Editor’s note: Due to a slow web editor, today’s installment is being posted after Day 1 results were released . Here is the line up nevertheless. Tune in Wednesday morning for the Day 2 breakdown.

It’s the most fattastic time of the year: Fat Bear Week! Welcome to Day 1. Let’s get the ball rolling!

Match 1: 128jr “Biggie” vs 609 “Bean”

Two chubby junior champs go digitally head-to-head in the first match of Fat Bear Week! 128jr “Biggie” won this year’s Fat Bear Week Jr. contest, and 609 “Bean” is a former Fat Bear Week Jr. winner from 2022. 609 Bean is newly emancipated this summer, after spending not two, not three, but four summers under the care of her mother or auntie. Her upbringing alone is a unique story, but 609 in her subadulthood is here to show us that she is, in fact,

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