Joey Chestnut’s 24 pounds of poutine is not the highest weight ever announced for a MLE contest. The initial results for last month’s Mapleside Farms apple pie eating contest in Brunswick, OH claimed the winning total was 26.25 pounds (in 8 minutes).

15 minutes after the first results were posted, the pie counts for all competitors were cut in half without explanation and the previous results were deleted. A screen capture of the MLE twitter with all the results follows

update Oct 23 In Maplesides Farms’ video, (results start at 3:30 mark) the pie counts announced on-stage (8.75/7.25/5.75/5/4.5) are double the official final results. Joey’s weight is announced as 13 pounds
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update NewsNet5 has an article and video

The Cleveland Leader has an article and video preview

Results start at 20:30 mark of video
1) Molly Schuyler 6 lbs in 3 min, continues undefeated streak in contests allowing use of hands
2) Bob Kuhns
3) Sean Mulcahey
4) Brian Feldman
5) Jose Carbajal

Cleveland Leader has a link to live video coverage on its youtube page.

Fox8 has an article about the finals

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Results Part 1 | Part 2

1) Joey Chestnut 70
2) Miki Sudo 61.5
3) Adrian Morgan 46
4) Bill Myers 21.25
5) Andrew Kogutkiewicz 19.6
6) Matt Raible 17.5
7) Sean Mulcahey 16
8) Jacob Halicek 15
9) Tracy Goode 11
11) Megan Hartman 5

Joey Chestnut won with a total of 70 sausauges. Miki Sudo was runner up with 61.5. Both totals smash the previous event record of 42:

Joey Chestnut is the only expected entrant listed on the festival website. Miki Sudo has also said she will compete.

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update Sept 15 Time.com has a video
update Sept 14 The Medina Gazette has an article claiming that Joey Chestnut competed in Thursday’s cannoli contest.

WSNet5 has a video and article.

update #2 Fox 8 has a video and article.

update All pie counts have been cut in half: Part 1 | Part 2

Results Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3

1) Joey Chestnut 8.75 pies (reported weight 3 lb for a total of 26.25 lbs.?) 4.375 three pound pies
2) Tim Janus 7.25 3.625
3) Sonya Thomas 6.75 3.375
4) Yasir Salem 5 (15 pounds?) 2.5
5) Jim Reeves 4.5 2.25
6) Scott Thomas 3.25 1.625
7) Bill Myers 2.25 1.125
8) Adam Friedrick 2/ 1
9) Ted Merg 1.5/ .75
10) Greg Clemente 1 .5

Joey Chestnut reportedly ate 13.5 pounds

According to the eatfeats database, tonight’s contest will be the first IFOCE/MLE contest held on Friday the 13th. A listing of previous contests held on the 13th follows after the jump.

Joey Chestnut has 5 defeats in 2013, the same of losses he had in 2011 and 2012 combined. He is not expected to face anyone who has beaten him in 2013 in this contest.

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Results Part 1 | Part 2
1) Michelle Lesco 152 wings
2) Juliet Lee 128
3) Brian Subich 120
4) Andrew Kogutkiewicz 112
5) Corey Fanguy 92
6) Matthew Raible 88
7T) Tracy Goode 84
7T) Sean Mulcahey 84
9) John “Ticket Wizard” 32
10) Jerry Fowler 10

A picture of the stage.

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