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Shriever Air Force Base airmen set out to smash the world record for the largest dodgeball marathon and they think they did it. But it will be up to the good people of the Guinness Book of World Records to deem it so. About twenty airmen from the base attempted to break the record as a cool way to raise money for the Air Force Assistance Fund, though they had the support of plenty of their fellow airmen to get the job done. To break the record they had to play dodgeball for more than 31 hours, so they set…

You probably couldn’t imagine playing dodgeball for more than a few hours, let alone more than 31 hours — the longest dodgeball marathon, according to the Guinness Book of World Records. But that’s what airmen at Schriever Air Force Base, Colorado plan to do March 22-23. They’ll attempt to break the Hometown Dodgeball and Albany Dodgeball teams of Albany, N.Y. — current record holders of almost two years for a game that lasted 31 hours 11 minutes and 13 seconds — by playing dodgeball for 40 hours. Breaking the record is no small feat. To do it,  playing members must…

Air Force Academy cadets managed to bounce their way to a Guinness World Record on May 18 by holding the world’s largest dodgeball game ever played, featuring 3,612 participants. But blink and you might have missed their place in history. By the time the cadets received confirmation that they had successfully broken the record set at the Rochester Institute of Technology (the 2,136-player game at RIT is still listed as the record-holder here), another school had already set a new mark. In September,  4,488 students at the University of California-Irvine participated in a dodgeball game, breaking the cadets’ record.

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