well, it's not about historical accuracy, but about having a little fun (TM) Besides, it's not christmas specific, but general winter-holiday-ish... though they probably weren't too "big" on winters as well

It'll probably take place at my home, since our parcel at orache is too full...

snowballfight is an idea as well, we do have snowballthrowers... But keeping score might take some advanced scripting work, and I'(m not sure i'll have the time and/or skills... There is an opensource weapon system in SL I believe, so maybe that can be modded.....

 About the contest: don't know, maybe best looking with a max nr of prims to use in a limited time? We'll have to create a jury then  

If anybody has a good idea to combine all this with a "social" activity (I mean a good cause, like a charity or anything), that could be nice as well.... 

Organising a winter event would be great !

Few days ago I came across free copyable iceskates with a good iceskating animation, (not arms flapping but propper skatestrokes with arms and legs, when you start to walk it shows you iceskating) and is quite funny.
problem is almost every island seems to have an iceskate-ring by now.

Another idea could be to make a simple snowramp, and have a sled/sleigh-like vehicle (can probably alter an existing vehicle a little) and then instead of making jumps and bumps on the ramp, it could be easier to just stick objects on the ramp so you'd have a slalom and obstacle course. I'll try to find or make such a vehicle.

Yesterday I had a go at a propper snowballfight with the snowballshooter with a real life friend, (who hardly needs encouragement after saying snowballshooter) was good fun, they've got beyond visual range capability and you can fire several "rounds" a second. As fast as you can press the mousebutton and till your mousefinger starts to hurt. I must admit it did stop feeling like a snowballfight, and more of a Quake-4 type of thing with snowballs whistling past my ears and snowballs falling out of the sky all around me making loud thumps as they land, hiding behind trees and objects, watching the green blip on the map trying to locate my target. It was terrifying. I had good hope that I won, but my adversary told me that hope wasn't enough.
next time I'll challenge you people. You'll need to practise and work on your draw, get to know your snowballs, learn how they deflect under gravity and off of objects so to best use them to your advantage, to keep the initiative, when the situation becomes critical.

Mir