LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A pair hundred other people grabbed their pool noodles and headed to a Nebraska park once more this weekend to struggle over the appropriate to the title Josh.
The development began as a web based comic story when Josh Swain from Tucson, Arizona, despatched out a tweet difficult any person who shared his title to combat over it. After it took on a lifetime of its personal, Swain became it into an actual match closing yr on the random coordinates he integrated in his unique observe, which came about to be in Lincoln, Nebraska.
“The keenness from everyone right here used to be simply fantastic,” Swain informed the Lincoln Magazine Famous person.
A number of of the competition this yr donned costumes, together with mask, animal fits and soccer helmets, prior to heading out to Bowling Lake Park. However that wasn’t sufficient to dethrone 5-year-old Josh Vinson Jr., who defended his name because the No. 1 Josh.
Saturday’s match raised just about $21,000 for Youngsters’s Medical institution & Clinical Heart in Omaha, and the homeowners of the Josh Cellars wine label pledged to compare that quantity with a donation of their very own. The clinic stated it plans to proportion one of the donations with the Joshua Collinsworth Memorial Basis that promotes water protection with its Josh the Otter mascot who attended Saturday’s struggle.
Swain stated he’d just like the make the Josh Struggle an annual match however he’s no longer certain if he’ll be capable of stick with it.
“There’s plenty of components on this loopy global,” Swain stated. “I feel that the hope is to stay this development going in order that we will stay the great occasions rolling.”
