After narrowly missing the title last year, electrical vehicle engineer Brandon Dawson won the top prize at the Safeway World Championship Pumpkin Weigh-Off in Half Moon Bay, California. The annual pumpkin weighing contest has been likened to the Super Bowl of pumpkin growing. That mechanical background has influenced his pumpkin growing technique, he says. After Dawson was announced as the 52nd Safeway World Championship Pumpkin Weigh-Off winner on Monday, he sat his two young children on top of the massive pumpkin for a photo opp. It’s safe to say that there were smiles and cheers all around, as the new pumpkin weigh-off winner posed with his family.