Swarms of students filled Trinity Lawn to reach their boxes. Photo by Bianca Ontiveros
The odds were ever in Trinity’s favor as each hall’s residents put their game faces on at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday to participate in a capture the flag event themed after the popular “Hunger Games” book series.
The opposing sides represented fictional districts: the north side and south side of the dorm. Each side had 15 or more students from each hall participating. After each hall huddled together to strategize and pump up participants’ spirits, the games began.
Both sides were separated and sent to their bases to collect coins from a resident advisor – the north-side students at Wynn Amphitheater and the south-side students from Munson Courtyard.
Once the coins were gathered, students to ran back to the middle of Trinity Lawn, or “the cornucopia,” to fill their hall’s designated box with their coins.
“Our strategy was to have a bunch of people go in all at once,” said Sterling Garrett, freshman international business major from first south.
All students, both solo or with alliances of their hall or other halls, were dodging and weaving their way through the Trinity RAs dressed as Capital Citizens, who whacked the freshmen with pillows to keep them from reaching their boxes.
The north-side competitors, wearing all black, and south side, in all red attire, were scurrying back and forth from their bases all over campus to reach their boxes for an hour and a half.
The RA’s of Trinity and staff members gathered to participate in this first ever event. Photo by Bianca Ontiveros
One male and one female hall were chosen as victors: first south and third north.
“We had 180 coins and won by 50. We dominated because we had unity and stuck together,” said Mitch Kipley, freshman business management major from first south.
Some halls had devised strategies to survive and get the most points.
“I am just going to say we had some alliances. It worked out really well, and they stayed true to us and really helped us out,” said freshman commercial music major Bailey Schermerhorn from third north.
When the event was over, students were dripping with sweat, but happy.
“I think it was a good way of bringing unity to Trinity,” said junior biblical studies major Melody Eastman, RA of fifth north. “Because that is our theme and overall [it] brought everyone together and showed [students] how to be competitive and united.”