Taking place during the International Pizza Expo, set at the Las Vegas Convention Center on March 28-30, the World Pizza Games has crowned this year’s winners.
This year’s event crowned Scott Volpe of Fiamme Pizza Napoletana in Tucson, Arizona the winner of the Master’s Division Dough-Tossing Acrobatics after a display that saw him juggling three doughs in the air. Additional winners included two-time World Pizza Champion Nathan Wilson of Six Hundred Downtown in Bellefontaine, Ohio, who won in the Freestyle Acrobatics 1st Division; two-time World Pizza Champion David Whisker of BC Pizza in Conway, Michigan, who won Fastest Box Folding with 17.38 seconds; and Tara Hattan of Zasa’s Pizza and Wings in Tulsa, Oklahoma, who took first in Fastest Dough with 39.65 seconds.
The full list of winners includes:
Master Acrobatics
1st Place: Scott Volpe of Fiamme Pizza Napoletana in Tucson, AZ
2nd Place: Tara Hattan of Zasa’s Pizza and Wings in Tulsa, OK
3rd Place: McKenna Carney of NONA Slice House in Safety Harbor, FL
Freestyle Acrobatics – 1st Division
1st Place: Nathan Wilson of Six Hundred Downtown in Bellefontaine, OH
2nd Place: Michael Testa of Jersey Boys Pizza in Woodbridge, NJ
3rd Place: Matt Hickey of Caliente Pizza & Drafthouse in Pittsburgh, PA
Fastest Dough
1st Place: Tara Hattan of Zasa’s Pizza and Wings in Tulsa, OK (39.65 seconds)
2nd Place: Nathan Wilson of Six Hundred Downtown in Bellefontaine, OH (40.54 seconds)
3rd Place: Angel Alvarez of XX in XX (42.28 seconds)
4th Place: David Whisker of BC Pizza in Conway, MI (44.00 seconds)
5th Place: Matt Hickey of Caliente Pizza & Drafthouse in Pittsburgh, PA (53.87 seconds)
Fastest Pizza Box Folding
1st Place: David Whisker of BC Pizza in Conway, MI (17.38 seconds)
2nd Place: Tara Hattan of Zasa’s Pizza and Wings in Tulsa, OK (25.81 seconds)
3rd Place: Alma Garcia (27.47 seconds)
4th Place: Jarrod Shlemmer (28.82 seconds)
5th Place: Curtis Robertson (32.66 seconds)
Pizza Triathlon
1st Place: Matt Hickey of Caliente Pizza & Drafthouse in Pittsburgh, PA (39.12 seconds)
2nd Place: Perry Bogacz of Caliente Pizza & Drafthouse in Pittsburgh, PA (41.32 seconds)
3rd Place: Tara Hattan of Zasa’s Pizza and Wings in Tulsa, OK (44.88 seconds)
4th Place: David Whisker of BC Pizza in Conway, MI (52.62 seconds)
5th Place: Max Mathious of Caliente Pizza & Drafthouse in Pittsburgh, PA (53.06 seconds)
Largest Dough Stretch
1st Place: Spencer Glenn of Pizza My Heart in Pacific Grove, CA (112.05 cm)
2nd Place: Matt Hickey of Caliente Pizza & Drafthouse in Pittsburgh, PA (108 cm)
3rd Place: Joshua Oluwatumise (104 cm)
4th Place: Nathan Wilson of Six Hundred Downtown in Bellefontaine, OH (92.85 cm)