@simon Looks like the European competition was on Sunday. Heaviest 1152kg = 2.540 lb from Belgium
https://www.lkz.de/lokales/stadt-ludwigsburg_artikel,-wie-aus-einer-kleinen-saat-europas-schwerster-kuerbis-wird-_arid,803356.html

@simon I'm not gonna lie Simon, these big pumpkins look like a 400lb guy who had to be lifted out of his bedroom on a forklift for bariatric surgery. Completely unappetizing, would not watch.