00:00Sous-titrage Société Radio-Canada
00:30...the limits of engineering and science.
00:34Tonight, on Road to Punkin' Chunkin'...
00:37Back it off, but don't slack it.
00:38Team Nassau aims to take down a trebuchet giant.
00:41The plan this year is to topple the king.
00:44One!
00:47While shoulda known better is out to prove they can run circles around the competition.
00:52This is the year that the wheel will show that if you don't have one of these, don't expect to
00:56win.
00:56And in a top-secret cornfield, Team Pumpkin' Hammer is hiding their next big thing.
01:03And all I can tell you is their jaws are going to drop.
01:07If there's one thing that these three teams know, it's that the Road to Punkin' Chunkin' is never easy.
01:13Wait a minute. Wait a minute.
01:22Pumpkin' Junkin' is a unique, all-American festival where larger-than-life characters...
01:29...innovation...
01:30...and engineering are pitched towards one goal.
01:34Throwing a pumpkin further than anyone else.
01:40Teams compete with everything from catafaults...
01:42...to air cannons.
01:45But one of my favorite Chunkin' machines is a trebuchet.
01:48Oh, my God!
01:51The undisputed king of the division is New Hampshire dentist Steve Seegers.
01:56He's won it so many times. He has six consecutive titles with Yankee Siege.
01:59He's now got one with Yankee Siege II.
02:01It's time for someone else to win.
02:03Last year, I watched Young Gun's Matt DeFrancesco and Nick Wendel nearly bring down a dynasty.
02:10We were just going down there with this new machine, new design, new everything, basically untested.
02:17Whoa, that was a monster chunk!
02:20Despite being almost three times smaller than the colossal Yankee Siege II,
02:25Nassau was just 10 feet shy of the 2,326-foot winning shot.
02:33He's releasing his pumpkin roughly 90 feet near.
02:36We're releasing it about 30 feet near.
02:38He's running 18,000 pounds of counterweight.
02:41Our entire machine is less than that counterweight.
02:44We come up 10 feet short.
02:47That close.
02:49When years passed, everybody thought you had to be humongous to win.
02:52We're that smaller machine working maximum efficiency to our advantage.
02:56There's no need to be a giant to win in this world.
02:59Nassau believes their team's success is partly due to a unique combination of talents.
03:05Captain Matt and teammate Jason are both engineers by trade, while Nick...
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