After a weeklong battle to the finish, this year’s Fat Bear Week victor has been crowned. Congratulations to 32 Chunk, a brown bear who weighed in at more than 1,200 pounds, who nabbed the 2025 title.

The annual competition, now in its 11th year, honors feeding season at Katmai National Park and Preserve in Alaska. Viewers tune in to watch a livestream of brown bears feeding at Brooks Falls, a salmon run in the park, while they get ready to hibernate. Then viewers vote on which bear is the biggest, chunkiest ursine creature around in a sports-inspired bracket.

This year’s competition was stacked, including a first-time appearance by an offspring of Grazer, the winner of the past two Fat Bear Week contests. Grazer, who was in the field again this year, was knocked out of the running by 85

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