Homecoming Chalking

• Date: Sunday, September 23
• Time: 12pm
• Place: Meet at the UC - designated locations across campus

Participation

Maroon Cup and Golden Goblet participants.

Objective

For groups to collaborate and come up with a creative sidewalk chalk design of their theme and the theme and spirit of Homecoming.  Also serves as a great way to spread Homecoming spirit across campus. 

Rules

1. Each group will be designated a sidewalk area to decorate with chalk across campus.
2. Spray chalk is NOT allowed.
3. Words and pictures must be APPROPRIATE. Any profanity, discriminatory remarks, criticism of other groups, or anything else deemed offensive may result in disqualification from this event and others.
4. Participants should include their RSO’s theme, Homecoming’s theme, Central Michigan University, and specified information about a homecoming event in their drawing.

Scoring

1st Place – 20 Points
2nd Place – 15 Points
3rd Place – 10 Points
Participation – 5 Points


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Change for Change

Date: Begins Sunday, September 23 & ends Thursday, September 27.
Time: Anytime.
Place: Respective locations. 

Participants

Maroon Cup and Golden Goblet participants.

Objective

To raise money for charity and add an element of goodwill and service to Homecoming Week festivities.  This is less of a competition than it is an effort to get groups to raise money, but a bonus reward will be given to the team with the most change.

Rules – Students

1. RSO’s should find their own jars/cans to decorate. Each jar should include decorations representing their organization’s theme and Homecoming’s theme as a whole.
2. Jars should be based in a central location for the organization, but may also be brought to events during Homecoming week.
3. The jars should be brought to the UC Student Life Office by 5:00 pm on Thursday September, 27 to count the money collected.
4. All coins must already be rolled in official bank coin holders, in order to be counted.
5. The money is based strictly on the total . . . this is not a “penny war.
6. Winners will be announced at Rock Rally on Friday night.

Spirit Search

• Date: Monday, September 24
• Time: 6:00 pm
• Place: Meet at Finch . . . locations across campus

Participation

Maroon Cup and Golden Goblet participants.

Objective

Spirit Search is a fun, easy event for participants to build spirit for their RSO and Homecoming through a series of events that will challenge their athletic prowess and their ability to answer riddles and clues.

Rules

1. Must be a RSO and signed up to participate.
2. No more than 10 (ten) persons on each team.
3. Must travel in a group and on foot.
4. You will be given paper clues to get you to your next location at each of your current locations.  Make sure you are at the right locations for each clue.  You must save all of your clues for proof that you made it to each location.
5. Teams must have their map stamped at each judged event.
6. Boundaries- no clues lead you out of the main square of campus… East Campus Dr. to West Campus Dr. and Broomfield to Bellows.
7. Bonus point will be given to teams that bring homecoming related items and spirit to each event.
8. Teams will be scored for their overall time. This will factor into the final scoring as another ranking.

Scoring

1st Place – 45 Points
2nd Place – 35 Points
3rd Place – 25 Points
Participation – 15 Points

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Banner Contest

• Date: Due Tuesday, September 25
• Time: 5:30 pm
• Place:  Finch Fieldhouse; eventually to be hung all over campus.

Participation

Maroon Cup and Golden Goblet participants.

Objective

group members to work together to design and create something that represents the spirit of Homecoming and their RSO. In addition, the banners will increase spirit for CMU and Homecoming among all students, being displayed in a number of locations across campus.

Rules

1. Each group will be provided a cloth or sheet of specified size to decorate in whatever manner they choose.
2. Banners will be judged based on their creativity, design, and inclusion of their RSO’s theme and Homecoming’s theme.
3. Banners MUST be turned in prior to the Chippewa Food Relay to receive any participation points.
4. Banners will be hung around campus at designated locations.
5. Words and pictures MUST be appropriate.  Any profanity, discriminatory remarks, criticism of other groups, or anything else deemed offensive may result in disqualification from this event and others.

Scoring

1st Place – 35 Points
2nd Place – 25 Points
3rd Place – 20 Points
Participation – 10 Points

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Chippewa Food Relay

• Date: Tuesday, September 25
• Time: 8:00 pm
• Place: Field next to Finch Fieldhouse

Participation

Maroon Cup and Golden Goblet participants.

Objective

A fun and easy competition that requires little preparation for RSO’s.  Teams will build spirit and energy and work cohesively together.

Rules

1. Each participating group will assemble into teams of at most seven. Teams without enough participants may allow a team member to eat twice, however, that participant must stay at their initial post before continuing on to eat the next item to avoid the advantage of a “strong” competitor eating twice.
2. The food will be consumed person-by-person, with the next item not being eaten until the previous one is finished.  Items will include:
   
   • can of pop
   • A hotdog
   • A bag of chips
   • A slice of watermelon
   • A glass of lemonade
   • A banana
   • A cup of jello(no spoon)
   • A cream pie
3. Teams are not racing against one another, but against the clock. A judge will be in place to determine when one item is finished and when the next item can be eaten. Also, two judges will have stop watches, with the two times being averaged, to alleviate human error.
4. The item must be completely chewed and swallowed before the team gets the judges “okay” to continue.
5. The team with the fastest time wins.

Scoring

1st Place – 35 Points
2nd Place – 25 Points
3rd Place – 20 Points
Participation – 10 Points


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Field Games & Tug of War

• Date: Wednesday, September 26
• Time: 7:00 pm
• Place: Field by Finch Fieldhouse

Participation

Maroon Cup and Golden Goblet Participants (Field Games only)

Objective

For teams to work together and cheer each other on in a fun series of athletic challenges, including a unique relay and a tug of war competition.

Rules – Field Games

1. Teams will be made up of 10 members. For teams that do not have 10 members, they can have members compete in an event twice.
2. Each member will be assigned to a station that has a specified task. The next member may not go until the previous member(s) has completed their task. The events include:
   • Sack Race
   • Pie Eating contest
   • Three-legged Race (2 members)
   • Balloon Pop with sword
   • Wheelbarrow (2 members)
   • Find the buried treasure
   • Egg on spoon
   • Water balloon toss finale
3. Teams will compete in heats featuring 4-6 teams at a time, drawn at random.
4. Teams are not competing directly against one another, but against the clock.  The best time wins.
5. Judges will be in place near each station to ensure participants fully complete their events before “tagging” the next team member.
6. Unsuccessfully completing an event (i.e. dropping an egg off a spoon) requires that individual to go back to the beginning of their station and start again.
7. Time penalties can be added if team members are judged to not have completed an event fully (i.e. someone didn’t eat their whole pie and moved on without being told).
8. Teams cannot do anything to interfere with or inhibit the progress of the opposing teams.

Rules – Tug of War

1. Teams will grasp each end of the rope.  Tape or cloth will be used to mark the middle of the rope, which will be centered over a cone before beginning. Two other cones will be placed an equal distance away from the middle one, representing the line that must be crossed for victory. These cones will be placed approximately 10-15 feet apart based on further judgment.
2. Teams will be selected to compete against one another at random.
3. After the judge counts down and yells “go,” teams may begin to pull their respective ends of the rope. The winner is the one who crosses the center of the rope over the cone on their end of the field.
4. The winner of each match will move on to face another competitor.  The loser is eliminated.
5. The last team standing wins the competition.
6. Cleats, gloves, tape, or other similar methods of assistance are not allowed.  Discovery of these items, or anything else deemed inappropriate can lead to elimination from the challenge.

Scoring – Field Games

1st Place – 35 points
2nd Place – 25 points
3rd Place – 20 points
Participation – 10 points

Scoring – Tug of War

1st Place – 35 points
2nd Place – 25 points
3rd Place – 20 points
Participation – 10 points

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Trivia Challenge

• Date: Thursday, September 27
• Time: 7:00 p.m.
• Place: Bovee University Center (3rd floor various rooms and auditorium)

Participation:

Maroon Cup participants

Objective:

To compete in a trivia challenge as a team, testing participants’ knowledge of various topics relating to Central Michigan University.

Rules:

1. The challenge will be played in four preliminary rounds. Teams will disperse into four different perspective rooms throughout the Bovee UC third floor.
2. In each room, the teams will be given a sheet with 10 questions they must answer from a given category. After five (5) minutes, teams will be instructed to turn in their answer sheets and rotate rooms. Teams will visit every room. Only two teams will be allowed in a room at a given time. Teams will wait their turn to answer each round’s questions, and categories will not change until every team has responded to each.
3. To answer the questions for each round, the teams will have to come up with a consensus answer that they will write down on their answer sheet. The teams must keep in mind that there is a five (5) minute time limit for each room and any unanswered questions will be marked as incorrect responses.
4. The judge will mark down the total number of correct answers the team receives and keep the score private. Answers to the questions will not be released. After the five minutes is over, the judge will total the team’s number of points for that round and direct the team(s) to the next room.
5. After four rounds of rotation, all of the teams will meet back as one large group for the announcement of the four teams who had the highest scores.
6. All of the judges will total each team’s number of points accumulated from all of the rooms. The top four teams with the highest number of points will be announced and they will compete in a semi-final trivia round. All other teams are eliminated from the competition, but are encouraged to stay and watch the remaining rounds.
7. The four teams will be divided into two rounds. Team A will face Team B in the first semi-final round, and Team C will face Team D in the second. A coin will be flipped to see which team receives the first question of the round, and that team has 10 seconds to come up with a consensus response which they must present to the judges. If their response is correct they receive one point. If the team presents an incorrect response, Team B has an opportunity to steal the point by giving the right answer. The first team to five points from each round moves on to the final round. Third place will be awarded to the team with the third highest number of points.
8. The final two teams will receive one question which they have 30 seconds to form a consensus answer. At the end of the 30 seconds, both teams will announce their answers to the judges. Whichever team responds correctly wins the trivia competition! The incorrect team receives second place. If both teams give correct answers, or if both teams provide incorrect answers, a new question will be given until a winner is decided.

Additional Information:

1. Each team can bring up to 10 participants to the trivia challenge.
2. The semi-final and final rounds will tentatively take place in the UC auditorium, while all preliminary rounds will be played in the 3rd floor UC rooms.
3. Judges have the final authority on the correctness/incorrectness of a response.
4. The categories for each of the four preliminary room rounds are: Residence Life, CMU History, Central Pride/Athletics, and Notable Alumni.

Scoring:

1st place- 45 points
2nd place- 35 points
3rd place- 20 points
Participation- 15 points

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Rock Rally

• Date: Friday, September 28
• Time: 7:00 pm
• Place: Plachta Auditorium

Participation

Maroon Cup participants.

Objective

To work together to create the best lip-synced song, dance, and/or skit.

Rules

1. Groups must check in by 6:15 p.m. at Plachta Auditorium with the Rock Rally Chair and/or a Competition Chair to receive points and instructions.
2. Each group will have a 6 minute maximum time limit; including set up and tear-down time.   Going over the time limit will result in an automatic loss of five (5) points.
Groups must
3. submit their music on CD or tape to the Office of Student Life by September 21st by 5:00 p.m. The CD’s or tapes will be marked by the time submitted.
4. Groups may change the order of the songs or edit songs until September 27th; groups are NOT allowed to ADD any new songs to the music after the 21st of September. The music turned into the committee must be the music used.
5. Songs must NOT contain profanity.
6. Students wishing to participate with multiple RSO Groups are allowed to perform with a maximum of 2 groups, but may NOT have a leading role in both.
7. Judging will be based on creativity, theme inclusion, choreography and lip synching, and spirit and energy.  Judges will have final say on overall performances.

Scoring

1st Place: 55 points
2nd Place: 45 points
3rd Place: 35 points
Participation: 20 points

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