update The Poughkeepsie Journal has an article

YNN has a video

3:36 The top 3 have been posted

1) Juliet Lee 28.25
2) Allen “Shredder” Goldstein 25.5
3) Micah “Wing Kong” Collins 24
? Drew Altavilla 6.5

Goldstein will be the wild card unless someone breaks 28.75 in the final qualifier in California (or the runner up in the first contest today exceeded that amount)

1:23 The contest has started

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update #2 The top 3

1) Tim “Eater X” Janus 46 HDB
2) Pat “from Moonachie” Philbin 22
3) Brian “Dud Light” Dudzinski 21
? Andrew Kossuth 10.5

BeautifulBrian.com has an article and video

update The MLE facebook reports Tim Janus won with 46 HDB.

The MLE facebook lists Tim Janus & Pat “from Moonachie” Philbin as expected entrants.

NYBD has a picture

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LoHud has a preview of Saturday’s Nathan’s qualifier at Splashdown Beach in Fishkill, NY listing Juliet Lee, “Buffalo” Jim Reeves, Micah “Wing Kong” Collins, Eric “Steakbellie” Livingston and Allen “Shredder” Goldstein as expected entrants. Contest spectators must purchase park admission.

update Poughkeepsie Journal also lists Russ Keeler, Yasir Salem, Damon Serignet and amateur Drew Altavila as competitors.

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Sam Skelton relays a rumor that Man vs. Food will record at Dinosaur BBQ in Syracuse today. Dan Hardy reports that the program recorded at Wohl Practice Field at Syracuse University earlier today. update Syracuse.com has an article about the recording. A commenter says the program will record at Mother’s Cupboard on Thursday.

update June 9 Syracuse.com reports that Man vs. Food is recording at Heid’s in Liverpool, NY today

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Jill Stoler has uploaded videos of Rocco’s pizza eating contest held in Brooklyn on Sunday.

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Will Millender has the top 6 at today’s Rocco’s pizza eating contest in Brooklyn:

1) “Furious” Pete Czerwinski, 27 slices
2) Sal Carbone 17 slices (defending champ)
3) Mike Hoffman 15 slices
4) Mike Longo 14 slices
5) Will Millender 13 slices
6) Paul “Porkslap” Arcaria

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update June 9 Rebecca Davis / NY Daily News video

update June 7 Furious Pete has a video
A picture of the results

Mike Longo has the results of today’s contest at Go! Go! Curry!

1) “Furious” Pete Czerwinski
2) “Gentleman” Joe Menchetti
3) Will Millender
4) Paul “Porkslap” Arcaria
5) Brian Kenny Pham

update Metromix NY has a gallery

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AOL Weird News has an article about the new Nathan’s Wall of Fame with quotes from Ed “Cookie” Jarvis and Wayne Norbitz, president of Nathan’s:

“The reason that we changed the graphic is that the wall is in the sun — the design fades,” said Norbitz. “We needed to upgrade the look of it, so we decided to not just redo it the way it was.

“We decided to make the picture more current with people who have competed more recently,” added Norbitz, who noted that the wall’s bottom continues to list all of the winners of past Nathan’s contests — though insiders are quick to point out that many top eaters retire without ever winning big in Coney Island.

No reason is given for the omission of Eric “Badlands” Booker and Bob Shoudt.

update The article has been posted to the AOL News facebook if anyone wants to comment there.

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Gersh Kuntzman has a column about the updating of the “Wall of Fame” at the Coney Island Nathan’s. A summary of the changes:

• In: Joey Chestnut, Pat Bertoletti, Tim Janus, Juliet Lee, Tim Brown, Crazy Legs Conti
• Out: Eric “Badlands” Booker, Cookie Jarvis, Don Lerman, Charles Hardy, Kevin Lipsitz, Ed Krachie, “Kid” Cary DeGrosa, songwriter Amos Wengler.
• Staying: Takeru Kobayashi, Sonya Thomas
• Neither in nor out: “Notorious” Bob Shoudt (current #2 IFOCE ranking)

George Shea is quoted:

“The question is this: Do you listen to Lady Gaga or The Who?” Shea asked. “The bottom line is that it’s a ‘Wall of Fame.’ None of the people you mentioned, plus Don ‘Moses’ Lerman, ‘Krazy’ Kevin Lipsitz or Ed ‘Cookie’ Jarvis, have fame anymore. The guys on that wall now have eclipsed all of them.”

Badlands Booker ate 38.5 hot dogs in a Nathan’s qualifier last month. Three of the new entrants (Juliet Lee, Tim Brown, Crazy Legs Conti) have never eaten that much.

A picture of the old Wall of Fame

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update June 1 WPIX has a video of an interview Sonya Thomas did before the contest (via comment)
Beautiful Brian has a contest video and interviews with Sonya Thomas, Juliet Lee and Badlands Booker

update Rich Shea has the top 3:

1) Sonya Thomas, 26 dozen clams
2) Juliet Lee 23.75 dozen
3) Tim “Eater X” Janus 19 dozen

According to the eatfeats database, Sonya Thomas has finished in the top 2 in every shellfish (oysters, clams, lobsters, crabcakes, clams) contest she has competed in, with the only 2nd place finish occurring in the controversial 2009 Atlantic City crawfish contest.

The contest should start around 1pm. Tim Janus wore a Morey’s Piers shirt on the CBS Early Show, so he might be doing the curly fries contest.

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Eric “Badlands” Booker did a rap on ExploreLI to promote the Memorial Day clam eating contest at Peter’s Clam Bar in Island Park, NY.

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