The Dromedary Bar in Brooklyn will hold a burger eating contest on July 4 awarding $200/$100/$50.
Chickie's & Petes in Philadelphia will hold a crab fry eating contest on July 13 awarding tickets to the Eagles opener and cash.
Possible updates to first 2018 MLE top 50
The MLE 50 top has yet to see a modification in 2018. Here are some possible changes when it is updated.
Possible New Entrants
George Chiger
Matt Hazzard
Katie Prettyman
Max Suzuki
Nick Wehry
Possible removals
Meredith Boxberger – retired
Nela Zisser – last MLE contest July 4, 2016
Scott Thomas – last contest Sep 17 2016
Micah “Wing Kong” Collins – last contest Oct 8 2016
Steven Schuster – last contest May 6 2017
Mid-day.com has interviews with Mumbai, India competitive eaters offering advice on how to defeat restaurant challenges.
All 2017-18 Nathan’s qualfier results
update All today’s Mets results have been added.
A list of all the results in the database for the 2017-18 Nathan’s qualifier circuit follows.
| 2018 Jun 3 | 50 | Carmen Cincotti | Lancaster, PA |
| 2018 May 12 | 46.5 | Darron Breeden | West Friendship, MD |
| 2018 Jun 2 | 45 | Geoffrey Esper | Syracuse, NY |
| 2018 Apr 28 | 42.5 | Max Suzuki | Las Vegas, NV |
| 2018 Jun 24 | 34 | Nick Wehry | Queens, NY |
All 2017-18 Nathan’s qualifier winners
A list of all the qualifier winners in the 2017-18 Nathan’s qualifier winners follows. Joey Chestnut, Matt Stonie, Sonya Thomas and Miki Sudo receive byes to the finals as previous champions. Steffi Valkov has said she will not compete. Additional entrants might be added to the final roster.
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2018 Mets Nathan’s qualifier
Fink Beats the Stomach has the winners
| 1st | 34 | Nick Wehry | avoids being 1st person to eat 33+ hot dogs in qualifier and not make finals |
| 2nd | 28 | Brian “Dud Light” Dudzinski | |
| 3rd | 14 | Michael “Big Hoss” Deitz | |
| 4th | 13.25 | William “Wild Bill” Myers | |
| 5th | 10 | Oliver Brooks | |
| DQ | ? | John Sharkey |
| 1st | 7 | Prudence DiBenedetto | |
| 2nd | 6 | Bailey “Ott Dog” Ott | thought she should have won |
Bailey Otter might have eaten more than winner
If Nick Wehry does not win today’s qualifier, he will be the first person to do 33+ hot dogs in a circuit and not make the finals. Previous competitors who hit that mark either won a subsequent qualifier or received the wild card. The previous high for not making the finals was Pat “from Moonachie” Philbin’s 32 in 2009.
Non-winning 32+ qualifier performances
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2018 Washington, DC Nathan’s qualifier
| 1st | 21 | Gideon Oji | late to contest, started with 4:20 remaining |
| 2nd | 15 | Gregory Price | |
| 3rd | 13.5 | William “Wild Bill” Myers | |
| 4th | 11 | Jack Caldwell | |
| 5th | 7 | Shawn Redwine |
| 1st | 7 | Brittany Powell | |
| 2nd | 4 | Amanda Kulick |
The ShortList has an interview with Adam "Beard Meats Food" Moran, whose youtube channel just surpassed 300,000 subscribers. He is billed as the "UK's #1 competitive eater" despite finishing behind Leah Shutkever in the Highway 55 Burgers contest, an event he says he trained heavily for.
WKBW has an interview with Ronnie "Megabyte" Hartman, who moved to Buffalo to train as a professional wrestler at a school in Lackawanna, NY.
OddsShark reports that Bovada is taking bets on whether PETA wil disrupt the Nathan's finals.
The Hartford Courant has an interview with Jamie "Bear" McDonald, who used the prize money from winning the 2013 Wing Bowl to start his barbecue business, which now consists of 6 restaurants. His first experience with competitive eating was the Broken Yolk Iron Man challenge in San Diego.
The ESPN schedule for July 4 is out. The men's Nathan's finals will be televised live on ESPN2 at noon Eastern and rerun three times later that day. The women's contest has yet to be added to the ESPN3 streaming schedule. (ESPN2 will broadcast First Take at 10am when the female division takes place.)
The American Gastroenterology Association has a blog entry about an article in the June issue of Gastroenterology documenting a hospitalization after a 7 pound burger was eaten in 30 minutes.
Carmen Cincotti will attempt to set the record for most mini cannolis eaten at the Red, White & Blue Festival in Hammonton, NJ on Sunday.
Westword reports that Jack-n-Grill has closed both of its Denver-area locations. The restaurant was the site of a Man v Food episode and was famed for a seven pound burrito challenge that awarded female finishers free food for life.
The Syracuse Polish Festival will hold a pierogi eating contest on Sunday awarding $250 to the winner.
Palm Beach Happening has an interview with George Chiger, who was inspired to enter competitive eating by Larell Marie Mele.
2018 St. Louis Nathan’s Cardinal qualifier
update Results via Brandon Clark & Kyle Hanner comments
1) Jim Reeves 21
2) Brett Healey 20
3) Crazy Legs Conti 19.5
1W) “Panda” Jin 12
“Buffalo” Jim Reeves was the male winner of the Nathan’s qualifier at the St. Louis Cardinals ballpark according to Matthew Theodore.
2018 Mattituck strawberry shortcake
update Contest video
Patch.com has an article and gallery
| 1st | 22 | Carmen Cincotti | |
| 2nd | 20 | Geoffrey Esper | |
| 3rd | 14 | Gideon Oji | |
| 4th | 12 | George Chiger | |
| 5th | 11 | Nick Wehry | |
| 6th | 9.5 | Brrian Dudzinski | |
| 7th | 8.5 | Eric “Badlands” Booker | |
| 8th | 8 | Darrien “Cheesecurd” Thomas | |
| 9th | 5.75 | William “Wild Bill” Myers | |
| 10th | 3 | Jason Smith |
2018 Vallejo Nathan’s qualifier
update TheReporter article
Official results
1) Steve Hendry 28
2) Ryan “Max Carnage” Rodacker 20
1W) Katie Prettyman 14.5, highest female rookie total in 2017-18
2W) Mary Bowers 12
Exhibition: Joey Chestnut 72
Joey Chestnut will do an exhibition during the event.
News.com.au has an article about Cal ‘HulkSmashFood’ Stubbs, Issac ‘Sir-Eats-A-lot’ Martin and Jesse ‘Food Coma’ Freeman eating 16kg (35.2 lb) of food in 39 minutes. update ABC News also has an article
Gadget guru Katie Linendoll says she was the runner-up for the host of Man v Food to Adam Richman. She says she completed a big sandwich at Katz's Deli as part of her audition.
Leah Shutkever announces she set the Guinness record for the fastest time to eat a chocolate orange. She has added "UK's No.1 Competitive Eater" to her Instagram bio to after finishing ahead of "Beard Meats Food" in the Highway 55 Burgers contest.
Z-Burger’s 9th Annual Independence Burger Eating Championship in Washington, DC on July 3 will award $1500/$850/$500/$400 to the top 4. Molly Schuyler is expected to defend her title.
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