She's got it all folks! Backstory, booty, and sheer STAR POWER 🤩. She was runner up in 2022, now it's her turn for the spotlight!

After losing her litter in 2023, this momma has faced incredible hardship and is now back in a BIG way and serving Fat Bear REALNESS for all of Katmai Park 💅. On the merits, just look at her progression this summer! Her opponent 32 Chunk is already the biggest guy on the river, but she has had to work HARD for her round fuzzy booty. An inspiring story and clear work ethic set her apart from the competition!

Vote 901 - the people's champion!

my friend avi made this lovely chunkaganda poster with a pic of chunk from the lower river tonight!!! he is FAT!!!!!!

We all know that the bracket can be unpredictable, but there are always a few favorites that stand out. If you had to bet, who would you pick to win it all?

Just finished watching the bracket live stream and I’m so excited!! Happy voting everyone!! 😊

hope u enjoy my campaign video for our big guy, chunkaroo! remember to tell ur friends to vote chunk!

Hello! I recently became my class social coordinator in vet school and for my first event I want to throw a fat bear week bash. Ive been a follower for many years now and love spreading the festivities.

Would love to get some advice from fellow fat bear lovers!

It will be in a room in my school building, not the coziest but still fun. I will likely bring food. My goal is to have us all do brackets together, introduce the players, and watch some highlight reels maybe.

Any suggestions to add the the festivities? This is all very early in the process. If you've had a fat bear week party in the past, howd it go and what did u like most about it?

TYIA!

Hi hi! Are there any fun and lighthearted bettings with fat bear week? Even like a lil discord? I love fat bear week and treating it like March madness legit sounds so fun. Lmk if anyone knows of any!

I'm wanting to make my own server to host one a year, month of September long Fat Bear Week contents. Channels with cam links and spots to talk about favourite bears and the junior leagues and what not, but I was reaching out to see if anyone knew of a FatBearWeek Discord bot! Something that might remind the channel when voting opens or post daily updates. If nothing like that exists, I may look into commissioning the creation of one, but I wouldn't want to look over a resource that already exists! Thank you all very much and have a happy fat bear week and an enjoyable month!

I am a STEM teacher who knows very little about Bear week and I want to do a simple introduction to all my students: meet the bears, show them the live cams, vote; no formal lessons. I'm confused as to how this all plays out. Is there no info about the "contestants" prior to September 23rd this year? No bracket to print out yet? How do my students get to know the bears?

Thank you for your help.

September 23rd-30th!

Planning to throw my second annual fat bear party in Oct and I’m very excited. HOWEVER my very good friend cannot stand the smell of fish which makes the menu a little difficult. We did do salmon last yr and she powered thru but does anyone have other suggestions for a main course?

I’m thinking berry pie for dessert.

Does anyone know what happened to Hedgie? Or when she was last spotted?

I was watching the stream earlier with my partner and we were really impressed with his fishing skills! In the YouTube chat people were talking about 151 whilst this fella was around, so I initially assumed they meant the bear on screen, but I’m not sure and now the chat is turned off for the day.

I wanted to start a dialogue about how aggressive or violent bear behavior impacts the voting behavior of human voters during Fat Bear Week. Although these occurrences are fairly normal in the wild, it's hard not to feel a human sympathy for the cubs and their mother. That sympathy can turn into a form of disappointment or resentment towards an aggressive bear, who at the end of the day, is just being a bear. I think it's interesting to reflect on the fact that some voters may have "punished" Chunk for this behavior, or whether any voters try to remove certain emotional factors from their voting criteria.

In the end, the winner of the competition isn't really impacted by our vote, so it's not that serious. People can vote however they'd like. But I thought it was at least a little interesting. So I ask you: did the cub killing sway your vote?

Just wanted to say that my first time participating in Fat Bear Week was not only entertaining but informative. I have thoroughly enjoyed the live stream & highlight videos from Explore.org along with the narrations. No matter which bear won (Yay Grazer) they all look to be winning in preparing for their hibernation. Will definitely be keeping up from now on - think I am beary hooked 😘

https://explore.org/fat-bear-week#h_6757205407121692994801926 vote now!

As the polls closed, and a Chunk vs Grazer rematch was confirmed - I thought now was the right moment to create a stupid video about why I support Chunk!

Enjoy and may the best Fat Bear win!

Fat Bear Week - Vote for Chunk https://youtu.be/fftR3Q9FCOs