Ericka
Dupervil
English 622
Professor Hertz
October 31, 2013
Game of Thrones Pumpkin Carving Contest: Or NOT
Tuesday October 29, 2013
in the Stafford Room, HBO, The Office of Multicultural Student Affairs (OMSA),
and Diversity Support Coalition (DSC) collaborated together to have a Game of Thrones theme Pumpkin carving contest,
and the winning team gets a prize.
The
winning prize was a Roku streaming player, it’s a deceive that allows you to
view your favorite TV shows, music, games and more on your TV by streaming it
directly from the Internet. With this kind of prize the height of
competitiveness was surfaced all around the room.
The
contest was a gateway into the countdown of Halloween this Thursday. Series of
events has been held in the honor of the holiday on campus; earlier in the week
OMSA showed the movie “Mars Attack” and Wednesday the viewing of “Abraham
Lincoln: The vampire slayer” was shown to get students in the mood for
Halloween.
HBO was
the mastermind behind this event. There were HBO campus agents who are students
that helped market the brand, provide activities, and the giveaway of the free
stuff. “We do everything HBO. We giveaway posters, anything with our names on
it,” explained Susan Yen, Junior. “If an organization wants to watch a show
that is on HBO, we bring to the campus and provide activities.”
In the
midst of the different teams dissecting the insides of their pumpkins, “Shaun
of The Dead” was being played in the background. The smell of pumpkins swarm
the room as each team races to get that gross step over with.
For
some groups pumpkin carving wasn’t really their forte. The United Asian
Coalition (UAC) team was very indecisive of what approach to take with their
pumpkin design. “We just really want to be original, and cute but not scary,”
said Malone Soeun, sophomore, as he shook off the pumpkin seeds from his hands.
Soeun
is the Co-chair of UAC, which an Asian student organization, that is run under
the DSC. He is also a first-timer at pumpkin carving. His team not being a fan
of Game of Thrones, they decided to draw hello kitty.
Unlike
UAC, the ladies of Delta Xi Phi were very ecstatic to show off their artistic
skills with this activity. “This is my favorite thing to during Halloween… It’s
so fun it brings everyone together.” Monique Raymond, senior said. As they were
still cleaning out the inside of their pumpkins a few ladies huddled to
together to think of an intricate design that will blow the judges away, and
which was top secret.
The two
judges AliciaAlec Dufield and Robert Richard-Snipes weren’t too clear on what
they were looking for, but as long as it looked “cool”. “We all know this isn’t
a room of sculptures, so I don’t expect anything 3-D, but we do have some
creative individuals,” explained Robert Richard-Snipes, sophomore.
Both
judges were randomly asked to critique these master pieces of pumpkins minutes
before the event started, so there wasn’t a game plan. “Obviously originality
is what we were looking for, other than that may the best pumpkin wins,”
laughed AliciaAlec Dufield, junior.
After
two hours of pumpkin seeds, pumpkin guts, pumpkin aroma, and pumpkin carving
the teams were all ready to present their artwork, except for one.
The Alliance team was just finishing up
their last touches until their knife broke. “We have to find another!” yelled
Chloe Martin junior, on the search of a new knife to cut the last chunk of
their pumpkin.
Alliance is also another
DSC organization, The LGBTQ+ org. They drew a unique design that emulated the
HBO show Game of Thrones, a hand holding a crown. “Yes! We’re done!”Shouts out
Martin, as she runs to hand in her pumpkin for display.
As the
judges did their job to critique the best pumpkin, in the height of cleaning
out the pumpkins and deciding on a designs, many of the teams forgot that the
objective was to mimic the Game of
Thrones, so did the judges.
Two
winning teams were able to leave with a cool prize. The Alliance took first
place by winning the Roku player; second place went to the DXP ladies who won a
box set of the first season of Game of Thrones.
“I
guess we didn’t explain the rules very well, but all contestants will get
something,” said Yen realizing the misunderstanding within the event. Students
were able use their creative minds and carve great pumpkins and not leave
empty-handed and still receive some amazing prizes.
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