Papa's Next Chefs

Papa's Next Chefs is a tournament were the fans elect the new chefs for the next gameria which takes place every year since 2011.

Format

The tournament is divided into two sections, one for the males and one for the females, in which there are two winners: one male and one female. They compete in a direct elimination format.

Format 2011

In 2011 the formant was the next:

In the tournament they participate 24 male and 24 female characters which are divided in three divisions of eight characters, as much masculine as feminine. The divisions were the Pepperoni Division, Onion Division and the Pineapple Division. The winners of the Pepperoni and Onion Divisions are face each other in the semifinals, and the winners of the Pineapple Division are faced with a Wild Card in the semifinals, the Wild Cards who were the runners-up of the Onion Division, the winners of the semifinals will faced each other in the final, where the winners were the winners of the tournament.

Format 2012-Present

Since 2012 the format are the next:

In this tournament, 16 male and 16 female characters. These characters are divided into four divisions. Each division contains 4 males and 4 females. The winner of each division is faced against the winner of another division, and the winner of these moves into the finals of the tournament. The winners of the tournament become the Papa's Next Chefs.

History

Finals

This table displays the results of the finals of each of Papa's Next Chefs.

Year		Male Champion	Result	Male Runner-up		Female Champion	Result	Female Runner-up
2011		Cooper	232:195	James		Prudence	222:210	Peggy
2012		Taylor	2,990:1,263	Robby		Peggy	2,427:1,820	Clover
2013		James	7,526:2,816	Matt		Willow	6,840:3,500	Utah
2014		Tony	10,830:3,311	Matt		Scooter	7,916:6,463	Clover
2015		Rudy	8,225:2,630	Hacky Zak		Scarlett	8,355:2,466	Shannon
2016		Matt	5,714:4,970	Austin		Clover	6,541:4,069	Tohru
2017		Carlo Romano	6,469:3,888	Wylan B		Koilee	5,542:4,860	Perri
2020		Allan	4,036:3,774	Hacky Zak		Akari	4,625:3,112	Trishna
2021		Wylan B	2,634:2,220	Moe		Olivia	2,781:2,066	Mindy
2023		Hacky Zak	5,510:4,592	Kaleb		Liezel	7,422:2,705	Cherissa
2024

Result per Participant

This table displays the final results of each participant in each of Papa's Next Chefs.

• If two or more customers have the same numbers of times where reaches the same pleaces, the order will be of better pleaces in the tournaments, if are the same where will be in chronologically order, and if are the same where will be in alphabetically order.
• The number in () are the last two numbers of the year of the tournament.
• If during a tournament a character get recently eliminated at the first round, and isn't defined as 3rd or 4th place, they will have an * at the list on the actual year tournament and will listed on 4th pleace until the confirmation of their official pleace.

Customer	Winner	Runner-Up	Semifinalist	2nd of Division	3rd of Division	4th of Division
Hacky Zak	1 (23)	2 (15), (20)	2 (16), (17)	1 (21)
Clover	1 (16)	2 (12), (14)	1 (15)	1 (13)
Matt	1 (16)	2 (13), (14)		1 (15)	1 (12)
James	1 (13)	1 (11)		1 (12)
Wylan B	1 (21)	1 (17)		1 (20)
Peggy	1 (12)	1 (11)
Carlo Romano	1 (17)		4 (11), (14), (15), (16)
Allan	1 (20)		2 (12), (17)	2 (13), (16)	3 (11), (14), (15)
Akari	1 (20)		2 (14), (17)
Tony	1 (14)		1 (12)	1 (13)
Scooter	1 (14)		1 (13)	1 (12)
Taylor	1 (12)		1 (11)
Olivia	1 (21)				1 (16)
Cooper	1 (11)
Prudence	1 (11)
Willow	1 (13)
Rudy	1 (15)
Scarlett	1 (15)
Koilee	1 (17)
Liezel	1 (23)
Tohru		1 (16)	3 (12), (13), (23)	2 (14), (15)	1 (11)
Trishna		1 (20)	2 (14), (21)	2 (16), (17)	1 (15)
Perri		1 (17)	2 (16), (20)
Robby		1 (12)	1 (21)	5 (14), (15), (16), (17), (20)	1 (13)
Utah		1 (13)	1 (12)	1 (11)
Cherissa		1 (23)	1 (16)		2 (17), (20)
Austin		1 (16)	1 (21)
Mindy		1 (21)		2 (12), (15)	2 (13), (17)	2 (14), (16)
Kaleb		1 (23)		2 (20), (21)
Shannon		1 (15)		1 (14)	2 (16), (20)
Moe		1 (21)
Timm			2 (13), (15)	3 (11), (12), (14)
Johnny			2 (14), (20)	3 (13), (15), (16)	2 (12), (17)
Lisa			2 (20), (21)	2 (16), (17)	2 (12), (13)	2 (14), (15)
Deano			1 (20)	3 (14), (16), (23)	2 (15), (17)	1 (21)
Sienna			1 (17)	3 (15), (20), (21)	1 (14)	1 (16)
Sasha			1 (23)	2 (14), (20)	2 (15), (16)	4 (11), (12), (13), (17)
Brody			1 (23)	1 (17)	3 (16), (20) , (21)
Cecilia			1 (11)	1 (15)	2 (13), (14)	1 (12)
Julep			1 (15)		1 (21)	1 (16)
Doan			1 (13)			2 (11), (12)
Mandi			1 (11)
Chase			1 (23)
Connor				3 (12), (20), (21)	5 (13), (14), (15), (16), (17)	1 (23)
Kayla				3 (16), (21), (23)	1 (17)	5 (12), (13), (14), (15), (20)
Ivy				3 (12), (13), (17)	2 (14), (15)
Kenji				2 (15), (17)	4 (14), (20) , (21), (23)	1 (16)
Wally				2 (12), (14)	3 (11), (16), (17)	2 (13), (15)
Hugo				2 (17), (21)	2 (12), (23)	5 (13), (14), (15), (16), (20)
Zoe				2 (20), (23)	1 (12)	4 (13), (15), (16), (17)
Nevada				2 (14), (21)	1 (16)	2 (15), (23)
Mary				2 (12), (13)		1 (11)
Wendy				2 (13), (23)	1 (12)
Ripley				2 (17), (20)
Franco				1 (13)	1 (12)	2 (14), (15)
Boomer				1 (23)	1 (21)
Didar				1 (23)	1 (21)
Janana				1 (16)	3 (20) , (21), (23)	1 (17)
Indigo				1 (21)	1 (23)	1 (20)
Drakson				1 (23)	2 (20) , (21)
Marty				1 (11)
Maggie				1 (11)
Budwin				1 (23)
Sue					5 (11), (12), (13), (15), (17)	3 (14), (20), (21)
Gremmie					3 (13), (14), (23)	3 (12), (17), (20)
Greg					2 (11), (15)	7 (12), (13), (14), (16), (17), (20)
Skyler					2 (14), (23)	1 (17)
Iggy					1 (23)	5 (15), (16), (17), (20), (21)
Kasey O					1 (20)	2 (21), (23)
Rollie					1 (20)	2 (21), (23)
Duke Gotcha					1 (16)	1 (17)
Bruna Romano					1 (11)
Hank					1 (13)
Pally					1 (21)
Amiria					1 (23)
Cletus						3 (12), (13), (14)
Daniela						3 (20), (21), (23)
Edna						2 (12), (13)
Cameo						2 (21), (23)
Simone						2 (21), (23)
Alberto						1 (11)
Big Pauly						1 (11)
Vicky						1 (11)

Trivia

• The edition 2011 was the only Papa's Next Chefs Tournament where both of the winners are from the same division. This happened again on 2017.
  • Is the only tournament were participate 48 customers.
  • Only customers who debuted in Papa Louie: When Pizzas Attack! and Papa's Pizzeria made it to the semifinals and finals on 2011.
• In 2011 and 2012 Taylor are faced with James, but James win in 2011 and Taylor in 2012.
  • Also in those two years Peggy reach the finals.
• In 2013, James earned more votes than both Tony Solary and Matt Neff, becoming the first character to "beat" both Flipline developers in one tournament.
  • Also in the same tournament Willow becomes the first character who made his or her debut in the previous game to win the Next Chef's tournament
• In 2014, was the tournament where no customer who debuted in Papa Louie: When Pizzas Attack! advanced to the semifinals.
  • Also is the 1st Papa's Next Chefs Tournament where both of the creators advance to the semifinals and the finals.
  • Also is the 1st Papa's Next Chefs Tournament where both of the male finalists are based on real people.
• In 2015 was the only tournament to have 3 finalist as a debutant in the tournament.
• In 2016 was the very first PNC tournament where all of the finalists come from each division.
• Matt and Clover are the only characters who reach to the finals three times.
  • Also Matt and Clover are the only characters who lost two times in the finals.
• In 2017, after losing 4 times in the semifinals, Carlo Romano managed to reach the finals and winning the tournament.
  • Also is the third time where two finalists who made his or her debut in the previous game of the tournament. And the third time where one female finalist reaches the finals and who made her debut on the previous game of the tournament.
  • Also is the first time where a customer who made his or her debut in a app game participate in the tournament.
  • Also is the second time where the finalist are of only two different divisions.
  • Also is the first time where a winner are from the Romano's Family.
• In 2020, Allan won against Johnny and Hacky Zak, begin faced previuosly in 2015 and 2016 respectevily and lost both times, becoming the first character to make this.
  • Also is the Papa's Next Chefs Tournament with more repeated matchups, having a total of 8. Hacky Zak got the many of the repeated matchups with a total of 3.