ME Bank - Amazing Race Melbourne

For this Amazing Race Melbourne event, 9 executives from ME bank

had action packed and competitive 2 hours of fun team building activities

around Melbourne cities sights, sounds, tastes and culture..

This race started in the clouds with amazing views from the 39th floor of the city CBD and soon to be the playing field for

this team of executives from ME

At the start of the race the teams were put through a problem solving challenge that would be the key to get them their first clue and send them off around the city. Always a thought provoking and interesting challenge is the paper and scissors

challenge and today did not disappoint with the ME executives 

working their way through this problem. Across the 3 teams

there were three different approaches and as the teams

left the start locations that were tightly grouped with only a few minutes separating 1st to 3rd

and so the race around the city had begun.

Their first leg through Chinatown, Parliament House and down to

federation square would test out their artistic prowess, their

interpretation of what it means to be team in a creative photo and

their race strategies would begin to form through this first stretch of the race. The teams produced

some artistic 

masterpieces and some really interesting interpretations of

team in one of the trams of Melbourne. The Best one that

most typified team was the Tiger Camo team who rallied some locals into their team

 to produce a photo about helping others in which their

was a group effort to help push a tram that supposedly needed pushing. The funny thing was no one knew why they were

pushing the tram, but they did create a following.

The next checkpoint in the race was Federation Square and as the teams arrived clearly having run

the first leg were confronted with a challenge that would definitely

test out their minds and their ability to solve the problem of

emptying a pop top water bottle only using 3 ropes. Initially the

teams came 

up with some clever set ups, unfortunately watching one drip at a time gave way to a shake off where all teams

created a pseudo sprinkler on the Princes walk near the Yarra.

Still tightly together it was anyone's guess who would take

out the race at this stage. The competitive spirit that came up in the first leg had certainly gone to

another level with the teams breaking time records and at full pace running the foreshore of the Yarra to the MCG, the South Bank

precinct and around 

to Banana Alley for their next clue. As the teams arrived their were 2 clear front runners. The ME White team who were on track for being

the fastest, but only time would tell if it was the cleverest too. The ME Orange team were not far off

and ME Tiger Camo had fallen back off the pace.

The last Leg of the race would see the teams interpreting the

dysfunction of Fear of conflict at Melbournes Fight Club,

committing to a big cup cake eating challenge at Little 

Cupcakes on iconic cafe strip of Degraves lane and then through

the culture of Melbourne's street art in Union lane and

then onto tracking down the big purse in Bourke Street Mall

with a sprint to ME offices to finish the Race.

At the beginning it was clear that the teams would all have

different approaches and it certainly proved that today's race was about being fast, but

being clever too.

While the ME White team were breaking speed records, they

failed to have a strategy to increase their deductions and unfortunately fell short of the

overall win. 

The ME Tiger Camo picked up the wooden spoon with a slow

and steady approach and pinned all there hopes on their

creative Team Photo. 

So that left ME Orange who clearly showed they were in

this race on all levels and stategized to take a massive 17

minutes off their time with a vast array of modes of transport

including trollies, 

skateboards, human wheelbarrows and more. The

Elation of the win was apparent as everyone in bar knew the ME

Orange had taken the win. 

Overall another great team building event in the city of

Melbourne and some very happy and tired racers certainly

earned their beverages at the the end of the day.

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