First MLE top 50 of 2026

September 11, 2026 at 8:22 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Rankings

For the first time in over 8 months, the MLE top 50 has been updated. Scott “Scott Eats” Watkins is not ranked, so presumably he declined the MLE contract. updateHere is the full list with the previous ranking

1st Joey “Jaws” Chestnut 1 previously
2nd Pat “Deep Dish” Bertoletti 2
3rd James Webb 4
4th Geoffrey Esper 3
5th Nick Wehry 6
6th Max Stanford 8
7th Miki Sudo 5
8th Cameron Meade 18
9th Gideon Oji 9
10th Radim Dvoracek 12
11th Derek Hendrickson 10
12th Jerome Burns 21
13th Darrien “Cheesecurd” Thomas 11
14th George Chiger 13
15th Ricardo Corbucci 7
16th Michelle “Cardboard Shell” Lesco 14
17th Domenica “Dee Street Eats” Dee 22
18th Tanner Gray 18
19th Adrian “The Rabbit” Morgan 15
20th Josh “The Goat” Krady unranked
21st Tandra Childress 23
22nd Yunho Choi unranked
23rd Jacob Williams unranked
24th Semora Kludy unranked
25th Steven Farlow unranked
26th Larell Marie “The Real Deal” Mele 27
27th Sergio Reyes-Raya 32
28th Andrew “The Bear” Kogutkiewicz 34
29th Matthew Raible 35
30th Crazy Legs Conti 24
31st Katie Prettyman 26
32nd Jocelyn Young 29
33rd “Buffalo” Jim Reeves 42
34th Steve “The Rabbit” Hammond 17
35th Kylan Lee 25
36th Eric “Badlands” Booker 31
37th Ronnie “MegaByte” Hartman 20
38th Greg “The Savage” Wilson 28
39th William Lyon 30
40th Elaine Eaton unranked
41st Lauren Pace-Fraunfelter unranked
42nd Cherish “Five Pounds” Brown 45
43rd Rene Rovtar 43
44th William “Wild Bill” Myers 44
45th Alex “Moose” Perez 49
46th Camille O’Brien unranked
47th “Nasty” Nathan Biller 46
48th Ryan “Max Carnage” Rodacker 37
49th John Gebhard 41
50th Elizabeth “Glizzy Lizzie” Salgado unranked

Dropping out:
20 Mayoi Ebihara
33 Max Suzuki
36 Zosan Pacpac
38 Erik Denmark
39 Kelly Wong
40 Pablo Martinez
47 Joey Przybylowicz
48 Julie Goldberg
50 Michael Dietz

Comments (7)

7 Comments »

  1. DanMang said (Registered March 30, 2015)

    September 11, 2026 @ 8:32 am

    Some of the pictures in that list looks to be of Carmen Cincotti – come on nowwww!!!!!!1

  2. Anonymous said

    September 11, 2026 @ 9:57 am

    Carmine was a legend he couldn’t crack chestnut that the only reason he retired He could easily put away 50 dogsv

  3. anonymous said

    September 11, 2026 @ 10:39 am

    Butiful Brian Sicken could easily crack the top 50 even at ripe old age of 66 Let him go head to head with some of these jokes in any food category and i bet he mops the floor with them

  4. Anonymous said

    September 11, 2026 @ 10:44 am

    Cherish Brown leveling up 3 spots is diabolical. What does she or her husband do for work again? does ANYBODY know?

  5. anonymous said

    September 11, 2026 @ 11:50 am

    cherish brown is a wasted ranking Even adam da bomb lefler who hasnt competed since 2006 with 3 contests under his belt , should replace her in rankings
    https://eatfeats.com/query.php?_table=eaters&id=42

  6. Anonymous said

    September 11, 2026 @ 7:17 pm

    We all know these rankings are complete and utter joke. These are good for nothing but a good laugh.

  7. anonymous said

    September 11, 2026 @ 9:17 pm

    If Conti is ranked ahead of Booker you know those rankings are a joke Might as well rank the one bag of dorito champ gavonne 45-50

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