Dhaka, Oct. 1 -- pound brown bear with a broken jaw, has won Alaska's popular Fat Bear Week contest after years of near misses, organizers announced Tuesday.

The annual online competition, held in Katmai National Park and Preserve, draws global attention as viewers watch 12 bears via live webcams and vote in a bracket-style tournament. Known officially as Bear 32, Chunk triumphed over Bear 856 - an older rival without a nickname - in this year's final.

Despite his jaw injury, believed to have come from a fight, Chunk remains "one of the biggest, baddest bears at Brooks River," said Mike Fitz, a naturalist with Explore.org. Contest organizers estimated his weight at about 1,200 pounds using laser-based LIDAR scans from earlier years.

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