TNT Games

Everyone should get the opportunity to experience TNT Games at least once in their lifetime; especially with a dynamite team like the Green Team. This was a very fun, challenging, nerve wrecking and upsetting experience. I can’t believe you guys purposely set it up for us to push each others buttons and have conflict! I guess that is bound to happen when you put 3 Ds together and add competition. It was actually so much fun figuring out the puzzles and problems.
I was very impressed with how well our team worked together, especially when we were still getting to know each other. We knew going in that we were going to be very competitive and each of us had a tendency to want to lead, so we made a pact to not be so focused on winning, but rather on still liking each other at the end of the week. In spite of one difficulty, we accomplished just this. What is the one difficulty, you might ask?
Well, there was one game in which we had figured out the puzzle, but were told we hadn’t. We would have been in second place instead, we ended up in last place, earning 500 more points less than we would have. (Just because we weren’t focused on winning, doesn’t mean we weren’t competitive.) Not only did I feel gypped, but I also felt as if the response from others wasn’t very compassionate; my fellow teammates were also hurt. We had to stay after and debrief, then work on it on our own and then still talk about it. This affected our next game a lot, especially when it was brought up right before our next game, bringing back hurt feelings. I can’t speak for my teammates, but I felt defeated and didn’t see much purpose in trying any more (I guess I was more focused on winning than I wanted to admit). I had a horrible attitude and it came out in my game; not very sportsman like. I think we had to debrief that game even more than the previous. This was the second to last game, but we meant what we said and wanted to end liking each other, which included liking everyone else, as well. Once we figured out the points (so we’re Ds, we can’t help it) and realized that it wasn’t possible for us to win, all of a sudden winning didn’t matter. Our attitudes did. It also helped that we were paired with the team we were competing with and had to work together. I guess you could call this our ‘magic line’ because we not only finished our last game triumphantly, but we liked each other more than we had when we had started the games at the beginning of the week.