UF students relived two childhood games — capture the flag and hide-and-seek — Sunday night.
About 20 students ran around campus, laughing as they chased each other on Turlington Plaza. For the first time at UF, Pi Delta Psi invited students to play agawan base, a traditional Filipino street game that mirrors tag-based American games.
Keith Macalino, who organized the event and is a member of Pi Delta Psi, said he wanted to organize a fun event for students to interact with Asian culture.
Agawan base translates to "stealing bases." Macalino said he created a version of the game that would allow more people to play and be easier to understand.
Players were split into two even teams, and the seeking team had a base the hiding team tried to get to. Each round ended when a majority of the hiding team touched the base or a majority of the hiding team was sent to "prison."
UF applied physiology and kinesiology sophomore Mark Pangilinan had never played the traditional game but had played manhunt, which he said is similar.
"The rules of agawan base were bent and blended," the 19-year-old said. "A lot of us, as part of the Asian American Student Union, want to take our traditional customs and incorporate them with the American and university culture."
