This Tuesday we welcomed our community to our “Minigames Tournament” event! Through 7 small fun games we competed to see which team was the most skilled (or had the most luck) in those categories. The goal was not only to win, but also to have fun, work together, and enjoy some friendly competition.
After splitting up in Teams and giving them names, we started with our first discipline: A Trash-Bag race! We expected the bags to be a bit stronger than they were, so one of teams had to change their back because of it ripping apart. Unfortunately that incident set them back to the last place.
Our second activity was a drawing game where each participant selected one person to describe a certain picture and one person to redraw it based on the description without seeing the original. The two closest pictures won, even if all of them looked surprisingly similar in the end.
We continued with a battle between the teams who were able to build a tower of cups the fastest. While the slowest team took about 27 seconds, the fastest defeated them clearly with 11 seconds.
After our fourth activity, a short quiz about the European Union, we played a Game we called “Three leg run” as our fifth game: two people each had to tape their legs together so they “shared one leg”. This made it really hard to coordinate walking with your teammate. Try this walking in slalom!
Another Slalom game we had was more about balance: You had to run around cups with a spoon with a ping pong ball on it in your hand. We expected this to be harder than it actually was. Nevertheless, it was a fun challenge that required concentration and a careful hand, especially when trying to move as quickly as possible.
The last game was about real Teamwork: As a team, place a cup as far as possible behind a line without touching it! - We saw the strangest techniques to achieve this, even if some of them only worked after the second try.
We celebrated the winning team with prices for them and brownies for everyone! All in all this was an event mostly about fun and connecting with people. We think everybody had a great time and really enjoyed the event. Beyond the competition itself, it was a perfect opportunity to meet new people, strengthen connections, and create some fun memories together.
We are really grateful towards the Youth Center of Blagoevgrad for letting us host the event.
A big thank you also goes to everyone who joined us, participated in the games, and helped make this afternoon such an enjoyable experience. We hope to see you all again at our next event!
This article is created by Hannes Gerstenmaier - participant in the ESC Project 2026-1-BG01-ESC51-VTJ-000401449 in Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria, co-funded by the Bulgarian National Agency of Erasmus+ Program Human Resource Development Centre.
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