Newmindspace Lightsaber Battle

Opening weekend of Star Wars: The Force Awakens — and how better to celebrate than with an epic lightsaber battle in the Embarcadero?
Newmindspace is an organization dedicated to all-​ages fun around North America — about a year ago, they were responsible for setting up the huge pillow fight near Horton Plaza. This year, seeing how it was the release of the newest Star Wars movie, they wanted to set a record for the largest lightsaber group battle across several cities — Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, and San Diego. For $ 10, you got a color changing lightsaber (although it was a bit cheap looking and wasn’t an «official» lightsaber) — and if you had your own, you got in for free.
Having seen the footage from the LA lightsaber fight the night before, Kathy and I were looking forward to this past Saturday’s battle in the Embarcadero; from what I gleaned from the website, we were to be split into two groups (Jedi and Sith) once we got our blades, then go for broke. Well — that wasn’t exactly what happened. We got there a bit late due to our Unilocal Elite dinner event at Blue Point, but we were a bit surprised to see people leaving the event grounds with their swords. Once we got our lightsabers — which was an easy process — I could kinda see why. Instead of being placed in Jedi vs. Sith battles, it looked like everyone was in small groups dueling their friends… not exactly what we were picturing. From what I saw from pics taken from earlier in the event that were posted on social media, the lit-​up sabers against the evening background made for great pics, and the earlier group battles did look like fun, so perhaps we should have arrived earlier.
However, Kathy and I did have fun using our sabers against each other, and I did find a discarded saber that just needed extra batteries… so it was still a great evening of fun that just needed a bit more organization. Hopefully Newmindspace will return back to San Diego for another lightsaber battle.
May the Force be with you!