Alpha Omicron Pi and Delta Tau Delta won the Minute to Win It competition between the student organizations during Homecoming Week. Minute to Win It is a collection of games the are played by students with their organizations in to earn points in the Homecoming Sweepstakes.   
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The annual Minute to Win It competition continued the Homecoming festivities for student organizations as they played an assortment of games in Strawberry Stadium.

The games were played on Wednesday, Oct. 19 as Alpha Omicron Pi and Delta Tau Delta finished in first place, Black Student Union and NAACP finished in second place and in third place, Theta Phi Alpha and Kappa Sigma.

“I think it went really good,” said Harley Arrington, Student Director of Homecoming. “It was my first time doing it, so it was definitely a handful, but it went great. I feel like the games were a lot of fun. I’m really happy with the way it went.”

The teams were made up of student organizations that were either by themselves or teamed up with other organizations. The other teams were Phi Mu and Kappa Alpha Order, Alpha Sigma Tau and Sigma Tau Gamma, Baptist Collegiate Ministry, Sigma Sigma Sigma, Theta Chi and Pi Kappa Alpha, and Catholic Student Association.

“We had 10 sign up, but eight showed up,” said Arrington. 

Minute to Win It gave students a chance to do something hands on and physically active for Homecoming.

“Minute to Win It allows five people from each of the organizations to participate,” said Arrington. “The students love to come out and watch it to cheer on their friends. It’s easy to see cause they get to sit in the bleachers and watch their friend compete and can cheer on them.”

The first game was Separation Anxiety. The second game was Noodling Around, a game where the participants had to put one uncooked spaghetti noodle in their mouth and pick up a penne noodle until they looped all of them onto the spaghetti. 

“My favorite one was the one with the noodles,” said Nick Johnson, a spectator and senior nursing major.

In the dice game, participants had to balance dice on a popsicle stick with it in their mouth. The last game was Wet Ball, where a balloon had to be sprayed across 10 yards on the field.

Despite not winning, other contestants enjoyed the competition and had fun with their fellow students.

“I enjoyed it this year,” said President of the BCM Bella Mokeba. “Obviously it’s a competition so sometimes I got a little frustrated, but it was still fun. This is one of my favorite events for Homecoming. I think the most people come out for this besides Lip Sync. It’s fun to have all your friends come out and cheer you on.”

 

The first game of Minute to Win It was Separation Anxiety.
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Wet Ball was the last game played by students in Minute to Win It and unlike the other games was played one at a time.
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