By Michael Mandigo, Staff Writer
Susquehanna’s Phi Beta Sigma held it’s third annual Wild ’N Out event on Friday, March 1 in Issacs Auditorium to bring attention to the fraternity while also bringing laughter to the campus.
The event was based on an improvisational comedy television show on MTV by the same name. Guest stars and celebrities compete in a series of hip-hop-based comedy challenges.
Phi Beta Sigma hosted their own version of Wild ’N Out to give students the opportunity to watch their peers compete against one another.
“This event was established as an entertainment event to bring laughter and fun to the campus, but it is also an event to bring more attention to the brothers of Sigma and the efforts we do,” said senior Donovan Gayles, one of the organizers of the event and participant.
“Since we are a small chapter, people often forget our presence around campus, so we use this opportunity to bring awareness to our chapter and our passion for philanthropy,” Gayles continued.
The competition consisted of two teams: the blue team and the grey team. Both sides wore tiedye shirts to signify which side they were on. Four women also assisted with the different games.
A judge observed each game and decided who the winner was based on the crowds reactions.
Most of the games resembled those on the TV show and had similar rules.
The first game was called “Let Me Holla” and consisted of pick-up line jokes. The idea behind the game was to “holla any line you want.”
One of the assistants would stand at the front of the stage and hear whatever the two teams could throw at her, both good and bad. The crowd would react in either approval of good lines or disapprove of the cheesy and lame lines.
Blue team started the first round, and the two teams alternated turns giving their lines. Some lines were cheesy, some were funny; but in the end, blue team came out on top and won the opening round in convincing fashion.
The second game was known as “Talking Spit,” where two captains would sit in chairs facing each other with water in their mouths while members of the opposing team tried to make them laugh and spit out the water.
Each team earned laughs, but in the end the grey team prevailed, evening the score.
Game three was “Pie or Die;” the person up got a word and then had to rap a line. If they could not come up with a rap they got a pie to the face by one of the assistants.
Some of the contestants got the crowd going, but some of the words were just too much for the others. Eventually, the blue team came out on top.
Game four was “Celebrity Death Battle.” Each team had to rap about a celebrity to give the guesser clues as to who it was.
Some of the celebrities were guessed with ease while some of the others stumped the guessers. In the end, the blue team won.
Game five was “Break Up is Hard to Do.” The assistants acted as the significant other to each contestant while they tried to break up with them in any way they could.
“At first you would be really nervous,” senior participant Bianca Moffitt said about the performance, “but as you got into it, it just became easy.”
Many of the lines got some sort of reaction from the audience, and the blue team won again.
The final game was “Wildstyle.” The challenge was a rap battle between the two teams. Contestants would take turns trying to make fun of each other using raps and jokes.
Some of the jokes in the last game got huge reactions from the crowd. The grey team came out on top in the end.
