The Sahara in Las Vegas, site of the NASCAR Cafe, closed yesterday. Here are the final statistics from the NASCAR Cafe’s B3 Burrito challenge according to public information:

• 42: Number of people who finished the burrito in under 90 minutes
• Over 4,000: Number of people purchasing the burrito (according to a yelp comment)
• 6 minutes: Record finishing time by Joey Chestnut
• Other announced sub 20 minute times: Ben Monson 12 minutes, Matt Stonie 15 minutes, Shawn Cochran 19 minutes
• 38 minutes: Announced Women’s record by Stephanie Torres (This forum thread says her women’s record was broken in January, but does not give the name or time.)
• 2: Most times finishing burrito by Aubrey (might be other unpublicized multiple finishers)
• 3+: Number of female finishers
• May 1, 2011: date of 42nd and final completion by Mark from California

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Reality wanted has a casting call for a big eater to appear in upcoming episode of an unnamed reality show to be filmed in Milwaukee. The show is most likely Man vs. Food: Nation. Reality Wanted also has a request for someone to attempt an eating challenge for a Louisville episode recorded earlier this month and Fox41 reports that Man vs. Food filmed in Kentucky on May 9. (A possible candidate would be Molly Cary, the only competitive eater Pat Bertoletti has faced off against and never defeated. She was the runner-up in a 2004 Milwaukee corned beef eating contest Bertoletti finished third in and has not done another IFOCE contest.)

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update May 16 #2 Houston Press has a gallery.

update May 16 Dana Miller has four videos.

update Niko Niko’s has a facebook gallery

The top 8:

1) Joey Chestnut 21.5 gyros
2) Pat Bertoletti 21
3) Matt Stonie 17
4) Adrian Morgan 14.75
5) Sean Gordon 14
6) Nate Biller 12
7) Donovan Busta 9.5
8T) Gary Klucken 5.5
8T) Bam Martinez 5.5

update 4:18 The eatingcontest twitter reports Joey Chestnut ate 21.5 gyros to win, Pat Bertoletti was the runner up with 21.

update 3:33 The contest has started

update The festival facebook is posting pictures.

The MLE facebook lists Joey Chestnut, Pat Bertoletti, Sean Gordon, Adrian Morgan, Nate Biller, Matt Stonie, Gary Klucken, Bam Martinez and Randy Harrison as expected competitors.

The contest page on the festival’s website has not been updated from last year except for the new date; Ben Monson is listed as an expected entrant.

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update May 16 Scott Thomas has a blog entry with some photos. UFNickPSI has posted six videos.

update Syracuse.com article | News 9 video | YNN video & article (claims Sonya Thomas competed) | youtube video

4:15 Results from the MLE facebook
1) Joey Chestnut 13 lbs. $5000
2) Pat Bertoletti 12.5 lbs. $2000
3) Tim Janus 10 lbs. 5 oz. $1500
4) Bob Shoudt 9 lbs. 7 oz. $750
5) Pete Davekos 8 lbs. $500
6T) Micah “Wing Kong” Collins 6.5 lbs. $125
6T) Juliet Lee 6.5 lbs. $125
8) Eric “Badlands Booker” 6.3 lbs.
9) Crazy Legs Conti 6 + 1 ball
10) Brian Dudzinski 5.55
11) Bill Myers 4.32
12) Bryan VanAlstine 1.51
13) Josh Snow DNF

4:05 The rest of the top 6 from the eating contest twitter: “Pat in 2nd, X in 3rd, B.O.B. 4th, Davekos 5th, Kong and Juliet tied for 6th”

3:58 Erin Grace Clarke reports that Joey Chestnut was the winner.

3:55 Scott Thomas says the winner ate 13 pound of potatoes, but does not provide the victor’s name.

3:43 The contest should be over now. Here is a picture from 20 minutes ago.

The contest should start at 2:30 pm eastern.

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update May 16 #2 Paul Barlow has a facebook gallery.

update May 16 Creative Loafing has a blog entry and gallery (via Larell Marie Mele comment)

Contest results from the eatingcontest twitter

Men
1) Tim “Gravy” Brown 28.75 hot dogs in 10 minutes, qualifies for Nathan’s finals for 5th year in a row
2) Larry “The Legend” McNeil 16, first IFOCE contest since joining WLOCE
3) Damien Boykin 11

Women
1) Larell Marie Mele 13 hot dogs
Grace Lee did not appear in any of the eatingcontest twitpics or in this yfrog picture of the entire field

The contest should start around 1 pm eastern.

Rich Shea says that “Pi Gal” will also compete, presumably Steve “Pi Guy” Martin’s wife or girlfriend.

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