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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Will Millender has the current qualifying leaders at Go! Go! Curry! after tonight’s attempts:

1) Joe Menchetti 41:90
2) Will Millender 42:31
3) Paul “porkslap” Arcaria 1:15:45
4) Brian Kenny Pham 1:25:47

Joe Menchetti had the fastest time last year of 37:57

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