Ever dream of being a contestant on the TV show "Minute to Win It?" Last Thursday on Nov. 10 in Jarman Auditorium, Alpha Delta Pi (ADPi) held the first Rumble in the Jungle event, an event where Longwood students could compete in teams of two to potentially win $75 for their respective club, organization or charity.
The event was organized to contribute to Ronald McDonald House Charities (RMHC), a program built "to create, find and support programs that directly improve the health and well being of children," as stated on RMHC's official website. "Our Ronald McDonald House program provides a ‘home-away-from-home' for families so that they can stay close by their hospitalized child at little or no cost."
ADPi's Rumble in the Jungle raised money for the program through ticket fees of $3 if paying for a ticket in advance or $4 if paying at the door of the event. The sorority also held events earlier in the week, including Penny Wars, Pie an ADPi and Pop Tab Collections. Penny Wars was in Dorrill Dining Hall from Monday to Thursday and involved Longwood students donating pennies to cups that represented the clubs and organizations. In Pie an ADPi, students were able to pie an ADPi sorority sister in the face for a fee of $1.
Rumble in the Jungle consisted of six rounds with three or four teams competing at a time. The first round consisted of stacking cups in a pyramid as fast as possible. If the cup pyramid falls while in stacking construction, the team of two must start over. This could lead to a lot of drama, especially when they are only one cup away from going on to the next round. The fastest cup building teams won.
The second round involved one person from each team to take one normal, single-stuffed Oreo and place it on his or her forehead. Afterwards — and here's where the difficult part comes in — the contestant must make the Oreo go to his or her own mouth without any help from the teammate or his or her own hands. If the Oreo falls to the ground, the contestant must start over with it on his or her forehead. Let's hope you believe in the five second rule. Each team had different strategies during this round, including slowly inching it along with the help of gravity or throwing the Oreo in the air and trying to catch it in his or her mouth the way a dog catches a Frisbee.
Also only involving one person from each team, the third round consisted of one contestant and one box of Kleenex tissues. The individual must take out a tissue, one by one. If more than one tissue is taken out at the same time, it meant instant disqualification for the team. Whichever teams completed the task fastest moved onto the fourth round. By the end of the third round, the stage resembled a winter wonderland, tissue paper clumped around haphazardly like snow.
The fourth round involved both teammates and one blue ball. The two contestants had to move one ball that lay nestled between the two contestants' stomachs and move it to underneath their chins. Hands were not allowed.
A little trickier than the previous rounds, the fifth round also involved both teammates. This time it involved bubbles and hula hoops and only one minute to enter the final round. One teammate in this round had to hold a hula hoop arms length away and keep it still. Ten steps away from the teammate, the other teammate had to use a bubble wand and blow bubbles in the direction of the hoop and continue blowing a chosen individual bubble until it passed the inside of the hula hoop.
Finally, the sixth round involved five balloons, one minute and no excuses. The teams must keep all of the balloons above the ground and not touch the stage for even an instant. In the end, the winners of ADPi's first ever Rumble in the Jungle event were — drum roll, please — Team Campus Rec, which included Evan Dobrowolski and Josh Kammerling.
Dobrowolski said after the event, "At the beginning [we thought we'd lost the event] because we didn't think we had enough points just because a lot of it had to do with pre-fundraiser stuff that we didn't do. It was counting up all week, and we didn't do any of that." Dobrowolski was referring to Penny Wars, which contributed to the points accrued that could boost each team's chances of winning.
Even with the chance of losing, Team Campus Rec still believed they had a chance at winning. "We're really good at stupid things," Dobrowolski laughed. "It's for a good cause. I mean, it was a fun event."
Look forward to Alpha Delta Pi's Rumble in the Jungle again next year. If interested in contributing to Ronald McDonald House Charities, check out their website at www.rmhc.org.