Over 3,000 people take part in UBC's massive campus-wide snowball fight (PHOTOS, VIDEOS)

Timothy Hoggan / UBC Party Calendar

Thousands of students, faculty, staff, and members of the public descended onto the Main Mall of the University of British Columbia campus today for a massive campus-wide snowball fight.

Organizers with UBC Party Calendar told Daily Hive over 3,000 people were in attendance, well over the estimated 2,000 people that came to the same event in late-February 2014 when the city experienced a late-winter snowfall.

Snowballs began flying in the air en masse after a countdown at approximately 12:10 pm. The friendly hurling lasted for roughly 25 minutes.

“It was so much fun and it’ll probably go down as one of my best memories at UBC,” fourth year student and snowball fight participant Amanda Coulson told Daily Hive. “There has been so much to do during my last few years… these events have really created a sense of school spirit. I love it!”

Another student said their professor, during a lecture in the morning, told the entire class of 300 students that the snowball fight was happening, and that they should try not to miss it.

#UBC took advantage of today’s winter weather with an epic snowball fight on Main Mall. #bcstorm #bcsnow

A video posted by University of British Columbia (@universityofbc) on Feb 6, 2017 at 1:48pm PST

classic monday ✌🏻❄️

A video posted by Amadea H (@amadeaa.xo) on Feb 6, 2017 at 2:00pm PST

UBC campus wide snowball fight. Last time they had this I was still in high school. Now I’m three quarters done university. Time sure goes by fast. #vancouver #snow #ubc #slowmotion #iphone #video #snowball #fight #battle #student #snowballfight #university #main #mainmall #温哥华 #冬天 #温哥华的白彗星 #雪 #打雪仗 #computer #engineering

A video posted by Tiger Zhong (@tiger.zhong) on Feb 6, 2017 at 2:16pm PST

So many snow projectiles. #ubcsnowballfight #ubc

A video posted by Mark Atomos Pilon (@atomos) on Feb 6, 2017 at 1:57pm PST

At UBC we have snowball fights (+1000 people) in between classes #iamubc #ubc #ubccampus #ubcsnowballfight #buzzfeed #cbc

A photo posted by Curt Logan (@roommated) on Feb 6, 2017 at 12:42pm PST

What UBCers do with the massive amounts of snow #UBC #campus #snowball #snowballfight #vancouver #유비씨 #눈싸움 #밴쿠버

A video posted by 정빈 (@rjblee) on Feb 6, 2017 at 12:26pm PST