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Winners of City Chase Vancouver

Last Saturday I was the Blackberry station captain for the Vancouver location of City Chase 2008. City Chase is similar to the Amazing Race as teams of two race around the city doing activities at different stations in order to acquire points. The first team to acquire the necessary points wins.

It is definitely something that I recommend participating in as it is fun and provides the opportunity to get out of your comfort-zone interacting with strangers in your city while testing your physical and mental limits. Vancouver was the first city on the Canadian tour. If you are American, you can participate in the US events. The World Championship will be in November where winning teams from Canada, USA, France, UK, Ireland, Spain, Italy, Portugal, Germany, Australia, Hong-Kong and Singapore compete.

The Blackberry Station that I was the captain of involved teams having to use the video and photo function to do creative activities. Five of the seven need to be completed within 30 minutes without being assessed a time penalty.

The tasks to choose from were:

• photo of 2 non-participants kissing
• 15 sec video of team members acting as cats (including meowing)
• 15 sec video of 4 non-participants singing O Canada
• photo of tatoo below the waist
• 15 sec video of team member eating food simultaneously with stranger
• photo of stranger drinking a coke
• 15 sec video of a team member tickling barefoot of stranger

I enjoyed being a part of City Chase and I definitely look forward to involvement in the future.

[update] flickr photos are here.

Relevance: Get outside and play a game with others. It is fun and will teach you skills to better your life.