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- jownz, on 10/12/2007, -3/+168See! RL is still more fun than WoW!
- Recuso, on 10/12/2007, -4/+168MMRLCTF?
- Memitim, on 10/12/2007, -5/+135We can't do this here in the States. By the time the sun rose we'd have 12 players dead from gunshots, 40 killed in traffic accidents, 250 lawsuits filed, and the score would still only be 1-0. And even that would be disputed for the next two years.
- n8dawg87, on 10/12/2007, -4/+103That was one of the funnest nights of my life. We so pnwd the blue team. The best part was when the cops pulled up when we were just starting at Bay and King (Right out front of the Toronto Stock Exchange) and they were so confused as to why the hell there were 1200 ppl with glow sticks standing there and climbing all over everything. The look on their faces was priceless. Props to newmindspace.com
- SlappyMc, on 10/12/2007, -4/+87See guys, Canada is cool...
- mancat, on 10/12/2007, -2/+69no. they were just confused because you were nowhere near the freaking flag. they were in on it, man.
- LiquidPenguin, on 10/12/2007, -2/+66OK, even I have to say I'm impressed. I thought getting 20 or 30 people to play CtF was pretty cool. But 1200 or thereabouts takes the cake.
- guytoronto, on 10/12/2007, -4/+54Toronto rocks!
- jus1haz2, on 10/12/2007, -3/+50Damn thats badass! I wanna play :P
- kalleanka, on 10/12/2007, -7/+51Ok, so one guy hide the flag in his jacket, walked all the way and the other 1199 guys was doing nothing?
- riah, on 10/12/2007, -4/+40@Memitim
Too much evening news for you. - Evoguy, on 10/12/2007, -6/+38Looks like it was a giant chaotic mess to me, still fun though.
- madc0w, on 10/12/2007, -6/+36*****, that is ***** sick. Other cities should hav e this type of stuff *Cough*new york*cough*
- guytoronto, on 10/12/2007, -9/+37Alas, my submission never made it past one digg back then.
http://www.digg.com/other_sports/Real_life_Capture_The_Flag_in_Downtown_Toronto - Smoov, on 10/12/2007, -1/+25Toronto is a cool city. I'd say it is up there with New York, SF, LA, Miami and Chicago.
- thesparrowband, on 10/12/2007, -2/+24shaddup. i love canada.
- maiku00, on 10/12/2007, -2/+22I would be scared as ***** to run around most U.S. cities late into the night
- TheFinestShadow, on 10/12/2007, -2/+22Heh, this would be awesome to do, but I live near Detroit. I wonder what the death toll would be like...
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+20I reckon any recreational activity in RL is better than its game equivalent, especially when it resembles a massive multiplayer game like this!
- NoStoppingUs, on 10/12/2007, -7/+24while i stopped playing capture the flag in 3rd grade, thats a much better way for 1200 young adults to spend a friday night that going out and getting ***** faced, though that may have happened afterwards anyway.
- Wolfbeta, on 10/12/2007, -2/+16That was a great night!
Unfortunately I was on the losing team :(.
Caught a glimpse of myself on top of the bus shelter at the beginning. For people there, I was the guy who was up there the whole time shooting the ridiculously large crowd.
There's photos of the event up on my flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/wolfbeta/
Lot's of great strategies all over the place, me and my group splinter cell'd our way up University, averting all the Pink outposts, and posing as homeless people when need be.
pkTO! - toasty168, on 10/12/2007, -3/+16Canadians are cooler than I thought.
- teddtech, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12Wow, we try that here in the US and A. Either a riot will start or B.Cops will start arresting people.
- NinjaBoy, on 10/12/2007, -2/+14They need a bigger flag with a wide base so it cant be concealed.
- BigJuiceMan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12holy crap Canada is cool. Try that ***** in a US city and the cops in riot gear will start tasering you! :(
- beelz, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12http://newmindspace.com/
When is this going to happen in San Francisco - Wolfbeta, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11It wasn't their fault. They ordered red and blue, but the supplier shipped purple instead.
- Pulse_Instance, on 10/12/2007, -2/+13We sure are, especially right now during the winter.
- bennybrill, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12I was there in 2005, it wasn't as big then but it was still amazingly fun.
theres this underground mall thing that is open 24 hours, but with the shops all shut down called PATH that essentially doubled the playing field - RonaldLewis, on 10/12/2007, -4/+14Canada is cool indeed. Looking forward to becoming a citizen one day (that is, if we don't join the US and Canada under a union first).
- Wolfbeta, on 10/12/2007, -2/+12It did :P.
- pyrotix, on 10/12/2007, -3/+12We started it in New York too! After we moved to Toronto it was taken over by http://www.gothamgamers.com/
- maiku00, on 10/12/2007, -3/+12how the hell would the submitter know ahead of time that 1200 people were going to show up?
- SourWorm, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10blue and purple .. couldn't they find colors that are easier to tell apart?
- TinFoil209, on 10/12/2007, -4/+12You took my flag eh?
- JennyPenny, on 10/12/2007, -4/+12I missed it!
:( If only I had known..... - yableo, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10so was I
it was totally mind-blowing
there are these underground mall corridors called the PATH system they stretches underneath both of the teams, so you could sneak under and then pop up on enemy territory. that was possibly the coolest element to the game! - Klever, on 10/12/2007, -3/+10Is Youtube just really slow to update or are people digging without actually viewing??
From YouTube = Views: 310
Current Diggs = 1691 - Spo8, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8Jesus, Canada is awesome.
- wmcheesemaster, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8You obviously were not there, there were well over 1000 people and it certainly did disrupt traffic. haha for those few hours we owned downtown
- NinjaYaddaYadda, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8Need more proof that Toronto kicks ass?
Toronto also hosts the annual Toronto Zombie Walk:
http://community.livejournal.com/toronto/4943828.html - hcetrepus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6A) Amazing is an entirely overused word.
B) Is the majority of your guys language so limited, you can only come up with a foul word to describe that you think something is cool? Or are you all 15? - SeanFranchise, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7This is awesome! I just finished taking a class on situations like this where people use cell phones to organize these types of things. Its wild to see a video so soon after my last meeting. If anyone wants to know more about these kinds of activities check out the book Smart Mobs by Howard Rheingold, its quite interesting.
- wthnow, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5I wish I could digg this more. Sidenote: I miss halo1 lan parties.
- asuraci, on 10/12/2007, -12/+16guytoronto: Probably because the title doesn't exactly grab people.. :P If you included "1,200 people" in the title it might have made it higher haha.
- dchu, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7wish i knew that was going on, i so would have come, checking out newmindspace.com now, gonna see if i can make it thier event this friday.
- maiku00, on 10/12/2007, -14/+18lol @ the whiny blond bitch
how typical - pyrotix, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4If anybody is wondering where we got the 1,200 number from, we bought 900 glowing necklaces from Incredible Novelties. We ran out about half an hour before the game started, and after that counted the number of people who came up to us an asked, "Are there any necklaces left?" This figure does not include the people who came late.
If you are interested in organizing your own, we have written a guide! http://www.newmindspace.com/metromorphosis.php - Chaotyk, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6Holy crap. That's awesome.
Now all they need is a 1,200 person laser tag game in an urban setting, and that would do it. Or even better - CTF laser tag. Or a sort-of "capture the point" game. They'd need rules to compensate for campers or whatever, but still, that's be amazing. - NinjaBoy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Your school has a class on this? Also dont both buying a book check out improv everwhere website and wikipedia.
http://www.improveverywhere.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_mob -
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