Anyone working in or associated with the energy industry can enter a team. Each team consists of four people and an executive who will compete in the executive stage with their team – the ‘Leaders’ Challenge’. In addition teams may take along one extra squad member as substitute (and we recommend that teams do). Extra squad members allow a degree of squad rotation and tactical substitutions.

The Leaders’ Challenge (e.g. an executive, director, manager or similar) usually starts on the Friday. The Leaders’ Challenge is an opportunity for managers to actively support their team prior to the event through fundraising and training for example and to participate in the event itself. In addition the event provides a forum to network with colleagues from across the industry. Leaders will take part in one of the event stages with their team and depart when the event finishes. During the Leaders Challenge teams will comprise 5 people. For all other stages teams will comprise 4 people.

In addition to the entry fee of £250 per person which covers accommodation, food and specialist equipment during the event, each team is asked to raise a minimum of £5,000 for charity.

Teams can choose to donate all of their funds to one charity or split the funds equally between the two. The two charities being supported through this event are:

CARE International, one of the world’s largest independent relief and development organisations, working in more than 70 countries and benefiting over 48 million poor and marginalised people, and Sparks, the children’s charity aimed at helping all babies to be born healthy and grow up healthy by funding medical research to tackle conditions including cerebral palsy, meningitis, spina bifida, childhood arthritis and cancers.

The team categories are:

• Open category (all teams are automatically entered into this category to dictate the overall winner)
• Under 30’s (all team members must be under 30 years of age at the time of the event)
• 160+ (cumulative age of the 4 team members) or 200+ to include optional substitute
• Mixed team (any age - teams must compete as a mixed team for each stage of the event)
• All male (any age)
• All female (any age)