Six Flags Great Adventure Brings Watermelon Seed Spitting to New Jersey

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Press Release from Six Flags Great Adventure:

 

Six Flags Great Adventure Brings Watermelon Seed Spitting to New Jersey

 

RIDGEWOOD, N.J., June 29 /PRNewswire/ -- Summer would hardly be summer without watermelon, right? The National Watermelon Association of the US thinks so. On July 4th, in celebration of our Nation's birthday and National Watermelon Month, The National Watermelon Association will join Pathmark, Sweet Mama Produce, The Wumblers and numerous additional corporate sponsors in hosting the largest, nationally organized watermelon seed spitting competition for kids in the Northeast held at Six Flags Great Adventure in Jackson, NJ.

 

Kids between the ages of six and thirteen will compete on July 4th for the title of Watermelon Seed Spitting Champ 2009. The top four contestants who can spit their seeds the farthest will win numerous prizes including a plush Baby Wumbler, an official watermelon seed spitting t-shirt, a gift card from Charlie Brown's Restaurants and a "Meet and Greet" with top country recording artist LeAnn Rimes who will be performing live at Six Flags that night.

 

Those same champion seed spitters will then go on to compete for the top title on a nationally televised talk show at a later date. A "one of a kind" grand prize contributed by one of the hottest athletes in the NFL will count amongst the many prizes the national watermelon seed spitting champion will receive. You can find promotions for this event in your local Pathmark Stores where discount Six Flags tickets are sold.

 

Watermelon will be free to the patrons of the park compliments of Sweet Mama Produce. The National Watermelon Queen as well as the chapter queens from both Florida and Maryland-Delaware will be handing out slices as well as assisting The National Watermelon Association officiate the event. A percentage of the proceeds from all of the Baby Wumblers sold at the park pertaining to this event will be donated to Tuesday's Children, a non-profit organization made up of innocent child victims of 9/11 www.tuesdayschildren.org.

 

Additional sponsors include RhinoFX, Temple Inland Inc, Charlie Brown Restaurants and The Florida Watermelon Association.

 

For further information, visit www.wumblers.com or contact Heidi Schwartz, Vice President, The Giddy Gander Company, heidis@giddygander.com, (201) 389-6692

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I never knew there was a "National Watermelon Queen ". Is there a King too?

 

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Source: newsday.com

 

Bellmore seed spitter to be on Jimmy Fallon show

August 2, 2009 By ERIK BADIA

 

It's not exactly a talent that you can bank your future on, but being the watermelon seed spitting champion of the northeast does have its perks - like a guest appearance on "Late Night with Jimmy Fallon."

 

It may have been pure happenstance that 12-year-old Taylor Ann Haiduk of Bellmore was at Six Flags Great Adventure on the Fourth of July - the same day the park was holding the first northeast watermelon seed spitting competition for kids.

 

On a lark, Taylor entered and beat out dozens of other competitors at the Jackson, N.J., theme park by spitting a watermelon seed 26 1/2 feet.

 

It's a gift she never knew she had. "I'd never done it before," Taylor said Sunday at her grandparents' home in Bellmore.

 

Monday night, her title will be put on the line for the contest's finale, National Watermelon Day. Taylor will square off against her closest seed-spitting rival, runner-up Chris Harrington from New Hampshire, just after midnight Monday night on Fallon's show.

 

The winner of the competition will be crowned the reigning northeast seed spitting champion for 2009.

 

The grand prize for the contest is a "one of a kind" baby Wumbler stuffed animal autographed by New York Jet Mark Sanchez, an iPod Touch and four tickets to Six Flags, awarded by the sponsors of the contest, The Wumblers and the National Watermelon Association.

 

Taylor will be starting the seventh grade at Grand Avenue Middle School in the fall. Sporting a pink watermelon T-shirt, she said her mother, Elizabeth, and grandmother, Ann, will be accompanying her to Manhattan for her performance. She said she's excited to be on television, but it won't be her first time.

 

When she was 2 years old, her photo wound up in the New York Daily News for an animal feature, and when she was 5, she appeared on the CBS morning show "Living It Up! with Ali and Jack" dressed as an angel on Halloween.

 

Rupert Holmes Youth Baseball Babe Ruth Her grandfather, Charlie Liggio, said that she is a natural talent. "I'd like to see her nervous just once," he said, smiling.

 

But Taylor admitted that she is under a bit of pressure because of the rematch. "If [Harrington] beats me, that would be kind of embarrassing," she said.

 

Here are some photos from the July 4th event: