This episode includes:

• Pat and Brett discussing:
  • Stephanie Torres and Ryan McKillop leaving the IFOCE
  • The new Sturdy Food Fighters Power Rankings
• Interview with Naader Reda after his appearance on Man v Food Nation

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Background

The Sturdy Food Fighters Power Rankings attempts to use data to decipher who the best Competitive Eaters are in North America. We poured over data for the last year and came up with a simple formula to award points for each event a competitor enters that has a cash prize pool associated with it.

We have now reached the big two in the competitive eating world, and start with Pat “Deep Dish” Bertoletti.

Name: Patrick “Deep Dish” Bertoletti

Hometown: Chicago

MLE Ranking: 2

Qualifier: Cleveland, Ohio (June 2)

Qualifying Total: 38 HDBs

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