{"id":300117,"date":"2019-05-24T06:06:35","date_gmt":"2019-05-23T20:06:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=300117"},"modified":"2019-05-24T06:06:35","modified_gmt":"2019-05-23T20:06:35","slug":"survival-at-zombie-apocalypse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/survival-at-zombie-apocalypse\/","title":{"rendered":"Survival at Zombie Apocalypse"},"content":{"rendered":"
KONQER Saipan: Zombie Apocalypse organizers and sponsors pose for a group photo during yesterday\u2019s press conference at the Chambre Bar of the Fiesta Resort & Spa Saipan for this Saturday\u2019s obstacle course event. (Roselyn B. Monroyo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The obstacle courses are doable, but watch out for \u201cdead\u201d people.<\/p>\n

This is KONQER chief experience officer Kaz Endo\u2019s reminder to participants of tomorrow\u2019s KONQER Saipan: Zombie Apocalypse.<\/p>\n

The kick-off leg of the KONQER Apocalypse Tour will start at the American Memorial Park and will have four more checkpoints\u2014Eloy S. Inos Peace Park, MIHA Housing in Garapan, Paseo De Marianas and Fiesta Resort & Spa Saipan (beachside)\u2014with \u201chumans\u201d and \u201czombies\u201d both fighting for survival at the course.<\/p>\n

At the AMP, participants (individuals and teams) will be randomly selected as \u201chumans\u201d and \u201czombies\u201d. The \u201chumans\u201d will have to negotiate the 5-kilometer course from AMP to the Eloy S. Inos Peace Park and avoid getting tagged by \u201czombies,\u201d who will trade places with \u201chumans\u201d if they steal the \u201chumanity flag.\u201d<\/p>\n

From AMP to the four other checkpoints, \u201czombies\u201d will be around, and to avoid them, \u201chumans\u201d must have their two feet off the ground, or to be safe, they should have started any of the obstacle courses, which are all located at the MIHA Housing. <\/p>\n

\u201cYou can climb on a tree or pole if you must to evade the \u2018zombies\u2019. You can also have a bathroom break along the course, but not for long because the hungry \u2018zombies\u2019 will be waiting for you outside,\u201d Endo said.<\/p>\n

\u201cMovement is life. This is survival of the fittest,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

You can only complete the entire course as \u201chumans\u201d and five checkpoints bands will be given to those who complete each stop. For participants in the team event, members may split up along the first four checkpoints, but they have to be together when they cross the finish line at Fiesta Resort\u2019s beach side.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo cheating or you will do the dead-man pull (hauling a gigantic tire) as punishment,\u201d Endo said.<\/p>\n

Over 500 have registered for the weekend event and KONQER president Kelli Wedd said they are expecting more will sign up this Saturday, as registration is free for individuals in the U17 age group. <\/p>\n

Majority of the registered participants are locals\/on-island, but Endo is confident that the event will draw more tourists in the future.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe best product for tourists is the one that the community embraces. We are building the foundation by encouraging the members of the community to join KONQER. Tourists will hear from community members and will be encouraged to try it out,\u201d Endo said.<\/p>\n

This year\u2019s KONQER Saipan: Zombie Apocalypse is presented by the Marianas Visitors Authority and supported by Fiesta Resort & Spa Saipan, Bank of Guam, IT&E, American President Lines, Coors Light, Marianas Variety, Roil Soil, Saipan Brewing Company, Marianas Health, Tribe Marianas, Paradise Awnings, DR LLC, Vantage Advertising, GoPro (F&M Distributors), TriVision Media Group, Saipan Global International Group, RNV Construction, and Imperial Paci\ufb01c Inc. <\/p>\n

Besides the Saipan stop, KONQER Apocalypse Tour will also head to Guam and Palau (two legs), while a finale is being mulled on Rota.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The obstacle courses are doable, but watch out for \u201cdead\u201d people. This is KONQER chief…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":300118,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[23513],"class_list":["post-300117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-zombie-apocalypse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300117\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/300118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}