The 2017 Business Games concluded on Sunday, 15 October with the Tenpin Bowling and Dodgeball events. It wrapped up an enthralling sixteen days of action. This year we had just over 200 teams from 43 companies/organisations around Wellington get involved. It was great to see the variety of organisations taking part; from IT giants like…
The Indoor Netball event this year had 24 teams taking part at Hutt Indoor Sports on Saturday, October 7th. In Pool A, last year’s beaten finalists Courier Post were in ominous form and swept aside their opposition. They clearly had there sights set on going one step further in this year’s event. Pool B was…
The Clay Target Shooting took place at the Hutt Valley Clay Target Club in Whitemans Valley on Saturday, October 7th. It is frequently one of the Business Games most popular events – this year we had 28 teams taking part. For the second year in a row at Clay Target we were unlucky to get…
The popular Amazing Urban Race event took place on Wednesday, October 4th – beginning at Shed 1, Queens Wharf and culminating at the Greenman Pub for prize giving. The event was packed to the brim this year, with 20 teams filling the 20 available entry spots. They were required to complete 52 missions around the…
Go Karting – one of the Business Games glamour events – took place at Daytona Raceway on Sunday, October 1st. There was a huge Datacom presence, with 15 of our 31 teams entered on the day coming from the IT giant. In Heat 1, the Datacom sides were quick to flex their muscle and finished…
On our opening day of Business Games, the Indoor Cricket event took place at Hutt Indoor Sports with eight teams vying for victory. In Pool A, defending champions Fronde were in ominous form and finished top with three wins from three games. It wasn’t all plain sailing for Fronde though – Datacom 1 meant business…
Congratulations to Datacom and all teams that took part. See you in 2017! Results posted here Event Recaps
Saturday, 15 October – Daytona Raceway Lower Hutt Paintball took place on a stormy Saturday morning at Daytona Raceway, the same venue as where we had the Go Karting event. Defending champions, Wellington City Council, were back this year and from the start, asserted their dominance. Their “blitzkrieg” style of play, where players would rush…
Thursday, October 13 – Shed 1 and Greenman Pub, Wellington The 2016 Corporate Challenge began at Shed 1, Queens Wharf with several “physical challenges”. This year, we had our 8 entrants compete against each other in tug of war, the inflatable relay, laser tag and the foam pad relay. The better a team performed in…