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| A human hunter escorts two captured zombies for a game of capture the flag. |
With a basketball game on Utah State University's campus drawing human and zombie fans alike, the League of Supernatural Nations ordered an evening truce for all combatants, and organized a pre-game capture the flag contest.
Capture the flag game was played on the central campus lawn, located near The Junction. About 35 zombies and humans showed up to play.
“This is almost the best part of the week,” said Sean Shilling, a key soldier for the zombie horde who is known for leaving the blood of his human victims on his face. “Humans can play as zombies and zombies as humans. It is completely for fun. It doesn't matter who wins at all.”
Coltin Grover was the moderator on the scene making sure that the teams were even and that everybody was playing by the rules.
“Regardless of what game you play there are always those players that don’t play fair or are kind of jerks,” said Daniel Weckler, a zombie general. “But that happens in every sport and in every game, it’s still fun.”
Weckler said his was disappointed, though, that not many living or undead people showed up to play. He attributed that to exhaustion from running around all week trying to eat or avoid being eaten — and a final battle expected for Saturday evening for which some might be trying to rest.
Players were divided into two teams and began attempting to reach the opposite team’s flag, which was a large Nerf battle ax, while avoiding flying projectiles.
"It’s really unfortunate that we didn't have any missions today,” Shilling said. “But it’s pretty fun just getting together and playing for fun.”
Due to the low turn-out, the event was cut short and ended at 5 p.m.
UnDeadline reporters Will Christensen, Branson Smith, Elisabeth Gee, Mina Sayer, and Bennett Purser contributed to this report.
