Where: Fieldhouse

What: find your teammates, figure out rosters for each station, rally!

Where: Fieldhouse

Players: Six players from Aurora (three girls, three boys), six from Vesper (three girls, three boys). Both teams must have a member of each grade.

How to Play:

• Line up single-file with your teammates, at one end of the basketball gym

• On "GO," first player dives at the air mattress to move it along the floor & runs back to tag the next player

• Next player runs and dives at the air mattress. Then, runs back to tag the next player and so on

  • • Air Mattress may not be moved, kicked, or pushed forward using any limbs

    • All movement from the air mattress must come from the player's body momentum

    • Refs reserve the right to reset any questionable air mattress moves

• First team to move their air mattress across the finish line wins

Video Example

Where: Campus Green, in between the Athletic Center and the Library

Players: In pairs, 10 players from Aurora (five girls, five boys), 10 from Vesper (five girls, five boys). Both teams must have a member of each grade.

How to Play:

• Line up facing your partner

• Throw balloon to your partner

• Catch balloon from your partner

• If the balloon stays intact, take a step back. Refs may use a rope to determine the line

• Keep going until there is one pair standing

• Last pair remaining wins for the whole team

Where: Annenberg Library

Players: Six players from Aurora (three girls, three boys), six from Vesper (three girls, three boys). Both teams must have a member of each grade.

How to Play:

• All players are seated (6 chairs total on each side)

• For each question, the first person to stand up gets a chance to answer for the whole team

• Ref reads a question (free response)

  • If answer is correct, the team wins the round

  • If answer is incorrect, other team wins the round

  • If no one stands up, the ref continues

• Ref reads the same question so that the free response question becomes a multiple-choice question.

  • If answer is correct, the team wins the round

  • If answer is incorrect, other team wins the round

  • If no one stands up, move on to another question

• Team that scores higher out of five possible questions wins

Where: Gaga Pit (near LS Playground)

Players: 5 players from Aurora, 5 from Vesper. Both teams must have a member of each grade. Both teams must have at least one boy and one girl on the team.

How to Play:

• All players start with one foot & one hand touching the wall

• Ball is thrown into the pit by the ref. The ball must bounce 3x before it is active (count together: GA - GA - BALL)

  • • You cannot hold onto the ball

    • You can only touch or hit the ball once in a row, with only one hand

    • If it touches your feet or legs, you’re out

    • If you hit the ball out of the pit, you’re out

• Team with last player standing wins

Video Tutorial

Where: LS Playground

Players: 5 players from Aurora, 5 from Vesper. At least one player from each grade.

How to Play:

• All players line up at the top of the metal slides

• First players from each team slide down, run the course according to the refs, and run back up the rope/rock climb (next to the slides) and tag the next player

• Next player slides down & does the same

• Continue until last player runs up the rope/rock climb & tags the first player to finish

• First team to complete the course with all players wins

Where: Campus Green, center

Players: 10 players from Aurora (five girls, five boys), 10 from Vesper (five girls, five boys). Both teams must have a member of each grade.

How to Play:

• Line up on one side of the rope with your teammates

• Make sure middle flag on the rope is aligned with the center cone

• On “GO,” pull the rope

• Team that pulls their flag past the center cone first wins the round

• Best 2 out of 3 rounds

Where: 10th Grade Lounge (First Floor US)

Players: 10 players from Aurora (five girls, five boys), 10 from Vesper (five girls, five boys). Both teams must have a member of each grade.

How to Play:

• Table is set up with ten plates on both sides

• Every player receives a straw

• Line up with your team on one side, with each player in front of a plate

• Place skittles on the starting plates

• First player uses straw to suck up a skittle from their plate & transfer it to next plate

• Each player continues until all skittles are at the end plate

• First team to move all skittles to end plate wins. If time permits, best 2 out of 3 rounds

Where: Campus Green, center

Players: Six players from Aurora (three girls, three boys), six from Vesper (three girls, three boys). Both teams must have a member of each grade.

How to Play:

• Line up single-file with your teammates, behind the cone

• On "GO," first player runs to the Connect 4 board, places one piece in, & runs back to tag next player

• Both teams play simultaneously

• First team with four pieces in a row wins. If time permits, best 2 out of 3 rounds

Where: Campus Green

Players: Eight players from Aurora (four girls from different grades, four boys from different grades). Eight players from Vesper (four girls from different grades, four boys from different grades).

How to Play:

• Each player receives two pool noodles and places a cup on top of one of the pool noodles.

• Teams begin at opposite ends of the boundary.

• On "GO," players can advance and try to knock off the cup of the opposing players.

  • When a player loses their cup, they are automatically OUT and must leave the arena

  • If a player steps out of bounds, they are automatically OUT and must leave the arena

  • Players may not place their hand above the marked yellow line on their pool noodle + cup

  • Players may not fold their pool noodles

• Last player remaining wins the round for the whole team.

• Best 2 out of 3 rounds.

Where: in front of the Chapel

Players: 10 players from Aurora (five girls, five boys), 10 from Vesper (five girls, five boys). Both teams must have a member of each grade.

How to Play:

• Line up single-file with your teammates

• On "GO," first player dunks sponge into bucket with water & passes the sponge back to the next player

• Players alternate going over the head & going between the legs to pass the sponge down

• Last player squeezes water out of sponge into the end bucket & runs to starting bucket to restart

• Repeat until time runs out. Refs will determine total time before the round begins.

• Team with more water in the end bucket wins. Refs will use a scale to weigh the bucket

Where: Fieldhouse

What: Final HANDSTAND competition, winners announced
If needed, the handstand competition will count as a tiebreaker between Aurora and Vesper

Categories: Winning Stripe
Winning Team
Aurora or Vesper