Basketball All over - Hoopfest

On Sunday we watch the breaking of a world record!

We saw a few, of the nearly 7,000, teams play bball in downtown spokane. Hoopfest is an annual 3 on 3 basketball competition that literally takes over the town. They close nearly every street down town and fill it with basketball rings. Then they play ball all weekend.

Spokane seems to be the perfect size, big enough to draw a crowd, but still so small that they can literally stop the city for a weekend.

So here are some numbers:

• 40 downtown blocks closed in downtown Spokane; and
• 428 half courts
  
• 6,700 teams comprising of over 20,000 players compete in at least 3 games each for the champion of their division.
• Nearly 200,000 people in total.
  

All in all it was great to go hang out and enjoy the festival. We both felt quite short the whole time...