• Goal: Be the team to accumulate the most points. Points are earned visitng sites on the map and answering questions and completing challenges at the site. Your team may visit as many sites as they like during the game.
• Text Messages: Teams will need to text their answers and progress to Protest Central while you play the game. In turn Protest Central will update teams on scores and challenges. One cell phone on each team should be designated for communication for the entire game (hint:make sure the phone is well charged and the owner is a fast texter.) Each team will receive a unique Protest Central phone number at the beginning of the game. The designated phone should also send a text to: 40404 with reactivismtc as the message.
• Keys: When you arrive at a site, find the key question associated with the site on the list of keys found in your supplies. The answer to the key question is somewhere at the site. Find the answer and text it to Protest Central. If you are correct you will be told which envelope to open and earn 100 points. In the envelope you will find the challenges associated with the site.
• Envelopes: You cannot open an envelope until Protest Central confirms that you have answered the key correctly. If your team returns with envelopes open that were not authorized you will be docked 1000 points for each envelope.
• Challenges: There are two challenges at each site. Your team can make the choice to complete one, two, or no challenges at a site. Each challenge can only be performed once a game and is worth 300 points. Be sure to document your challenges with pictures or video. If you do not have proof you will not earn the points from the challenge. Also, be sure to send a text message to Protest Central after you complete challenges.
• Bike Fiend Bonus Challenge: As you travel from site to site you may encounter the roving Bike Fiend Bonus Challenge. The Bike Fiends where abouts are unpredictable, but if you spot him you have the option accept or deny his challenge. You do not get to know what the challenge is before accepting. Should you accept and win the challenge, you will receive 600 points. Should accept and lose the challenge, you will lose 600 points.
• Sites: Your team may visit as many sites as possible during the game. It is up to your team to strategize the most successful plan, and choose the order you visit them in. All sites are marked on the map in your materials. There will not be anyone waiting for you at the site.
• Scoring: Keep track of the keys, challenges, and bonus challenge you have completed on the sheet labeled “THE KEYS + SCORE”. Put an “X” in the appropriate box on the sheet. Keeping track of this will make scoring quicker and easier at the end.
• Finish: At the end of the game all of the teams will meet back at Black Dog by no later than 4:00 PM. Your team will be docked 100 points for every 5 minutes that you are late. Be on time, if not early. Winners will be announced and prizes distributed.
