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(AP) \u2014 When a whistle blew Saturday afternoon, two teams of University of Wisconsin-Madison students pelted each other with snowballs, but the 45-minute battle won&#8217;t be going down in history.<br \/><br \/>Freshman organizer Mike Basak had hoped the epic snowball fight would break a 2006 record set by 3,700 students at Michigan Technological University, but acknowledged Saturday that the turnout at his school was disappointing.<br \/><br \/>Basak guessed that 2,000 or more students showed up, but other observers put the total at hundreds of students, not thousands.<br \/><br \/>&#8220;It was definitely huge and it was a great event,&#8221; he said.<br \/><br \/>In advance of the fight, more than 4,000 people had joined the event&#8217;s Facebook group, and word continued to spread as rival dormitories got ready to rumble in the center of campus.<br \/><br \/>School officials also prepared, recruiting a student group of volunteer emergency medical technicians to be on the scene.<br \/><br \/>Basak said no one was hurt in the melee, although &#8220;there were a few bumps and scrapes.&#8221;<br \/><br \/>Some skeptics had said chilly weather and a scheduled school basketball game would diminish an attempt at the record. 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