Capture the Flag or, Way to Go Timmy, Now People are Bleeding

So Wednesday is a special day, and not just because I'm sometimes dealing with digestional traffic jams on that day, but because Wednesday means Color Chaos, Water Carnival, and on this particular one, a camp-wide capture the flag game.  This one was special because, instead of camp-wide night activity, all of the groups were given extra long time just with their cabin.  At dinner the counselors started talking about what their cabins would do, and capture the flag came up.  In my head I immediately picture'd it as taking place on the whole camp grounds (the main area, not the trails, maybe not quite a square mile).  Apparently this is not how people usually do it, because of supervision issues and counselors going 'Nam on the 8 year olds.  The game got shifted to the field, which was cool.  Then I found out some of the little ones were going to be playing Red Rover and other things on the field and all of camp popped back into my head.  It was like destiny.  Plus we had like 60 kids and 10 adults playing, so we would've needed a bigger field anyway.  So I convinced people that a well-supervised game of capture the flag would be a good thing, and it would be under control.  And it worked.  Everyone understood what was expected and what the rules were and everything.  That last for maybe 20 seconds.  Then the fact that 70 people were playing capture the flag caught up with us and it all hit the fan.  Kids were arguing with kids about boundaries, kids were arguing with counselors about boundaries, kids falling on pavement; chaos, in a word.  After the game ended every single  supervisor who witnessed the game was walking towards me with a look of fear in their eyes.  I forget how deeply rooted to our primal instincts the game of capture the flag is.  We fight to protect our own and we lose ourselves in running and we laugh a little when other people fall down (depending on how many times they whine about going to bed the night before). So I learned an important lesson today.  Don't ever assume that a 70 person capture the flag will be tame.  And, if you ever have the chance, definitely play the game anyway, because it's awesome.