But I have never done anything like this in my life and I have nothing to say about my competitive ability in carving pumpkins. It slows you down a little to get started (and you still need to find a suitable pumpkin), but it's probably worth a try, if only for the sake of fun and participation in the contest. The coolest thing, in my opinion, about all this is the activity of the BTC-community and the opportunity to join it. Such contests demonstrate that the bitcointalk community is alive and not bored at all.