No shortage of creativity at Rock 102’s Cardboard Cup

It might be the most fun a person can have on a slab of cardboard as hundreds of people turned up the Rock 102’s annual Cardboard Cup at Optimist Hill on Saturday.

Participants are asked to create their most inventive sleds for a one-day competition with only one catch: the sled must be made out of cardboard.

Alex Pulvermacher, Ben Cloutier and Brady Gabrielson are engineering students at the University of Saskatchewan that were accepting of the challenge as they showed up with a tank, complete with a swiveling turret and all.

“A bit of structural engineering went into that thing,” Pulvermacher said after the group retrofitted a Halloween costume from last year.

“It’s funny how you can actually use a bit of your class stuff that you learned to build a cardboard tank.”

Cloutier took a look at the crowd and tried to explain what is so fun about sliding down a hill on a makeshift cardboard sled.

“I think just knowing you’re probably not going to make it all the way down and just praying for the best.”

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— Keenan Sorokan (@KeenanSorokan) March 16, 2019

Marc Guindon was taking part in his first Cardboard Cup after missing out on the event the two previous years.

His entry was a cardboard remake of the original Starship Enterprise from Star Trek as he attempted to boldly go where no one has gone before on a cardboard sled.

“Monday night I went and found a bunch of cardboard and started building it at 8 p.m.,” Guindon said of the project that took him over 30 hours to complete.

While Guindon might have a shot at best look sled and the many prizes that go along with it — like a 3-day ski vacation in Jasper — he’s most excited to see how it would hold up for it’s one-run ride.

“I’ll be laying down head first and I got a little peep hole in the front to look out of,” he said while admiring his sled.

“It just sounds fun and stupid.”