Editing Wave (audience)

{{Short description|Synchronized action by a stadium audience}}
{{redirect|Mexican Wave|the song|Mexican Wave (song)}}
[[File:AUSvIRE4Wave.ogv|thumb|Australia vs Ireland [[2014 international rules test|international rules]] game 2014 at [[Subiaco Oval]] crowd wave]]
[[File:Confed-Cup 2005 - Laolawelle.JPG|thumb|220px|Crowd wave at the [[2005 FIFA Confederations Cup]]]]
The '''wave''' (also '''Mexican wave''' outside [[North America]]) is a type of [[metachronal rhythm]] achieved in a packed [[stadium]] or other large seated venue, when successive groups of spectators briefly stand and raise their arms. Immediately upon stretching to full height, the spectator returns to the usual seated position.

The result is a [[wave]]<!--do not put quotes! see talk--> of standing spectators that travels through the crowd, even though individual spectators never move away from their seats. In many large arenas the crowd is seated in a contiguous circuit all the way around the sport field, and so the wave is able to travel continuously around the arena; in discontiguous seating arrangements, the wave can instead [[Reflection (physics)|reflect]] back and forth through the crowd. When the gap in seating is narrow, the wave can sometimes pass through it. Usually only one wave crest will be present at any given time in an arena, although simultaneous, counter-rotating waves have been produced.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://hooverstreetrag.blogspot.com/2008/09/how-to-do-wave-at-michigan-stadium.html|title=The Hoover Street Rag: How To Do the Wave at Michigan Stadium|author=Geoff|work=hooverstreetrag.blogspot.com|date=9 September 2008|access-date=26 September 2010|archive-date=5 July 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170705172201/http://hooverstreetrag.blogspot.com/2008/09/how-to-do-wave-at-michigan-stadium.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

The wave first appeared in U.S. sports events in the late 1970s to early 1980s. Televised instances at many matches of the [[1986 FIFA World Cup]] in Mexico brought it to a global audience and led to the name "Mexican wave" in English-speaking countries outside North America.

== Origins and variations ==
=== Krazy George Henderson ===
{{main|Krazy George Henderson}}
[[File:Krazy George leads the crowd in a cheer 02.jpg|thumb|[[Krazy George Henderson|Krazy George]] cheering at a [[San Jose State University|San Jose State]] women's volleyball game, 2018]]
On November 15, 1979, the wave originated at a [[National Hockey League]] (NHL) game between the [[Colorado Rockies (NHL)|Colorado Rockies]] and [[Montreal Canadiens]] at [[McNichols Sports Arena]] in [[Denver]], [[Colorado]].<ref name="McNichols Sports Arena 1979">{{cite web|title=Who knew? Turns out Colorado was the birthplace of 'The Wave'|url=https://thehockeynews.com/news/who-knew-turns-out-colorado-was-the-birthplace-of-the-wave|publisher=The Hockey News|date=28 March 2015|access-date=25 November 2022|archive-date=25 November 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221125162720/https://thehockeynews.com/news/who-knew-turns-out-colorado-was-the-birthplace-of-the-wave|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=NFL game between Colorado Rockies and Montreal Canadiens (15 November 1979)|url=https://www.hockey-reference.com/boxscores/197911150CLR.html|publisher=hockey-reference.com|date=25 November 2022|access-date=25 November 2022}}</ref>

[[Krazy George Henderson]] perfected the wave at [[National Hockey League]] games, followed later by the earliest available video documentation of a wave, which he led on October 15, 1981, at a [[Major League Baseball]] game in [[Oakland]], California.<ref name="oilers">{{cite news|last1=Hingston|first1=Michael|title=Surf's Up: As the Edmonton Oilers leave their arena, few remember it was where sports fandom's greatest achievement—the Wave—was perfected|url=http://thewalrus.ca/surfs-up/|access-date=April 13, 2016|work=The Walrus|date=April 6, 2016|archive-date=April 10, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160410134429/http://thewalrus.ca/surfs-up/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name=video>{{Cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sqGxQoORYE |title=The First Wave - Documentation - A's Highlight Video - 1981 |website=[[YouTube]] |date=12 August 2014 |access-date=2016-12-02 |archive-date=2016-04-16 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160416221908/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sqGxQoORYE |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last1=Allen-Price|first1=Olivia|title=The Wave Was Born in Oakland, and Some Giants Fans Want It Dead|url=http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/07/21/the-wave-was-born-in-oakland-and-some-giants-fans-want-it-dead|website=KQED News|publisher=KQED|access-date=23 July 2015|ref=KQED|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150723132732/http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/07/21/the-wave-was-born-in-oakland-and-some-giants-fans-want-it-dead|archive-date=23 July 2015|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}}</ref><ref name="washingtonpost.com">[https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/25/AR2006102501477.html 'Krazy' Inventor of the Wave Celebrates] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170408104347/https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/25/AR2006102501477.html |date=2017-04-08 }}, JANIE McCAULEY, ''The Washington Post''</ref><ref>{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20070928140623/http://www.thewavemagazine.com/printarticle.php?articleid=24131 Somebody’s GOTTA Do It: Celebrating the Bay Area’s Under-appreciated Jobs]}}, Jimmy Christopher, ''The Wave Magazine'' (retrieved 22 August 2010 at [[Internet Archive Wayback Machine]])</ref><ref>{{cite news| url=http://www.latimes.com/sports/college/football/la-sp-tuebriefing17oct17,1,2608019.story?coll=la-headlines-sports-coll_footb | work=Los Angeles Times | first=Mike | last=Penner | title=USC taps its inner Green Monster | date=17 October 2006}}</ref> This wave was broadcast on TV, and George has used a videotape of the event to bolster his claim as the inventor of the wave.<ref name="oilers"/><ref name=video/> On October 31, [[1981 Washington Huskies football team|1981]], a wave was created at a [[University of Washington]] [[American football|football]] game against [[Stanford Cardinal football|Stanford]] at [[Husky Stadium]] in [[Seattle]], and the cheer continued to appear during the rest of that year's football season.<ref name="washingtonpost.com"/> Although the people who created the first wave in Seattle have acknowledged Henderson's wave at a baseball stadium, they claimed to have popularized the phenomenon.{{Citation needed|date=August 2024}}

Henderson believes that the wave originally was inspired by accident when he was leading cheers at a Colorado Rockies [[National Hockey League]] game at [[McNichols Sports Arena]] in [[Denver]], [[Colorado]], in 1979.<ref name="McNichols Sports Arena 1979"/> His routine was to have one side of the arena jump and cheer, then have the opposite side respond. One night in late 1979, there was a delayed response from one section of fans, leading to them jumping to their feet a few seconds later than the section beside them. The next section of fans followed suit, and the first wave circled McNichols Arena of its own accord. In ''The Game of Our Lives'', a 1981 book about the [[1980–81 Edmonton Oilers season|Oilers' 1980-81 season]], journalist [[Peter Gzowski]] described this routine, which did not yet have a name but was already a standard in Henderson's repertoire: "He will start a cheer in one corner and then roll it around the arena, with each section rising from its seat as it yells."<ref name="oilers"/>

=== University of Washington ===
[[Robb Weller]], a cheerleader at the [[University of Washington]] from 1968 to 1972 and later co-host of the television show ''[[Entertainment Tonight]]'', indicated in September 1984 that the school's early 1970s cheerleading squad developed a version of the wave that went from the bottom to top, instead of side to side, as a result of difficulties in getting the generally [[inebriated]] college audience members to timely raise and lower cards: <blockquote>Actually ...there were two Waves. I was a cheerleader at the University of Washington from 1968 to 1972 when we started the first Wave. We tried to have card tricks but the kids would imbibe too much and the card tricks would get all goofed up; then we'd try card tricks with the kids using their bodies as cards and that wouldn't work. Finally we tried a Wave in the student section and it caught on but that Wave was different from this Wave. It would go from the bottom to top instead of side to side.<ref>{{Citation |author= Michael Madden |date= September 30, 1984 |title= Michael Madden From Sea to Shining Sea, the Wave of the Future is Now |work= [[Boston Globe]] }}</ref> </blockquote>The first wave at the [[University of Washington]]'s [[Husky Stadium]] occurred on [[Halloween]] [[1981 Washington Huskies football team|1981]],<ref>{{cite web |url=http://gohuskies.collegesports.com/trads/020498aad.html |title=University of Washington - Official Athletic Site :: Traditions |publisher=Gohuskies.collegesports.com |date=1981-10-31 |access-date=2010-06-09 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060325170555/http://gohuskies.collegesports.com/trads/020498aad.html |archive-date=2006-03-25 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://static.espn.go.com/ncf/bowls01/s/holiday_uwhistory.html |title=The Purple Haze |publisher=Static.espn.go.com |access-date=2010-06-09 |archive-date=2011-11-17 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111117090436/http://static.espn.go.com/ncf/bowls01/s/holiday_uwhistory.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="lmtapfc">{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=M4tfAAAAIBAJ&pg=4897%2C2175025 |newspaper=Lewiston Morning Tribune |location=(Idaho) |agency=Associated Press |last=Bock |first=Hal |title=Washington gets final credit for inventing 'The Wave' |date=November 7, 1984 |page=3C |access-date=October 4, 2020}}</ref> at the prompting of Dave Hunter (Husky band trumpet player) and the visiting alumni cheerleader Weller.<ref>{{Citation |author= George Vescey |date= October 6, 1984 |title= Sports of the Times; Permanent Wave in Motown |work= [[New York Times]] |page=121 }}</ref> In 1982 Husky head coach [[Don James (American football)|Don James]] pointed to crowd noise from the wave as a competitive advantage when playing home games at Husky Stadium.<ref name="DonJamesTheWave">{{cite news |last=Smith |first=Jack |date=November 9, 1982 |title=Dawgs dig in for Sun Devil blitz |newspaper=Seattle Post-Intelligencer |page=B2 |quote=[Don] James also applauded the crowd at Husky Stadium: "We got a big lift from the crowd," be said. "The fact that Husky Stadium has a reputation as a tough place to play the last few years has really shown the last few games with things like the Wave yell."}}</ref>

The wave had been picked up by fans at the nearby [[Kingdome]] prior to the [[Seattle Seahawks]]' first playoff appearance in [[1983 Seattle Seahawks season|1983]].<ref name="Kingdome1983">{{cite news |last=Barber |first=Michael A. |date=December 19, 1983 |title=First-rate reason to party: Seahawks in the playoffs |newspaper=Seattle Post-Intelligencer |pages=A1, A3 |quote=They were part of The Wave yesterday, that unique Seahawk expression of fan unity – a spontaneous cheer that sweeps over the crowd as they stand and yell in unintelligible tongues for, each one believes, "my" football team. [...] There's also The Wave. No one has figured out what triggered this phenomenon of football. It begins as a roar in one end of the stadium and continues around, as each section of fans fumes up and yells to keep The Wave going. No one has figured out what all those people say when they yell, either. It is nothing intelligible. They just scream their hearts out.}}</ref>

=== University of Michigan ===
In the early fall of [[1983 Michigan Wolverines football team|1983]], the [[Michigan Wolverines football|Michigan Wolverines]] played the Huskies in Seattle and brought the wave back to [[Michigan Stadium]] in [[Ann Arbor, Michigan|Ann Arbor]]. A letter to the sports editor of ''[[The New York Times]]'' claimed,<ref>{{cite news |title=Don't Take My Wave Away |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=1984-07-08 |page=Late City Final Edition, Section 5, Page 2, Column 5 }}</ref> "There are three reasons why the wave caught on at Michigan Wolverine games: It gave the fans something to do when the team was leading its opponent by 40 points, it was thrilling and exciting to see 105,000 people in the stands moving and cheering, and [[Bo Schembechler]] asked us not to do it." The fans responded to his request by doing more waves, including "Silent Waves" (standing and waving arms without cheering), "Shsh Waves" (replacing the cheering with a "shshing" sound), the "Fast Wave", the "Slow Wave", and two simultaneous waves traveling in opposite directions. The following spring, fans who had enjoyed the wave in Ann Arbor introduced it to the nearby [[Tiger Stadium (Detroit)|Tiger Stadium]] in [[Detroit]]. The [[Detroit Tigers|Tigers]] won baseball's [[1984 World Series|World Series that year]] and appeared on many televised games throughout 1984, so people all over the US saw it.{{Citation needed|date=August 2024}}

=== Mexican Wave ===
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On September 18, 1984, in the Monterrey metro area suburb of San Nicolas de los Garza, at the Estadio Universitario, the Mexican national team played a friendly match against Argentina, ending in a 1-1 draw. The wave was being done by college students who had learned the celebrations during college football matches. Former Mexico head coach Bora Milutinovic confessed that everytime he visited another stadium around the world he always thought of the fans in Monterrey: "We played the unforgettable match against Argentina 1-1, when that famous 'Wave' began. Now, when I am in stadiums around the world and I see 'waves' where people express their joy at seeing good football, it always reminds me of the fans of the north."

== Global broadcasts ==
=== 1984 Olympic football final ===
The wave was broadcast internationally during the [[football at the 1984 Summer Olympics#Final|1984 Olympic football (soccer) final]] between [[Brazil national football team|Brazil]] and [[France national football team|France]] on August 11, when it was done among the 100,000 in attendance at the [[Rose Bowl (stadium)|Rose Bowl]] in [[Pasadena, California]].<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20071123213646/http://www.fifa.com/tournaments/archive/tournament=512/edition=8229/news/newsid=94154.html José Touré: "It was at the Olympic Games that I realised I was an athlete"] FIFA.com. Retrieved 25 August 2011</ref>

=== 1986 FIFA World Cup in Mexico ===
Most sports historians agree that the wave began internationally during the [[1986 FIFA World Cup]] in Mexico.<ref>http://www.macmillandictionaryblog.com/mexican-wave {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200128085727/http://www.macmillandictionaryblog.com/mexican-wave |date=2020-01-28 }}, Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014</ref> It was broadcast to a global audience, and the wave was popularized worldwide after the tournament.<ref name="Mexican wave">{{cite news |title=Who invented the Mexican Wave? |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/8742454.stm |access-date=12 September 2018 |agency=BBC |archive-date=31 January 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200131183600/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/8742454.stm |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="FourFourTwo">{{cite web|first=Andy|last=Jackson|date=June 11, 2010|url=http://au.fourfourtwo.com/news/168505,fan-crazes.aspx|title=Fan Crazes|work=Australian Four Four Two|access-date=August 25, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111201191443/http://au.fourfourtwo.com/news/168505,fan-crazes.aspx|archive-date=December 1, 2011}}</ref><ref name="Mexico86">[https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/news-and-comment/the-100-greatest-world-cup-moments-1915569.html?action=Gallery&ino=94 “The 100 greatest World Cup moments. # 94. The Mexican Wave”] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181120072219/https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/news-and-comment/the-100-greatest-world-cup-moments-1915569.html?action=Gallery&ino=94 |date=2018-11-20 }} ''The Independent''. Retrieved 25 August 2011</ref> This was the first time that most people living outside North America had seen the phenomenon. As a result, English speakers outside of North America call the phenomenon a "Mexican wave".<ref name="FourFourTwo"/><ref name="Mexico86"/> Likewise in many languages like Polish, Serbian and Turkish, direct translation of the phrase Mexican Wave is used. In Germany, Italy, and other countries the wave is called "la ola" (or simply ''ola'') from the [[Spanish language|Spanish]] word for "wave",<ref>{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/2253747.stm |title=Mexican Wave secrets revealed |date=12 September 2002 |work=[[BBC News]] |access-date=2 December 2011 |archive-date=2 July 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180702023900/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/2253747.stm |url-status=live }}</ref> while in Portuguese-speaking countries, such as Brazil, it is alternatively translated to ''a onda'', more commonly ''[o] ondão'' (augmentative) or simply ''onda'', but ''a ola'' is also used.{{Citation needed|date=August 2024}}
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=== Singapore ===
In Singapore the wave is known as the Kallang Wave, and is widely seen as a symbol of Singaporean national identity. It is routinely performed at football matches involving the [[Singapore national football team]] or [[Singapore LIONSXII]]. The Kallang Wave is named after the location of the [[National Stadium, Singapore|National Stadium]] in Kallang.-->
== Silent wave ==
A silent wave was created during a [[blind football]] match between Turkey and China during the [[2024 Summer Paralympics|2024 Paris Paralympic Games]]. This wave was slow and silent to allow the players to hear the sound of the game.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Sarniguet |first=Pierre |date=2024-09-02 |title=Paris 2024 Paralympics {{!}} Blind football: kings of silence |url=https://olympics.com/en/news/paris-2024-paralympics-blind-football-kings-of-silence |access-date=2024-09-12 |website=Paris 2024}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Jeux paralympiques 2024: comment est née la "céciola", la ola silencieuse des spectateurs du cécifoot |url=https://rmcsport.bfmtv.com/jeux-olympiques/jeux-paralympiques-2024-comment-est-nee-la-ceciola-la-ola-silencieuse-des-spectateurs-du-cecifoot_AV-202409050498.html |access-date=2024-09-12 |website=RMC Sport Jeux Olympiques |language=fr}}</ref>

== Current appearances ==
[[File:Big Day Out (8392285402).jpg|thumb|The wave performed at the 2013 [[Big Day Out]] music festival in [[Sydney, Australia]]]]
Today, the wave is often seen during sports events, sometimes during a lull in the action on the field when the spectators want to amuse themselves. There is some controversy as to when the wave is appropriate to perform during a sporting event.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://media.www.dailynebraskan.com/media/storage/paper857/news/2002/09/12/SportssportsOpinion/Wave-Goodbye.To.Stadium.Fad-1724487.shtml |title=Daily Nebraskan - Wave goodbye to stadium fad |publisher=Media.www.dailynebraskan.com |access-date=2010-06-09 }}{{dead link|date=January 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>  Many fans feel that the wave should not be performed in important situations during the game.{{Citation needed|date=August 2024}}

Prior to the redevelopment of the [[Melbourne Cricket Ground]] between 2002 and 2006, spectators seated in the Members' Stand (reserved for members of the [[Melbourne Cricket Club]]) would refuse to engage in the wave, and would be booed by other spectators at the ground, before the wave would resume on the other side of the stand.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.abc.net.au/am/content/2003/s1016484.htm |title=AM - Waugh set for last stand at MCG |publisher=Abc.net.au |date=2003-12-26 |access-date=2010-06-09 |archive-date=2017-05-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170512065621/http://www.abc.net.au/am/content/2003/s1016484.htm |url-status=live }}</ref> Sociologist John Carroll described the practice of "booing the Members" as dismissive of any claim to authority or superior social status on the members' part, although good-natured and based on the egalitarian nature of watching sports.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ausport.gov.au/fulltext/2001/sportsf/s366728.htm |title=Sports Factor - 14/09/01: Sports Sacred Sites |publisher=Ausport.gov.au |access-date=2010-06-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090109162945/http://www.ausport.gov.au/fulltext/2001/sportsf/s366728.htm |archive-date=2009-01-09 |url-status=dead }}</ref> (As a postscript to the "booing the Members" phenomenon, even when the Members stand was closed due to the reconstruction work, the crowd would still boo, despite the Members' stand being completely empty. When waves were banned (see below), large sections of the Members participated in the protest waves.) Such a feature is also observed at [[Lord's]], another cricket ground, where the Members in that arena also rarely participate and are booed by the crowd.{{Citation needed|date=August 2024}}

[[Cricket Australia]] formally banned the wave at home games in 2007 on the grounds that liquids and other objects thrown in the air during the wave posed a danger.<ref>{{Cite web|url = https://www.smh.com.au/news/cricket/cricket-chiefs-ban-mexican-wave/2007/02/01/1169919460640.html|title = Cricket chiefs ban Mexican wave|date = February 2007|access-date = 2018-05-11|archive-date = 2018-05-12|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20180512043603/https://www.smh.com.au/news/cricket/cricket-chiefs-ban-mexican-wave/2007/02/01/1169919460640.html|url-status = live}}</ref> The move was not well-received and in some cases served to increase the prevalence of the wave at those games. In one such example, [[Adam Gilchrist]], the Australian [[wicketkeeper]], participated in the banned wave from the playing field. The ban continues to be intermittently imposed and lifted by Cricket Australia and Australian police.{{Citation needed|date=August 2024}}

=== Metrics ===

In 2002, Tamás Vicsek of the [[Eötvös Loránd University]], [[Hungary]] along with his colleagues, analyzed videos of 14 waves at large Mexican football stadiums, developing a standard model of wave behavior (published in ''[[Nature (journal)|Nature]]''). He found that it takes only the actions of a few dozen fans to trigger a wave. Once started, it usually rolls in a [[Clockwise and counterclockwise|clockwise]] direction at a rate of about {{cvt|12|m/s|ft/s km/h mph}}, or about 22 seats per second. At any given time the wave is about 15 seats wide. These observations appear to be applicable across different cultures and sports, though details vary in individual cases.<ref>{{cite journal |author1 = I. Farkas |author2 = D. Helbing |author3 = T. Vicsek |date = 12 September 2002 |title = Mexican waves in an excitable medium |journal = [[Nature (journal)|Nature]] |volume = 419 |pages = 131–2 |issn = 0028-0836 |url = http://angel.elte.hu/wave/download/article/MexWave.pdf |access-date = 2007-02-10 |doi = 10.1038/419131a |issue = 6903 |pmid = 12226653 |url-status = dead |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070202223956/http://angel.elte.hu/wave/download/article/MexWave.pdf |archive-date = 2 February 2007 |arxiv = cond-mat/0210073 |s2cid = 4309609 }}&nbsp;Details of the research are at [http://angel.elte.hu/wave Mexican wave (La Ola) A quantitative analysis of the propagating human wave] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110514141453/http://angel.elte.hu/wave/ |date=2011-05-14 }}</ref>

=== Records ===
During the 2010 [[Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear]], an event hosted by comedy TV show hosts [[Jon Stewart]] and [[Stephen Colbert]], about 210,000 people participated in a wave led by ''[[MythBusters]]'' hosts [[Jamie Hyneman]] and [[Adam Savage]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.necn.com/news/new-england/_NECN___Mythbusters__Try_Giant_Wave_at_DC_Rally_NECN-247335371.html|title='Mythbusters' Try Giant Wave at DC Rally|date=26 February 2014 |access-date=2016-03-31|archive-date=2016-04-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160413001208/http://www.necn.com/news/new-england/_NECN___Mythbusters__Try_Giant_Wave_at_DC_Rally_NECN-247335371.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

On 23 June 2019, during the [[Rocket League Championship Series]] (video game e-sports) Season 7 Finals at the [[Prudential Center]] in [[Newark, New Jersey]], the audience set a new record for a longest continuous wave lasting for 28 minutes and 35 seconds.<ref>{{Citation|last=Rocket League Esports|title=RLCS Season 7 World Championship {{!}} Day 3|date=2019-06-23|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PspyaDI4c-Q&t=21918|access-date=2019-06-24}}</ref> The previous record was 17 minutes and 14 seconds set by [[Tube (band)|Tube]] and their fans at a concert at the [[Koshien Stadium]] in [[Nishinomiya, Japan]] on 23 September 2015.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/longest-mexican-wave-(timed)|title=Longest Mexican Wave (Timed)|website=Guinness World Records|language=en-GB|access-date=2019-06-24|archive-date=2019-05-27|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190527005807/http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/longest-mexican-wave-(timed)|url-status=live}}</ref>

==See also==

* [[Card stunt]]

== References ==
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==External links==
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