Arms and legs will twist and tangle while finding colored dots as Ball State University students compete in Kappa Delta sorority and Sigma Nu fraternity's Twister tournament Friday at 6 p.m. in Irving Gym 2.
For its third year, Kappa Delta's philanthropic Twister tournament will be held in memory of former Kappa Delta member Lindsey Arnold who died of a brain tumor in November 2005, tournament co-chair Jessica Dinkelman said. She said money raised will go the American Brain Tumor Association.
The American Brain Tumor Association is an independent organization that provides funding for researchers in the United States and Canada looking for ways to get rid of brain tumors, according to the organization Web site.
"Lindsey was diagnosed with a brain tumor in 2004 and since then we have had the event in the spring," Dinkelman said. "We moved it to the fall this year because the spring gets busy with other philanthropic events."
Russ Van Natta, public relations chairman for Sigma Nu, said there will be four Twister boards, each about three times larger than a normal Twister board and a normal size board in the center of the gym for the final round.
"Competitions will be for teams and individuals with four different categories awards," he said. "The awards are for the highest organization attendance-- and that's for any organization on campus-- overall individual winner, overall team winner and best costume. The winners will receive a plaque that was paid for by Kappa Delta and Sigma Nu's budgets."
Some people are going to dress up as the Super Mario Brothers and the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, he said. The competition is a way for people to have fun and dress up, he said.
Kappa Delta got the idea for the tournament after hearing about other schools that did a Twister tournament and the sorority wanted to have something to support Arnold, but would be upbeat and fun, Dinkelman said. Kappa Delta worked with a fraternity each year because including more organizations brings more people together, she said.
Kappa Delta began planning the tournament in August, but after the sorority got most of the plans together, fraternities asked to work with the sorority, Van Natta said. Each year Kappa Delta chooses a fraternity to help with the rest of the event and this year, Sigma Nu was chosen, he said.
Van Natta said this is also the first year Twister dots have been sold for a dollar to help raise money for the American Brain Tumor Association.
"People can buy a dot for a dollar, put their name on it and then it will go on a sheet that will be hung at the event," he said.
More than 200 dots have been bought so far, and dots can be purchased at the door.
Pre-registration for the tournament will be today and Friday from 10 a.m. until 3 p.m. The cost is $5 a person or $16 for a team of four, or $6 a person or $20 for a team of four at the door. T-shirts will also be sold for $10 at the tournament.
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