Team Event 4 - Tug of War

Today's competition was one that definitely favored brute strength... the Tug-of-War event.  Teams were pooled in a round robin style tournament to decide the top two teams who then played a best of 3 series to decide the champion of the event.  Each spot in the event was worth 20 seconds of time, so the winner of the event did not have seconds added to his overall time accumulated whereas 2nd place had 20 seconds added, 3rd place had 40 seconds added... 6th place had 1 min and 40 secs added.

Each match provided lots of intensity, several teams found it to their advantage to synchronize their pulls and others used simple brute force to overcome the other teams.  It is rumored that yells of "1-2-3 Pull" were heard across campus...

Once the round robin tournament was completed, SAWS led by Eric Binder and Team Sanchez led by Nick Pappas squared off in a best of 3 series to decide 1st place in this event. It only took SAWS 2 matches to prove their dominance and the team was crowned victorious in the Tug of War event.

Perhaps the biggest surprise in the event was "The Gangstas of Love" led by Kevin Jackson and their inability to get a single win in the event.  Going into the Tug of War having won 2 of the first 3 events, Jackson's team was heavily favored to win the Team Big Cat Challenge, but it seemed as if they were a team built on speed and not on strength after today's event.  We will see if they can bounce back tomorrow in the swim relay and regain some momentum going into the final Obstacle Course event which will also bed held tomorrow.

Here were the results from the Tug of War Event:

Team Binder "SAWS" 5-0
Team Pappas "Team Sanchez" 4-1
Team Lawson "The Team Formally Known as Prince" 3-2
Team Keiser 2-3
Team Klimesh "Green Death" 1-4
Team Jackson "The Gangstas of Love" 0-5