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



REGISTER NOW:



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









