Official results:

The Field: Steven Peterson, Olivia Murphy, Jeffrey Bonacorda, Anthony Kaminsky, Jay Ruppert, Julie Goldberg, A Korean (didn’t get the name), Prudence DiBenedetto, Larell Marie Mele, George Chiger, Crazy Legs Conti, Gideon Oji

KumaMonster has started a live stream of today’s Nathan’s qualifier at Times Square in Manhattan. The introductions are expected to start at noon Eastern.

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updateMay 28
Video by Sam Messenger
Official results

Fox 8 is currently running a live video

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News12 video

Results via Fink Beats the Stomach (More results)

Facebook Live video by Fink Beats the Stomach

Previous winners of Nathan’s qualifiers held at the Long Island Ducks ballpark. A gap of almost 13 years between competitions might be a record for qualifier sites.

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update Report of the Week has a video

Fox56 article. Larell Marie Mele planned to be a judge before entering the contest without preparation.

Official Results Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4

Yasier Salem, Kevin Ambs, Bill Myers and three female rookies are expected to compete.

Larell Marie Mele retired from competitive eating to care for her father, so she will not defend her title.

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update Pocono Record has a contest report

Full Results Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3
1) Badlands Booker 23.75
2) Kevin Ambs 23.33
3) George Chiger 19.5
4) Jim Reeves 18
5T) Michael Deitz 13
5T) Ryan Siciliano 13
7) Bill Myers 12.75
8) Tom Serpico 6

1W) Larell Marie Mele 12
2w) Tess Siciliano 8

update It appears Eric “Badlands” Booker narrowly won the men’s contest

Larell Marie Mele won the women’s contest, which puts Carlene LeFevre back in the wild card lead.

Larell Marie Mele, Jim Reeves and Bill Myers are expected to do 2 qualifiers in less than 24 hours. “Badlands” Booker is another listed entrant. A victory by Larell Marie would restore the women’s wild card lead to Carlene LeFevre.

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update WNEP has an article and video. Larell Marie’s TV appearance yesterday is on youtube.

Official results part 1 | part 2 | part 3

Men
1) Yasir Salem 29
2) George Chiger 17
3T) Carmen Cincotti 13 (women’s wild card runner-up if female)
3T) Dave “The Termite” Wood 13
5) “Snack” Jack Diamond 12
6T) Ryan “The Abyss” Siciliano 11.5
6T) “Wild” Bill Myers 11.5
8) Michael Dietz

1W) Larell Marie Mele 14
update Dave Wood reports that Yasir Salem won the men’s contest

Expected entrants: Yasir Salem, Dave “The Termite” Wood, Ryan “The Abyss” Siciliano, Larell Marie Mele, The Artist formely known as Brian Seiken.

Current wild card standings

Previous winners

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update June 16 Mets.MLB.com has a video

Results Part 1 | Part 2

1) Tim Janus 28.5 – reentered contest
2) Brian Dudzinski 26
3T) Bill Myers 17
3T) Brian Seiken 17
1W Larell Marie Mele 14

Tim Janus has withdrawn from today’s Nathan’s qualfier in Queens, leaving the men’s favorites Crazy Legs Conti, Brian Dudzinski and Bill Myers. Larell Marie Mele headlines the women’s field.

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update March 26 Jason Beinstein has a video. A caption says David Soberman ate 13 hot dogs.

Rake & Herald, Grub Street and Amusing the Zillion have contest reports

The qualifier was mentioned (without any footage) on Good Morning America

update March 24 Brian Seiken has posted some videos

update The winners

“Notorious” Bob Shoudt 36 hot dogs
Larell Marie Mele 17

update #2 Other results
“Wild” Bill Myers 13
Andrew Kossuth 12.5
“Beautiful” Brian Seiken 11 (thinks he ate 13)

Crazy Legs Conti was on site

update #3 Brooklyn Gossip has a gallery

The current temperature is 45F (Is this the coldest outside contest in IFOCE/MLE history?)

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All You Can Eat a documentary that was televised last week on the British channel ITV, can now be viewed on youtube. Featured competitive eaters include:

• Pat Bertoletti (shows a training session)
• Larell Marie (behind the scenes coverage of the Nathan’s finals)
• Hooters Finals sponsor’s exemption Lewis Richards (Hooters contest coverage labels finalist Nate Biller as “Nasty Nick” and calls Sonya Thomas the defending champion of the first-time event.)
• 72 year old Peter Dowdsewell (attempts 10 hard boiled eggs record)

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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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Full results from Saturday’s pierogi eating contest held at Old Home Week in Forest City, PA have been posted. The top 3:

1 Russ Keeler 51 pierogis in 10 minutes
2 Larell Marie Mele 48 (one of the more impressive female debuts of 2008)
3 John Skubic 43

2007 winner Mike Novak ate 38 before being disqualified

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