What's New for 2012 at Challenge Nation!

As we embark on our amazing third season, we've been busy pumping up the fun and excitement for all of our participants, whether you've completed a Challenge before or not! Here's what we've got cooking for 2012: 

National Challenge Championship

Our very first $5,000 National Challenge Championship race will be held in New Orleans, Louisiana in early December. The top five finishing teams from each of our 34 cities will automatically win free entry into the biggest Challenge of them all....and the top 25 finishing teams will automatically qualify for the race!

Clues on Steroids

We've spent our offseason dreaming up the best batch of clues yet for each city! Each one is designed by a team of mad scientists to be more unexpected, more clever, more difficult and more fun! 

Love the Smartphone; Hate the Smartphone

To account for the increasing ubiquity of smartphones among our competitors over our first seasons and inject some unpredictability in this always-Googlable world, we have designed one amazing clue that will REQUIRE a smartphone and one clue that cannot be done WITH one. Don't fred, luddites: remember that you always have the option of skipping one clue per race.

Online Costume Contest

In addition to the $50 big ones and bragging rights that come with being voted the best costumed team by your Challenge peers on raceday, we also have instituted a second online costume contest to award a $50 prize to another best-dressed team!