Tuesday, November 4, 2025

Tournament of Champions: All-Star Christmas Bracket and Winners

Tournament of Champions: All-Star Christmas

Food Network's hit show Tournament of Champions will have a special season that starts on Wednesday, November 5th at 8pm on Food Network. This season is a holiday-themed season called Tournament of Champions: All-Star Christmas and 32 chefs will be paired up in teams of two to compete as teams against each other in a bracket format.   The winning team will take home a $100,000 prize and they also get an additional $50,000 prize to give to a cause that they are passionate about.


There are 32 chefs competing and they will be paired up in teams of two.  The pairings of chefs are as follows - Antonia Lofaso and Alex Guarnaschelli; Maneet Chauhan and Stephanie Izard; Mei Lin and Nini Nguyen; Jet Tila and Ashley Holt; Lee Anne Wong and Zac Young; Sara Bradley and Damaris Phillips; Britt Rescigno and Jonathon Sawyer; Michael Voltaggio and Bryan Voltaggio; Marcus Samuelsson and Rachel Sherriffe; Shirley Chung and Sherry Yard; Kevin Lee and Dale Talde; Aarón Sánchez and Amanda Freitag; Tobias Dorzon and Marcel Vigneron; Adam Sobel and Christian Petroni; Aarti Sequeira and Crista Luedtke; Graham Elliot and Giuseppe Tentori.


Justin Warner and Tiffani Faison will be providing the play-by-play analysis of the competition, and Hunter Fieri will also be on the floor to provide insight.  The judges this year include Michelle Bernstein, Scott Conant, Cat Cora, Susan Feniger, Gale Gand, Lorena Garcia, Judy Joo, Nancy Silverton, Curtis Stone, Jacques Torres, Christina Tosi, Ming Tsai, and Geoffrey Zakarian.


This post will be used to track the winners for each episode, so come back each week to see who won the matchups on Tournament of Champions: All-Star Christmas and to discuss the episodes.  Also, the Tournament of Champions: All-Star Christmas bracket is below with all of the matchups. The finale will air on Wednesday, December 10th where the winning team will be crowned and awarded $100,000.


Tournament of Champions: All-Star Christmas Bracket:
Tournament of Champions: All-Star Christmas Bracket

Continue reading to see who won the matchups in each episode of Tournament of Champions: All-Star Christmas......

Monday, November 3, 2025

Holiday Baking Championship Season 12

Photo - Warner Bros. Discovery

The twelfth season of Holiday Baking Championship airs on Monday nights at 8pm ET/PT on Food Network starting November 3rd, 2025.  This season is once again hosted by Jesse Palmer and the judges are Nancy Fuller, Duff Goldman, and Kardea Brown.  This year there are twelve bakers competing for a $25,000 prize and a feature in Food Network Magazine.  Something new this year is that the bakers will be divided into two teams - Team Naughty and Team Nice.

The bakers competing for the $25,000 prize on season twelve are:
  • Alyx Abreu - New Orleans, Louisiana
  • Nico Alkalay - Denver, Colorado
  • Jeanna 'Gia' Barnes - Troy, Alabama
  • Jean Carlos - Orlando, Florida
  • Daniel Gray - High Point, North Carolina
  • Tarek Husseini - St. Louis, Missouri
  • Erin Michelle Luttrell - Kansas City, Missouri
  • Chase Maus - Santa Fe, New Mexico
  • Camrey Smith - Detroit, Michigan
  • Ashleigh Wright - Frisco, Texas
  • Charles Zimmerman - Charlottesville, Virginia
  • Violet Zoner - Ithaca, New York

The Holiday Baking Championship season finale will air on Monday, December 22nd and I will do another post about that episode before it airs.  Feel free to discuss season 12 of Holiday Baking Championship in the comments of this post.