Shortly before the curtains parted at the 20th-annual Air Jam, an announcement boomed from the speakers stating John R. Emen's Auditorium was at full capacity.
Deafening screams and applause greeted this news, which was the same ruckus that greeted the various acts throughout the show and royalty coronation.
Tickets sold out 30 minutes before the Ball State University Homecoming event, which was 9 p.m. Thursday.
Studebaker East Complex was the overall Air Jam winner. Kyle Johnson of Student Voluntary Services and Lyndsey Adams of Botsford and Swinford halls were crowned Homecoming king and queen.
"I can't believe it," Adams said. "This is a huge honor."
Johnson said he never expected his coranation, not so much being nominated, he said, but actually winning the crown.
"It's a great surprise, especially because there's only like two guys in my organization," he said.
Twenty acts vied to be named the champions of the dancing and lip-syncing competition.
The lights dimmed and red glow sticks riddled the crowd as the audience waited the show's start.
Masters of Ceremonies Cody Pagels and Rachel Martin steered the audience through the perfomances.
At the outset, they reminded the crowd that police were on-hand to take care of any problems.
"We also made sure there's a Muncie police cruiser crashed into every light pole outside," Pagels said jokingly.
Each act took the stage, offering self-choreographed performances from campus organizations.
Acts included performances such as Sigma Chi fraternity's routine, which had one of the its members dressed as a woman and draped with a live snake around his soldiers as he was carted around the stage on the shoulders of his fellow members, mimiking Britany Spears' 2001 MTV Video Music Awards entrance.
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