Final 2025 Nathan’s qualifier results
With all the Nathan’s qualifiers for 2025 complete, here is the current field:
Champion Byes:
Joey Chestnut, Pat Bertoletti
Miki Sudo, Michelle Lesco
Qualifier winners:
| 2025 May 10 | 43 | Geoffrey Esper | Bristol, CT |
| 2025 Jun 5 | 47.5 | Nick Wehry | Parma, OH |
| 2025 Jun 7 | 29.5 | Radim Dvoracek | Shawnee, KS |
| 2025 Jun 14 | 33.5 | Derek Hendrickson | Pleasanton, CA |
| 2025 Jun 21 | 26.5 | George Chiger | Hershey, PA |
| 2025 Jun 21 | 48 | James Webb | Washington, DC |
| 2025 May 10 | 12 | Larell Marie “The Real Deal” Mele | Bristol, CT |
| 2025 Jun 5 | 10.5 | Kelly Lewis | Parma, OH |
| 2025 Jun 7 | 11.25 | Jocelyn Young | Shawnee, KS |
| 2025 Jun 14 | 23.5 | Domenica “Dee Street Eats” Dee | Pleasanton, CA |
| 2025 Jun 21 | 8 | Laura Beitel | Washington, DC |
| 2025 Jun 21 | 8.5 | Camille O’Brien | Hershey, PA |
There have been three or four wild card entrants the past two years, but the number has yet to be officially announced. Here are the wild card leaders:
| 2025 Jun 5 | 37 | Max Stanford | Parma, OH |
| 2025 Jun 21 | 33 | Gideon Oji | Washington, DC |
| 2025 Jun 21 | 32 | Adrian “The Rabbit” Morgan | Washington, DC |
| 2025 Jun 5 | 29.5 | Darrien “Cheesecurd” Thomas | Parma, OH |
| 2025 Jun 7 | 25 | Cameron Meade | Shawnee, KS |
| 2025 Jun 14 | 16 | Tandra Childress | Pleasanton, CA |
| 2025 Jun 14 | 15 | Katie Prettyman | Pleasanton, CA |
| 2025 Jun 14 | 11.5 | Isabeau Pearl Prettyman | Pleasanton, CA |
| 2025 Jun 5 | 8.5 | Cherish “Five Pounds” Brown | Parma, OH |
| 2025 Jun 14 | 8.5 | Elizabeth “Glizzy Lizzie” Salgado | Pleasanton, CA |
| 2025 May 10 | 8.5 | Madison Barone | Bristol, CT |
Corbucci from Brazil is currently in the USA and practicing for the contest, so he will apparently receive an international bye. Presumably there will be other international byes.
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Anonymous said
June 22, 2025 @ 9:56 pm
Any other potential internationals besides King and Mayoi?
Anonymous said
June 23, 2025 @ 5:30 am
Let’s hope they actually select a new female if they go to 4 wild cards. Someone who actually is motivated to get better as an eater. NOT 1lb Brown!
Anonymous said
June 23, 2025 @ 6:45 am
8.5 seemed to be a popular number for the women
Anonymous said
June 23, 2025 @ 8:37 am
They should track down Sadie Loveland. She used to do 15 in 5 minutes in an annual contest in Utah.
Anonymous said
June 23, 2025 @ 12:53 pm
There will be loads of mouth and ass odors at the Nathan’s Fourth of July including males and females
Anonymous said
June 23, 2025 @ 2:54 pm
I’ve heard there are no international byes this year.
Anonymous said
June 23, 2025 @ 3:01 pm
YAYYYY!!! Cherish made it to Coney (and immediately posted about it. Can’t wait to see you on ESPN!!! (you forgot to mention that it will NOT be on TV on ESPN, just streaming online)
Anonymous said
June 23, 2025 @ 3:31 pm
What happened to all the guys sating they were going to the qualifiers? Savage Greg, Juan Neave, Sean the Mouth, Tanner Gray? Where were they?
Anonymous said
June 23, 2025 @ 3:45 pm
last I saw of Sadie, she was severely underweight with teeth falling out. She looked awful. Definitely a case of how people with eating disorders are attracted to competitive eating, and it often exacerbates their ED’s
Anonymous said
June 23, 2025 @ 4:31 pm
I wonder how many women’s wildcards were issued? Two others tied with her at 8.5.
ojrifkin said (Registered July 27, 2005)
June 23, 2025 @ 5:01 pm
Also William Lyon, Joey Prz and Steven Hammond sat out the qualifiers
Regarding the wild cards, it is quite frustrating that MLE cannot bother to promulgate key information about its signature event.
Anonymous said
June 23, 2025 @ 11:43 pm
Quite probable there were schedule conflicts for those fellows or lack of interest.
Anonymous said
June 24, 2025 @ 7:47 am
Randy – time to call him out for this narrative about puking or not. There is a video out there that shows how Randy yo-yo diets (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxhaovoLgnE) by a guy named Greg Doucette. Randy uses his excuse of “not puking” after challenges to be morbidly obese. Yes, an excuse. Anyone with half a brain in eating knows he chooses to be that heavy even without puking that is self imposed directly. Recently he stated this: “Whenever possible he doesn’t puke.” What?!!! Whenever possible!? So, anyone watching him struggle half the time now and eat himself into max out at the table where he can’t move knows after the fact he literally would be paralyzed for hours unless he puked “naturally” due to making himself sick. Mmmmmk. I am not sure why he thinks anyone would take eating advice from him because anyone can drop weight but the real trick is keeping it off. So, Randy, quit casting stones in a glass house at those that are puking after challenges/etc.
Anonymous said
June 24, 2025 @ 7:51 am
“last I saw of Sadie, she was severely underweight with teeth falling out. She looked awful. Definitely a case of how people with eating disorders are attracted to competitive eating, and it often exacerbates their ED’s”
Ya think? How about people starting youtube channels and doing eating challenges “all for fun” or “hobby” when it literally is a way to continue their eating disorders and the other likely mental issue with “getting attention” no matter what level it is. They weren’t the cool kids in high school probably being one of the root causes.
Anonymous said
June 24, 2025 @ 9:23 am
Or, did you ever consider that all of those people did not “choose to sit out” qualifier? At the end of the day, MLE can put anyone they want on the “wait list”, and fill the rest of the table spots with no-names. Nowadays, getting to eat at an MLE contest is equally about politics within the League and eating skill. Anyone that says that higher ranked eaters are always guaranteed a spot against non-ranked or lower-ranked eaters is lying to you.
Anonymous said
June 24, 2025 @ 4:57 pm
Sean wanted to compete this year but he was told he would have to donate one of his plates to Nick.
Randy Santel said (Registered June 2, 2010)
June 25, 2025 @ 2:33 am
7:47 that is an interesting perspective. I didn’t need to get a Construction Management degree with academic honors to know that building a glass house isn’t cost effective. Our house in Nashville mainly just has glass windows. There are concrete foundations and then non-glass products for most of the rest of the house. Lots of windows though, so there is a lot of glass. I’ve been up in Willis Tower and am happy I didn’t have to pay for all that glass used for the Skydeck. I hate to break it to you, but using “Coach Greg” as a resource for citations is no different that using The Daily Mail (British). So, you are saying I did not inadvertently get sick when I failed the pho challenge earlier this year in Utah? What about the cookie challenge I failed in Australia? I got sick and disqualified on purpose? Can you help clarify for me? Maybe cite some information you saw on Facebook? Thanks 🙂
Anonymous said
June 25, 2025 @ 7:05 am
Second annual plate gate is coming to a television near you
Anonymous said
June 30, 2025 @ 4:17 pm
The Jeff guy only did 44. Give it up
Anonymous said
July 1, 2025 @ 4:18 am
Randy – I think what he is saying is you get sick naturally and puke often. And, you use the fact that you don’t self puke to be morbidly obese from “doing challenges” when in reality there is no reason to be as fat as you are. Let me repeat – you use “not puking” as an excuse to still eat like shit outside of food challenges. Unless of course you are on the yo yo diet cutting calories back and cycling a bazillion miles a week in sexification which should be called “Randy’s yo yo diet”.
Anonymous said
July 1, 2025 @ 11:04 am
4:18 – Idk man… Randy does challenges every single day it seems like. Ballooning up to his size seems pretty reasonable if you’re consuming that many calories for that long of a period.. Not disputing the yo-yo dieting though.
Randy Santel said (Registered June 2, 2010)
July 2, 2025 @ 2:01 am
@4:18 That opinion gets the future RDN YouTuber and podcaster in me really excited for the possible monetizing of what you’re thinking. Haha I puke often? In a year or two when I have everything up and going, would you be willing to sit down with me and actually have a 2-3 hour debate on this and the whole topic in general? You can even bring in 6/24 7:47 and we can have a 2 on 1 debate conversation. We can have an unbiased math wizard there to help with calorie calculations and all that, to test your theories and all of mine as well. You up for that? It would be beneficial to hear about your views on economics and the finances of everything as well, balancing the time, travel expenses, challenges, and everything associated with balancing the business, weight, etc… It wouldn’t be as fun to just hear my opinion, and back and forth conversation would be better.
There isn’t anyone who would / will support the yo-yoing of my weight, and I don’t either, which would all be discussed together. If I didn’t stop and lose 45+ pounds, I’d just gain weight on top of where I was at. I’m still fitting okay into my 2XL shirts so all good. The video I filmed yesterday in Bratislava posts in November, so I’ll have lots of time off when I get home from this trip. Yes I have a few beers and enjoy local foods during my travels. You probably saw I recently enjoyed a Hungarian langos in Budapest and then some Slovak dumplings with sheep cheese and bacon while in Slovakia. I’ll have some delicious Czech foods this evening in Prague before heading to Germany tomorrow. We can talk about all that via the podcast / video and figure out the calories in vs calories out, since you think I’d still be over 300lbs even if I wasn’t doing food challenges haha.
And if you do want to remain anonymous, we can still figure something out when the time comes. I’m pretty easy to work with. Cheers!
Anonymous said
July 2, 2025 @ 9:04 am
Randy, you may keep some of yours down because half the time you’re fat as shit. But you definitely cannot make up for your girlfriend or your gold digger is doing. She never gains weight. What’s her excuse?