Team Gadling checking in!

The inaugural Competitours is off the ground!

All 11 teams sporting bright yellow Flyertalk messenger bags have made it from Newark to Frankfurt and then on to Cologne where we’ll begin our challenges in just 15 minutes!

All of us are going on 24 hours without sleep before we’ve even started the challenges. Some of the events will be held in Cologne, Dusseldorf, Bonn, Koblenz and Duisburg. There’s a total of 175 points up for grabs and there’s no limit to the amount of tasks we can attempt between 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. today (Monday).

For more on the trip, check out my post for the travel website Gadling here. I’ll be updating it regularly and letting you know on this page as well.

Team Gadling, Kent and Linda from New Hampshire.