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Today may be April 1, but tonight’s city-wide game of zombie tag — more formally known as Survive Johnson City — is no joke. The flesh-eating fun begins at 8 p.m.
Event organizer Joe Carnevale of Johnson City said he played the game in Raleigh, N.C., several years ago and was inspired to have a game of zombie tag here.
But he did not anticipate the game would attract as many people as it has.
“I figured maybe 400 people maximum but within three days of posting the Facebook event page, 3,000 accepted the invitation,” Carnevale said. That number has since dropped to around 1,200 partly because the group was forced to create a new page after dates were altered.
On March 18, group organizers held a fundraiser to cover event insurance and extra security costs. The total fee amount was approximately $1,000. Since police will be working off-duty, Carnevale and his team were required to rent squad vehicles.
The fundraiser event included a brain-eating contest, live music, a costume contest, a dance-off and zombie face painting.
In zombie tag, players must wear a white T-shirt underneath a black T-shirt and retrieve a token upon arrival. After a “human player” is tagged with both hands by a zombie, that player must remove their black T-shirt, hand over their token and join the side of the zombies. No one is allowed to hide out or go indoors.
The goal of zombie tag is to make it to all six checkpoints — placed in areas around downtown — without being tagged by a designated zombie. Players will receive a different-colored stamp on their hands at each checkpoint and must make it back to the finish line without “turning into a zombie themselves,” meaning they were tagged. There will be one zombie for every 100 players.
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Permalink Reply by Redrum: the undead juggalo on
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i so wannted to go, but had to work.
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Permalink Reply by Komrad Gas Mask Killer☭ on
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This sound like fun. Next time Red try and make it!
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Has Johnson City found its claim to fame? The city’s name may forever be emblazoned in the “Guinness Book of World Records” for having the largest game of zombie tag — a whopping 3,000 players.
Event organizer Joe Carnevale was pleasantly surprised with attendance numbers. Early Friday, only around 1,200 were expected to show, according to the group’s Facebook page.
“We stopped counting after we reached 1,350,” said Carnevale.
According to a news release, the previous world record was 796 players, held by a group of students in the United Kingdom.
The crowd began swarming into the city’s center about 7 p.m. Friday, anxiously awaiting to retrieve a rubber band that served as a game token. Fourteen-year-old Matt Branch, a student at Happy Valley Middle School in Elizabethton, was energized and ready to take home the grand prize, a home-made, zombiefied trophy.
“I’m really hoping to win,” Branch said. “But I really just came to have fun and it’s really cool that we broke the record.”
On March 18, group organizers held a fundraiser to cover event insurance and extra security costs. The total fee amount was approximately $1,000. Since police were working off-duty, Carnevale and his team were required to rent squad vehicles.
Officer Joseph Hartman of the JCPD kept an eye on the players as they ran up and down the streets of downtown, occasionally causing traffic delays.
“The major concern is traffic,” said Hartman. “ We’re worried about pedestrians crossing the streets in front of traffic.”
Event coordinators are hoping to make zombie tag a tradition, happening a few times a year. Hartman would not comment as to whether the group will have the city’s support in the future.
The goal of zombie tag was to make it to all six checkpoints — placed in areas around downtown — without being tagged by a designated zombie. Players received a different-colored stamp on their hands at each checkpoint and had to make it back to the finish line without “turning into a zombie themselves,” meaning they were tagged. At the start, there was one zombie for every 100 players.
Players had to wear a white T-shirt underneath a black T-shirt and retrieve a rubber band upon arrival. After a “human player” was tagged with both hands by a zombie, that player removed their black T-shirt, handed over their rubber band and joined the side of the zombies. No one was allowed to hide out or go indoors.
Carnevale received support from David Pennington of Friends of Olde Downtowne as well as two merchants who provided space for the fundraising event.
In order to gain city approval, Carnevale was required to meet a list of regulations.
“I have to have both photo and video evidence,” he said. “I needed a report from a local news agency, two sworn statements from notable community members, completed log sheets from counters and a designated monitor for every 50 players.”
First-, second-, and third-place winners were announced later Friday night.
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had to lol..4,000 players....10 cops!
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