throwing shirts to those who would dance to had multiple square poles sticking out of the
the songs and that kept everyone’s moods ground about five feet high and at the top
high.
was a hole where they took a PVC pipe and
put it into the hole allowing people to push
As nighttime fell, camping parties began it to score them the point.
and that was a blast, as it always is—people
having fun, sharing stories and enjoying not Personally I wasn’t a fan of how the final battle
being on their feet for the rest of the night.
was set up and how the objective markers
were made. It didn’t make for a lot of people
Sunday, the Final Day of Living Legends running to try to score extra points, as is
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usually the norm at Living Legends. I would
have much rather had the slap sticks or even
It was here. Matches in the morning followed the foam cubes they had at last year’s event.
by the famous Living Legends “final battle.” But this is only the first year they have had it
Matches were off to a great start and on the at this location and as we know with all CPX
field. We all got to see some really interesting events it only gets better with age.
outfits that various players were donning this
day. There was a Borat style swimsuit, clown Media people, myself included dread the
outfits and just about every other type of final battle. Thousands of players shooting
get-up you could imagine.
paint at anything and everything, including
There also was no shortage of smoke us. To say we got shot a few times would
grenades during these battles. I felt like be the understatement of the year. I was
there was a permanent fog over the land “convinced” to stand dead center by Living
and I think everyone was feeling that. The Legend media veteran Zac Arbuckle during
scores were pretty even on Sunday before the break out. Needless to say I didn’t stay
lunch and it was time for the final battle there long considering I got shot a good 10
preparations to get underway. I spent time times in 5 seconds and I wasn’t about to see
during this helping a fellow media person set just how many more times I could get hit.
up a GoPro to film the center objective for Even running off to the “safe” zone I was
the final battle. The objective this year they blasted away. But the real heroes are the refs.
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