Third North once again took home the top prize at the annual FYRE Olympics, held at Coles Sports Center on Sunday.
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Open to all freshman students, the FYRE games were organized by the RAs and hall coordinators of each dorm. Captains were then chosen to lead each team to victory. Contestants showed up with faces painted, T-shirts made and spirits high, ready for all-out war.
"A lot of training went into this competition," said Chelsea Culbert, a CAS freshman who lives in Founders Hall. "Emotional training, about a month of it, too."
The Founders team met in the hall lounge before heading down to the competition. Students tied bandanas and lined each other's faces with paint, hoping to look as intimidating as possible.
"We're going to get that trophy. We're going to bring it back to Founders," Antonio Duran, a CAS freshman, said.
Students dressed in their dorm colors. Third North, the "Purple Reign," has been the champion for five years in a row and the team felt confident it would continue its winning streak this year.
"We're going to create a decade of dominance," LSP freshman Sam Miller said after the team swiped a victory in Knockout.
Though named the Olympics, there was a game for everyone. Students crowded around team members competing in Guitar Hero, tug-of-war, Knockout and trivia competitions. A banner competition was set up in a corner, where students planned and designed team banners with pipe cleaners and markers.
"We are the Purple Reign, so we're going to have Third North on top of Mt. Olympus raining down on all the other teams," said an enthusiastic Third North contestant.
Emcee and assistant hall director Joanna Champion, a Tisch alumna, co-coordinated this year's FYRE Olympics.
"NYU gets a bad rap for having no school spirit," Champion said, "so it's really a fun way to get all the students together for a bit of friendly competition."
