Bear 32, Chunk, hunts for salmon in the Brooks River. T. Carmack/Katmai National Park

The Yankees and the Red Sox. Celtic and Rangers. Real Madrid and Barcelona.

In a competition bear-ly more ferocious, 12 chunky brown bears in Alaska’s Katmai National Park and Preserve have been battling it out in one of the most cutthroat places on the planet – the internet.

As part of the park’s annual Fat Bear Week , the oversized ursines are pitted against each other in online popularity contests, where fans from around the world vote for the bear they like best.

A live camera lets voters follow along with the bears as they forage for salmon in a last-gasp chance to pack on the pounds ahead of their upcoming winter hibernation.

After one week of voting, bears competed against each other until

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