The Florida Man Games are on and only the wildest and beefiest gator-loving dudes will win
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- People in Florida have come up with a contest to find who best fits the "Florida Man" meme.
- The Florida Man Games pits 16 teams of five people in various wild Florida-style challenges.
- These include beer belly sumo wrestling and pool noodle duels in the mud.
A new competition is going all out to embrace the "Florida Man" meme, pitting contestants in a flurry of wild challenges that include evading arrest from mock police officers and duking it out in pool noodle duels.
The inaugural "Florida Man Games" are to be held in February in St. Augustine, on the east coast of the Sunshine State.
The contest is the brainchild of Pete Melfi, a St. Augustine resident who owns a media outlet covering local news called The904Now, per The Orlando Sentinel.
Melfi told the newspaper that he initially planned to hold a "0.5K Beer Run," but started adding more events to form a tournament of sorts.
According to the games' website, 16 teams of five will duke it out over a "beer belly Florida sumo" competition, pool noodle duels in the mud, a race involving a "catalytic converter, two bikes, and a handful of copper pipes," and other roughhouse activities.
A giant melee between police officers and firefighters called "Brawl of the Badges" is also planned.
Attendees can also attempt a mechanical gator rodeo or try to jump over an inflatable spinning log.
The "Florida Man" meme has come to describe a constant stream of headlines detailing bizarre crimes committed by men from Florida. It gained mass traction online when the Twitter account @_FloridaMan started collating such articles in 2013.