Yesterday’s capture the flag game was the most exciting thing this week’s campers have seen so far, featuring sprinklers for the second year in a row and one game that ended in confusion.

Blue triumphed over red in the first game, and the second victory was undecided, though the blue team suggested that they won.
“I just hope it won’t be like last year with the sprinklers,” said second-year camper Randi Wilson about the sprinkler incident.

Towards the end of the second game, the sprinklers went off. Many campers ran around in the sprinklers and got very wet, although some people didn’t like getting splashed with the water. Second year camper Gracie Smith enjoyed running through the sprinklers. “The sprinklers aren’t so much a problem,” says Gracie. “They’re more of a challenging, fun, and wet obstacle.”

Tom Lyons, a game official, moved the jails as a result of the sprinkler incident, causing some confusion.
Later in the first game, enthusiastic red team prisoners chanted “R-E-D!” and, “Red! Red! Red!”
Then it was the blue’s turn for the chanting. The main chant was, “What do we want? CANADA! When do we want it? YESTERDAY! Why do we want it? MOOSE!”

“You’ve seen them, they’re majestic creatures!” Erika Harder says. “I really think we’ve got something to say. We’ve a voice that’s been oppressed for ten minutes. It’s time to rise against the common denominator and bring our issues to the front of the backburner.”

The small and what seemed to be harmless game soon became a war. And that was only the first game.
In the beginning of the second game, the red team put their flag right inside the out-of-bounds mark. One blue player tried to run over to get it, but she soon realized that she was out-of-bounds with it. There was some argument over the situation, angering some campers.

Throughout most of the second game, the red team had an advantage over the blue team because of the many blue players that were captured. There were about three guards stationed in front of the jail. There were a few complaints of boredom from these guards, who said they really wanted to take part in the real game. The blue team made many rescue attempts which failed most of the time, adding even more blue players to the prisoner count.

Second year Bryan Berry said he had a record for his team. He captured three people, rescued two, grabbed the flag for victory in the first game, and only got caught once.