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(All New York eating challenges and contests in database)
The Sin Eaters, a performance series exploring the culture of competitive eating, appeared at the Abrons Art Center in New York City yesterday. (gallery). Mike "The Real Skinny" Hoffman was defeated in an eating contest by one of the members of the group.
The original location of Nathan's Famous makes an appearance in a New York Observer article about the history of Coney Island redevelopment efforts.
The National Buffalo Wing-Eating Championship will be web-streamed on ESPN3 on August 31 at 5 pm eastern.
Stoneyard Brewing Company in Brockport, NY will hold a wing eating contest tonight awarding $500 to the winner.
Peter's Clam Bar in Island Park, NY will hold a clam eating contest on Sunday awarding $1750 ($1000 to the winner). There will also be a contest for firefighters awarding $4000 to fire houses; Takeru Kobayashi will coach the first responders.
Kathy Leistner posted a video of Jamie McDonald winning Dani's House of Pizza contest today with a total of 14 slices in 10 minutes.
Registration is now open for the Zinzinatti bratwurst eating contest in Cincinnati on September 21. The purse for the Buffalo Wing Festival wing contest has been increased to $5,000.
Schuyler, NY will hold a corn eating contest on Saturday awarding $300 to the winner.
2014 Chicken Spiedie eating contest
update Press Connects has a gallery Fox 40 has an article and video
update Joey Chestnut ate 14 sandwiches in 10 minutes to win the contest.
Full Results: Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4
1) Joey Chestnut 13.75
2) Marcos Owens 9.5
3) Eric “Badlands” Booker 8.7
4) Jim Reeves 7.5
5) Brian Subich 7
6) Daniella Gioia 6.5
7) Crazy Legs Conti 6
8) Bill Myers 5.2
9) Larell Marie Mele 5
10) Brian Seiken 4.25
11) Tim Ryan 4.2
12) Leo Gioia 3.8
13) Ryan Siciliano 3.5
14) Nick Subich 3
Press Connects has a interview with Joey Chestnut about competing in tonight’s chicken spiedie eating contest at Tioga Downs in Nichols, NY.
Pro Sound Network has an article about the audio setup for the Nathan's finals.
WNYPapers reports that Seneca Buffalo Creek Casino will become the title sponsor for the MLE wing eating contest at the Buffalo Wing Festival on August 31. The contest purse remains at $2,800 despite the new sponsorship.
TV Tokyo's "Battle of the Big Eaters" program from last month where a US team of Molly Schuyler, Dave Brunelli, Stephanie Torres and Tom Gilbert faced a Japanese quartet consisting of Angela Sato, Hitomi Sato, Tomoko Miyake and Takuya Yamamoto along with teams from Germany is available on youtube. (playlist | video list) (Via Will Millender)
The Binghamton Mets will hold a chicken spiedie contest on Friday awarding a spot in the MLE contest at Tioga Downs on July 26. Today is the last day to sign up.
Dani's House of Pizza in Queens, NY will hold a pizza eating contest on August 9 awarding $1250 ($750 to the winner). Qualifiers will be held July 26 and August 2.
Val Bromann has a blog entry with a gallery of the July 2 Coney Island brain eating contest won by Molly Schuyler. A video is also available.
Stitch in Manhattan will hold a wing eating contest on August 19 that will award $2,500 in cash and prizes.
BLU Bar & Grill in Rochester, NY will award $500 to the person with the fastest finishing time for its burger challenge over a six month period.
Joey Chestnut, Jeff Butler, Ronnie Hartman and Crazy Legs Conti are listed as expected entrants in the chicken spiedie eating contest at Tioga Downs in Nichols, NY on July 26.
230 Fifth bunless hot dog contest
update A contest video is available
A 230 Fifth in Manhattan today, Takeru Kobayashi ate 113 bunless hot dogs in 10 minutes today.
Results via Johnny Excel:
1) Takeru Kobayashi 113 (or 112)
2) Pat Bertoletti 85 (or 87)
3) Jamie McDonald 77
4) Tim Brown 45
5) Wayne Algenio 35
6) Johnnie Excel 28
Molly Schuyler was also present. I am not sure if she competed.
update July 5 Miscellaneous Kobayashi links
- Freakonomics podcast about Takeru Kobayashi
- MSNBC live interview of Takeru Kobayashi and Pat Bertoletti
- Vice.com report about a training session with Takeru Kobayashi
2014 men’s Nathans finals
Official Top 3 (Full results – July 8)
1) Joey Chestnut 61 8th victory in a row, proposed to Neslie Ricasa before contest
2) Matt Stonie 56
3) Tim Janus 44
4T) Brian Dudzinski 34
4T) Erik Denmark 34
6) Juan Rodriguez 32
7) Adrian Morgan 29
8) Marcos Owens 26
9) Badlands Booker 25
10) Yasir Salem 19.75
11) Aaron Osthoff 19.5
12) Pablo Martinez 17
13) Ronnie Hartman, 14
14T) Sean Gordon, 10
14T) Sgt. Horacio Chanyau, 10
16) Colin Shirlow 3
Jeff Butler missed the contest due to a cancelled flight
Post contest coverage
- ESPN.com article
- Daily Beast contest report
- Brooklyn Paper article and gallery
- Rick Telander of the Chicago Sun Times calls MLE eaters “professional bulimics” and claims he witness much backstage vomiting when he attended a Nathan’s finals
- Guardian.com article
- Video of Sport Science segment about competitive eating seen during Nathan’s broadcast
- Village Voice gallery and animated GIF of Joey Chestnut eating 61 hot dogs
- Bleacher Report claims Matt Stonie is “ushering in a new era of competitive eating”
- Broadway World gallery
- Seacoast Online article about Matt Stonie
- Juan Rodriguez gallery – 32 hot dogs
- Aaron Osthoff article – 20 hot dogs
- Pablo Martinez article – 17 hot dogs
- Ronnie Hartman article – no total
- Crazy Legs Conti poem based on “The Night Before Christmas”
The men’s Nathan’s contest will be live at noon eastern on ESPNews and ESPN3.com. It will be rerun on ESPN2 at 2pm eastern. If the France / Germany World Cup game goes to overtime / penalty kicks, it will cut into that program. The contest will also be rerun at 6pm eastern today and July 5 and 6.
Matt Stonie has defeated Joey Chestnut in two of their last three matchups. He has also posted a training session video where he ate 66 hot dogs; if he can replicate that today, he could threatens Joey Chestnut’s Nathan’s streak.
Pre contest coverage
- Joey Chestnut
The Atlantic asks if Joey Chestnut is the most dominant athlete of all time
Joey Chestnut gives a minute by minute contest report to the Hollywood Reporter
Appearance on Vice.com’s “Fat Jew Show” about Joey Chestnut’s bathroom experiences
Esquire.com graphic about 27,6000 calories in 69 hot dogs - Matt Stonie
SeaCoastOnline of New Hampshire calls Matt Stonie a local - The Daily Mail calls Matt Stonie “The World’s Youngest Competitive Eater”
- Erik Denmark
Appearance on the Jason Smith show - Colin Shirlow
Dubbelin.com article about addition to finals field
2014 women’s Nathan’s finals
Results Official top 3
Larell Marie has the top 6 (Full Results – July 8)
1) Miki Sudo 34 – ends 11 year streak for Sonya as top Coney Island woman
2) Sonya Thomas 27.75 – lowest July 4 total since 2003 debut
3) Michelle Lesco 27
4) Juliet Lee 23.5
5) Meredith Boxberger 18
6) Larell Marie 14
7) Carlene LeFevre 11
8) Neslie Ricasa 10
9) Mary Bowers, 9
10) Marlene Wigginton, 8.5
11) Nicole Pulig, 7.5
12) Nicole Rodriguez, 7
13) Val Bromann 3
Post Contest Coverage
- Asahi.com calls Miki Sudo a Japanese woman.
- USA Today report on women’s contest
- Cardboard Shell has a facebook gallery
- Broadway World gallery
Sonya Thomas offers congratulations to Miki Sudo on her web page.
A brief recap of the Sonya Thomas vs. Miki Sudo rivalry:
- From her IFOCE / MLE debut in June 2013 to April 2013, Sonya thomas maintained a winning streak against other female competiitve eaters for 118 months.
- After success in local Las Vegas eating contests and challenges, Miki Sudo debuted in Major League Eating at the 2013 Las Vegas qualifier. Her total of 40 hot dogs was the best ever for a Nathan’s debut in a 10 minute contest (and best overall since Kobayashi’s first USA contest in 2001)
- About a week before the 2013 Nathan’s finals, it is announced Miki Sudo will not compete. A Las Vegas Weekly interview from last month has more on her withdrawal.
- With Miki Sudo not competing in the 2013 women’s Nathan’s finals, Sonya Thomas wins the female competition for the third year in a row (and maintains an 11 year streak where she is the top performing woman on July 4).
- In subsequent contests, Miki Sudo would have success against Sonya Thomas, starting a winning streak which is currently at 8 competitions.
- In December 2013, Miki Sudo (#4) would be ranked ahead of Sonya Thomas (#5), ending a decade where she was the top woman in the IFOCE/MLE rankings
- Last month, Miki Sudo qualified for the Nathan’s finals. Her total of 40 hot dogs matched her amount from last year and made her the only woman to hit 40+ in the past 23 months. She is currently in New York City and will try to surpass that amount.
- According to MJP, Miki Sudo has gone from being an +120 underdog to a -150 favorite in online sports casinos.
Contest coverage roundup
- General
Val Bromann, who is also competing in the contest, has a contest preview
USA Today says the women’s contest might have the best drama - Sonya Thomas
WSJ.com video
Bloomberg.com video
Fiscal Times article
Washington.CBSLocal.com article - Miki Sudo
Mental Floss article
Agence France Press article claims Miki Sudo could dominate. (Miki claims a 10 contest streak vs. Sonya; it appears to be actually 8) - Michelle “Cardboard Shell” Lesco
Interview with Womens Health Mag
WGN TV interview - Mary Bowers
Dana Point Times article
Guardian Angel founder Curtis Sliwa, third place finisher in the 1996 Nathan's finals, is calling for investigation of PED usage in competitive eating on his facebook. (Red Angel Dragnet, a song about the Guardian Angels by The Clash)
The Village Voice reports that Professor Thom's will hold a Nathan's after party tomorrow at 7 pm. Joey Chestnut is expected to attend.
A press release announces that the hot dogs eaten in Takeru Kobayashi's July 4 contest at 230 Fifth in Manhattan will lack buns. The contest is incorrectly billed as the first bunless hot dog eating competition; a bunless hot dog eating contest won by Lynda Kuerth was held in Philadelphia in 1977.
Pix11 reports Molly Schuyler ate 5.5 pounds of brains in 8 minutes to win an eating contest held at Zombie Night before tonight's Brooklyn Cyclone game. Pat Bertoletti and Tim Brown appear in the video segment.
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