Open to "young and maturing" ursids, Fat Bear Junior is a single elimination bracket tournament to determine a champion among the bear youth demographic. The crowned cub will then go on to compete against their elders in the main Fat Bear Week tournament. Katmai National Park and Preserve init...
But on Tuesday organizers revealed the four cub contestants in this week’s Fat Bear Jr. contest— with the “chubby champ charging on to face the corpulent competition” in the adult bracket, as Naomi Boak of the nonprofit Katmai Conservancy put it during the livestreamed announcement. The ...
Bear 909 Jr., who last week won the Fat Bear Junior competition for the second time, will face Bear 519, a young female, in the first round. The winner will face the defending champion, Grazer, described as one of the most formidable bears on the river...
and voting will continue through October 8. A winner is slated to be announced that evening as well. The first matchup is between Bear 519, a subadult female with “grizzled brown fur, tall upright ears, and lanky legs,” and 909 Junior, a nearly four-year-old female with wide-set ...