7:01 WTOP has an article

6:09 The top 5
1) Sonya Thomas 38
2) Eric “Badlands” Booker 37.5
3) Sean Gordon 30
4) Aaron Osthoff 29.5
5) Adrian Morgan 28.5

5:52 Sonya Thomas won by eating 38 moonpies in 8 minutes

5:42 The contest is over. Results have yet to be announced.

4:56. The contest should start in about 10 minutes Tim Janus reportedly missed his flight.

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According to the eatfeats database, today’s victory at the Buffalo Wing Festival is the first time Sonya Thomas has finished ahead of Joey Chestnut since the meat ball eating contest at the Tropicana in Atlantic City in December 2006 and the first time she has won a contest Joey Chestnut competed in since the chili cheese fry eating contest at the Queen Mary in Long Beach in February 2006. A list of head to head results is available after the jump:
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update Sept 14 Salon.com article about Teresa Guido winning the bobbing for wings contest (via Stephanie Wu).

update Sept 6 WNYMedia has a video clip about the contest.
Yahoo News has over 400 comments to the AP article about the contest.
Buffalo News reports that Susan Borthwick won Saturday’s amateur wing eating contest.

update #2 WKBW has an article and video
Buffalo News has a video
Joe Cascio has a gallery and a picture of the result announcement. (You would never know that Sonya had just eaten almost 5 pounds looking at the picture.)
WNYMedia has an interview with Joey Chestnut before the contest

update WIVB has a short article
SonyaTheBlackWidow has been updated with a contest report

4:16 Results announced
1) Sonya Thomas 4.86 pounds, record for 12 minute contest
2) Joey Chestnut 4.55
3) Bryan Beard 2.89
4) Eric “Badlands” Booker 2.84

4:04 The contest is over

3:52 The contest starts

3:46 Sonya walks through the crowd to enter the stage

The contest should start at 3:30 and can be viewed online.

SkunkPost has a video interview with Joey Chestnut.

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update Sept 3 Sonya Thomas did compete in the 2008 contest, which took place on September 6, 2008 and was the runner up to Colin Shirlow. V1NNY69 has a video of the results announcement.

update Sept 3 #2 Scotsman.com has an article about the 2008 contest.

Food Belfast has an article about Colin Shirlow, who received a Guinness record for oyster eating (233 in 3 minutes) in 2005 and claims to have defeated Sonya Thomas at the Hillsborough Oyster Festival in Ireland last year:

Last year saw the ominously named ‘Black Widow’ (pictured, left) being flown over especially for the competition from the US.

Sonya Thomas got the nickname because of her ability to regularly defeat men four to five times her size in competitive eating events. The 43-year-old holds records in some 25 competitive eating contests and set her sights on Shirlow’s crown.

“Her record sits at 350 oysters in 10 minutes [actually 46 dozen, 532] but with this record it says it has to be three minutes. The Guinness Book of Records specifically say you have three minutes. We paid for her to come across and on the Thursday night we were like two boxers.

Sonya Thomas could not have competed in the Hillsborough Oyster Festival, which takes place during Labor Day weekend, because she was at the Buffalo Wing Festival in 2009. Shirlow is most likely confusing Sonya Thomas with Linda Li, who competed in last year’s contest after winning a qualifier at the Ceili Cottage in Toronto.

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(Bumped & Modified originally posted June 27)

The following people won a slot in the 2010 Nathan’s finals by winning a qualifier. The second column is the number of hot dogs eaten in the qualifier (click on the names to see their contest history)

Allen Goldstein received a slot by leading the wild card standings. Here are the wild card standings according to results in the eatfeats datbase (qualifier winners not listed):

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update #2 SonyaTheBlackWidow has the top 3:

1) Sonya Thomas 37 dozen in 8 minutes
2) Amateur 21 dozen
3) Crazy Legs Conti 19 dozen

update nic511 reports that Sonya Thomas won the contest with a total of 37 dozen oysters.

The MLE oyster contest is expected to start at 3pm eastern. Members of The Deadliest Catch cast will compete in an undercard.

The New York Times has an article about the Oyster Festival, which was originally planned to start in 2006 and cancelled due to Hurricane Katrina.

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update June 1 WPIX has a video of an interview Sonya Thomas did before the contest (via comment)
Beautiful Brian has a contest video and interviews with Sonya Thomas, Juliet Lee and Badlands Booker

update Rich Shea has the top 3:

1) Sonya Thomas, 26 dozen clams
2) Juliet Lee 23.75 dozen
3) Tim “Eater X” Janus 19 dozen

According to the eatfeats database, Sonya Thomas has finished in the top 2 in every shellfish (oysters, clams, lobsters, crabcakes, clams) contest she has competed in, with the only 2nd place finish occurring in the controversial 2009 Atlantic City crawfish contest.

The contest should start around 1pm. Tim Janus wore a Morey’s Piers shirt on the CBS Early Show, so he might be doing the curly fries contest.

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