Christina VarvisWhile the University of Alberta’s Hide and Seek Club fell short of breaking the world record for the largest game of hide and seek ever, they still played for the same reason they did when they were five-years- old: for fun.
Seek the Record, which hosted 620 participants on Feb. 6, was still an “amazing” and “awesome” expe- rience for Hide and Seek President Adam Pinkoski.
“It was a day we’ve been planning for the last six months, and it’s surreal to think that it’s over now,” Pinkoski said. “But even though we did not break the record, we did so much cool stuff leading up to it.”
The Guinness World Record for largest game of hide and seek remains with Chengdu, China, which
saw 1,437 participants on Jan. 1, 2014. But judging by the positive feedback after Seek the Record, Pinkoski said it’s likely the Hide and Seek Club will be holding another world record attempt in the near future.
“For a lot of people, they see everything on the surface leading up to it and the fact that we didn’t get the record,” Pinkoski said. “We did so much and there’s been such a great reaction that we say: why don’t we do this again?
“We’ve set a standard here. We have to make sure we stick to it.”
Words by Richard Catangay-Liew, photos by Christina Varvis.
