Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe WAUCONDA, Ill., Jan. 30 (UPI) -- A Chicago suburb claims it has unseated a Switzerland ski town for staging the world's biggest snowball fight. Some 2,936 people showed up in Wauconda, Ill., Saturday to beat the Guinness Book of World Records mark of 2,473 participants in a sustained snowball fight. Advertisement The event, put on by the local Lions Club in a Wauconda park, caused traffic to back up for miles, the Arlington Heights, Ill., Daily Herald reported. "There's no way I could miss this," said Tim Hannan of Chicago. "It's not often you can be part of a record like this." The park was cut in half with two equal teams separated by 70 feet with snow fences. At least 30 referees kept participants from getting too competitive. One team donned purple bandanas on their arms, the other gold so Guinness judges watching a video of the fight could tell how many people took part. In the end, the Chicago suburb -- by its own count -- beat the record held by Obersaxen-Mundaun at Graubunden resort by 463 snowballers.
