National Challenge Championship
New Orleans, LA -- Saturday, November 14th, 2015
The National Challenge Championship is the biggest, toughest, most awesome Challenge Nation race, pitting the best teams from all 35 races across the country to battle for a huge cash prizes for first place, plus lots of additional prizes for runners-up!
2015 Challenge Championship Details:
When: Saturday, 11/14/15
Where: New Orleans, LA
Start/Finish: Lafitte's Blacksmith Shop, 941 Bourbon Street
Time: check in opens at 10:00 a.m., race starts at 10:30 a.m.!
Who: The top 5 teams from each race are automatically eligible for the National Championship with complimentary entry (registration required below, however). The rest of the top 50 teams from each race qualify for the race and are eligible to enter for $65 per participant (no limit on team size). Only one qualifying member from the original team is necessary--you can trade out other team members.
Prizes: $6,000 in total prizes! 1st: $4000, 2nd: $1000, 3rd: $500, 4th: $300, 5th: $200, 6th: Free 2016 Team Entry, 7th: Free 2016 Team Entry
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RACE DETAILS
Number of teams: TBD -- we expect about the same number of teams as the past three years, about 30-40 total -- your odds are pretty good!
Why: to WIN it all, baby!
How to register: Use the form below to take part! If you're in the top 5, please use your team name where it asks for a code on the 2nd page of the process--we'll manually verify each entry. For top 50 finishers, please also list your team name when asked on the payment page.
Race Format: The race is in two phases, with all teams competing in round one and the top five (+ 2 wild cards) teams advancing to the final round. The first round will begin at 10:30 a.m. and all teams will get a 12 clue packet at the same time. These clues are harder and more spread out than a typical Challenge race, so we expect the winning time will be between 2 hours and 3 hours. The final round will commence exactly one hour after the 5th team finishes. The top 5 finishers will advance to the final round PLUS two "wild card" teams, drawn at random (from a hat) from the pool of teams that finish in the hour between races.
Additionally, for the final round, while all teams will receive the clues at the same time, the ability of a team to depart the start area will be staggered based on each team's finish time in round one (on a 5:1 basis). Example: team one can leave immediately, team two must wait 2 minutes to move if they finished 10 minutes behind team 1 in round one, and so on.
The first team back in the final round is our overall 2015 Challenge Nation Champion! We'll keep taking times until we've awarded all prizes.
For any specific questions, please email us at info@challengenation.com.
NOLA Travel Tips:
New Orleans is cheap when there's not a big event or convention going on -- and there's not on our race weekend! Make sure to compare airfare on low cost carriers Southwest, Frontier, and Spirit, which all serve MSY. You can also check airfare into BTR, Baton Rouge is just an hour away by car.
The race headquarters will be in the French Quarter -- so any hotel there, or in the Central Business District immediately adjacent will be perfect for your team. You can use www.hotwire.com or www.priceline.com to get great deals on highly-reviewed hotels in NOLA -- as long as you don't care exactly which hotel you have within the zone.
2014 Results
2014 Challenge Championship Top Six Finishers
Final Round Results:
1. 59:38 Zack Attack $5,000 2014 Challenge Nation Champions
2. 1:00:43 Baby We Were Born To Run $500 Runners Up
3. 1:21:12 Taintastic $300 3rd Place
4. 1:38:55 8-12-80's $100 & Free 2015 Team Race Entry
5. 1:46:41 The PPJs $100 & Free 2015 Team Race Entry
6. DNF (injury) Party Animals 1/2 Off 2014 Team Race Entry
Preliminary Round Results:
1. 1:58:07 Baby We Were Born To Run
2. 2:20:59 Team UMMS
3. 2:22:56 Zack Attack
4. 2:26:06 Taintastic
5. 2:26:15 The PPJs
6. 2:44:08 The Nads
7. 2:46:06 Dirty 30s
8. 3:00:14 8-12-80's (wild card team -- advanced to 2nd round)
9. 3:02:55 Arctic Polar Bears
10. 3:04:27 The Scavengers
11. 3:04:52 Awesome & Awesomer
12. 3:07:10 Front Page
13. 3:12:20 Cougin' It
14. 3:12:29 Team Brannan
15. 3:12:49 Burdwitts
16. 3:14:47 Drunk Engineers
17. 3:21:12 #ThisisCLE
18. 3:26:38 RAKE
19. 3:29:13 Jiffy BobKat
20. 3:33 Ambiguously Gay Duo
21. 3:39 AniTodd
22. 3:50 Joo Moms
23. 3:51 Pendley Power
24. 4:07 Defying Gravity
25. 4:25 Smarty Nacho
26. 4:35 Wii Not Fit
27. 3:41 Running Utes
28. 4:01 Compeaus
29-42: DNF
2013 Results
2013 Challenge Champions "We Think We Can" Qualified from Pittsburgh, PA
Final Round Results:
1. 43:19 We Think We Can $5,000 2014 Challenge Nation Champions
2. 47:10 The Nads $500 Runners Up
3. 51:28 Zack Attack $300 3rd Place
4. 51:32 UMMS $200 4th Place
5. 55:10 29th & Salty Free 2014 Team Race Entry
6. 55:11 Party Animals 1/2 Off 2014 Team Race Entry
Preliminary Round Results:
1. 2:00:44 Zack Attack
2. 2:00:45 UMMS
3. 2:01:15 The Nads
4. 2:22:56 Party Animals
5. 2:32:44 We Think We Can
6. 2:35:58 Gaucho Locos
7. 2:38:14 Burning River Runners
8. 2:40:01 One Of These Things is Not Like the Other
9. 2:41:06 Midwest Mayhem
10. 2:44:23 Cougin' It
11. 2:44:24 Flying Dutchmen
12. 2:44:30 Fab Five
13. 2:44:31 Traveling Fools
14. 2:46:11 Goldie & Three Boys
15. 2:47:18 He Runs LA
16. 2:52:15 Fancy Cowgirls
17. 2:57:06 Dirty Birds
18. 3:00:21 MNFers
19. 3:01:30 Sorta Ricans
20. 3:04:27 Teeth Lizard
21. 3:05:52 Husky Haters
22. 3:06:55 Rat Race
23. 3:08:14 Skadooshe
24. 3:10:24 Kill Derf
25. 3:12:21 Mason Minions
26. 3:16:38 Brini Adventures
27. 3:17:59 Missy Wolfe's Team
28. 3:20:06 In It To Win It DAM'T
29. 3:20:16 29th & Salty *bonus round drawing winners*
30. 3:23:08 Two Men & A Lady
31. 3:25:50 Similar Parts
32. 3:27:18 Boston Strong
33. 3:31:29 Ford Tough
34. 3:35:01 Wildcats
35. 4:06:00 Girls Night Out
36-46: DNF
