Game Summary:
Park Challenge was a fun mini-Game held in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco.  There were two divisions, runners and walkers, six clues, and two course directions (clockwise and counter-clockwise).  Not only was it the shortest ever event we had ever done, it was arguably the most successful.   The maximum team size was four people, and since we had more than four people interested, we decided to split into two teams of four.  Despite splitting in half, we remarkably finished 1st and 3rd in the walkers divisions with our two teams!  Team Blood actually finished first ahead of all the runners, too, though the runners division did have a slightly longer course.  This also marked the first time that we won actual monetary prizes for our finish, as Team Blood won $60 in gift certificates for Sports Basement, and $30 for Pasta Pomodoro, while Team Bones won free entries into the next event!

We had a great time solving 6 very interesting and fun clues, and walked about 4 miles around Golden Gate Park in the process.  The clues were far enough apart and we were given the clues in 2 groups of 3, so most of the time we spent walking to each clue was spent solving the following clues.  At the end we were sufficiently tired, but we had a ton of fun and will definitely plan to enter the next Park Challenge held in December to defend our title.

Team Blood Members:  Rich Bragg, Robert Cheng, Rico Fisher, Scott Krueger
Phone-A-Friend:  Kristen Bragg, Mark Caswell
Start Time:  Saturday, October 5, 10:30 AM
Finish Time:  Saturday, October 5, 12:05 PM (1:35 hours elapsed)
Clues:  Solved 6 of 6 clues
Awards:  1st Place- Walkers Division (4 $15 gift certificate to Sports Basement, $30 gift certificate to Pasta Pomodoro - $90 value)
Result:  1st out of 33 teams (Walkers Division), 1st out of 42 teams (Overall)

Team Bones Members:  Sarah Barnum, Mike Holzbaur, Sarangan Narasimhan, Kate Saul
Phone-A-Friend:  Kristen Bragg
Start Time:  Saturday, October 5, 10:30 AM
Finish Time:  Saturday, October 5, 12:42 PM (2:12 hours elapsed)
Clues:  Solve 6 of 6 clues
Awards:  3rd Place - Walkers Division (4 free admissions to the next Park Challenge - $60 value)
Result: 3rd out of 33 teams (Walkers Division), 5th out of 42 teams (Overall)