Announcing the 2023 World Pizza Games Champions
The World Pizza Games returned to International Pizza Expo in March. Pizza makers traveled to Las Vegas, Nevada to showcase their dough handling and box folding skills in hopes of winning the coveted title of World Pizza Champion, a gold medal, and a one-thousand-dollar cash prize.
The World Pizza Games are an international pizza competition held each year in Las Vegas at the International Pizza Expo, hosted by Pizza Today Magazine. Up to 150 competitors compete in six different categories – Largest Dough, Fastest Dough, Pizza Triathlon, Fastest Box Folding, and Freestyle Acrobatic both First Division and Master’s Division. The Gold Medal winners in each category will also receive a $1000 cash prize.
Fastest Dough
1st — Tara Hattan, Zasas Pizza & Wings, Time: 00:39.065
2nd – Nathan Wilson, Six Hundred Downtown, Time: 00:40.054
3rd – Angel Alvarez, Rotolos Craft & Crust, Time: 00:42.028
Largest Dough
1st – Spencer Glenn, Pizza My Heart, Width: 120, Length: 104.1, Average: 112.05
2nd – Matt Hickey, Caliente Pizza & Draft House, Width: 116.5, Length: 99.5, Average: 108
3rd – Joshua Oluwatumise, Antonio’s NY Pizza, Width: 105.5, Length: 102.5, Average: 104
Fastest Box Folding
1st – David Whisker, B.C. Pizza, Time: 00:17.038 *NEW RECORD
2nd – Tara Hattan, Zasas Pizza & Wings, Time: 00:25.081
3rd – Alma Garcia, Slice House, Walnut Creek, Time: 00:27.047
Pizza Triathlon
1st – Matt Hickey, Caliente Pizza & Draft House, Time: 00:39.012
2nd – Perry Bogacz, Caliente Pizza & Draft House, Time: 00:41.032
3rd – Tara Hattan, Zasas Pizza & Wings, Time: 00:44.088
First Division Freestyle Acrobatics
1st – Nathan Wilson, Six Hundred Downtown, Total Score: 396.8
2nd – Michael Testa, Carmine’s Pizza Factory, Total Score: 391.1
3rd – Matt Hickey, Caliente Pizza & Draft House, Total Score: 373.5
Master’s Division Freestyle Acrobatics
1st – Scott Volpe, Fiamme Pizza Napoletana, Total Score: 424.8
2nd – Tara Hattan, Zasas Pizza & Wings, Total Score: 405.1
3rd – Mckenna Carney, The Nona Slice House, Total Score: 400.5
Check out a gallery of the World Pizza Games Dough Acrobatics Finals:
