VIDEO: The Port of Dartmouth Royal Regatta Ice Cream eating race was inundated with competitors this year.

In all the age classes, the action was furious, featuring regurgitation, skilled use of the hands and pained expressions, as the cold outweighed the taste of the ice cream consumed.

Although the winners were identified by a compare, it proved almost an impossible task to catch their names. A plea to the organiser brought a response, passed via a helper: ” I’ve enough to do to determine who won without recording their name.” We can confirm this to be the case and that his task was a difficult one which he accomplished with aplomb or is that a dash?

We can tell you that the winner of the first junior event was the boy in the blue hoodie with ice cream en route to his mouth but not quite past his lips. His name is Max, we think, and the runner up was Evie. The winner of the next race you may judge yourself from our VIDEO.