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title: "We have a Winner!"
date: 2008-10-31T18:03:00-07:00
author: Tim Schafer
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# We have a Winner!

October 31st 2008

Voting is officially over! No more votes, please. The winner of the 2008 Double Fine Pumpkin carving contest is…

![](//assets.doublefine.com/archive/images/psycho_pumpkin_08.jpg)  
**Christina Patterson!**

Congratulations Christina!

Now some of you might dispute the results of this competition, calling them unfair. Some might claim that we didn’t actually have a Double Fine Pumpkin Carving Contest this year. And that is true. I was busy traveling around Tennessee to organize one. BUT that didn’t stop Christina! She was self-motivated enough to carve this lovely Psycho-pumpkin and sent us the pictures without being asked. And I like that kind of pumpkin gumption.

(Aside: “Pumpkin Gumption” looks like it would be really fun to say, but it’s actually not.)

Even if there had been a full-on contest, with all sorts of fancy advertising, voting, awards, and multiple applicants, I’m sure Christina would have won anyway. Just look at that pumpkin! Notice the following positive attributes:

 -It’s obviously slathered in some sort of delicious butter, or the kind of “posing oil” that bodybuilders use. It really catches the light and shows off the pumpkin’s handsome crevices.  
 -It is wearing some sort of glowing Pope hat, which is a strange but effective touch in these spiritually bankrupt times.  
 -If you look closely, you can see some sort of orange pumpkin dandruff on the carpet around the base. This adds to the realism, and probably took a long time to create and scatter in such a pleasing manner  
 -In the upper-left corner of the picture, is that a… sewing machine? Wow. I was impressed when I thought she had carved this pumpkin using standard tools, but now that I know she SEWED it on a SEWING MACHINE… I don’t know what to say. That is super hard to do. And it requires special needles I’m sure.

So, It’s no contest. And I mean, literally, there was no contest at all. But that didn’t stop Christina Patterson, American Hero. Who may or may not be American.

Christina, if you ever come by Double Fine, I promise to buy you some Peanut M&Ms from the candy machine in the garage, and if the machine is out of Peanut M&Ms I will offer you a choice of a candy of similar or lesser value. You have earned it.

Happy Halloween! Thanks for playing, and carving.

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