Kagoshima Branch Olympics

First I was asked to find some games from the Internet such as from "Minute to win it" that can serve as events in the Branch Olympics.  The goal was 10 events.  I tried to keep the costs down for materials needed for the events, so I used things that we already had in the apartment.  A few days later, I was asked to be the host to the Olympics.  So I was busy hosting and Sister Lee became the photographer.  The following are some of the photos Sister Lee took.

This event is to bounce 5 ping pong balls into any of 5 cups.

The above is an event where  2 players play toss and catch.  We didn't have enough ping pong balls so each team can only play with 4 balls.  The catcher holds a stack of 4 cups.  Catcher catches a ball tossed from teammate in the stack of cups.  After a successful catch, catcher takes the top cup with the caught ball and put it in the bottom of the stack of cups.  Once all 4 balls are caught, next player repeats the process.

The above two photos showed the event where a tower of 4 cups are stacked with 3 card borads or stiff papers. The objective is to pull the separator paper quickly, fast enough to not disturb the angle of the top cup and let it fall on top of the lower cup.

The above 4 photos were taken from the event that tests expertise in using chopsticks. Each player had to transfer 5 skittles from one cup across the table to another cup.

It was a close contest.  8 pts for 1st place in an event, followed by 5 pts for 2nd place, 3 pts for 3rd, and 1 pt. for 4th.  The overall lead changed hands throughout the events and it came down to the very last event to decide the champion.  But all who attended were winners because they had fun and got to eat ice cream afterwards.