Awesome Pumpkin Designs

Watching Halloween TV

So I was watching television today with my roommates, and we happened to come across the show, “Challenge” on the Food Network. The show Challenge is where they invite several chefs or competitors (episodes do not always have to do with cooking, but most do) to compete in timed challenges against each other for money when the final projects are judged and a winner is award a gold medal and a big check.
This specific show was “Challenge: Outrageous Pumpkins.” There are three rounds of competition: the traditional Jack O'Lantern (contestants get 30 minutes and up to 20 points), 3-D pumpkin carving (contestants get an hour and up to 30 points), and a free-style round where anything goes (contestants get four hours and up to 50 points). The contestants on this show were all professionals, and make money off of doing this for a living. I had no idea that people could do that.
The Jack O’Lantern round was just the standard pumpkin most people picture when they think of pumpkin carving. The rules state that each pumpkin has to have eyes, a nose, have the insides cleaned out, and a mouth. There was only one pumpkin I did not like, it was a play on words, “sorry to cut you off,” and the mouth was bars and the pumpkin was on a cell phone.
Round two was my favorite; they used giant pumpkins and did not actually cut all the way through, they more-so sculpt in the white of the pumpkin amazing and scary 3-D faces. A few competitors
The final round was just wow the judges with your pumpkins. It had everything from moving eyes to pumps that let out blood to a water fountain to ants stealing candy. I was wowed.

If you missed it:
• Oct 19, 2009
3:00 AM ET/PT
• Oct 21, 2009
7:00 PM ET/PT