 22 Erik “The Red” Denmark first contest since 2022
3rd 22 Yasir Salem first Nathan’s contest since 2017
5th 16 Naader “Freak8r” Reda
6th 9.5 Nick Esarco
DQ ? Andrew Imhoff
1st 12 Tandra Childress competitive eating debut
2nd 10 Jocelyn Walker
3rd 7 Crystal Ocampo
4th 6 Elizabeth Salgado

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2024 Mattituck Lions Strawberry Shortcake Contest

update June 19 Kylan Lee has a video

update June 16 Full results were posted this morning:

1st 23.75 Geoffrey Esper wins contest 3rd year in a row
2nd 20.5 James Webb
3rd 16 Sean “The Mouth” Yeager
4th 14.5 Darrien “Cheesecurd” Thomas
5th 14 George Chiger
6th 12.5 Eric “Badlands” Booker
7th 12.33 Max Stanford
8th 11 Kylan Lee
9th 10 Radim Dvoracek
10th 9.25 Josh “The Goat” Krady
11th 8 Peter Ritter
12th 6 Crazy Legs Conti

Top 4 results from the strawberry festival’s facebook video (8 minutes)
1 Geoff Esper 23.75 pounds
2 James Webb 20.5
3 Sean Yeager 16
4 Darrien Thomas 14.5

James Webb is doing a livestream of this afternoon’s strawberry shortcake in Mattituck, NY.

update The livestream was terminated just before results were announced.

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Cold Beer & Cheeseburgers will hold qualifiers June 15 at its Phoenix area locations for a July 4 slider eating contest in Scottsdale, AZ that will award a $500 Amex gift card to the winner.
Defending champion Geoff Esper, James Webb, Darrien Thomas, Badlands Booker, Crazy Legs Conti, Max Stanford, Radim Dvoracek, Kylan Lee, Sean Yeager, Josh Krady and Peter Ritter are expected to compete in tomorrow's strawberry shortcake eating contest in Mattituck, NY.
Stadium Swim in Las Vegas will hold a hot dog eating contest for women wearing bikinis on July 4. The winner will receive $2,500 and the total purse is $5,000.
McKenzie's Barbecue & Burgers will hold a rib eating contest in Conroe, TX on June 15 awarding $300 to the winner, $100 to the runner up.

Lake Compounce Nathan’s qualifier

6 hours after the competition, the MLE twitter has yet to post a winner, but the MLE instagram has some results on its stories
49.5 Geoff Esper
31 George Chiger
28 Kylan Lee (Australia)
20 Josh Krady
17.5 Mark Frost

6.75 Julie Goldberg
4.75 Addison Skaggs


update Geoff Esper (49.5) and Julie Goldberg (6.75) were today’s winners via the Lake Compounce instagram stories

Geoff Esper, George Chiger, Josh Krady and Julie Goldberg are expected to compete in this afternoon’s Nathan’s qualifier at Lake Compounce in Bristol, CT.

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Salvation Army DC donuts

update PiZetta Media has a video of the contest

Full results: (8 minutes)

1st 70 James Webb
2nd 61 Nick Wehry
3rd 50 Sean “The Mouth” Yeager
4th 46 Miki Sudo
5th 45 Max Stanford
6th 39 Ronnie “MegaByte” Hartman
7th 37 George Chiger
8th 34 Radim Dvoracek
9th 31 Tanner Gray
10th 21 Peter Ritter
11th 16.75 Larell Marie “The Real Deal” Mele

The top 3 from James Webb’s video
1 James Webb 70 donuts, new record
2 Nick Wehry 61
3 Sean Yeager

Salvation Army is doing a facebook live video of today’s donut eating contest in Washington, DC.

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Parma Rib N Rock Nathan’s qualifier

Official results from today’s Nathan’s qualifier at Parma Rib ‘N Rock in Parma, OH. update News 5 Cleveland has an article

1st 48.25 Pat “Deep Dish” Bertoletti
2nd 48 Nick Wehry
3rd 30 William Lyon
4th 13.75 Peter Ritter
5th 13 John Gebhard
6th 12 Seth Bower
7th 11.5 Dominic Mandato
8th 10 Joey Kinsley
9th 9.75 Eddie Rodriguez
1st 11 Katie Prettyman
2nd 5.5 Stacey Queen

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Kwik Stop in Dubuque, IA will hold an eating contest on June 29 awarding $1200 in Kwik Stop Reward points to the winner. The runner up will receive $500 cash.
Coney Island Connection in West Monroe, LA will hold a hot dog eating contest on June 22 awarding $1000 to the winner.
Gino's Pizza in Ronkonkoma, NY will hold a pizza eating contest on June 30 awarding $1000 to the winner.
Dat Dog in New Orleans will hold a hot dog eating contest on July 4 awarding $500 to the winner.
Leo's at the Slice in Middletown, OH will hold a pizza eating contest on June 8 awarding $500 to the winner.
Nick Wehry announced that he will be competing in the Nathan's qualifier at the Parma, OH Rib N Rock Festival on June 6 along with Pat Bertoletti, Katie Prettyman and influencer "Sir Yacht".
Registration is now open for The Great Midwest Rib Fest World Rib Eating Championship at Mystic Lake in Prior Lake, MN on July 27.
Smoke's Poutinerie eating contest for professional competitive eaters will return to Toronto on August 10. The contest has not been held since 2019.
A Japanese television program has posted a casting call for American football players to attempt a steak challenge in New York City.
ZBurger will hold its burger eating contest in Washington, DC on July 3. The prizes are $2000/$1250/$1000/$750/$500/$400.
James Webb, Miki Sudo, Nick Wehry, George Chiger and Larell Marie Mele are expected to compete in the Salvation Army World Donut Eating Championship in Washington, DC on June 7.
Jeremiah "El Toro" Jimenez won the first prize of $500 in today's pizza eating contest at Dom DeMarco's in Las Vegas.

2024 Jack’s Donut hole eating contest

Randy Santel and Katina "Eats Kilos" DeJarnett will be competing in a hot dog eating contest in Vero Beach, FL on July 4.
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