Homecoming 2009, “Rock-N-Roll the Tigers,” officially began Sunday at Fiji Island with the events, Kickoff and Anything Goes, hosted by All Campus Events.

Aside from the two events highlighted on Sunday, the beginning of Homecoming Week also signifies the time that groups are able to begin work on their organization’s contributing items and games.

Homecoming participants were invited to Fiji Island Sunday evening to enjoy complimentary hamburgers and hot dogs, and to watch the games featured in this year’s Anything Goes event.

Accompanied with the musical help of local radio station HOT 104.5, members representing fourteen of the organizations participating in Homecoming competed in a series of relay games, with six people on each team.

This year’s events included bobbing for apples in some very chilly water, a relay game where students had to dress up in various UT apparel and race to the finish line and back, an over-under passing game of a cantaloupe greased in Crisco, and arguably the most competitive game, a root beer relay.

The root beer relay game was the only one of the games to be played in a tournament style with brackets and it is safe to say that the game was the crowd favorite.

The overall winner of Anything Goes will be announced at half time of the Homecoming game against the Memphis Tigers on Saturday.