Most everyone enjoys a contest, especially when its filled with suspense around being the most creative, clever, and witty team in the room. Great team organization skills and collective sparks of brilliance will be demonstrated by the most entertaining and successful teams in one of our Team Tournament formats.

These competitions leave everyone refreshed and enthusiastic about great teamwork. Teams don't beat each other up, rather, they show their smarts by producing great solutions to off beat challenges. Some losing teams may wind up crying, but it'll be from laughing too hard at the wacky turn of events that you couldn't script, as teams demonstrate their best efforts to their peers.

Any one of the three formats described below will likely be the best remembered session at your meeting, which makes it a great platform to demonstrate effective team skills and to develop lasting relationships. If you have at least 3 hours and 30 people, one of these sessions is sure to be a great jump-start, re-energizer, or grand finale event to compliment a schedule of more cerebral meetings. Contact us for more information about scheduling a Team Tournament for your upcoming event.

Bridge Builders (4 hours) Teams of from 8 to 15 participants are challenged to build a bridge using only materials we provide, including paper, foil, and wood sticks, among other paraphernalia. After making a plan, each team is split into two "sub-teams" to build their halves in different locations. Communication between sub-teams is limited to simulated phone calls, e-mails, faxes, and one “express” shipment of raw materials. When construction time is over, the two halves are assembled. After short presentations touting their bridge’s design attributes, each team’s bridge is tested to determine its load bearing ability. Teams also aim for success across five other dimensions: build-to-plan, length, aesthetics, efficiency, and symmetry. Winning teams receive medals for effective teamwork. A debrief at the end of the program ties the building experience to the challenge of coordinating teamwork across locations in the work arena.

Eggs in Space (3 hours) is a lightly competitive challenge activity in which teams with from eight to twelve participants design, construct, test, and launch devices to catapult eggs to a large bulls eye target. Teams also develop presentations that tout their inventions using eggisms that really crack people up. The program can be conducted either indoors or outside.

In a Mega Teams Tournament company teams enjoy fun activities involving both competitive and collaborative skills. The program can run from 3 to 8 hours and involve dozens of teams. The more participants, the more fun and entertaining the festivities. If you have from 60 to 260 people or more, all will be fully engaged in this fast paced series of clever challenges!

Participants are assigned to a team with up a dozen participants, which is part of a larger multi-Mega Team devised for the program. Scores are kept of each team's performance in a series of activities. Depending on the challenge, success requires collaboration with some teams and competition with others. Figuring out a winning strategy is part of each team's challenge from the outset.  

There are a wide range of both indoor and outdoor activities to select from. These include customized company oriented word puzzles: crossword, word search, anagrams, and word jumbles. Your corporate identity - product names, slogans, culture elements, technical knowledge - are woven into these challenges to reinforce a general theme or important point for your gathering.

A debrief at the end of the session encourages discussion of the program message: that we all need to know when and who to compete with and when and how to collaborate, and to do both well to win the big game together.

At the conclusion, an "awards" ceremony recognizes teams with the highest scores. Team Craft facilitators draw out participant insights on winning strategies and great results.  

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