Competitive Winter Picnicking at Fort Greene Park

Team Dumpling wraps Fairy House member Jonah in blankets

Jonah of team Fairy House setting up their station

Competitive Winter Picnicking trophies

Competitive Winter Picnicking judges with cash

Stephanie of Team Happy Hour/Sad Hour

Team Happy Hour/Sad Hour

Team Happy Hour/Sad Hour sandwich

Mark of Team Happy Hour/Sad Hour

Go Big or Go Gnome Team's picnic area

Go Big or Go Gnome Team's picnic area

Go Big or Go Gnome Team's picnic area

Pickleball game

Judge Annie does a Judge Anney Fresh gets Pickleback shot after playing Team Pickle-nic's Pickleball game

Team Pickle-nic pouring a shot

Person prepares to enter the Meataverse

Inside the Meataverse

Go Big or Go Gnome picnic table

Go Big or Go Gnome Team portrait

Go Big or Go Gnome picnic area

Oriana of Fairy House and a member of Go Big or Go Gnome

Members of Meataverse team

The Merry Mary Martyr Makers jousting round

The Merry Mary Martyr Makers jousting round

The Merry Mary Martyr Makers jousting round conclusion

The Merry Mary Martyr Makers

Members of Team Meataverse dancing

Team Fairy House

Team Fairy House table

At the Merry Mary Martyr Makers table

The Merry Mary Martyr Makers table

During the Sad Hour of Team Happy Hour/Sad Hour

Hell on Earth

Hell on Earth

Hell on Earth

Hell on Earth

Dumpling Team convert someone into a dumpling

Gnome Team scavenger hunt

A man decides not to enter the Meataverse

Still Sad Hour

Dumpling Team wrapping a judge in blankets

Dumpling team wrapping a judge in blankets

Dumpling team feeding a judge a pork dumpling

Member of Team Order of the Trash Can

Meataverse

Team Order of the Trash Can accepting trash from someone

Team Order of the Trash Can

Team Order of the Trash Can

Team Fairy House table

Snacks on the Fungal Fairies table

Participants warming their hands on Yaku'ZA's pizza oven

Participants warming their hands on Yaku'ZA's pizza oven

Participants warming their hands on Yaku'ZA's pizza oven

Members of Meataverse

Wheel of Smortune (spin a wheel of ingredients for custom smores)

Meataverse team interacting with a judge

Meataverse team interacting with a judge

Mark and Annie are burned at the stake at The Merry Mary Martyr Makers area

Fungal Fairies group portrait

Meat Zuckerberg poses with a baby...

...they make eye contact...

and it did not go well.

On Saturday, February 5, 2022, Shadow Traffic’s Competitive Winter Picnicking took place in Fort Greene Park in Brooklyn, NY in bitterly cold weather.

Participants created teams with themes and had to come up with drinks and food to serve along with games to play in order to win cash prizes in the following categories: “Mostest Thematic Team,” “Richest Picnic Meal,” “Funnest Picnic Game,” and “Bestest Picnic Drink”. There were teams such as Yaku’ZA (which made pizza and gave back massages with a rolling pin; their pizza oven came in quite handy to help keep hands warm), Meataverse (a Metaverse but involving meat), The Merry Mary Martyr Makers (their game was naturally jousting), Happy Hour/Sad Hour (the sad hour included a sad person listening to R.E.M.’s “Everybody Hurts” for an hour and serving raw onions, burnt toast, and a bottle of O’Doul’s; the happy hour game was karaoke), Dumpling Team (visiting their area meant being wrapped in many layers of blankets and being fed dumplings), two teams serving mushroom cupcakes (Fairy House and Go Big or Go Gnome), and others.

The results from this year’s edition (via Judge Anney Fresh):

Best In Show - Go Big or Go Gnome

Richest Picnic Meal - The Merry Mary Martyr Makers

Bestest Picnic Drink - Happy Hour/Sad Hour

Funnest Picnic Game - Dumplings

Best Cans - Order of the Trash Can

Best Use of Meat - Meataverse

Best Digital Fabrication - Fairy House

Best Ingredient Determination - Wheel of Smortune

Most Classiest - High Society

Best Wurst - Meataverse

Best Brined - Pickle-nic

Most Historically Impressive Picnickers - The Merry Mary Martyr Makers

Least Amount of Clothing Worn - Meataverse

Best Bribe - Yaku’ZA

Best Conceptual Picnic - Hell On Earth