| 1600 plastic cups, 8 hula hoops, and 93
super senior campers: it was time for Tom's Amazing Cup Game! The rules
are simple but the action is intense. The single goal of this classic
evening activity is to create the highest tower within a hula hoop using
only 200 plastic cups. Some restrictions apply as bunk groups cannot
verbally communicate once play has begun, only have ten minutes to
complete their tower and only one person can place one cup onto the tower
at a time. A new twist was added to last night's event: if any of the
rules were broken, one cup from the BOTTOM layer of the building must be
removed (yikes!). |
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To start, each team (bunk
group) had about 5 minutes to strategize because
as soon as time was up, the field house would have to become silent! |
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As the planning time stopped, it was time to start construction! All
teams had a different approach. Some were fairly free-formed... |
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while others started with
intricate bases of triangles and circles. |
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As the ten minutes ticked away, the towers grew taller and taller. |
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Like many great projects, some
towers needed to be rebuilt since no sorts of adhesive were permitted
and it is not easy to be extremely delicate! |
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Time was up and the structures
stood tall. The competition was close and all groups were eager to
see who the winner was...but wait! Each group would be given 5 more
minutes to continue building. |
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| So the groups kept building... |
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and building! Yes, the towers
were so tall that counselors needed to get on each others shoulders to
continue! |
| Campers looked on nervously as
the towers reached their maximum height. |
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When the competition came to a close,
the judges, Todd, Dave, and Karli, had some big decisions to make.
Because the groups had different sized cups, it was hard to decide which
criterion should be used to declare a winner: based on number of rows or
sheer height. In the end, there was no way to overcome this dilemma so
to follow the Campus Kids motto, everyone was declared a winner! |
