Saturday, June 7, 2008

Without a doubt, the participants for this year’s ISUZU-SUNSTAR treasure quest were baffled with farfetched clues. Other teams were led to unlikely pit stops (bridging the islands… err… ice age?) although some teams were able to decipher the next clue effortlessly and completed the task as expected (just get a bull’s eye and were off… what the…).

Enthused:

Confronted with easy, average, and gruelling (?) tasks, each team, lucky enough to crack the clue for the next pit stop, were able to experience a mix of stimulating, thought-provoking, arduous and nauseating or depending-on-the-challengers’-appetite tasks and consequences (Can I get another spoon of frog legs please?).

Team work:

The main course of the event is to test each participating teams’ ability and not just how fast they can go to the next pit stop (Come to think of it, should they not possess an ability to crack codes, THEN WHAT ARE THEY SPEEDING UP FOR?!?!?!). It is not just a matter of completing the task beforehand, but knowing how you respect each member’s ideas, suggestions and decided at your team’s risk without regrets and pinpointing (You said it’s in there! No, I said it’s there somewhere!).

Take for instance leading your team to go halfway around Metropolitan Cebu(I remembered the task from Lapu-lapu going to Talisay), cross the sea, face the heavy traffic and finish all the challenges within an hour before running overtime, or go back right away to the final stop and decide not to finish so as not to be disqualified (We have 15 minutes more, how long would it take before we run overtime? We’re in the middle of nowhere! How long would it take you to realize that were lost?!?!?).

Winners:

Third Place Winner: Creamie De Lite

Second Place Winner: Microwarehouse-Linksys

First Place Winner: Goto Kids

Awarding Photos by Sun.Star

This is the happy, sad, sadder, and tsk tsk portion of the event- the Awarding Ceremony. At the start of the minor prize awarding, we thought it was a good start to titter and smile confidently to other participants like we never thought of winning at all (Oh hi! Were you able to finish the race? Nop, nobody did. Ahh I see… great… great… *chuckle*). The thought that nobody completed the race this time (well, not for some who went overtime, and overtime means automatic disqualification), contestants were having a hard time, probably searching from one pit stop after the other since it is the first time they expanded to different location of the metropolitan.

Of course, the story of sarcastic guffaw and crossed fingers did not end there yet. Right after the minor prizes had been awarded to the winning teams (allow me to emphasize MINOR award… how much does an IPOD SHUFFLE cost? Four of it?), we are in the hypothetical assumption stage driven by our illusion to have apparently been motivated by volition through our minds’ theoretical notion. We had a tie with the 3rd placer and technically ended up 4th due to a huge time difference.

The event was held last June 7 and kicked off at PAREF Springdale school campus. It was participated with 26 teams including the GOTO Kids who won 1st place for this year.

- Edwin P. Ermac Jr.

sadly we didn’t get the complete details of the contestants, like the all the teams score and all, but hope this will do for you guys.

Other winners are:

FIRST PLACE: Goto Kids
Prize: P50,000

Members
Billy Gerard Balbin, GP Gaviola, OG Rivera, Jairos Dellosa

SECOND PLACE: Microwarehouse-Linksys
Prize: P25,000

Members:
Romil Jose Fernandez, Naomi Arcayan, Honee Covero, Rodel Diola

THIRD PLACE: Creamie De Lite
Prize: P10,000

Members
Christian Tiongko, Ace Moreno, Lyn Pedrano, Arnel Tan

Special Awards

-CLEANEST EMISSION AWARD ( gasoline )
Prize P5,000

W I N N E R: Team Destination Specialist and Team Graphicstar

MEMBERS:
Team Destination Specialist
Robert Salahug, Liezel Gitaruelas, Ricky Gonzales, Eugenio Rosales

Graphicstar
Ethel Olis, Arnold Ysulat, Joey Canen

DETAILS
Out of the 16 teams who joined this competition, only 3 passed the emission testing and all gasoline-run vehicles. Team Destination Specialist and Graphicstar tied in the gasoline category, hence prize was split between them.

-FUEL EFFICIENCY CHALLENGE AWARD
Prize P10,000

Winner: TEAM IPI

Members
Frank Evangelista,Ivan Francis Evangelista, Mark Clinton Gines

Details
( 20.66 km/liter using the Isuzu Crosswind XT )

-BEST BREADHAWKER AWARD

Prize Gift Certificates
Winner: Goto Kids

Members:
Billy Gerard Balbin, GP Gaviola, OG Rivera, Jairos Dellosa

Details
1:33 min of P20 worth of bread

-MOST TWISTED TONGUE AWARD

Prize: Training GCs for 4
Winner: Pagdadalaga ng Goto Kids

Members:
Noel Tio, Jojit Lanas, Dakila Mutia, Lawrence Parado

-HIGH PERFORMANCE CHALLENGE AWARDS

Prize: iPod Shuffle for 4
Winner: Team Barstandars

Members
Jayson Ylaya, Ian Ross Lanoro, Ray de la Cerna, Rowena Mata

Details:
Challenge includes collection of resumes and a physical challenge in Accenture