update Sept 19 Chris (last name not given) won the Tampa qualifier

update 10:15 Dale Boone won the Atlanta qualifier with 20 sliders

WUSA9 has an article about the Bethesda qualifier with full results and a video

Tito Jackson has a video

update 4:15 Bethesda Now has a gallery and short article

update 12:54 Mike Longo has the top 3 for the Bethesda, MD qualifier
1) Mike Longo 17 sliders, $500
2) Tyron Hill 11
3) John Henderson 7 (additional results will be added as they come in)

A qualifier for the National Cheeseburger Slider Eating Championship will be held today at BGR in Tampa (female bodybuilder Emery Miller will apparently compete). The date was originally announced as September 28. Additional qualifiers awarding $500 and a trip to the championship in May 2013 will be held tomorrow in Bethesda, MD, Coral Gables, FL, Atlanta and possibly Point Loma, CA.

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update Sept 18
Chef One has galleries and has provided the women’s prizewinners: gallery 1 | gallery 2

Will Millender has a video with interviews

update #2 Womens results
1) Floria Lee 46, women’s record
2) Andrea Johnson 40
3) Taway Yang 38

update Will Millender has the men’s top 7
1) Dave Brunelli 74 – new record, ends Joe Menchetti’s streak
2T) Joe Menchetti 69
2T) Jamie McDonald 69
4) Wayne Algenio 55
5) Will Millender 50
6) John “Oink Oink” Bradley 44
7) Pat Philbin 36 Joe Menchetti has a seven year winning streak in the men’s contest, which might be jeopardized by Jamie McDonald, who is listed as going on the contest facebook event page. The contest is expected to start at 1 pm. (Menchetti’s winning streak is listed after the jump)

The contest will have equal amounts of men and women competing, which is a rarity in competitive eating.

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update Sept 17 Lagalagny has a video of the entire contest

update Sept 15 Larell Marie has a gallery

update Sept 14 Gothamist has a blog entry

The results
1) Eric “Badlands” Booker 22 after 2 cannoli eat-off
2) Yasir Salem 21
3) Kevin “LA Beast” Strahle 18
4) Crazy Legs Conti 17
5) Larell Marie Mele 15
6) Timothy “Tomahawk” Connelly 11
7) Crescenzo Rillo 8

The LJessie has a video of the end of the contest

The Rake and Herald has a contest report

Ed “Cookie” Jarvis will serve as a judge.

The MLE facebook page still lists the contest date as Friday, September 14.

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Footlong is a documentary (full movie) about “the social impact of the hot dog on American Culture” that opens with coverage of the 1998 Nathan’s finals (Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3) including interviews with George Shea, Gersh Kuntzman, Ed Krachie, Guardian Angels founder Curtis Sliwa and defending champion Hirofumi Nakajima along with brief snippets of the 1998 Nathan’s qualifier held in Windows on the World on top of the World Trade Center.

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Several restaurants are holding eating contests that will take place throught football season:

• Battle of the Bone 5 – Phoenix area Native New Yorker restaurants – qualifiers will take place on Wednesdays throughout football season – finals December 8 will award a trip to the Super Bowl
• Court Jester’s – Aberdeen & Freehold, NJ – Weekly hot wing eating qualifiers during Monday Night Football – finals during Super Bowl will award $1750 ($1000 to winner)
• Smoke City Market – Sherman Oaks, CA qualify for Jan 27 contest by eating rack of ribs
• Two Stones Pub – Newark, DE – 10 patrons who eat most foot long hot dogs will get a spot in a Super Bowl party
• The Whiskey Barrel – Gloucester City, NJ – weekly hot dog eating qualifiers will be held during Monday Night Football, final will be held during Super Bowl

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