Photo: Texas A&M's Pokemon Go event draws huge crowd

On Tuesday evening, Texas A&M announced a Pokemon Go event for Wednesday afternoon. Judging from a photo by Clay Taylor of 12th Man Productions, the event was overwhelmingly popular with TAMU students and other College Station locals, leading to long lines.

The line to get onto Kyle Field to play this Godforsaken Pokémon game pic.twitter.com/bXDDUV6XO7

— Clay Taylor (@claydeezy) July 13, 2016

The smartphone game recently launched by Nintendo has become unavoidable in the news, even the sports world, due to its virtually overnight popularity.

Fun game at this year's #SECMD16 – trying to decide if reporters on their phones are tweeting during sessions, or playing #PokemonGO

— Sebastian Posey (@SebastianPosey) July 12, 2016

Number of reporters playing Pokemon Go during SEC Media Days this week?

— Tyler Thompson (@MrsTylerKSR) July 11, 2016

Who's doing a SEC Media Days story from the Pokémon Go angle? Has this been done? If so, are you still employed?

(Asking for a friend)

— Tyler Greever (@Tyler_Greever) July 12, 2016

The next event that will bring a large crowd to Kyle Field will likely be Texas A&M’s season opener against UCLA on Sept. 3.