PUMPKIN CHUNKIN
Oct. 19th, 2017 10:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Okay so some of you might have seen Mae's post last week about setting up a pumpkin chunkin competition. Now that it's closer to Halloween, I figure it's high time for a plotting post!
For anyone who isn't American or hasn't heard of the glorious sport of pumpkin chunking, it's pretty simple--you build some kind of launching device, and then you launch a pumpkin from it, and the farther it goes the more points you get. You also get points for style and design and how rad it is when the pumpkin explodes. The only real rule is that your pumpkin launcher has to be mechanical in nature, so you can't build a robot that throws pumpkins or anything electronic. And NO EXPLOSIVES (though if your pumpkin catches on fire or explodes in midair, you get bonus points, because Mae is Mae).
I'm aiming to have the post go up on the 27th, the Friday before Halloween. That might change if we end up having a Halloween event that weekend, in which case I can push it into early November. Right now, Mae, Mikan and Frank Castle are slated to be judges. Everyone else is encouraged to form teams to build pumpkin launchers, or to just do it solo.
Comment below if you think your character will be interested in participating, and to organize teams and launcher designs! Here's a pretty decent video on how the whole thing works and what sort of machines can be built.
For anyone who isn't American or hasn't heard of the glorious sport of pumpkin chunking, it's pretty simple--you build some kind of launching device, and then you launch a pumpkin from it, and the farther it goes the more points you get. You also get points for style and design and how rad it is when the pumpkin explodes. The only real rule is that your pumpkin launcher has to be mechanical in nature, so you can't build a robot that throws pumpkins or anything electronic. And NO EXPLOSIVES (though if your pumpkin catches on fire or explodes in midair, you get bonus points, because Mae is Mae).
I'm aiming to have the post go up on the 27th, the Friday before Halloween. That might change if we end up having a Halloween event that weekend, in which case I can push it into early November. Right now, Mae, Mikan and Frank Castle are slated to be judges. Everyone else is encouraged to form teams to build pumpkin launchers, or to just do it solo.
Comment below if you think your character will be interested in participating, and to organize teams and launcher designs! Here's a pretty decent video on how the whole thing works and what sort of machines can be built.