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The great St. Paul-Minneapolis snowball fight

A tale of two cities... and countless snowballs.

ST PAUL, Minn. — The leaders of the Twin Cities each came in pretty sure of themselves for the great Sunday snowball fight.

"They're going down," said St. Paul Mayor Melvin Carter.

"Minneapolis has a long history of coming together to kick some butt," Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey said.

This all started when Mayor Carter tweeted a video challenging Minneapolis to a snowball fight.

The actual battle went down Sunday afternoon at the wind-swept McMurray Fields in St. Paul. Dozens of people came out to show support for their side of the river.

"When I was a kid we'd wake up and run to the window to see if it had snowed or not, and if it had snowed I'd run in my sister's room and say 'It snowed, it snowed, it snowed, we can have all kinds of fun,'" Carter said to the crowd. "And so when the rest of the world looks at the weather report and goes, 'Oh my gosh, I wonder how they get through it in Minnesota,' they should be able to cut to the scenes of how we get through it having a whole lot of fun together."

Both mayors used the event to emphasize not so much a real competition, but their desire for unity between the two cities.

"There's no snowflake that's alike, there's no snowfall or mayor or city that's exactly alike, but in this case there's a whole lot more that unites the Twin Cities than divides us," Frey said.

There were three rounds to the border battle: one for city officials, another for children under 12, and one for big people over 12. KARE 11's own Jana Shortal acted as the emcee.

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