Looking at the photos... they don't really look like snowmen - more like snowbots, but I guess that's the kind of quality you can expect when the goal is quantity.
The cities of Zeeland, St. Clair and Saline took part in a snowman building contest over the weekend.
As Michigan Radio's Lindsey Smith reported, the goal of the contest was to see who could build the most snowmen (at least 4ft. tall) in a 2 hour period with 50 volunteers.
The volunteers employed garbage cans, pickle buckets, and Pam cooking spray to help them churn the snow creatures out.
The city of Saline came out on top winning the soon-to-be coveted, wood-carved trophy known as "Frosty."
Here are the final tallies:
1st Place - Saline with 483 snowmen like creatures
2nd place - Zeeland with 268
3rd place - St. Clair with 113
St. Clair Downtown Development Director Dan Lockwood blamed their poor showing on "terrible packing snow."
The Grand Rapids Press has several photos of the contest as it took place in Zeeland.
You be the judge, do they need to tighten up their definition of a snowman? Or should snowbots count?
