WIN Beats Solo2 Headphones with Electric Ireland! #ThrowbackParty

Electric Ireland: Alex · 24-08-2016 01:20PM #1

Hi all,

Electric Ireland is the official Energy Partner for Electric Picnic 2016!

This year we’re all about #ThrowbackParty, and to get everyone in the mood, we are currently running a Facebook Live competition, on our Electric Ireland Facebook page, at 7:30pm every evening this week until Friday 26th August. There, you have the chance of winning tickets to Electric Picnic by taking part in our #ThrowbackParty live gameshows! Be sure to tune in!

To get into the #ThrowbackParty spirit here on Boards, we’re giving away a pair of Beats Solo2 On-Ear headphones (Luxe Edition). To be in with the chance to win, just post your favourite school yard game to this thread! One post per person and be sure to explain why you loved playing this when you were at school!

The competition will run until Monday 29th August, with the winning entry being announced shortly thereafter.

***Full T&C's here***

This year as Official Energy Partner, we've helped reduce the Electric Picnic festival's lighting emissions by 80%, and we have installed six kilometres of energy-efficient lighting to help guide festival-goers!

All the best

The Electric Ireland Team

BrookieD · 25-08-2016 12:38PM

BULLDOG - nothing ever beat a game of Bulldog with most of the year playing.... carnage was a given, ripped trousers were also a telltale sign but getting it in the neck from my mum for the latter was never great... ahh the days gone

wexdevil · 25-08-2016 01:18PM

Red rover was always a good laugh!

Loved trying to break the other teams link, always gotta suss out who the weakest were and just run full belt at them!

grimm2005 · 25-08-2016 01:30PM

Tip the Can. Hours of fun was had playing this in the huge Killiney Hill back in the day

Monife · 25-08-2016 02:05PM

Tip the can was always great craic but as it was mentioned above, my 2nd favourite would have to be kerbs (having to throw a ball from one side of the street and hit the kerb on the other side)

WetDaddy · 25-08-2016 02:36PM

British Bulldogs - the panic, the mania, the skinned knees and the picking of tarmac out of your elbows. Such joy!

Reg_hurley · 25-08-2016 03:07PM

Bulldog
Injury -> Bulldog Banned -> Secret Bulldog -> Bulldog Ban Revoked -> Injury
and repeat..... happy days

GBX · 25-08-2016 03:09PM

Marbles!

ladymary · 25-08-2016 03:54PM

we had a hedge along the wall with a break in it and we set up a little shop in it selling everything from bottle tops, feathers, sweet wrappers anything we could find in the yard or smuggle in from home....

lifeandtimes · 25-08-2016 04:06PM

Cops and robbers.

Just sense of self satisfaction being a cop and catching all your friends and putting them in jail was enough for me to be happy and remember it vividly

degzs · 25-08-2016 05:56PM

Hide and seek.

I loved putting my hands over my eyes and counting to ten and shouting out "Ready or Not Here I Come" and many of my class mates rushing to find a hiding place in the yard. The only thing there was no hiding places, it was just one big, square, cement yard and we played it every day hail, rain or sunshine. Oh the joys of been child 20 years ago brings a tear to my eye #ThrowbackParty.

An Ri rua · 25-08-2016 08:22PM

ing Its got to be Red Rover !!

Reason being it was game for lads and girls and two teams and there was just something so fun about it even though it was bit daft when you think back.

But kids don't think! I was a smart kid and I'm a smart guy now but that didn't stop me from running full pelt into the line during Red Rover and not noticing the wall less than a foot behind them!!! Massive, and I mean MASSIVE, lump on my forehead but still came 1st in class exams that year :-D :-D

Ah the memories.

Kenjataimu · 25-08-2016 09:53PM

Football on the Basketball court, using jumpers for goalposts. Everyone killing each other trying to score the most goals that day!

Rayne Wooney · 25-08-2016 10:08PM

Sharks was the game we played

30 of us on the school pitch, there'd be boundaries marked about 50 yards apart. 2 people would be sharks and the aim was for everyone else to run to the other side without getting caught/taken down. No health and safety back in those days!

The real fun was when there were 29 sharks and just one lonely swimmer left for the last run, get to the other side and you'd go down in school history, nobody ever made it, I remember legend had it someone in a neighbouring school did it once.

Entonces · 26-08-2016 12:00AM

Link tag where your had to hold hands with whoever you caught. Led to some quality chases and near dislocted shoulders from groups pulling againt each other. Also got to hold hands wth the girl you fancied and inevitably caught first even though you were morto

Electric Ireland: Alex wrote: »

Hi all,

Electric Ireland is the official Energy Partner for Electric Picnic 2016!

This year we’re all about #ThrowbackParty, and to get everyone in the mood, we are currently running a Facebook Live competition, on our Electric Ireland Facebook page, at 7:30pm every evening this week until Friday 26th August. There, you have the chance of winning tickets to Electric Picnic by taking part in our #ThrowbackParty live gameshows! Be sure to tune in!

To get into the #ThrowbackParty spirit here on Boards, we’re giving away a pair of Beats Solo2 On-Ear headphones (Luxe Edition). To be in with the chance to win, just post your favourite school yard game to this thread! One post per person and be sure to explain why you loved playing this when you were at school!

The competition will run until Monday 29th August, with the winning entry being announced shortly thereafter.

***Full T&C's here***

This year as Official Energy Partner, we've helped reduce the Electric Picnic festival's lighting emissions by 80%, and we have installed six kilometres of energy-efficient lighting to help guide festival-goers!

All the best
The Electric Ireland Team

thehairyone · 26-08-2016 01:25AM

Soccer during lunctime, always class against class.... the last game of the year ment absolutely everything!!!!

lazer.blue · 26-08-2016 10:09AM

Taws, a game of skill and tactics!

Gaspode · 26-08-2016 11:13AM

Prison - a chasing game involving two teams of anything up to 50 kids per team. Wonderful mayhem

RiseToMe · 26-08-2016 11:16AM

Elastics! Not sure if anybody else remembers /played it tho! String together a lot of elastics, two people stand in them making a rectangle, one person in the middle "plays" which meant a series of jumping in out and onto the elastics to a rhyme. The elastics were moved higher and higher every time. Simpler times!!

Shlippery · 26-08-2016 11:32AM

Wall-ball, with a tennis ball because we couldn't have a full-sized football at lunch.

Such skill was picked up flying around the grounds trying to pelt a tennis ball at a wall

HamsterFace · 26-08-2016 03:39PM

Bull-Dog. It was banned it was so good.

hotshots85 · 26-08-2016 03:39PM

Chasing...myself... cos I had no friends...

Ah only joking, kick the can was a good laugh

Gormal · 26-08-2016 03:43PM

What's the time Mr Wolf? Because once the person who was Mr Wolf shouted "It's dinner time!" we would all run for our lives screaming, in every possible direction as fast as we could. LOL! Sounds silly as a grown up, but was great fun back in the day.
#ThrowbackParty Just imagine doing that at your school reunion!!

benny79 · 26-08-2016 03:52PM

Chasing- As I loved the chase and still do today

irishash · 26-08-2016 03:59PM

Bulldogs for me too - Everything about this game was designed with the playground in mind. The size of the play area needed, the no-limit number of participants, the speed, the playful aggression. It was playing this game that led me to Rugby and other physical sports. No other playground game could lead to other sports like Bulldogs could. Being that last person standing gave you such a sense of accomplishment, you did not mind the rest of the school day at all!!

shuffles88 · 26-08-2016 05:05PM

I LOVED chase, I was the Usain Bolt of the schoolyard back then. I was knocked unconscious and ended up spending the night in hospital with a concussion playing British Bulldog so, yeah, chase wins the crown of my favourite schoolyard game :D

Virtanen · 26-08-2016 08:15PM

Hockey was fun, whenever the equipment was brought out every now and then. Cheap plastic pucks, cheap plastic sticks, was great craic

JP Liz V1 · 26-08-2016 09:48PM

wexdevil wrote: »

Red rover was always a good laugh!

Loved trying to break the other teams link, always gotta suss out who the weakest were and just run full belt at them!

Red Rover for me too

Red Rover Red Rover we call Over -- loved it

retweet · 26-08-2016 09:50PM

Power Rangers - the memories!! I can remember playing it out in yard in Junior Infants, always wanting to be the fantastic Red Ranger! Hahaha

Smiles35 · 26-08-2016 10:17PM

Kick the can

Kick the can, kick the can. 1, 2 , 3! All the skinned knees and allways best when someone else had to go first!

TonyCochrane · 26-08-2016 10:48PM

Conkers, cooking up mad professor type treatments and concoctions to try to get an edge. Experimenting with different types of varnish / baking time in the oven trying to create the indestructible version. Poisoning from the fumes optional.

WIN Beats Solo2 Headphones with Electric Ireland! #ThrowbackParty

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