At this Aussie celebration of all things mellon, participants step into watermelons and are towed down a slip & slide type setup with the end goal of staying on their feet.  While it may be a waste of melon and in America we prefer seed spitting comps, I think this would be a blast and a great reason for your local ski hill to fire up the bar midsummer and get all the locals out for a hilarious time.
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