The Spamley Cup

[EDIT: Now that I think about it, I could be wrong about the whole archaeologist thing. It might have begun differently; for some reason I'm thinking aliens may have played a role? I honestly can't remember. WVA-ers, feel free to correct me!!!!)

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The Spamley Cup is only THE most pretigious award on the face of the earth!!! It is, naturally, an unbelievably large obnoxiously shiny trophy filled, obviously, with excessive amounts of Spam. (Yes, I am quite serious about all this).

It has a long and bloody history, actually, which, thankfully, the counselors at Worldview took the time to re-enact for us campers so we would be well-informed of how special the cup really is. You see, the Spamley Cup dates all the way back to the year 1941, when it was discovered in an archaeological dig. Clearly, the Cup of such importance manifested great powers, and word spread. The Nazis wanted the Cup's great powers to aid them in the war. The archaeologist, who was not very bright, decided to hide the Cup to keep it safe in a place where NO ONE could ever feasibly find it. The archaeologist was wrong. There was one man, you see, who COULD survive the perilous journey to find the Cup -- Indiana Jones. Indiana, began the long and desperate journey to find the cup before the Nazis. He fought off evil giant eyeballs, Darth Vader and a variety of snakes until finally, he was only mere inches away from the Cup. But when he reached out to take it, he was transported, port-key style, to the future; the insane year of 2008 into the middle of the Worldview Academy campus. Thinking quickly, he decided to create a competition for the prestigious Spamley Cup and award it to the group of campers who proved themselves to be the most worthy.

Indiana devised an ingenious plan to find out exactly which campers WERE the most worthy to posses such a coveted prize.The campers at Worldview Academy were randomly separated into four color teams: red, yellow, blue (WOOO HOOO!), and green. Then, all week long, campers would compete for color team points. Alumni could earn points in their special sessions; all students can answer trivia questions on topics such as LOTR, geography, philosophy, staff trivia and Star Wars. And just to shake things up, Indiana added some crazy games, too, including the ever-popular clap/snap/head turn/name game.

But all this was not enough, Indiana realized; there needed to be something big, something huge, something spectacular to guarantee that the cup would have the loudest, most unified, most creative, most spirited people around. And thus, the all-camp relay was bord. At the end of the week which color teams would compete head-to-head in a variety of crazy tasks. This year's theme would be the Greek Pentathalon.

Indiana Jones watched from afar as the events played out. Somehow, the green team was ALWAYS in first throughout the week. The amazing incredible fabulous awesome blue team (naturally, this was mismatchedsockgirl's team!) didn't even have ANY points until Wednesday; not a good sign! But things picked up and blue, yellow and red were tied with green only a few hundred ahead. The day of the relay rolled around; but first was the cheer competition -- Indiana smiled to himself at this stroke of genius; it would be an interesting competition indeed -- campers would have only a mere five minutes to come up with and practice a cheer, which must show as much team spirit, originality, unity and volume as humanly possible.
Sadly, though, the blue team had some issues and ran out of time, and therefore...erm...did not perform to their..er..best. *sigh* The red team, however, was fantastic.

It was now time for the relay itself. Blue was determined to redeem themselves. Sadly, it didn't go so well either. Blue was in last place until the second-to-last-event, the discus throw. By some miracle, we managed to pull ahead and were tied with Red for a few blissful moments; but then they completed the final task - solving a brainteaser -- and won the entire relay. Somehow over their victorious shouts, we continued playing; green and yellow had caught up and it was now neck-and-neck for 2nd place. Yellow finished next; we were a second or two behind and green came in LAST!!!!! It was over; all over; and even though we'd come in 3rd out of four teams and knew that we didn't stand a chance at the Spamley Cup, at least we'd beated Green.

Indiana sighed from his perch in a nearby tree as red celebrated their victory. He through a longing glance at the Blue team, who, he had been so sure, were the REAL rightful protectors of the cup; somehow it just didn't seem fair that they'd lost.
"Next year, Blue," Indiana whispered with a nod. "Next year."