This Sunday, eight or nine teams from Victoria’s tech community face off against each other to raise money for the Mustard Seed Food Bank. Organized by Metamend Account Manager Matthew Bowes, the first of what looks like a quarterly Metamend Floor Hockey Challenge easily reached its goal of raising a quick $5K for our local food bank.
The concept is fairly simple. Each team puts up a $500 entry fee, the entirety of which is donated to the Food Bank via VIATeC. The addition of a ninth team allows the sale of a by (or free pass) to a later round of playoffs and an additional opportunity to give to charity.
The event is being held at the Boys and Girls’ Club at 1240 Yates St. (beside the fire hall) starting at 10:00am.
Each game is made up of three nine-minute periods with a 90-second break between. Each team will have a minimum of $175 donated to the Food Bank in their company name with the winning team getting a $3600 donation made in their name.
The teams in the tournament come from:
Metamend / Enquisite | Osler Systems | ParetoLogic Inc | Schneider Electric | Reliable Controls Corporation | SEASTAR CHEMICALS Inc. | Telus Communications | Contech Inc
No matter what happens Sunday afternoon the folks who run and rely on the Mustard Seed Food Bank are going to win. That’s worth an afternoon of minor injury and major fun any time of the year.
We received a lot of interest from other local tech firms while organizing this tournament, so much we’re likely going to organize another local floor hockey challenge in the early spring. In the meantime, Team Metamend and Team Enquisite will be holding their last-chance-to-get-it-together practice Thursday evening before facing established teams from Schneider, Telus and Osler.
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