GD Challenge Game

The GD Challenge Game was the brain child of Josh Booth. The rules were very simple. In order to play, you first had to contribute five dollars to the winnings of the last person standing. You were eliminated if you failed to complete the required number of challenges by the end of the school day. The challenges could only be completed on school grounds between the hours of 7 am and 1:50 pm.

Josh created an instagram account so that fans who were not in classes with the competitors could still follow the highlights of the game and make suggestions for challenges. It started out with about twenty followers, including the twelve competitors, and ended with 103. If the game starts again, I am sure the following would increase.

The challenges start out pretty easy in order to eliminate those who definitely did not have what it takes to win. The first day, competitors had to complete three of five possible challenges:

1. Take a selfie with a group of 4+ freshmen
2. Sing a song to a senior for at least 10 seconds
3. Bottle flip a bottle in all four of your classes
4. Draw a picture of broccoli and hand it to a sophomore with zero explanation
5. Write your full name on five stickie notes and place them around the school

I know that the stickie notes were not removed from their places around the school until they fell off whatever they were put on. My stickie note by the art room stayed up for two weeks. At the end of that day, two people failed to complete their challenges, and if these seemed difficult, you probably should not compete in any future GD challenge games. The challenges only get harder.

Day Two: Complete 4 of the 6 challenges

1. Take a picture of a foreign language teacher
2. Take a selfie with a set of twins (together)
3. make earings out of paper clips and wear them for 3 minutes
4. Give someone a makeover using marker and pen
5. Find the same sophomore you gave the broccoli to and show them everything in your wallet
6. Give a piece of fruit to someone who follows @gdchallengegame but is not playing (no repeats)

“No repeats” meant that if you gave the fruit to someone who had already received fruit it did not count as completing a challenge. This is a condition that shows up pretty often on the challenges. It is also a condition that meant one person got eliminated day 2.

Day 3: Complete 4 of the 6 challenges

1. Take a selfie with someone who has the same name as you
2. Get a video of you doing some sort of gymnastics stunt (cartwheel, handstand, somersault, etc)
3. Have someone record you introducing yourself to 5 new people. Tell the people that your name is ‘granola’
4. Wear your hair in pigtails for an entire class period
5. Partner Challenge: ballroom dance with another player in the front commons for 30 seconds (no repeats)
6. Ask a freshman boy to prom (no repeats)

There were also added notes for challenges that people would not be able to complete for reasons out of their control. For example, if there was no one else in the school with your name you could take a picture with Ali Cartier instead. Or if your hair was too short for pigtails you could wear a sideways hat instead. Also, at this point there were nine competitors, so the partner challenge would not be able to be done by one person. One person was eliminated after this day.

I am now going to skip to the end of the game, when there were only three competitors left. The game went on for ten days so in order to show some of the more difficult challenges I am going to skip to when there were only three of us left.

Day 8: Complete 4 of the 6 challenges

1. Take a group selfie with 6 of the eliminated players
2. Walk around and act like a chicken in the front or back commons for 2 minutes at lunch
3. Build a human pyramid with five other people (no repeats)
4. Find me (Josh) before school to choose one mystery item to wear for four hours
5. Breakdance in all of your classes
6. Competition! Perform a 1 minute song for a guest judge. They will decide who sang the best and that person will get the credit for this challenge.

No one was eliminated on this day, but at this point there were only three of us left. We had committed to winning and none of us wanted to back down. As you can see though, it was not easy. I was unable to get credit for singing, and I could not get six eliminated players together. So you know what that means.

The day of the Championship came two days later. Sydney was unable to complete enough challenges on Day 9 and was eliminated. It was just me and Maddie left. That day, who ever completed more challenges won the game.

The Championship: Complete as many challenges as possible

1. Braid 10 peoples hair
2. Take a selfie with an Admin
3. Write a Sonnet for a teacher while you’re in their class and give it to them
4. Wear a bonnet and hair extensions for three of your classes *
5. Drink an entire bottle of Powerade out of a spray bottle *
6. Give a retirement card to a teacher you don’t have right now, in absolute seriousness * (no repeats)
7. Carry an unused toilet bowl brush with you all day *
8. Introduce yourself to 5 full lunch tables as “xxxtentacion”
9. Have 40 people sign your arm
10. Make animal noises for a minute straight in all of your classes
11. Competition! take more selfies with members of the girls varsity basketball team than the other player

The challenges with (*) were challenges that required items that we had to collect from Josh. He provided us with the things we needed to complete them. We were not expected to complete all of the challenges, but we both did. The winning point went to Maddie though, because she was able to get more selfies with the girls varsity basketball team.

Josh and I would like to start GD challenge game again this year. It is our senior year and therefore our last chance, and we want it to be the best one yet. I have created a blog post about the game in the hope that people will use it to help create more ideas for challenges. We need six challenges everyday, for about ten days. Any ideas help.