Written by Valts Rozentāls
We had some light discussions if we should do morning practice today as we would be playing a 3×3 tournament right after. We decided for the practice to establish some more individual concepts (necessary for 3×3). While I was hosting the 3×3 Tournament, Miriam, Paul and Sandy were preparing a “Geo-Caching” game.
3×3 turned out VERY even. One team had bad luck as one player got injured, all others had some very close games (within 2-3 points range) and we had a stable competition in its core until the end. We could determine the first and last team, the rest were decided upon points and +/- coefficient after the very last game.
After all this activity, we let the kids strengthen with some lunch and recover with some free time. Afterwards we would split them into different teams and go Geo-Caching. For those unfamiliar – you get an initial lead to place to find and a riddle where to find the next lead. We set a time limit of about ten minutes upon arriving at the right place to find the next clue. If the team did not succeed within the time limit – we would offer to them to forfeit the point for the current lead and receive the next clue.
Teams could get full points for finding the clues and completing the leads. At the end the winner was the Team lead on by Mark (supervisor was Paul) and they just blew everyone out of the competition. He commented the following:
“We were of course pretty quick because Mark knew almost every location. The German kids eventually just let him take the lead. At some stations, the Germans did figure something out too. I offered to tell Mark to hold back a bit, but they didn’t mind at all. I also got the sense that they were quite glad we finished so quickly because everyone was already tired. But I still had fun.”
This was a very demanding day and we were already reaching the end of the week. Naturally everyone was growing tired and we called it a day after dinner and showering – well deserved rest was in order to overcome the last, full day ahead.
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