Associated Students Inc. (ASI) will host a Green Out Knockout event in an attempt to break a Guinness World Record for the largest game of knockout basketball on Thursday.
Kait Freeberg
Special to Mustang News
Cal Poly will attempt to break the official world record for the largest game of knockout basketball in the Recreation Center on Thursday.
The game, set to take place at 6 p.m., will be hosted by Associated Students Inc. (ASI) intramural sports. Green outfits are encouraged and prizes will be given out for the most creative costumes.
Intramural coordinator Sean Pellerin hopes to see inventive green costumes from Kermit the Frog to the green M&M. T-shirts will be given out as prizes and Mustang News will hand out the grand prize, a $50 gift card to Sal’s Sandwiches and Beer.
“We had something scheduled for March 6 — a basketball shootout tournament — but we did not really know what it was, so we tossed around some ideas,” Pellerin said. “We came upon the knockout game, and we did some research on it and we thought we could beat it.”
The Guinness Book of World Records holds the largest game of knockout at 781 participants. Pellerin said they are expecting 1,000 people to attend, based on talking to Inter Housing Council, Inter Fraternity Council and other leaders on campus, as well as advertisers.
Industrial engineering freshman Dana Spalding said she was invited to the event on Facebook.
“I’m going because it sounded pretty cool that the Guinness Book was going to be there, and that I could be a part of something that might go down in history,” she said.
Mustang News will take photographs and video that will be part of what ASI sends in with the official forms to the London Guinness Book of World Records office.
It will take six weeks to process the results because the office gets so many applications every day, Pellerin said.
The final eight contestants from the game will compete at halftime during the Cal Poly men’s basketball game against UC Santa Barbara on Thursday in Mott Athletics Center.