2015 Dover Nathan’s qualifier

Results Part 1 | Part 2

1) Marcos Owens 27
2) Brian Dudzinski 25.5
3) Micah “Wing Kong” Collins 19
4) Nathan Biller 16
5) Jack Diamond 14
6) Wild Bill Myers 12
7T) Joey Haughey 8
7T) Bryan Sheppard 8

1W) Juliet Lee 24.5 Juliet Lee, Danielle Gioia, Brian Dudzinski, Nate Biller and Bill Myers are expected to compete.

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2015 Smoke’s Poutinerie contest

update Oct 7 Vlog by Pam

update Oct 6 CHCH and Flying the Nest have videos. Butter the Bagel has a video of the amateur contest. BlogTO has a gallery

update Oct 4 Results part 1 | part 2 | part 3

Xinhua Net has a gallery

1st 22 Matt “Megatoad” Stonie
2nd 20.5 Joey “Jaws” Chestnut
3rd 11 Yasir Salem
4th 10.75 Eric “Badlands” Booker
5th 9.25 Steven “The Clutch” Dorgo
6th 8.75 Meredith Boxberger
7th 7.5 “Buffalo” Jim Reeves
8th 5.375 William “Wild Bill” Myers
9th 4.875 Larell Marie “The Real Deal” Mele
10th 3.5 Andrew Younghusband Discovery Channel Canada host

Smoke’s Poutinerie reports Matt Stonie won with a total of 22 pounds.

Matt Stonie puts his undefeated 2015 on the line. Matt currently has an eight contest winning streak, which is the longest since Joey Chestnut won eight contests in a row in 2014.

Previous Winners

2014 Oct 4 1st 14.75 10 min Matt “Megatoad” Stonie World Poutine Eating Championship – pros Toronto, ON, Canada
2013 Oct 19 1st 24 10 min Joey “Jaws” Chestnut World Poutine Eating Championship Toronto, ON, Canada
2012 Oct 13 1st 9.5 10 min Joey “Jaws” Chestnut Smoke’s Poutinerie World Poutine Eating Championship Toronto, ON, Canada
2011 Sep 24 1st 9.75 10 min Pat “Deep Dish” Bertoletti Smoke’s Poutinerie World Poutine Eating Championship Toronto, ON, Canada
2010 May 22 1st 13 10 min Pat “Deep Dish” Bertoletti Smoke’s Poutinerie World Poutine Eating Championship Toronto, ON, Canada

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A memorial for Stephanie Torres will be held tomorrow in Las Cruces, NM. The cause of her passing was fainting from low potassium levels. (via Stephanie Wu) update Stephanie Wu reports stories are being collected for a memorial urn. update Oct 4 Link for video streaming will start at 3 Pacific / 4 Mountain / 6 eastern (via Stephanie Wu).
Beard Meats Food has details about Sunday's qualifier for the UK team for Battle of the Big Eaters in London. It will take place at Tamesis Dock and the food with be Scotch eggs.
LA.eater.com reports that Takeru Kobayashi will defend his title at the Gringo Bandito Hot Sauce taco eating contest at Chronic Tacos in Redondo Beach, CA on October 24.
The field has been announced for the chili eating contest at Taste of DC on October 10: Joey Chestnut, Tim Janus, Sonya Thomas, Juliet Lee, Yasir Salem, Gideon Oji, Badlands Booker, Brian Dudzinski, Bill Myers, Mary Bowers and Eric Livingston. This will be Tim Janus' first contest outside NYC since May 2014. The contest is also accepting entries from military members.
The GAB has an interview with Australian competitive eater Isaac "Sir Eats a Lot" Martin.
Men's Health UK has an article about competitive eating focusing on Randy Santel's tour of the UK and Ireland earlier this year. Takeru Kobayashi is also interviewed. The Ionia Sentinel Standard has an account of Randy Santel and Mitch Dombrowksi finishing the 7 pound burrito at El Mariachi in Ionia, MI, part of a 78 day eating challenge tour of eastern North America.
The Atlanta Journal Constitution has a report on Dale Boone's campaign for mayor of Brookhaven, GA.

RIP Stephanie Torres

Stephanie Torres’ mother, Carmen has posted the following tweet:

“will miss you so but not forgotten my sweet beautiful Stephanie Xanadu lov ya always”

update Oct 6 Aaron Ybarra has a tribute

update Oct 2 More links
Rake and Herald tribute to Stephanie
Big Eaters Club video of Mad Greek Deli challenge
Appearance on The Doctors syndicated TV show
Youtube channel
(valmar0322)

update The last interview Stephanie Torres did with Rake & Herald earlier this year

The 2011 Nathan’s female finalists (Stephanie is on the left)

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The Jakarta Post has an interview with Takeru Kobayashi in English. He says that his peak year for Japanese competitive eating income was 2001, when he earned about $250,000. He also says he has landed an endorsement deal with Nike and that he has no plans to retire.
"Furious" Pete Czewinski reports a decrease in his tumor markers from 11+ to 1. He will get a full health status report in November.
Applications are being accepted for competitors to face Takeru Kobayashi in the World Brain Eating Championship at the Zombie Pub Crawl in Minneapolis on October 17.
Oktoberfest in Seymour, IN will hold a bratwurst eating contest on October 3 awarding $700 ($500 to the winner).
Justin "The Jester" Vernon won the first prize of $500 in the wing eating contest at the Reading (PA) Wing Fling Saturday.
The Dunwoody Crier reports that the incumbent mayor of Brookhaven, GA, Rebecca Chase Williams, has dropped out of the November 3 election due to family health issues. This leaves Dale Boone and attorney John Ernst as the sole remaining candidates.
LosAngeles.craigslist.org has a casting call requesting competitive eaters for a new television show that will record October 5 in Woodland Hills, CA.
The date of of the Martorano’s Masters World Pasta Eating Championship in Las Vegas has been changed from October 10 to October 17.

Kobayashi wins Taco Trough Takedown

update Kobayashi won the contest with a time of 1:45

Taco in a Bag will announce today the time Takeru Kobayashi needed to finish the Taco Trough challenge. This attempt will but two of his streaks on the line: a post-MLE streak now extending 5 years and a career undefeated streak vs. women. Molly Schuyler is the current leader at 2:24 with Bob Shoudt the current runner up with a time of 3:14.

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Kate Ovens has uploaded a video of her latest eating challenge: a 6 patty burger at the Fat Hippo in Newcastle, England.
The San Francisco Chronicle has an account of an eating contest held in the 1840s between Russian Don Andres Hoeppner and Jean Jacques Vioget, owner of a saloon in Yuerba Buena, CA (which would later be known as San Francisco).

Molly Schuyler defends Great Pumpkin Farm pies title

update Sept 29 The Buffalo News and TWC News have articles. Molly received a $1000 bonus ($200/slice) for breaking the record by 5 slices.

The top 4 in the World Hands Free Pumpkin Pie Championship at the Great Pumpkin Farm in Clarence, NY.

1) Molly Schuyler 47 slices (14.69 pounds) new record
2) Dave Brunelli 32
3) Dave Werick 20
4) Michael Dietz 16

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Lumpy's Diner in Antioch, CA will hold a burger eating contest on October 10 awarding $1350 ($1000 to the winner).

Joey Chestnut edges Geoffrey Esper to win Trenton pork rolls

update Sep 30 Jeff Edelstein has a report on his last place finish.

update Sep 28 MILB.com has an article

update Full Results Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3
NJ.com article

1st 32 Joey “Jaws” Chestnut
2nd 28 Geoffrey Esper
3rd 22 Yasir Salem
4th 21.75 “The Lovely” Juliet Lee
5th 20 Gideon Oji
6th 18 Eric “Badlands” Booker
7th 16 Carmen Cincotti
8th 13 Micah “Wing Kong” Collins
9th 12 William “Wild Bill” Myers
10th 10 Crazy Legs Conti
11th 8 Andrew Kossuth
12th 3.25 Jeff Edelstein

The Trentonian has a contest report with some results and a gallery. MLE has yet to post any news.

JZig12 reports that Joey Chestnut won today’s pork roll eating contest in Trenton, NJ.

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Mark Kolbusz has won the Bacci Pizza Jumbo Slice eating contest for the third year in a row with a total of 5 1/3 slices. update Sep 28 Prizewinners (via comment) 1) Mark Kolbusz 5.33 2 Raymond Maas 5.125 3 Teddy Delacruz 5 Videos: Son of a Pizza Man | Ray's Good Eats
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