The 2017 Chicken Wing Tournament of Champions
The results from our Chicken Wing Tournament in March 2017.
Yes, we are really doing this.
The team at Buffalo Eats are hard at work creating a new website, new logos, new features and bringing on board new writers. But before we launch any of that, we thought we’d spend WAY too much time coming up with an epic Chicken Wing tournament.
We’ve put together a list of 64 restaurants and bars that are (at least somewhat) known for having good chicken wings. Are we missing some? There’s no doubt. Frankly, I can’t wait to see the Facebook comments yelling about how we missed some hidden gem in Sloan (but seriously, if there is a hidden gem in Sloan that serves really good chicken wings please tell us).
After coming up with a solid ~40 locations on our own, we reached out to the twitter world to help fill out the rest of the bracket.
A Breakdown of the Process:
We’ve broken the pool of 64 up into four ‘regions’: Blue Cheese, Carrots, Celery and Frank’s. In traditional March Madness format, the pool of 64 will have head to head competition until a final winner is chosen.
Through lots of Twiter polls, followers will decided a winner that will go onto the next round. Instead of blowing up everyone’s feeds, we’ll keep the limit to four matchups per day until we get to a winner.
The ‘voting’ will take place from 8am through 10pm each day, starting on Friday, March 3rd, 2017.
We’ll post the results on this post and update everyone via all social media.
We encourage lobbying for your favorites and heated arguments.
Winners will not be re-seeded and will follow College March Madness bracket rules: 1vs16 will face 8vs9, 2v15 will face 7vs10, etc.
Follow along with hashtag #BufWingTourney17
Blue Cheese Region:
1. Anchor Bar (Buffalo) vs 16. DBGB’s (Allentown)
3. Kelly’s Korner (North Buffalo) vs 14. Colden Country Inn (Colden)
4. Mister Goodbar (Elmwood) vs 13. Swings (East Side)
5. Wiechec’s Lounge (Kaisertown) vs 12. Roaming Dee’s (Elma)
6. Bases Loaded (Woodlawn-Hamburg) vs 11. Witter’s Sports Bar & Grill (North Tonawanda)
7. Imperial Pizza (South Buffalo) vs 10. Franco’s Pizza (Tonawanda)
8. JP Fitzgerald’s (Hamburg) vs 9. Grover’s (East Amherst)
Carrots Region:
1. Duff’s (Amherst) vs 16. The Boston Hotel (Boston)
3. Brennan’s Bowery (Williamsville) vs 14. Falletta’s (Clarence)
4. Sportsmens Tavern (Black Rock) vs 13. The Pub (Depew)
5. Nino’s Pizza (West Seneca) vs 12 Sal’s Lounge (Depew)
6. Pasquale’s (East Aurora) vs 11. Blasdell Pizza (Blasdell)
7. Sawyer Creek Hotel (North Tonawand) vs 10. Adolf’s (Old First Ward)
8. Just Pizza (Elmwood) vs 9. Klimek’s (North Tonawanda)
Celery Region:
1. Gabriel’s Gate (Allentown) vs 16. Thirsty Buffalo (Elmwood)
2. Doc Sullivans (South Buffalo) vs 15. Loughran’s (Amherst)
3. Dwyer’s Irish Pub (North Tonawanda) vs 14. Audubon North (Amherst)
4. Mammoser’s (Hamburg) vs 13. Brunner’s (Hamburg/Boston)
5. Pony’s (Middleport) vs 12. Chick-N-Pizza Works (Cheektowaga)
6. Swannie House (Buffalo) vs 11. Bella Pizza (Lackawanna)
7. Buffalo Sports Garden (Orchard Park) vs 10. Vito’s Avenue (North Tonawanda)
8. Picasso’s (Lancaster) vs 9. La Bella Sicila (Cheektowaga)
Frank’s Region:
1. BarBill Tavern (East Aurora) vs 16. Santino’s (Elma)
2. Nine Eleven Tavern (South Buffalo) vs 15. The Wales Hotel (Wales Center)
3. Cole’s (Elmwood) vs 14. Snyder Bar & Grill (Snyder)
4. Judi’s Lounge (Niagara Falls) vs 13. Macy’s Place (Cheektowaga)
5. Voelker’s (North Buffalo) vs 12. Gene McCarthy’s (Old First Ward)
6. Central Park Grill (Buffalo) vs 11. Caputi’s Sheridan Pub (Tonawanda)
7. Potter’s Field (South Buffalo) vs 10. Amherst Pizza & Ale House (Getzville)
8. The Now Pizzeria (Hamburg) vs 9. Roman Cafe (North Tonawanda)
RESULTS:
FINAL FOUR – 3/18/17
2. Elmo’s Bar defeated 8. JP Fitzgerald’s – Poll Results
1. Bar Bill Tavern defeated 1. Gabriel’s Gate – Poll Resuts
THE CHAMPIONSHIP – 3/19/17
1. Bar Bill Tavern defeated 2. Elmo’s Bar – Poll Results