Field of Fury

Ah, gone are the days of doing trust falls with your co-workers at corporate team-building events. Now, in this day and age of extreme sports, we at PUNCH like to embrace our team-building events head-on at 100 mph. Or so we at least thought while doing our first mad sprinting event at our 3rd annual spring sporting bonanza—a field-day appropriately titled, “PUNCH Field of Fury!”

During the Field of Fury, hosted at Maymont on May 29, the whole gang at PUNCH participated in six different events—and “yes” it was 90 degrees outside—and “yes” we did in fact sweat, stink, and attract flies. What better way to get closer to your co-workers, right?

The events included a good ol’-fashioned foot race, a tug o’ war (which lasted three seconds thanks to Ken Gibson), the most maniacal obstacle course our copywriter Devon Hoff could dream up (pssh, we had to do long division as one of the obstacles, and I am NOT smarter than a 5th grader). Other events included three rounds of dodgeball that nearly landed half of the company into sweat-induced comas, a relay race that combined brains and brawn, and last but not least, a shot-put so wicked that 4 peoples’ arms just popped right off during the event! OK, so that last part wasn’t really true, but we really did push ourselves in the heat and had a magnificent time doing so.

So what happened in the end? Well, after adding up the total point values of each event, the final score came to “The A-Team” with 140 points, and (drum roll please) “The Killer Bs” with…140 points! Now I really thought I had rigged the scoring to make it impossible to have a tie, but in the end, both sides won! You couldn’t ask for a better ending! All in all, with the massive heat and the funky sweating in weird places, everyone had a super fun time and really got a chance to work in teams and see their co-workers in a way that just doesn’t really come up during the weekly production meetings.

So now that PUNCH has done tennis, soccer, and field day events, what sporting event could we possibly try to top that? Hmmm, would boxing be a bad idea?