Summer Sports Games

Summer Sports Games is a yearly sports event that takes place in summer. It occurs in the 7th month, right after the midsummer season. The heat now becomes less unbearable and more convenient to participate in different sports. The event Starts in the week after the 7th month’s Lanternfest, and lasts for 2 weeks. This event brings together athletes and sport enthusiasts from all across the world.

How does it work?

This event isn’t dedicated only to the top tier professional athletes, but welcomes any sports enthusiast to participate. As such, it’s divided in two parts: the main event hosted in a different town in the world each year, and several smaller local events hosted in every town.

The main event focuses on the best athletes from all across the world. Here, they compete in several different sports where the winners of the top 5 spots earn prizes.

Meanwhile each town organizes its own event. Here people gather on town squares to follow the news and watch the main event, but also compete themselves. Each town organizes competitions in different sports and games that anyone can join.

The main event

This is it. This is what every professional athlete trains for their whole life, and many never make it. Just being able to participate in this event is a victory on its own, but winning will put all of their abilities to the ultimate test to prove who is truly the best.

Each of the 40 regions of the world sends a team consisting of 8 of their best athletes. These are athletes that train in different sports, each demanding a different kind of skill. These teams then compete against each other in a tournament that determines who is the best.

What are the games?

In Summer Sports Games the athletes don’t compete in only one sport at a time, they compete in increasingly complicated games that will put their every skill to the test. Each of these games is a race to finish a certain task, most often one that involves obtaining a number of collectible pieces and transporting them to the finish, where they have to assemble them into the final solution. Sometimes getting to the piece will be a challenge in itself, and the whole team will have to work together to finish the game. Number of team members required for each game may vary from 4 to 8, depending on the length and complexity of the game, and finishing each game will require the team members to run, climb, swim, avoid obstacles, and more, sometimes while wearing a ridiculous costume that will make the task more difficult. These tasks are specially prepared for this event, and are different every year.

The event will start with all 40 teams and easier and shorter tasks. They will start with simpler challenges, with 10 rounds of 4 teams competing against each other. The better 2 teams will advance to semi-finale that will have altogether 20 teams.

These teams will then again compete against each other in 5 rounds of 4 teams. These challenges will be more complicated and difficult than the previous ones, of course, and now only one of 4 teams in each round will advance, leaving 5 teams for the finale.

In the finale, all 5 remaining teams compete with each other in the most challenging challenges of the Summer Sports Games. In the end, only one can be the winner.

The Winners

The main winners of the event are the members of the winning team. They get a winner’s trophy and a cash prize. Other 4 teams that made it to the finale get a trophy and cash prize as well, though not as good as the winners.

But they aren’t the only ones to be awarded in this competition. There are many more prizes to give out, and they are given out to single athletes for their achievements. These are given out for several categories such as fastest runner, best climber, the best team leader and many more.

Local Events

While the athletes at the main event are competing for a grand prize, many sport enthusiasts like to participate in their own games. These games are much simpler and welcome anyone to join. Contest in different sports are taking place every day, all day and welcome anyone to sign up for a chance to win a prize. Some bigger districts may organize two separate levels of events, one for truly amateur sport enthusiasts, and one a bit more advanced for people who are more serious about sports.

These events are single game contests, such as the always popular Gegen den Stuhl race or a parkour race across town. There are also team sport competitions for games such as ballstick. The prizes here are small, usually a medal for the 1ts place and a prize form sponsors or donations given from Gods. But people aren’t here for the prizes, they are here to have a good time.