A cherry-based obstacle course may seem like just a game, but to many of the fruit pickers involved, it's like war.
And the strategy for throwing the second-grade fruit at competing teams: "You've got to aim for their softest point", Roxburgh girl Neleah Manderson (13) said at Roxburgh's Cherry Chaos on Saturday night.
"So that's their head, stomach and butts. You aim for the person, pick the cherries up, throw them as hard as you can."
Neleah favoured a barrage strategy where you "pick up as many as you can hold".
"If you get hit in the head it hurts really bad, but it slows them down."