Alright bitcoiners!!! Everyone is quite happy to participate in this year's pumpkin carving contest. However it seems my local board is left out. You may be wondering why and thats. Because of this rule from the official thread of the contest.

For tourists or indigenes used to Nigeria you would notice that Halloween isn't much celebrated in our country and although we have similar festivals in some regions we actually don't make use of pumpkins for our carvings and that's simply because the easily accessible pumpkin here isn't same with the Halloween pumpkin and thus can't be carved because of it's shape and hard exoshell.

As bitcoiners and contributors to the community here it would be very nice for us to be able to participate properly in the contest if the rule allowed for an alternative like WATERMELON which is as common as pumpkin in Nigeria here. Naija local board is one of the fastest growing board as well as active board in this community and it would be nice if the rules made it easy for us to participate. I too would love to join the contest but getting the regular pumpkin would have me travelling too.