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We ran a 28 day Corona Virus Challenge. It was designed to be an online activity to keep our members engaged and active for 4 weeks during the first stage 3 lockdown here in Victoria.
Each day we selected 2 or 3 different activities that were either physical or Volleyball skills or brain/creative in nature. We would then create a fancy info-graphic with all of the details and for most days, a short video to aid in the explanation. The info-graphic and the video were posted onto the Vic Beach Facebook group at 10am each day for the 28 days, starting on the Monday the 4th of May and culminating on Sunday the 31st of May 2020.
Most activities had several different levels of difficulty and had points associated with your results. Participants would then enter their scores into the Google Docs spreadsheet and we kept track of the how each player was going.
The eventual winner and runner up both won prizes.
The event was set up for people to enjoy the entertainment, to give them a continued sense of community and to compete for the prizes. We had 90 people sign up and compete in the challenge, but we did notice that at least half that number again watched and did the challenges from home when they had the time, without joining the official side of the program.
The physical, volleyball and some of the brain/creative challenges all came from Vic Beach, with some of the brain/creative challenges being inspired from websites and friends across the internet.
Why we did it
One of our partners ran a much simpler version of this activity with the same physical and volleyball activity planned for each day, but worked with the participants in teams to encourage them to keep active and social. We saw this activity and thought that we could expand it to a broader audience and make It more appealing by making every day different and more challenging.
We wanted to build this activity to help our players feel that they were part of something much bigger than just themselves: the wonderful beach volleyball community here In Melbourne.
How we know it worked
We set up a Google Docs sheet to record the results of the daily activities purely to calculate the winners. The activity was set up mainly for participation but also as a free event to encourage people to keep moving and stay positive in difficult times. We had a lot of very good feedback from people who:
enjoyed the activities,
enjoyed being part of the challenge,
enjoyed watching the videos,
did the activities, but didn't record their results.
felt they were part of something bigger than corona virus lockdown.
We had participants living in Germany, Sweden, New Zealand, Canada, Ireland, America, England and around Australia.
