Cover Your Ears! Vuvuzela World Record Attempt Tonight

July 23rd, 2009 | by: Daryl |

The Confederations Cup is over. And the 2010 World Cup is still 11 months away. But the vuvuzela stories just keep on coming. First there was Austria banning the little plastic horns for some very unconvincing safety reasons, and now an army of vuvuzela blowers will be making a world record attempt.

The vuvuzelatasic world record attempt will take place tonight at the Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium in Port Elizabeth, where South African teams Orlando Pirates and Kaizer Chiefs will play to decide who faces Man City in the final of the Vodacom Challenge.

The good people from Guinness World Records (who somehow combine drinking with accurate fact checking) will be there to adjudicate while as many fans as possible for a 30 second duration.

It’s not clear what the final total of simultaneous hornblowers will be, but apparently the first 20,000 through the gate will receive a free instrument (corporate sponsored of course). So the number should be 20,000, plus whoever brings their own.

If you’re part of the crowd that wishes death to the vuvuzela, you’ll want to get as far from Port Elizabeth as humanly possible this evening. But if, like me, you think the little plastic horn is basically harmless and can actually sound very pleasant in the right hands… then you should probably still flee in terror. Because there’s now way 20,00+ vuvuzelas blowing for 30 consecutive seconds is going to sound good.

Tags: Kaizer Chiefs, Orlando Pirates, vuvuzela, World Football, world record attempt

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Comments

By Weston | July 23rd, 2009 at 10:03 am

i want one really bad.

Posted from United States

By Mi | July 23rd, 2009 at 5:47 pm

though nobody would have known this, Polish F.A. banned vuvuzelas (though they’re not called that way here, but are still the same devil’s invention) quite a few years back urged by supporter associations who argued they cannot coordinate support during national team’s games. These things are banned but the F.A. still refuses to allow anyone coordinate the support anyway but still, it’s 100 times better of without them, at least anyone can shout out “Polska” instead of hearing the ever irritating buzz.

Posted from United Kingdom

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By zeng | August 12th, 2009 at 5:39 am

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Posted from China

By Vuvuzela | August 23rd, 2009 at 10:30 pm

Never ban the Vuvuzela, its part of the game called Soccer.
I like it and Im the Italian soccer fan

Go Inzaghi

By Joanne | August 25th, 2009 at 2:42 am

Vuvuzelas will be handed out at the stadium entrance during the world cup unless with luck they are banned during 2010 matches in that case whistle on your fingers