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Video of a pressurized air pumpkin cannon being fired. "Yankee Siege" trebuchet, from New Hampshire, at 2008 Punkin' Chunkin' World Championship Punkin Chunkin (WCPC) was the name of an annual contest held the first full weekend after Halloween in Delaware from 1986 through 2013 and in 2016. It was also held in 2019 in Illinois and is scheduled ...
West Texas A&M hosted its annual Pumpkin Chunkin contest Thursday afternoon, pitting student teams’ designs against each other to deliver pumpkins downrange, with an emphasis on accuracy.
According to the Punkin Chunkin website, the contest has been around since at least 2001, the first year for which results are posted. In addition to tossing pumpkins, the event also includes ...
The Half Moon Bay weigh-off had started in 1974, when the California town barely edged out Circleville, Ohio, in an amiable contest for the fictitious title of pumpkin capital of the world.
The weekend after Halloween, Sussex County hosted the World Championship Punkin Chunkin, where pumpkins were shot from devices such as air-powered cannons, trebuchets, catapults, and various other contraptions. The performance of various styles and classes of devices was supplemented by food booths and musical performances.
Pumpkin chunking is a competitive activity in which teams build various mechanical devices designed to throw a pumpkin as far as possible. Catapults, trebuchets, ballistas and air cannons are the most common mechanisms. [57]
In 1985, pumpkin chili and pumpkin ice cream joined the menu. [18] In 1990, Thompson's Food Basket created a giant pumpkin bar that measured 30 ft long, 3 ft wide, weighed over 750 lbs, and could feed over 6,000 people. [18] Pumpkin donuts were added to the lineup in 1998. [18] In 2014, pumpkin cornbread was sold for the Pumpkins of the West ...
Trio wins bragging rights, cool trophy for team: Fifteen county departments enter imaginative, amazing jack-o'-lanterns