Gallery: Table Fighting Is Exactly What It Sounds Like: Tables, Fighting
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*Table Fights co-founder Annie Evelyn, hard at work on a mechanical fighting table with artists Jonathan Schipper and Tim Laursen about a week before the 5th Annual Table Fights Competition. She reprised the table she entered in the inaugural table fight.*
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*Artist Jonathan Schipper, working on the table.*
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*It works! Annie Evelyn and Jonathan Schipper put their mechanical table through its paces head of the competition.*
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*The Magnan Metz Gallery in New York hosted the fights, and even Table Fights Competition co-founder Annie Evelyn has to help set up the ring*
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*"Diamond" Dan White of Providence, Rhode Island, came back to host his third table fights competition.*
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*Ring girls Hannah Bacon and Hannah Holby (from left), both of Brooklyn, often stepped into the ring for impromptu bouts while table technicians repaired their fighters.*
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*The Golden Slapper takes down Jersey Shore in some intense completion.*
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*Annie Evelyn watches as Patrick Camut of Charleroi, Pennsylvania, steers The Skin Ripper 2.0 in the heat of battle. Camut raised $411 via Kickstarter to build his table, but lost his match when a weld on a wheel failed. This was his second year competing in Table Fights.*
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*Bird Man Cometh, so named for its flapping wings, takes on Skin Ripper 2.0, underscoring the intense nature of the bouts.*
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*Ring girl Hannah Bacon of Brooklyn holds up a round card.*
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*Matthew Mosher of Tempe, Arizona, celebrates his illustrious victory. His table, "Yuki," is the only one to have competed in all five Table Fights event. Mosher competed with Yuki at the first fight, then the two went their separate ways before reuniting this year. Yuki was the simplest table in the fight, having just three legs and a drill for a motor.*
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*Yuki savors the thrill of victory as ring girls Hannah Bacon and Hannah Holby (from left) hold the table aloft to celebrate its win.*
