The first-ever Watermelon Blast will appear in the area

watermelon blast. tomorrow gates will open at nine a-m and will continue to launch melons until four. today though 47 abc’s justina coronel got a sneak peak at some of the action – take a look. natural sound 00.09 “fire in the hole” canon shoots out watermelon 00.13 track 1 just before fall trickles in, delmarva has seen its fair share of watermelons popping up this summer. and now dawn deschaine-thompson — one of the creators of watermelon blast — wants to see them soar. 40.46 this event is going to be a target competition 40.49 butt sot 40.55 we have 3 rounds of competition and then on the 4th round we are going to have the winners of the first 3 competitions compete. and whoever the winner is of that round is going to be the world champion watermelon blaster 41.06 track 2 she says that in between competitions every hour on the half hour, anyone can pay to pick a machine and shoot it. all of the money will be donated to relay for life. so i decided to try it… natural sound 48.18 “one more time, do it again hard” catapult going off and laughing 48.28 track 3 with this event being so brand new, one experienced canon owner was shooting watermelons for the very first time friday — 56.13 they asked us to come over here and shoot watermelons. we never shot watermelons before. 56.17 butt sot 56.31 we’ll going to be shooting low pressure, slowing down the speed on that trigger. melons can’t take the pounding that pumpkins can and hopefully it will hold together and we’ll get a couple out. 56.41 track 4 and if you were worried about wasting these watermelons — 43.13 the watermelons that they are using this year are watermelons that have been left out in the field. they only pick them so long and they are done picking them. 43.19 butt sot 43.27 this is not wasting anything, we’re using these watermelons so it ought to be fun. 43.32 track 5 justina coronel 47 abc. tickets will be fifteen dollars in advance and twenty dollars at the event. children 12 and under are free. but you’re going to want to get your tickets sooner rather than later – as only two-thousand tickets will be sold– to find out where you can get those tickets — just head to our website at 47 a-b-c