The drum roll please . . .

March 27th 2009 | Posted in Competitours Blog
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We appreciate everyone’s patience in waiting for the scores to be tallied.
 
What happened?
 
Well, we learned a valuable lesson this first trip.  Eleven teams vying for internet connectivity and loads of bandwidth at the same time from a small hotel’s even smaller wi-fi capacity, is not gonna work!  So, after the second night of teams being frustrated and blurry-eyed [...]

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It’s Day Three, it must be The Netherlands

March 20th 2009 | Posted in Competitours Blog
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Team 5 is living large at the Madurodam, and not only because they take have taken the lead in Day 3. See what I mean here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZwZdTSprT4

Team 9 found an important plant used for medicinal purposes at the flower market:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAnFfSO2jzg

And to “rap” up the last of today’s challenge highlights, check out this video from Team 3 [...]

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Race Day #2

March 20th 2009 | Posted in Competitours Blog
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Technical difficulties with hotel internet may have caused a few delays in uploading videos, but what we did see gave us a good laugh. Here are some of the highlights of Day 2.
Team 7 hit the slopes at Jever Skihalle in Neuss, Germany, showing off their talent at keeping their balance while filming: 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGnOBmsN_D8

Tasked with, Team 3 [...]

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Competitours participants off and running

March 17th 2009 | Posted in Competitours Blog
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Upon landing in Germany, the Competitours teams were off and running Monday, competing for the chance to win the grand prize of a global travel spree.
Teams 1 and 6 surged ahead of the competition, performing 6 and 5 challenges, respectively. But at the end of the day Team 1 narrowly beat out their rivals. Here [...]

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