UC Irvine Students Smash the Guinness World Record for the World's Largest Pillow Fight

Welcome week in the fall is the time of year when most new college students actively avoid getting hit in the face with objects of whatever variety to obviate the voltage for a moniker that will stay with them throughout their college career. This yr, however, students who had been accepted to the University of California, Irvine, said, "Bring it on."

As division of the university's welcome week activities, UC Irvine students, mostly freshman and transfers, joined together yesterday to attempt to smash the Guinness World Record for the world's largest pillow fight. An amazing 4,200 (sober?) students succeeded in snapping off the previous record — 3,813 people — held by Swedish DJ duo Dada Life, who instigated the pillow fight at a concert in Chicago.

Although just one specific rule had to be observed in order to clear the record — the battle had to remain for at least 60 seconds — apparently a portion goes into forming a world-record-breaking pillow fight. Granting to the Orange County Register, "It requires at least 100 volunteers and several turnstiles to count participants and an official Guinness adjudicator. Not to mention [portable restrooms], water, spare food, and a disc jockey to keep everyone jazzed while folks file in." During the event, the students wielding the bed linens against one another were serenaded by Ariana Grande singing.

UC Irvine currently holds the records for the world's largest water-pistol fight and largest dodge-ball game, which were both lay out during past welcome-week festivities. A fifth-year college student who had taken part in the event described how it felt to break the world pillow-fighting record with one word: "Awesome." The Irvine Anteaters, as they are recognized, officially start class today, and we hope all their seams are prepared. If you are interested in the custom t-shirts they wore, come to SNAPMADE.