Capture the Flag!

Today was my school's annual capture the flag day. At the end of the day, beginning at 4:30, two hundred +/- students and faculty play a game of capture the flag for two hours in a playing area of 18 acres.

Rules: Typical capture the flag. But, because there are so many people, there are four flags per team. If you capture a flag from the other team, you re-deploy it on your side. In this fashion if you capture a flag, the other team is essentially already down two points. Jails are about 50 yards from the midfield line, inside the crease (on our lacrosse field). If one person from your team tags one person in your jail, the entire jail is free. No chains. If you get tagged with the flag, you drop it where it is.

Setting: Some of the obstacles and land marks include our school, a wind turbine, a pond, two parking lots, a driveway, two lacrosse fields, an amphitheater, a bike path, power lines, and lots of woods.

The Teams: Blue and White, each evenly distributed with faculty and students from all grades.

The Outcome: Everyone said the blue team was stacked. The same thing happened last year as well. Despite what people said, white dominated with a final score of 7-1 (we captured all but one of their flags). Our jail had one free clear while the blue team had two.

That being said, I was on white and it was awesome.

May 25, 2007

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