<body><div><img src="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?type=thumbnail_580x000&amp;url=4Bo8hl_1FQ8y09d00" alt="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=4Bo8hl_1FQ8y09d00" width="1200" height="600" >ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) - The bears got too big for the internet to handle.Katmai National Park and Preserve announced Wednesday that first-round voting in the 12th annual Fat Bear Week has been extended after a crush of traffic appeared to overwhelm voting servers on opening day.“THE BEARS HAVE BROKEN THE INTERNET,” the park wrote in a Facebook post. “Literally.” Explore.org, which hosts the online tournament, confirmed the site buckled under record demand.“We had our biggest Day 1 turnout of all time and experienced some system overload,” the organization said in its own Facebook post, adding that any votes already cast Wednesday still count.Day 1 voting will continue Wednesday, with polls open from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Alaska time at fatbearweek.orgThe meltdown came on the opening day of a bracket organizers had already billed as one of the toughest in the contest’s history, with heavyweight champions Bear 32 (“Chunk”) and Bear 164 squaring off in a first-round matchup that normally wouldn’t happen until much later in the tournament.Last year’s contest drew more than 1.7 million votes from upward of 100 countries — and if Wednesday’s crash is any indication, this year’s fans showed up even hungrier than the bearsSee a spelling or grammar error? Report it to web@ktuu.com</div></body>

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ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) - The bears got too big for the internet to handle. Katmai National Park and Preserve announced Wednesday that first-round voting in the 12th annual Fat Bear Week has been extended after a crush of traffic appeared to overwhelm voting servers on opening day. “THE BEARS HAVE...

Fat bears break the internet, Katmai extends first-round voting

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ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) - The bears got too big for the internet to handle. Katmai National Park and Preserve announced Wednesday that first-round voting 

Fat bears break the internet, Katmai extends first-round voting

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