Below are the official results of the 50th Annual Pardeeville Watermelon Festival championship events held by the U.S. Watermelon Speed-Eating & Seed-Spitting Championships, Inc. For pictures from this year’s festival, click here.
If you have any questions or issues with the information listed below, please feel free to contact us directly at info@pardeevillewatermelonfestival.com.
Speed Eating
| CATEGORY | NAME | . . . . . | TIME |
| Women’s | Shanda Briant | 07.91 | |
| Men’s | Justin Briant | 05.75 | |
| Youth 12-16 | Tre Koepke | 05.76 | |
| Youth 6-11 | Braden Breneman | 33.34 | |
| Youth 0-5 | Christ Kratz | ||
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Seed Spitting
| CATEGORY | NAME | FT | IN |
| Senior (55+) | Geoff Gilbert | 44′ | 04″ |
| Women | Jessica Kratz | 39′ | 00″ |
| Men | Josh Swartz | 49′ | 04″ |
| Youth 12-16 • | Tre Koepke | 33′ | 00″ |
| Youth 6-11 • | Elaine Hepler | 27′ | 01″ |
| Youth 0-5 • | Gordon Kratz | 13′ | 07″ |
| Adult & Child 12-16 | |||
| Adult & Child 6-11 • | Meredith & Cliff Burdon | 59′ | 06″ |
| Adult & Child 0-5 | Shanda & Sydney Braint | 43′ | 10″ |
| Mixed Doubles • | Tim & Rebecca Swartz | 86′ | 04″ |
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Carving
| CATEGORY | NAME | . . . . . | PLACE |
| Child | 1 | ||
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| Youth | Eder & Elba Valle | 1 | |
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| Adult | Ali Ingersoll | 1 | |
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| Pro | 1 | ||
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Largest Watermelon
| NAME | WEIGHT | PLACE |
| Phil Hodgson | 1 | |
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The Pardeeville Watermelon Festival is an annual fall festival held the first Saturday after Labor Day in September, hosted in beautiful Chandler Park. It is held in Pardeeville, WI, USA, home of the U.S. Watermelon Speed-Eating and Seed-Spitting Championships, Inc. This website will be changing more and more as we get closer to our event, so check back soon. For more immediate information, please email info@pardeevillewatermelonfestival.com.