UC Irvine Takes Recess Seriously, Sets Record for World's Largest Dodgeball Game
UC Irvine, you've really outdone yourself this year. Students recaptured their Guinness world record title on Wednesday afternoon by organizing the world's largest dodgeball game. Team Blue and Team Gold were both in it to win it, and Team Blue triumphed. Just imagine the multitudes of balls and bruises...
A total of 4,488 amped up players descended upon UC Irvine's Bren Events Center for the match. Recruiting deemed deliciously easy for organizers, as roughly 6,000 freshman and transfer students were setting their first foot on UC Irvine soil during the university's annual Welcome Week. Quite an introduction, aye?
The event was so massive that a corporate sponsor donated 1,000 balls and refereed the contest. To make it official, a judge was on hand to record the event.
"One of the keys to a positive record attempt outcome is communication," Guinness World Record Corporate Adjudications Manager Danny L. Girton Jr. told [OC Weekly], keeping his composure despite all of the screaming college students around him. "I was up [in the scissor platform] at the beginning of the game, it's a completely different scene up there."
