Randy Santel announced his youtube channel just hit 500,000 subscribers.
The Outline has an article about Max Suzuki competing in the Nathan's finals. He started eating competitively to impress female competitive eater Moeno Azuki.
Casino Queen in East St. Louis, IL will hold a wing eating contest on July 21 awarding $300 to the winner.
Molly Schuyler wins Paul’s Pantry cinnamon rolls eating contest
The top 5 from today’s cinnamon roll eating contest at Paul’s Pantry from Naader Reda.
1) Molly Schuyler 19 rolls, $1000 prize
2) Naader Reda 12 rolls
3) Edward Chin 11.75 rolls
4T) Raina Huang 11 rolls
4T) Kevin Ross 11
KOMU has an article about Brandon "Da Disposal" Clark eating a personal best 35 hot dogs in 10 minutes to win the first prize of $300 in a hot dog eating contest in Jefferson City July 4. Greg Webb was the runner up.
2018 Men’s Nathan’s finals
| 1st | 74 | Joey “Jaws” Chestnut | new record |
| 2nd | 64 | Carmen Cincotti | |
| 3rd | 43 | Darron Breeden | |
| 4th | 41 | Geoffrey Esper | |
| 5th | 40 | Matt “Megatoad” Stonie | |
| 6th | 37.5 | Gideon Oji | |
| 7th | 34 | Max Suzuki | |
| 8th | 33 | Adrian “The Rabbit” Morgan | |
| 9th | 32 | Juan “more bite” Rodriguez | |
| 10th | 31 | Nick Wehry | |
| 11th | 28 | Rich “The Locust” LeFevre | |
| 12th | 27 | Derek Jacobs | |
| 12th | 27 | Juan “Hungry Saiyan” Neave | |
| 14th | 25 | Matt “Hungry” Hazzard | |
| 15th | 24.75 | George Chiger | |
| 16th | 24 | Steve Hendry | |
| 16th | 24 | Pablo Martinez | |
| 18th | 21.5 | Erik “The Red” Denmark | |
| 18th | 21.5 | Ronnie “MegaByte” Hartman | |
| 20th | 21 | “Buffalo” Jim Reeves | |
| 21st | 20 | Eric “Badlands” Booker |
21 entrants have been announced, so apparently all expected entrants will compete and no sponsors exemptions have been added to the field.
2018 Nathan’s womens finals
Sonya Thomas competed according to this picture (via redrabbit comment, but was not listed in the results)
| 1st | 37 | Miki Sudo | |
| 2nd | 28 | Michelle “Cardboard Shell” Lesco | |
| 3rd | 25 | “The Lovely” Juliet Lee | |
| 4th | 21 | Sarah “Unstoppable Bab” Reinecke | |
| 5th | 19 | Larell Marie “The Real Deal” Mele | |
| 6th | 14 | Sophia Devita | |
| 7th | 13 | Jingru “Panda” Chen | |
| 8th | 12 | Kassandra Zapata | |
| 9th | 11 | Katie Prettyman | |
| 10th | 10.5 | Jocelyn Walker | |
| 11th | 8 | Tracie Dickerson | |
| 11th | 8 | Kathryn Tesch | |
| 11th | 8 | Holly Titus | |
| 14th | 7 | Brittany Powell | |
| 15th | 6.5 | Rene Rovtar | |
| 15th | 6.5 | Brynn Szeles | |
| 17th | 5 | Kristina Rovtar | |
| 18th | 4 | Prudence DiBenedetto |
19 competitors have been announced, so someone besides Steffi Valkov will not appear.
Jesse "Food Coma" Freeman won the first prize of $1000 in a BBQ eating contest held in Melbourne, VIC, Australia in honor of July 4. Cal "Hulk Smash Food" Stubbs won the 2nd prize of $500, Vince Mantovani was 3rd. Adam Richman of Man vs. Food was the MC.
The July 4 event for Takeru Kobayashi in 2018 will be a fundraiser for New York gubernatorial candidate Cynthia Nixon at the Kings County Distillery in Brooklyn.
The debut episode of "Eating Out with Nadia White", a youtube series documenting the adult actress' competitive eating career, has been released. (press release)
The Pittsburgh Post Gazette has a interview with Brad "The Lunatic" Sciullo, who has started his own competitive eating organization promoting Pittsburgh area contests.
Molly Schuyler defends Z-Burger title
update The top 3
1) Molly Schuyler 27 burgers
2) Dan Kennedy 24
3) Dave Brunelli 18
Jennifer Munoz reports that Molly Schuyler ate 27 burgers to defend her Z-burger title in Washington, DC today.
MLE head to head results as of July 3, 2018
Here are the head to head results for MLE contests over the past 365 days for people with two or more contest results in the database.
| 1 | Joey “Jaws” Chestnut (J Ch) | 93.8% | 159-10-1 |
| 2 | Matt “Megatoad” Stonie (M St) | 91.1% | 92-9 |
| 3 | Carmen Cincotti (C Ci) | 89.7% | 100-11-1 |
| 4 | Geoffrey Esper (G Es) | 88.3% | 143-19 |
| 5 | Gideon Oji (G Oj) | 73.5% | 142-51-1 |
| 6 | “The Lovely” Juliet Lee (J Le) | 72.7% | 8-3 |
| 7 | Darron Breeden (D Br) | 72.2% | 91-35 |
| 7 | Adrian “The Rabbit” Morgan (A Mo) | 72.2% | 39-15 |
| 9 | Michelle “Cardboard Shell” Lesco (M Le) | 67.7% | 65-31 |
| 10 | Juan “more bite” Rodriguez (J Ro) | 65.8% | 39-20-1 |
ESPNMediaZone reports that Adam Amin will replace Indy 500 annoucer Paul Page as the play-by-play voice for the coverage of the contest on ESPN2 at noon Eastern. Paul Page most famous line covering Nathan's was probably calling the champion "Joey Chitwood".
The california state Fair will hold a corn dog eating contest in Sacramento on July 21 awarding $2500/$2000/$1000/$500/$100. A qualifier will take place on July 20.
Joey Chestnut has started a website at https://shop.joeychestnut.com/default.asp for his line of condiments. All profits from sales until July 6 will be donated to Hidden Heroes a charity for wounded veterans. (via Mercury News)s
Odilon Green has released "The King of July 4", a mini-album of songs about competitive eating.
Men's Health has a joint interview with Sarah Reinecke and Juan Rodriguez, who will be moving to Washington state in August.
Michael Jenkins ate 16 hot dogs in 10 minutes to win the first prize of $500 in today's hot dog eating contest at The Twisted Tuna in Stuart, FL.
The Festival of Discovery will hold a hot dog eating contest on July 14 awarding $500/$200/$50. Entrants must be South Carolina residents.
Stuart's Smokehouse in Alderson, WV will hold a amateur-only hot dog eating contest on July 4 awarding $500/$100/$50. Hurricane, WV will hold a hot dog eating competition awarding $500/$250/$100.
MLE prize money won in the first half of 2018
Here is a list of all prizewinners in MLE contests in the first half of 2018 according to the database. Not many people would have expected for Mary Bowers to have higher earnings than Miki Sudo for that time period.
| $10,250 | Joey “Jaws” Chestnut |
| $8,550 | Geoffrey Esper |
| $8,000 | Carmen Cincotti |
| $7,700 | Gideon Oji |
| $5,000 | Darron Breeden |
The Frosty Frog Cafe in Hilton Head island, SC will hold men's and women's hot dog eating contests on July 4. Both divisions will award $350/$150/$50.
Two Austin, TX restauarants will hold eating contests on July 4 awarding $250 to the winner. The Black Sheep Lodge will hold a corn dog eating contest and Haymaker will offer pickled eggs.
The Hollowfest in Clarence, NY will hold a hot dog eating contest on June 30 awarding $250 to the winner.
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