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This
is a highly competitive, fun and fast-moving team building
event involving collaboration, negotiations and competition.
Each team is allocated an international territory and
are organised into consortia; this means that teams need to
work collaboratively with some territories whilst
competing
with others!
The challenge is to transport marbles by pipeline from
the city of Alpha to the city of Bravo crossing international
boundaries en-route. Each team may only operate inside
their national boundaries - an area of the function room
(or grass/hard-standing area) clearly marked out by bright
hazard tape.
Teams each have access to a set of
construction materials. Teams receive incoming marbles
from one or moreneighbouring team and then pass them
on to the next neighbouring team in their consortia.
This requires collaboration between teams to pool and
exchange resources to ensure that the pipeline works
as a complete entity.
Individual teams can improve their pipeline by building
in special features (drops, bends etc.); by paying attention
to structural integrity and by the decoration and adornment
of their pipeline with national emblems and symbols.
Extra fun can be built-in by requiring
pipelines to crossover rival pipelines at various points!
At a specified time, marbles are released over the whole
pipeline. An Award Ceremony at the close recognises
a variety of achievements such ambition demonstrated,
artistry, engineering innovation and of course whether the
pipeline works or not!
Finally, the marble pipelines that your teams build represent a great metaphor for the need for organisations to provide a seamless service or product delivery to their customers - this can only be achieved if all teams are aligned to the same goal.
This high-energy event really taps
into teamwork - it is ideal as a conference event, an
energiser, or to add a team building element to a meeting,
seminar or training course.
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