The Christmas Cup (Presented by Racine Danish Kringles)

Dec 6, 2025

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This week of Deck the Hallmark is presented by Racine Danish Kringles. Exclusive 10% off entire order - www.kringles.com // Promo Code: HALLMARK25

We’re wrapping up the week with one final Hallmark Christmas movie from Thanksgiving Week — The Christmas Cup.

ABOUT THE CHRISTMAS CUP

Staff Sergeant Kelly Brandt, recovering from a knee injury, leads her hometown team in the annual Christmas Cup, despite her heart aching for her career. She discovers there are multiple ways to serve a community.

AIR DATE & NETWORK FOR THE CHRISTMAS CUP

November 30th 2025 | Hallmark Channel

CAST & CREW OF THE CHRISTMAS CUP

Rhiannon Fish as Kelly Brandt
Ben Rosenbaum as Quinn Stokley

BRAN’S THE CHRISTMAS CUP SYNOPSIS

The movie kicks off with Fish returning from the army — her name is Aunt Kelly. Her brother and daughter pick her up from the bus, and when they get home, there’s a surprise party waiting for her!

Apparently, it’s the 50th Christmas Cup! We don’t know what that means yet. It turns out there’s a friendly rivalry between two neighboring towns, Bridgeport and Longleaf. To make things more complicated, the towns now share a school board, police, and fire department. When the mayor of Longleaf shows up with a hot firefighter, she has alternative motives: she wants to shut down the troops’ welcome-back party. The firefighter, Quinn, is clearly smitten with Kelly, but it seems like it could never work.

Kelly reluctantly agrees to lead her town in the Christmas Cup this year — and ropes Quinn into helping. The Christmas Cup is a friendly competition between the towns, consisting of challenges like a snowball fight, eggnog chug, and more.

Kelly soon learns she has to leave town again soon, which makes her sad. Luckily, Quinn is there to lift her spirits. He invites her on a romantic date wrapping presents for kids, and the night goes beautifully.

But then she gets a call — the Marines need her to leave on Christmas Day. She tells her friend the news: she won’t be there for the Christmas Cup. But what about Quinn? Kelly insists, he’s a stranger, who cares! Unfortunately for her, Quinn is right around the corner and overhears everything — and he’s not happy.

Kelly starts to rethink leaving and goes to talk to Quinn, but he’s upset: he heard what you said. She realizes she doesn’t want to leave, so she announces to her family, after blowing out the going-away cake candle, that she’s not leaving! The military can wait.

Christmas Cup time arrives, and Kelly is initially sad to see Quinn has joined the other team. Longleaf falls behind early after losing the singing and eggnog chug challenges. But then they make a comeback, winning the light untangle and trivia challenges. Bridgeport takes the spice contest, so it all comes down to the snowball fight, worth 20 points.

Longleaf is about to win, but a little girl decides to be kind and not throw a snowball at her bully. The teams agree it should be a tie, but the bully concedes: Longleaf won fair and square.

Kelly and Quinn make up — and share a big, romantic kiss.

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