The contestants for 2024’s Fat Bear Week contest were revealed Tuesday night, but only after a deadly bear-on-bear attack at Alaska’s Katmai National Park on Monday delayed the announcement.

Our flag is still flying half mast for Bear 402—tragically murdered in Bear 469’s quest for fatness earlier this week—but the blubbery show must go on. Despite the setback, it’s officially Fat Bear Week, the roundest competition of them all. Forget about March Madness—this is the real bracket to throw your energy behind this year.

The competition, like a March Madness bracket, pits brown bears against brown bears as people decide which plump bear is ready for winter.

Voting starts Wednesday in the annual Fat Bear Week contest at Alaska’s Katmai National Park and Preserve, with viewers picking their favorite among a dozen brown bears fattened up to survive the winter.

However, the bracket was announced Tuesday celebrating the battle of the behemoths. From chunky cuties to thick teddys, brown bears from Brooks River in Katmai National Park and Preserve in Alaska will complete during the beloved week that brings joy (or potentially terror) to humans across the world.

Alaska’s Katmai National Park and Preserve have been bulking up for hibernation — and vying for the hearts of Fat Bear Week voters.

Fans can now cast their votes for the bulkiest grizzlies in Alaska's Katmai National Park, as the 2024 Fat Bear Week contest begins.

A grisly murder has led to Alaska’s annual Fat Bear Week being postponed. The battle to be the plumpest predator was delayed after a younger male brown bear killed an older female while hunting for salmon on Monday morning.