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Dayton Dragons Nathan’s qualifier

Results from the Nathan’s qualifier at tonight’s Daytons Dragons game

1st 40 Bartley Weaver, IV
2nd 12 Mark Enstrom
2nd 12 Jon Reed
4th 8 Joey “Dogs” Durham
1st 10 Kelly Wong
1st 10 Cherish “Five Pounds” Brown

Both Cherish Brown and Kelly Wong will receive a spot in the July 4 contest.

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Polock Johnny's will celebrate the opening of its first restaurant in ten years with a hot dog eating contest in Baltimore tomorrow. Its competition was probably the best publicized frankfurter eating contest in the 1970s, with coverage in publications like National Geographic.
Festa Italiana in Bryan, TX will hold a pasta eating contest tomorrow awarding $200 to the winner.
Canton, TX will hold a hot dog eating contest on July 4 awarding $1500 to the winner.
Z-Burger will hold its burger eating contest in Washington, DC on July 3 and will pay out $6550 to the top ten finishers:($2000/$1250/$1000/$750/$500/$400/$300/$200/$100/$50)

Dan Kennedy, Molly Schuyler break 50+ hot dog mark

Official top 3 from Saturday’s T & L Hot Dogs eating contest in Bridgeport, WV

1 Dan Kennedy 56 hot dogs in 10 minutes
2 Molly Schuyler 53 hot dogs
3 Joey Beverly

I think Molly’s total sets a women’s world record for a 10 minute hot dog eating contest, breaking Miki Sudo’s personal best of 48.5

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Hurricane, WV will hold a hot dog eating contest on July 4 awarding $500/$250/$100.

2023 Salvation Army donuts

Superstars Only has an interview with Senegalese food challenger MohMotion, whose full name is Mohamed Benantsayi Miles Mbengue. He is currently living in the Phoenix area and hopes to enroll in Arizona State University.
Cold Beers & Cheeseburgers will hold a slider eating contest at the Scottsdale 4th of July Celebration at Westworld awarding a $500 Amex gift card to the winner. Qualifiers will take place at all Cold Beers & Cheeseburgers locations on June 17.
The Toledo Blade has a gallery of Joey Chestnut's appearance at Saturday's Mudhens minor league baseball game. He did a cotton candy eating exhibition and oversaw a ice cream eating contest between local celebrities.
Nick Wehry announces that he will compete in Friday's World Donut Eating Championship at the USS Midway in San Diego along with Miki Sudo, Derek Hendrickson and James Webb.
Registration will open at noon for the Mattituck Lions Club World Strawberry Shortcake Eating Championship in Mattituck, NY on June 17.
The top 4 from yesterday's donut eating contest at Tom's Donuts in Angola, IN via Dan Kennedy 1) Dan Kennedy 62 donuts (10 minutes) 2) Molly Schuyler 60 3) Andrew Puhl 48 4) Sean Yeager 43

Berea, OH Nathan’s qualifier

updateMay 28
Video by Sam Messenger
Official results

1st 50 Geoffrey Esper
2nd 27.5 Darrien “Cheesecurd” Thomas
3rd 18 Andrew Krawczyk
4th 16.75 Mike Landrich
5th 15 A Kamenski
6th 11 N Moufid
7th 10 A Djuric
8th 6 Carmen Angelo from WTAM’s The Bloomsdaddy Show
1st 15.5 Larell Marie “The Real Deal” Mele will compete in finals for 13th year in a row, 2nd longest streak after Joey Chestnut
2nd 7 Rene Rovtar
3rd 6.5 Brynn Szeles

Fox 8 is currently running a live video

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Geoff Esper defends Jack’s Donut hole title

update Contest video by 5 after 5 Studios

update May 28 Video by James Webb

Official results from tonight’s Jack’s Donuts Donut Hole Eating Championship in New Castle, IN

1st 344 Geoffrey Esper
2nd 310 Joey “Jaws” Chestnut
3rd 308 Miki Sudo
4th 295 James Webb
5th 266 Nick Wehry
6th 217 Sean “The Mouth” Yeager
7th 191 Mo Mbengue
8th 133 Derek Jacobs
9th 94 Michael Doolin
10th 92 John Gebhard
11th 43 Rene Rovtar

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Defending champion Geoff Esper, Nick Wehry, James Webb, Derek Hendrickson and Nate Biller are expected to compete in the Outlaw Egg Rolls’ World Egg Roll Eating Championship in Lubbock, TX June 10.
Hotel Vegas in Austin will hold a hot dog eating contest on May 28 awarding $200 cash, a $100 gift card and a $50 bar tab to the winner.
Joey Chestnut will attend the Bowling Green (KY) Hot Rods game on June 10. The team will be renamed the Hot Dogs for one night in his honor.
ShuBrew will hold a hot dog eating contest on July 22 in Zelienople, PA awarding a $1000 first prize if the winner eats more than 20 hot dogs ($200 otherwise).
The Twist and Pinch Crawfish Festival will hold a crawfish eating contest in San Antonio on June 10 awarding $300 to the winner.
The New Orleans Oyster Festival website has not been updated since 2020. Its Acme Oyster eating contest in late May or early June was one of the mainstays of the MLE circuit.
Nick Wehry announced that he, Joey Chestnut, defending champ Geoff Esper, Miki Sudo and James Webb are expected to compete in Jack's Donuts donut hole eating contest in New Castle, IN on May 26.
The Texas Route 66 corn dog eating contest in Amarillo will award $500 to the winner on June 10. The competition is part of a statewide celebration of the highway
The 2023 Summer Kickoff and Food Truck Festival in Bridgeport, WV will hold a hot dog eating contest on June 3 awarding $500 to the winner.
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