Hyperallergic has a review of Raul Ortega Ayala's art exhibition Food for Thought currently showing in Mexico City. One of the screens has a competitive eater named Tim doing a training session with Nathan's hot dogs. The competitor is named Tim, but does not appear to be Eater X.
Molly's Schuyler's victory in March at a corndog eating contest in Roseville, CA was one of the segments on a Japanese TV program that was televised yesterday.
Joe Menchetti edged out Dave Brunelli yesterday at Zoi's Pizza contest in Seymour, CT to win the event for the third year in a row an claim the first prize of $1500.
A hot dog eating contest at the Route 66 Summerfest in Rolla, MO was terminated yesterday after an entrant needed emergency medical attention. The fate of the competitor is currently unknown. update The Rolla Daily News facebook reports that he is currently at Barnes Hospital in St. Louis and listed in stable condition. (via Greg comment)
2017 Baked Bear ice cream sandwich eating contest
update Jun 5 The Times of San Diego has a contest report.
update Post-contest interview with Joey Chestnut. He says he made $300,000 from competitive eating last year.
Full results Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3
| 1st | 25.25 | Joey “Jaws” Chestnut | won in OT |
| 2nd | 25.25 | Matt “Megatoad” Stonie | 1st meeting w Chestnut since October |
| 3rd | 14 | Miki Sudo | |
| 4th | 13 | Pablo Martinez | |
| 5th | 12.5 | Rich “The Locust” LeFevre | |
| 6th | 10 | Mary “I Love ’em HOT!” Bowers | |
| 6th | 10 | Doug “Cerebrus” Ecks | |
| 8th | 6.5 | Carlene LeFevre | |
| 9th | 6 | Jon Haley | |
| 10th | ? | Barbara LaBarge | |
| 11th | 3.5 | Mallory Kelly | |
| 12th | 3 | Sabrina Quezada |
Joey Chestnut and Matt Stonie tied with 25, with Chestnut winning the overtime
Facebook Live contest video
2017 Acme Oysters
updateInterview with Crazy Legs before contest. He says he will not try to qualify for the 2017 Nathan’s finals.
NOLA.com has an article and video and gallery
WGNO.com has an article and video
1) Michelle Lesco 33 dozen
2) Sonya Thomas 31 dozen
3) Adrian Morgan 27 dozen
? Crazy Legs Conti
? Nate Biller
? Steve Martin
Exiles in Washington, DC will hold a wing eating contest on June 8 awarding $250 to the winner.
Isaac Harding Davis won the first prize of $2000 at a contest held at Wassup Dog in Perth, Australia.
2017 Taste of Syracuse Nathan’s qualifier
update Jun 4 American Fast Food Stories has a video
update Syracuse.com has a report
Official results Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3
After no femaleless qualifiers from 2011-2016, the Syracuse qualifier appears to be the 2nd uncontested women’s division in 2017 after the Miami Marlins qualifier 🙁
1) Steve Hendry 30
2) Dan “Killer” Kennedy 26
3) William “Wild Bill” Myers 14.5
4) Tom Moore 10
5) Roger Green, Jr. 9
6T) Charles Curio 5
6T) Erik Johnson 5
6T) Allen Walz, Jr. 5
Steve Hendry and Bill Myers are expected to compete.
The Boston Globe has an interview with Geoff Esper about his victory in the pepperoni rolls eating contest in Three Rivers Festival in Fairmont, WV last week. He says he will compete in the Boston Nathan's qualifier on June 18.
2017 Salvation Army Donut Eating Contest
update June 3 The Los Angeles Times and Ruptly have videos
Video focusing on Ryan Drane of Circa News
Official results: Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3
| 1st | 55 | Joey “Jaws” Chestnut | |
| 2nd | 41 | Miki Sudo | |
| 3rd | 34.75 | Michelle “Cardboard Shell” Lesco | |
| 4th | 32 | Rich “The Locust” LeFevre | |
| 5th | 23 | Jon Bello | |
| 6th | 17.5 | Sarah “Unstoppable Bab” Reinecke | originally announced as 5th |
| 7th | 12.75 | Mary “I Love ’em HOT!” Bowers | |
| 8th | 12.5 | Doug “Cerebrus” Ecks | |
| 9th | 12 | Charles Bill, Jr. | |
| 10th | 11 | Ryan Drane | |
| 11th | 7 | Hector Acosta | |
| DQ | ? | Ian Stack |
Registration is open on TacoTotal.com for the Taco Total International Taco Eating Championship that will award $5,500 to the winner on July 15 in downtown Los Angeles. Qualifiers will take place in the Los Angeles area and Mexico City.
Matt Stonie has been added to the roster of the Baked Bear World Ice-Cream Sandwich Eating Championship in San Diego Sunday. This will be his first matchup vs. Joey Chestnut since October 1.
Omaha.com has a report on how Creighton University students studied the impact of eating the 12 scoop "Dundee Dozen" ice cream challenge on the human body.
1st big MLE rankings update of 2017
The first big update of the MLE top 50 for 2017 have been made
In
#17 Darron Breeden
#22 Derek Jacobs
#23 Juan Neave
#35 Pedram Esmaeelzadeh
#36 Sarah Reinecke
#49 Andrew Kossuth (suprising given that his last MLE contest was in 2015)
Out (cached results)
#25 BeeJay Alexander
#33 Larell Marie Mele
#44 Corey Fanguy
#46 Ben Do
#47 Ron Koch
#48 Lesley Ryder
In her latest video, Leah Shutkever attempted two challenges from the Flaming Grill in one session.
Adrian Morgan ate 44 dozen oysters in 8;15 on WGNO today to set the house record at the Acme Oyster House in New Orleans.
2017 Nathan’s Finalists as of May 30
With 5 weeks to go until the Nathan’s finals here are the current fields:
Wassup Dog in Perth, WA, Australia will hold a hot dog eating contest on June 3 awarding $2000 to the winner.
Catcher Zach Fricke and pinch-hitter Austin Guzzo of the University of Iowa baseball team held a hot dog eating contest during their loss to the Univeristy of Minnesota. Guzzo won with a total of 5 hot dogs.
2017 Denver Outlaws Illegal Pete’s burritos
Results Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3
1 lb burritos in 10 minutes
| 1st | 13.5 | Joey “Jaws” Chestnut | |
| 2nd | 7.5 | Josh Miller | |
| 3rd | 7 | Michelle “Cardboard Shell” Lesco | |
| 4th | 4.25 | Andrew Renfrow | |
| 5th | 4 | Bryan “Big Sexy” Beard | |
| 6th | 3.75 | Mark “toothless” Sutherburg | |
| 7th | 3 | Mary “I Love ’em HOT!” Bowers | |
| 8th | 2.75 | Hailey | |
| 9th | 2.25 | Alex “Moose” Perez | |
| 9th | 2.25 | Whittaker | |
| 11th | 1.75 | Nuget |
Molly Schuyler ate 29 corn dogs with a damaged tooth to win the first prize of $500 at the Sacramento County Fair.
Pat "from Moonachine" Philbin announces he was the runner up in today's ham eating contest at Meadowlands Racetrack in East Rutherford, NJ. Joe Menchetti was the winner. The contest was supposed to be pork rolls.
2017 Three Rivers Festival pepperoni rolls
update June 3 The Boston Globe has an interview with Geoff Esper about his victory
Darron Eats has a video
updateTheET.com has a press release spelling the winner’s name as “Jeffrey”
update Eric Shroder has a video
| 1st | 36 | Geoffrey Esper | |
| 2nd | 30.5 | Miki Sudo | |
| 3rd | 26 | Darron Breeden | |
| 4th | 20.5 | Brian “Dud Light” Dudzinski | |
| 5th | 20 | “The Lovely” Juliet Lee | |
| 6th | 13 | Derek Jacobs | |
| 7th | 9.5 | William “Wild Bill” Myers | |
| 8th | 8 | Michael “Big Hoss” Deitz | |
| 9th | 7 | Jeff Chapman | |
| 10th | 3.75 | Brett Shepherd | |
| 11th | 3.5 | Alicia Hill |
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