With the Upton Shield competition cancelled due to Covid 19, an online competition called the Lockdown Trophy was organised for junior scouts. The competition consisted of a number of tasks and was run on the Discord platform. We entered 4 teams in this novel competition and for 3 hours on Sunday there was intense work by the teams to get as many tasks done in the time allocated (and intense work by the judges to get them marked – we also had 4 scouters as judges). Our scouts learnt a lot about Discord and teamwork in the competition. The theme was about Cape Town and involved scout finding information using Google maps, identifying birds and plants and also finding common items around their houses.
In the end, all 4 of our teams placed in the top 10 coming 5,6,7 and 9. We were the only troop to place more than 2 teams in the top 10. Congratulations to 1st Bergvliet on winning the competition and our thanks to the hard work of the organisers and the judges for an enjoyable competition.
