In total 7,681 participants was the official Guinness record and was achieved by the City of Saskatoon thanks to Yukigassen Team Canada. Underestimating the number of participants the event ran out of their 8200 wristbands hours before the competition took place. Rick Mercer was one of the participants who came to shoot an episode about Team Canada's Yukigassen team and compete in the world record. Seattle's world record was broken on Januin Saskatoon, Canada, where more than 20,000 participants came to Victoria park to attempt the Guinness World Record. There are annual Yukigassen tournaments in Japan, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden, the United States and Canada. Yukigassen (雪合戦) is a snowball fighting-competition originating in Japan. On February 8, 2013, nearly 2,500 students of the Boston University participated in a snowball fight on Boston's Esplanade facilitated by historic winter storm " Nemo". On January 12, 2013, 5,834 people officially took part in Seattle, Washington set the Guinness World Records record for the world's largest snowball fight, during Seattle's Snow Day. Park police cars were positioned around Dupont Circle throughout the snowball fight. The event was promoted via Facebook and Twitter. for a snowball fight organized over the internet after over two feet of snow fell in the region during the North American blizzards of 2010. On February 6, 2010, some 2,000 people met at Dupont Circle in Washington, D.C. On January 22, 2010, 5,387 people in Taebaek, South Korea, set the world record for most people engaged in a snowball fight. However, this snowball fight failed to break the record set in October of the same year in Leuven. The snowball fight was scheduled weeks in advance, and was helped by the fact that the University canceled all classes due to 12–16 inches of snow that fell the night before. There were reports of several injuries, mainly broken noses, and a few incidences of vandalism, mainly stolen lunch trays from Memorial Union. On December 9, 2009, an estimated crowd of over 4,000 students at the University of Wisconsin–Madison participated in a snowball fight on Bascom Hill. On October 14, 2009, 5,768 people in Leuven, Belgium took part in a University of Pennsylvania-funded snowball fight and broke the world record for the largest snowball fight. On January 29, 2005, a crowd of 3,027 people gathered in the town of Wauconda, Illinois for a snowball fight organized by Bill Lutz, with the town receiving a mention in the 2006 Guinness Book of World Records. Sprott states that the fight started when Strahl’s Brigade was attacked by a brigade of Breckenridge’s Division, but soon other brigades became involved, and ultimately five or six thousand men were engaged. Sprott describes a snowball battle that occurred early in 1864 involving the Army of Tennessee. In his memoir of the American Civil War, Samuel H. What began as a few hundred men from Texas plotting a friendly fight against their Arkansas camp mates soon escalated into a brawl that involved 9,000 soldiers of the Army of Northern Virginia. Large snowball fights ĭuring the American Civil War, on January 29, 1863, the largest military snow exchange occurred in the Rappahannock Valley in Northern Virginia. Similarly, after its "snowball ordinance" became the subject of national news coverage, the city of Wausau, Wisconsin chose to remove the word "snowball" from a list of dangerous objects specifically prohibited from being thrown on public property. In 2018, the town council of Severance, Colorado unanimously overturned one such ban after hearing from a local youth. Several localities have passed ordinances prohibiting snowball fights, typically as part of a larger prohibition on thrown missiles. The law, if it ever existed, is not presently enforced. In 1472, the city council of Amsterdam allegedly prohibited snowball fights for reasons of public safety, a prohibition which occasionally finds its way into lists of strange laws. A large, organized snowball fight on the lawn of the Cathedral of Learning at the University of Pittsburgh in January 2016.
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