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The drum roll please . . .

Competitours Host — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:59:50 +0000

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 deep into the evening, we made an executive decision to delay video uploading until teams got back to the States on Monday.

Some teams were a little slower than others uploading their remaining videos, and our judges were only expecting to be available through end of last week. So, those two issues resulted in Thursday night, not Monday night to announce our final audited judging results.

For upcoming trips, teams will have NO uploading responsibility, they will simply load their videos onto portable memory devices (like an SD card or thumbdrive), hand them to our tour escort, who will deal with any technical snafus with uploading, while teams can enjoy their evenings blissfully unaware or uncaring of the uploading process….as it should be!!

Withour further ado, here are the standings:

Scores for the first three days of challenges:

M-W
Team 1	240
Team 5	235
Team 7	230
Team 6,9	215	tie
Team 8	205
Team 2	175
Team 11	130
Team 3	80
Team 10	65
Team 4	35

Scores for the last two days of challenges

TH-F
Team 5	140
Team 8/9	135	tie
Team 1	130
Team 7	115
Team 3	100
Team 11	50
Team 2,10	40	tie
Team 4	NA
Team 6	NA

It’s Day Three, it must be The Netherlands

Competitours Host — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 13:20:08 +0000

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:

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

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And to “rap” up the last of today’s challenge highlights, check out this video from Team 3 at the House of Bols:

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Race Day #2

Competitours Host — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 13:12:40 +0000

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:

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Tasked with, Team 3 kept it short and sweet (or should I say “fragrant”?). Get a whiff of this perfume commercial:

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Competitours participants off and running

Competitours Host — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 04:00:15 +0000

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 are a couple highlights from the day’s events:

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The game is clearly ON and the competition is fierce! Stay tunes for more updates from Europe. In the meantime, check out www.competitours.com to see how you can make travel a reality this summer.