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The Third Annual Pasadena InterCollegiate Field Tournament: ‘A Night of Collegiate Fun, Teamwork, and School Spirit’
Arts Mar 23, 2012
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By Krishna Rajagopalan
-Photo by Bob Paz
The Pasadena Intercollegiate Field Tournament was held on March 16th at Pasadena City College. Colleges from around the Pasadena area met to compete in a variety of fun competitions including monster croquet, potato sack race, frisbee, and lego car building. Colleges participating included the Art Center College of Design, Fuller Theological Seminary, Caltech, Le Cordon Bleu College of Culinary Arts, Pacific Oaks College and Pasadena City College. “The tournament brings together future scientists, chefs, engineers, teachers, artists and the undeclared,” says Michelle Bernal, Pasadena Special Events Coordinator.
The individual competitions were chosen by the individual schools based on their theme. The various colleges were broken up into teams to participate in the array of competitions. Each group was given a time limit in which to finish the task and thus, whichever team had the best time took first place in that competition. By far, the most popular competition was the lego car building because it tested students’ creative ability to design a functional car that could be put to race against one another.
As for the results, PCC took first place in the cheer contest, while taking second place in the potato sack race. Le Cordon Bleu took first place in the Pandora’s Box Relay Race, the Art Center College of Design took first place in the Lego Design challenge, while Caltech took first place in the Monster Croquet challenge, Touchdown Frisbee, Minute To Win-It challenge and the Amazing Russet Race. At the end of the night the results from all the competitions were tallied and the winners were announced. Caltech took first place in the overall field tournament. After the tournament ended, there was a tailgate party at PCC where there were cakes for each of the schools, courtesy of Caltech. Future plans for the collegiate field tournament include moving it back to the Rose Bowl once the renovation is completed.
