Intervention has its roots in the Wincons, held at Winchester over the last few years. It has become traditional to honour the town's most famous son, King Alfred the Great, by holding a cake burning contest. If you would like to help continue this tradition, bake/burn a cake and bring it along. If you already know what recipe you will be using, fill out the form below.
Some people may remember the Great Egg Race, a contest of
scientific and engineering ingenuity in which an egg is propelled
as far as possible by a self-contained device using mechanically
stored energy.
Intervention intends to resurrect the fannish version
of this event as the Brian Burgess Memorial Pork Pie Race (many
con-goers will attest to the powerful link which Brian forged
between fandom and the pork pie). Entries are invited in two
categories - devices built before the convention, and those built
from materials available at the con itself.
Full rules, size of regulation pie and so forth are available
from the Federation Internationale des Mechanismes de Pork Pie
(aka the Fan Lounge, e-mail intervention@minervatech.u-net.com)