Push a watermelon up a slide using breadsticks

Task stats

Points

15

Disquals

5

• Anders uses a few breadsticks to push the watermelon a bit; when it begins to roll off of the slide, he reflexively catches it with his hands and holds it on the slide. He then grabs most of the breadsticks and uses them as a barrier between his palms and the watermelon, and pushes the watermelon the rest of the way up the slide and across the finish line. As the decision is made to base the results entirely on the number of breadsticks used, Anders earns last place, having used 48 breadsticks.
• Annika grabs a few breadsticks and wonders if she can use them like chopsticks to pick the watermelon up; this plan fails immediately. Annika re-reads the task and asks Mark to lift the slide up. While the watermelon rolls down the slide towards the finishing line, Annika quickly uses a single breadstick to help push it the rest of the way over the finishing line, in an attempt to claim that the melon was pushed across the finishing line via breadsticks. Lasse decides that in the instance of this task, Mark is simply a tool that Annika used, and that having Mark move the slide was the same as Annika moving the slide herself, as she told him to do so. [Note: as this ruling would definitely contradict other times Mark has successfully been used to bypass rules in other tasks, this decision was likely made to increase the entertainment of the show by having this attempt counted among all the actual disqualifications]. As the decision is made to base the results entirely on the number of breadsticks used, Annika earns third place, having used 10 breadsticks.
• Jakob re-reads the task and asks Mark to lift the slide up. While the watermelon rolls down the slide towards the finishing line, Jakob pokes it with two breadsticks to help propel it across the finishing line, in an attempt to claim that the melon was pushed across the finishing line via breadsticks. Lasse decides that in the instance of this task, Mark is simply a tool that Jakob used, and that having Mark move the slide was the same as Jakob moving the slide himself, as he told Mark to do so. [Note: as this ruling would definitely contradict other times Mark has successfully been used to bypass rules in other tasks, this decision was likely made to increase the entertainment of the show by having this attempt counted among all the actual disqualifications]. As the decision is made to base the results entirely on the number of breadsticks used, Jakob earns second place, having used 4 breadsticks.
• Mahamad runs into the shed and grabs a roll of duct tape. He reinforces a half a breadstick with the duct tape. Looking at the slide, Mahamad realises he can move the finishing line. He moves the finishing line down to just in front of the watermelon, and uses his duct tape breadstick push the melon towards the line. However, in doing so, he realises that duct tape has touched the watermelon, and that he has disqualified himself. Mahamad apologises and walks away from the task. As the decision is made to base the results entirely on the number of breadsticks used, Mahamad wins the task, having used one breadstick “and a lot of honesty”.
• While pushing the melon, Neel accidentally allows it to fall off of the slide and roll across the yard. Neel uses breadsticks to move the watermelon back to the slide, but encounters difficulty getting it back onto the slide. While debating how to get the melon onto the slide, Neel realises she can move the finishing line, and does so, placing it at the bottom of the slide. Neel asks if she can start over, and sets the task back on the slide while Mark replaces the melon. Neel re-enters the yard and acts as though she is seeing the setup and reading the task for the first time, and is surprised that the task is so easy, that the finish line isn’t further up the slide. Neel uses a single breadstick to nudge the watermelon over the finish line. As the decision is made to base the results entirely on the number of breadsticks used, Neel earns fourth place, having used 35 breadsticks.