Humans vs. Zombies

Humans vs. Zombies is a tag-like game that runs over a long period (usually several weeks). The game is run by Davis Urban Gaming Group. It is popular on college campuses. http://humansvszombies.org/

See the Wikipedia article for more details.

Organized by Freshmen Elie Friedman, Jon Abramson and Sean Hessom, the first game was held in January 2011. While set to end in a final stand of epic Hollywood proportions, the excessive breakage of Rule 1 led to an early end to what was an epic (though bumpy) first run of Humans Vs. Zombies leaving Humans the war weary victors! Starting in Spring 2011, Darryl took the reins, and beginning Winter 2012, DUGG has taken control.

Registration and Rules can be found at https://ucdavishvz.com/

The now infamous Team Starbucks just before the horrific ordeal that was the Arc Debacle
(The first UC Davis HvZ, Jan 2011)

Scoreboard:
Humans: 2 (WQ2011), (FQ2011)
Zombies: 2 (SQ2011), (WQ2012)

At UCDavis Humans v Zombie games are run over the course of one week, formerly Monday - Friday but now Monday - Thursday. While many campuses are known for having the game run indoors and off campus, it is not at UC Davis. The game still goes on during the day and players are expected to wear their headbands (for zombies) and armbands (for humans) while on campus they are safe from being tagged or stunned while indoors, on modes of transport or off campus for safety and logistics reasons. At night all players will gather for a mission where the humans must complete a goal and the zombies must do their best to stop them.

In Humans v Zombies human players must use socks or NERF guns to stun zombies players while zombie players try to tag human players. When a zombie is hit with a NERF dart or sock they are stunned for a specific duration (15 minutes during the day, 5 minutes at night) and when a human player is tagged they must give the zombie player their kill code and join the hoard. The goal of the humans is to survive while the goal of the zombies is to kill the remaining humans.

In Fall 2011 and Winter 2012 UCDavis Humans v Zombies was run by the ever so somewhat lovable Darryl, but has since switched hands and is now run by Davis Urban Gaming Group (DUGG) which is partially composed of members of Darryl's former regime.

The Fall game ended in a human victory thanks in large part to zombie apathy on the day of the final mission, many of the head zombies opting to instead go to a Cake concert and the idea of distributing cures to human players. The confusion with cures lead to a ban on cures that lasted a whole zero quarters. The missions included defending survivors in the parking garage (Monday), traveling back in time or some other shit like that and hunting zombies (Tuesday), MOD Guarding missions (Wednesday), some shit where almost everyone died (Thursday) and a battle atop the Hutchinson parking structure against the bossman himself, Darryl (Friday). In the end only a handful of humans survived and many who did only did so because they were given cures for surviving the Thursday Night mission.

The Winter quarter game was initially meant to be Humans v Humans v Zombies but after the catastrophic failure of the first mission on Tuesday night where near half of the human population died that mechanic was quickly removed. On Wednesday night the remaining human population was killed off in a long battle through the Hutchinson parking structure, with the only survivors being humans who ducked out of the conflict early on. This meant that the moderators had to distribute cures to players to keep the game running, but due to apathy from most remaining zombie players very few players played the following Thursday and Friday games.

The Spring 2012 quarter game will be run on the week on April 9th - 12th. The facebook page for the event is here: http://www.facebook.com/events/385795438105909/ while the registration page is here: https://ucdavishvz.com/
This game will see a return to exclusively Humans v Zombies combat and a return of special infected, which were removed in the Winter Quarter game.

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2008-05-20 19:55:43   They play it here at Penn State. If the UCD game takes off like this one, it is a seriously fun game. —JabberWokky

2009-05-18 01:03:40   wait, DRAGON has a permit for this? where can it take place? Death Star or Quad? —Chibi

2010-04-12 22:00:13   I am up for this anytime. If it gets going post to my user page. —DagonJones

2011-02-23 18:29:26   long live the sock people! —Sock Ninja