Every Halloween Wars Winning Team
July 4, 2026
Spoiler note: this post names the winning team of every Halloween Wars season.
Halloween Wars is a team sport, so its history is written in team names, and the names alone are worth the price of admission: Corpse Crushers, Candied Cadavers, Scream of the Crop. Below is every winning team since the show premiered in 2011, pulled from our show record, where each season's result is verified against a cited source.
Every winning team
One honesty note before the table. For the supersized seasons 11 through 13, when teams grew well beyond the classic three-person unit, public records of the full winning rosters are patchy, so for those years we list the members we can document rather than guessing at complete lineups.
| Season | Year | Winning team | Documented members |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2011 | Bling Bats | Julie Bashore, Karen Portaleo, Shawn Feeney, Susan Notter |
| 2 | 2012 | Dead Men Walking | Marc Maniac, Richard Ruskell, Vinny Garcia |
| 3 | 2013 | Black Magic | Gabriel Vinas, Jeff Ontiveros, Sarah Ono Jones |
| 4 | 2014 | Corpse Crushers | Kyle Miller, Briea Nathan, Jon Neill |
| 5 | 2015 | Scream Team | Adam Bierton, Darci Rochau, Robert Teddy |
| 6 | 2016 | Sugar Psychos | Al DiBartolo, James Hall, Santosh Tiptur |
| 7 | 2017 | Team Ghoul'd | Christophe Rull, Liz Marek, Mike Brown |
| 8 | 2018 | Candied Cadavers | Arlen Pelletier, Cynthia White, Orly Yadao |
| 9 | 2019 | Frosted Freakshow | Christine Leaming, James Hall, Reva Alexander-Hawk |
| 10 | 2020 | Mummies' Rejects | Eric Jones, Hemu Basu, Steve Weiss |
| 11 | 2021 | Mischievous Monsters | Shellane Brown (roster partially documented) |
| 12 | 2022 | Ghostly Gals | Monique Hawk, Susana Mijares (roster partially documented) |
| 13 | 2023 | Spice Ghouls | Kristina Patenaude, Teresa Shurilla (roster partially documented) |
| 14 | 2024 | Scream of the Crop | Kyle Miller, Sarah Blostein, Sarah Arnold |
| 15 | 2025 | Poisonous Perfection | Jamie Louks, Karine Turgeon, Pualina Stovall |
Records and repeat offenders
A few threads run through that table. Only two people appear on it twice. Pumpkin carver James Hall took titles with Sugar Psychos in 2016 and Frosted Freakshow in 2019. Cake artist Kyle Miller matched him with a longer gap: after winning season 4 with Corpse Crushers, he returned a decade later as captain of Scream of the Crop and won the 2024 all-star season, the only champion to win as a team leader. And season 15 winner Jamie Louks pulled off the fastest redemption arc, winning in 2025 one year after losing the season 14 finale with Shriek Squad.
The all-star season deserves its own note: season 14 was built around returning champions, with the winning captains of seasons 11 through 13 all leading new teams, and Miller beat three of the show's most recent title-holders to take it.
Where the champions went
Several winners turned the title into bigger things. Season 7's Christophe Rull went from sugar-artist champion to award-winning chocolatier with his own patisserie, and we track his path in Christophe Rull: where are they now. If you want to understand how these teams are built and judged before diving into the champions' stories, start with our complete Halloween Wars fan guide.
More in The Proving Drawer or start with the show guides.