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The Daily Beast has a post about yesterday's pancake eating event held at the Great American State Fair in Washington, DC. Despite being billed as an eating contest, the winner was based on applause instead of speed or quantity.
Giant BBQ Battle hot dog exhibition
Results from yesterday’s Nathan’s Famous hot dog exhibition at the Giant BBQ Battle in Washington, DC
33 combined total of Badlands Booker, Crazy Legs Conti and Ronnie Hartman
28 Miki Sudo
Is this the worst promoted event in Major League Eating history? It is not even on the contest calendar.
ZBurgerEatingContest.com has not been updated with any information about a 2026 competition, so that event will almost certainly not be held this upcoming July 4 weekend. The location in the Tenleytown area of Washington, DC that traditionally held the contest closed recently.
2026 Salvation Army donuts
Full results are on Instagram
| 1st | 63 | James Webb | |
| 2nd | 56 | Max Stanford | |
| 3rd | 50 | Cameron Meade | |
| 4th | 43 | Radim Dvoracek | |
| 5th | 35 | Derek Hendrickson | |
| 6th | 31 | Jerome Burns | |
| 7th | 21 | Steven Farlow | |
| 8th | 16.5 | Crazy Legs Conti | |
| 9th | 16 | George Chiger | |
| 10th | 12 | Cherish “Five Pounds” Brown | |
| 10th | 12 | Larell Marie “The Real Deal” Mele | |
| 12th | 7 | Rene Rovtar |
WUSA9 is doing a livestream of today’s Salvation Army National Donut Day Donut Eating Championship in Washington, DC. James Webb is also doing a livestream.
The schedule (Kingsford stage) for the Giant BBQ Battle in Washington, DC claims that Miki Sudo will be competing in a Nathan's Famous hot dog eating contest on June 27. Nathan's qualifiers have been held at the event from 2022 to 2025, but no competition is listed on the MLE schedule.
Registration is open for the Salvation Army and Bakemark's National Donut Day World Donut Eating Championship in Washington, DC on June 5.
The website for the 2026 Barbecue Battle in Washington, DC does not mention a Nathan's Famous hot dog qualifier.The June event has held a qualifier every year since 2016 (excluding 2020 and 2021).
Z Burger in the Tenleytown neighborhood of Washington, DC has closed. The restaurant has been the site of one of the major non-MLE eating contests since 2009.
"Everything on the Menu", starring the former WWE performer Bruan Strownman, debuted last night on the USA Network. The first two episodes, Fort Worth, TX and Washington, DC can be viewed on youtube.
Molly Schuyler sets Z-burger eating contest record
Fox 5 article and news video
Announced results from Fox 5 live video
1 Molly Schuyler 40 burgers, contest record
2 Dan Kennedy 39
3 Sean Yeager 27
4 David Brunelli 21
5 Robert McGee 18
2025 BBQ in DC Nathan’s qualifier
| 1st | 48 | James Webb | |
| 2nd | 33 | Gideon Oji | |
| 3rd | 32 | Adrian “The Rabbit” Morgan | |
| 4th | 15 | Steven Farlow | |
| 5th | 14.5 | Crazy Legs Conti | |
| 6th | 10 | John Damms | |
| 7th | 7 | Adam Berenbak |
| 1st | 8 | Laura Beitel | |
| 2nd | 6.1 | Kathryn Knaus | |
| 3rd | 5.33 | Ana Alejandrina Cajiga-Pena | |
| 4th | 4.5 | Megan Healy | |
| 5th | 2.5 | Prudence DiBenedetto |
James Webb is doing a livestream of today’s Nathan’s Famous qualifier in Washington, DC
2025 Salvation Army donut eating championship
WUSA9 also has a live video and a news video
| 1st | 64 | James Webb | |
| 2nd | 52 | Nick Wehry | |
| 3rd | 29 | Noah Romoff | |
| 4th | 28 | Ronnie “MegaByte” Hartman | |
| 5th | 26.5 | Steven Farlow | |
| 6th | 11.75 | Cherish “Five Pounds” Brown | |
| 7th | 10.5 | Karen Szala | |
| 8th | 9 | Mae Renmick | |
| 9th | 6 | Judah White | |
| 10th | 5 | Prudence DiBenedetto |
James Webb is doing a livestream of today’s Salvation Army National Donut Day World Donut Eating Championship in Washington, DC.
Z Burger will hold its burger eating contest in Washington, DC on July 3 awarding $2000/$1250/$1000/$750/$500 to the top 5.
Registration is now open for the Salvation Army National Donut Day World Donut Eating Championship in Washington, DC on June 6.
Registration open for 2025 Nathan’s qualifiers
Registration is now open for 6 Nathan’s qualifiers:
May 10 Bristol, CT
June 5 Parma, OH
June 7 Shawnee, KS
June 14 Pleasanton, CA
June 21 Hershey Park, PA
June 21 Washington, DC
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
2024 Washington, DC Nathan’s qualifier
Two days after the contest, official results have been posted on the contest page on the MLE website
| 1st | 36.75 | Sean “The Mouth” Yeager | |
| 2nd | 28 | George Chiger | |
| 3rd | 24 | Valentin Ferrer | from Spain |
| 4th | 20 | Gordon “Hungry” Hazzard | first MLE contest since 2021 |
| 5th | 16 | Michael “Mailman” Doolin | |
| 6th | 15 | Grant Tragni | |
| 7th | 14 | Crazy Legs Conti |
| 1st | 7 | Ellen Straub | |
| 2nd | 5 | Grace Furlong |
Sean Yeager has started a video of this afternoon’s Nathan’s qualifier at the National Capitol BBQ Battle in Washington, DC.
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.
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.
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.
Registration is now open for the National Donut Day World Donut Eating Championship in Washington, DC June 7 and the Mattituck Lions Club World Strawberry Shortcake Eating Contest in Mattituck, NY on June 15.
The Salvation Army will hold a MLE donut eating contest on the National Mall in Washington, DC on June 7.
2024 Nathan’s qualifier circuit announced
Six Nathan’s qualifiers were posted today. Registration opens April 12.
- May 11 Comstock, MI West Michigan Whitecaps game
- May 17 Times Square, NYC
- June 6 Cleveland, OH Parma Rib N Rock
- June 8 Bristol, CT
- June 15 Pleasanton, CA Alameda County Fair
- June 22 Washington, DC Giant National Capital BBQ Battle
The last Central or Mountain time zone qualifier was at the Iowa State Fair in August 2019.
The Giant National Capital BBQ Battle announces it will hold a Nathan's Famous hot dog qualifier in Washington, DC on June 22 or 23.
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