The third challenge brought the competitors together again at 4:30 pm. Amazingly enough, only 3 out of the 5 teams showed up again. This time for the mystical prize of using anything.
The first challenge required smarts and a sure hand to create engineering contraptions to do the dirty work of flinging a garlic as far as the eye could see. The second challenge required a couple of sure hands and feet to crabwalk to the metaphorical finish line. This challenge will require all of the above: hands, feet, eyes, engineering, contraptions, metaphors, lines, seeing. Each team will take one of their products and will try to throw it as far as they can.
Without really knowing what they were getting into, each team took one of their objects to the outer world. Po's team brought out their 8 ft long skinny-ass bridge. Wah's team took their circular rotating circle of round frisbee (that would've been able to catch...something). Bree's team took their slightly shorter bridge of 4 ft.
In the end, the secret transforming capabilities of Po's team's bridge allowed them to compact their bridge into a football like object. Since none of them are actual quarterbacks for any NFL teams, it was impressive to see them throw the object 300 ft. At least, that's the number that I was told. With this, they were able to use anysing they want. Anything? Anysing. 10 dollah!
With only 30 minutes left, the teams are on the home stretch. What each team will bring to the table keeps everyone at the edge of their seats. Stay tuned for the stunning conclusion; an ending so surprising that it will have you and your co-workers talking about it on Monday, and they will ask you what the hell you are talking about, and then probably walk away.
Saturday, November 25, 2006
More Ingredients, More POWAH!!!!11!!!111one1!1
"Sturdy is the bridge that does not falter in the winds of change and farts."
- ancient proverb from the 20th Century
Longer bridges were created, and more ingredients were taken off the Ingredient Board of LIGHT...Light...light...light...light...
Bree's team:
Liquor baileys
- ancient proverb from the 20th Century
Longer bridges were created, and more ingredients were taken off the Ingredient Board of LIGHT...Light...light...light...light...
Bree's team:
Liquor baileys
Give Me A C, Give Me An H, Give Me An A, Give Me An L, Give Me An L, Give Me An E, Give Me An N, Give Me A G, Give Me An E! What's That Spell?
The second of an unknown number of challenges is underway at 3:15 in the afternoon. This challenge, showing our respect and worshipfulness of our ancestral ways, required each team to crabwalk the entire length of a football field minus 285 feet 3 times. The winner gets to select another ingredient, regardless of whether it has already been taken or not.
Again, 3 of the 5 teams made it out to the challenge. Andy represented the team with mostly white people by traversing the entire length on his own. The brother-sister combo of the Liangs represented the Po-Pos, and Yennie and Caroline represented the team of relatives of the Sponsor of this event (that can't be fair, can it?).
Through the battlefield and the struggles of inner and outer strength, the teams battled each other on their hands and feet with their backs to the floor to race for the finish line. Stephen tried to use his long arms and legs to his advantage by slowing down the other combatants. But in the end, Andy was able to out wrestle his way through the crowd and came out victorious.
After careful consideration and thorough plotting, Bree's team decided that they needed raspberries and must get some of those on their own. Now two teams will have raspberries, and we shall see which of these two desserts will rasp-bury their opponent into the ground.
Meanwhile, confident that they had all they needed, Tammi's and Wah's team continued on with their dessert making process, creating what can only be described and predicted as exquisite masterpieces of delicate taste and aroma. Even the giants at the Iron Chef stadium could not hold their ladels and pans up to what these teams will end up presenting.
Only about 2 hours left before the showdown, and the 5 teams are slaving away over some sort of kitchen equipment. The finale is close, and with so much tasty potential from all the teams, even the Gods themselves are envious of what will become a heavenly delight for all those involved in this event.
Again, 3 of the 5 teams made it out to the challenge. Andy represented the team with mostly white people by traversing the entire length on his own. The brother-sister combo of the Liangs represented the Po-Pos, and Yennie and Caroline represented the team of relatives of the Sponsor of this event (that can't be fair, can it?).
Through the battlefield and the struggles of inner and outer strength, the teams battled each other on their hands and feet with their backs to the floor to race for the finish line. Stephen tried to use his long arms and legs to his advantage by slowing down the other combatants. But in the end, Andy was able to out wrestle his way through the crowd and came out victorious.
After careful consideration and thorough plotting, Bree's team decided that they needed raspberries and must get some of those on their own. Now two teams will have raspberries, and we shall see which of these two desserts will rasp-bury their opponent into the ground.
Meanwhile, confident that they had all they needed, Tammi's and Wah's team continued on with their dessert making process, creating what can only be described and predicted as exquisite masterpieces of delicate taste and aroma. Even the giants at the Iron Chef stadium could not hold their ladels and pans up to what these teams will end up presenting.
Only about 2 hours left before the showdown, and the 5 teams are slaving away over some sort of kitchen equipment. The finale is close, and with so much tasty potential from all the teams, even the Gods themselves are envious of what will become a heavenly delight for all those involved in this event.
New Ingredients CLAIMED and MAIMED!
With more tasks completed, more ingredients have been claimed.
Tammi's team:
Mint leaves
Bree's team:
Brown sugar
Fruit other
Tammi's team:
Mint leaves
Bree's team:
Brown sugar
Fruit other
Dare! Double Dare! Physical Challenge!
At 2:10 pm, the first Challenge of the competition was underway with the goal of launching an object as far as the team could using any of the objects that was made with the tasks. Braving the cold late Fall weather with gusting 2 mph winds, temperatures sub-60/greater than-40 degrees, and sunshine illuminating all the surrounding lands, 3 of the 5 participating teams did their best to send an apple into the depths of space.
Po's team fashioned a crazy rubber band spider web contraption worthy of the Greek gods of Athens. Using their brawns, the team was able to send their apple all the way to 1.5 feet from their initial position.
Wah's team, using the old tried and true apparatus of a slingshot, was able to fling the apple to the heavens and back. And by heavens, I mean a foot or two into the air, and by back, I mean 1.5 feet in front of them.
The winning team was Caroline's team with the amazingly creative...slingshot. With 2.5 feet of clearage, the team was able to claim the prize for this Challenge.
The winning prize is the ability to knock out a couple of ingredients that have not already been chosen. With this new found power, they knocked out the bittersweet chocolate and the honey.
Now that most teams have most of the ingredients, many of them went to grocery stores and/or started their cooking. The GAME IS ON!!!
Po's team fashioned a crazy rubber band spider web contraption worthy of the Greek gods of Athens. Using their brawns, the team was able to send their apple all the way to 1.5 feet from their initial position.
Wah's team, using the old tried and true apparatus of a slingshot, was able to fling the apple to the heavens and back. And by heavens, I mean a foot or two into the air, and by back, I mean 1.5 feet in front of them.
The winning team was Caroline's team with the amazingly creative...slingshot. With 2.5 feet of clearage, the team was able to claim the prize for this Challenge.
The winning prize is the ability to knock out a couple of ingredients that have not already been chosen. With this new found power, they knocked out the bittersweet chocolate and the honey.
Now that most teams have most of the ingredients, many of them went to grocery stores and/or started their cooking. The GAME IS ON!!!
At 1 pm, The Food Fight Extravaganza of Dunn Loring commenced with each team going their separate ways and finding their calling in life...or at least today...and for finding their dessert destiny.
For the first hour, the following teams used ingenuity, creativity, blood, and sweat to create the different devices for completing tasks. The results of The Ingredient Stealing for the first phase of the competition are as follows:
Po's team:
Extract Vanilla
Icing
Chocolate Cocoa
Wah's team:
Ricotta Cheese
Marscapone Cheese
Strawberry (Fruit)
Jam/Jelly
Digestive biscuits
Caroline's team:
Baking Soda
Baking Powder
Extract Almond
Pudding
Chocolate milk
Tammi's team:
Semi-sweet chocolate
Raspberry/Blackberry (Fruit)
Sugar (powdered)
Bree's team:
Vanilla Bean
For the first hour, the following teams used ingenuity, creativity, blood, and sweat to create the different devices for completing tasks. The results of The Ingredient Stealing for the first phase of the competition are as follows:
Po's team:
Extract Vanilla
Icing
Chocolate Cocoa
Wah's team:
Ricotta Cheese
Marscapone Cheese
Strawberry (Fruit)
Jam/Jelly
Digestive biscuits
Caroline's team:
Baking Soda
Baking Powder
Extract Almond
Pudding
Chocolate milk
Tammi's team:
Semi-sweet chocolate
Raspberry/Blackberry (Fruit)
Sugar (powdered)
Bree's team:
Vanilla Bean
Wednesday, November 22, 2006
Welcome!
Throughout the competition, we'll be tracking the progress of each team right here on this blog, along with pictures and commentary.
Remember to sign up all your team members by Friday, November 24th, and arrive promptly at 11am to get oriented and to have lunch.
Remember to sign up all your team members by Friday, November 24th, and arrive promptly at 11am to get oriented and to have lunch.
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