Life- size Angry Birds and live music presented by the Aggie Event Series

The ongoing battle between the birds and the pigs continues. As birds fly through the sky and come crashing down on slightly unstable objects, pigs are killed and blown to pieces under the pile of left over rubble from the attacks. On Thursday Nov. 10, 2011 another battle will be taking place at Utah State University in the Taggart Student Center Ballroom.

According to an article obtained from yahoo.com, Angry Birds reached over 500 million downloads as of Wednesday Nov. 2 , 2011. That’s more than any mobile phone game has ever seen since it first came to Apple in 2009. The game’s growing popularity has spread worldwide and is even making its way onto college campuses.

A life-size Angry Birds obstacle course will be created for students to compete and destroy the pigs for the ultimate prize of an eight GB iPod touch. The activity is being sponsored by the USU College of Agriculture, Education and Human Services and the Aggie Event Series.

Becky Checketts, senator for the College of Education is heading this event along with the Aggie Event Series coordinator Kellen Hansen.

“We started joking about the idea of doing an Angry Birds obstacle course and so we googled and researched it and found some videos of people that had done it, so we figured out how we could too,” Checketts said.

The obstacle course will have three levels in the preliminary round and the band, “Ember Rain” will be performing before the final round takes place. The top 10 quickest times will go to the finals.

Water balloon launchers will be used to throw the stuffed animal Angry Birds toward the cardboard course to knock off the pigs. Since the pigs can’t literally explode as they do in the actual game, a fall or obvious displacement will determine if the pig is dead.

The prizes for the event will include Skull Candy headphones for the third prize winner, a $100 gift card to the USU book store for second, and an eight GB iPod touch as the first place reward.

“The college of education wanted to put something on for the students to let people know we’re here and to get some knowledge out about the college because we don’t do too many events except for education week in the spring,” Checketts said.

The event is free to all USU students and more information can be found on the life-size Angry Birds obstacle course events page on Facebook at the following link: Angry Birds.

(J.Ballard)