On July 23, 2010, a battlefield was constructed and the warriors lined up. 3,927 people picked their sides, grabbed some ammo, aimed for the opposition and launched their balloons over no-man’s land, shattering every last balloon within minutes.
If this sounds like the scene of a Guinness World Record, it is. BYU stole the record from UK – and UK wants it back.
During K Week, it’s not unusual to see 2,000 students lined up to enjoy free pancakes both at noon and midnight daily. This weekend, CSF will host a party on the rooftop of a parking structure, complete with disc jockey.
The religious group draws large numbers of people for unusual events, including the filling and transporting of over 125,000 water balloons. All of these happenings are the result of ideas of how to get the community together in the most fun and welcoming way possible.
“We have a lot of meetings,” said Jeremy Buchanan, CSF assistant campus minister. “Many of them are late at night, without much sleep, and we can think of some pretty ridiculous stuff.”
In 2006, Microsoft hosted the World’s Largest Water Balloon Fight in Australia to launch its newest gaming platform, the Xbox 360. 2,849 people beamed each other with 51,400 water balloons. When Buchanan and some fellow CSF members stumbled across a video of this fight online at one of their late-night meetings, they were almost certain they could break that record.
In 2008, CSF fell short of breaking the record by roughly 100 participants. In 2009, they tried again, and finally broke the record with 119,411 balloons and 3,902 participants.
It takes all summer to organize and advertise a giant water balloon fight, and just as long to fill the projected 150,000 balloons. Of those balloons, only about 125,000 will be salvageable after transportation.
Read the full story at the Kentucky Kernel.
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