SRMT Kawennì:ios Newsletter - Onerahtókha / April 2011

Tribe vs MCAThe Saint Regis Mohawk Tribal employeesfaced off against the employees of the MohawkCouncil of Akwesasne in the Battle Royale. TheBattle Royale is an annual challenge that is part of theAkwesasne Winter Carnival which celebrated 20 yearsthis past February. Twenty-seven employees from eachorganization registered to compete for their respectiveemployers.The first set of events kicked off at the same time.They were the broomball game, a puzzling contestwith both small and large puzzles and a horseshoecompetition with three teams.The broomball game was played with three periods inwindy conditions causing minor disruptions throughoutthe game. Both sides aggressively battled each otherwith the SRMT team coming out the winner with atremendous lead.By Kyrie Ransom, PIOAdministrative Assistantminute decision to extend the playing time of thegames, team MCA advanced past the SRMT in boththe women’s and co-ed division. By the end of thefirst round of events both teams were tied at six pointseach.The second part of the Battle Royale began withthe Buddy Walker Relay Race. A disqualificationfor the SRMT team gave MCA the lead for a briefmoment. MCA’s lead was quickly countered by SRMTdomination of the Tug-of-War.The last event of the day ended up breaking the tiebetween the two teams, and that event was the Minute-To-Win-It Challenge. The last challenge of the daywas to see who could hold a cafeteria tray in one hand,while stacking five bolts on top of it using a pencil. Theteam that completed this task by three separate peoplewon the game.The puzzling contest lasted most of the afternoon asteam SRMT lost the small puzzle, but blew past MCAon the large puzzle challenge.The horseshoe tournament had three separate teams– all male, all female and a co-ed team. After a lastTeam SRMT gave a strong effort in this last challengehowever they did not finish the task in time. The crowdeagerly watched as both sides fumbled through the lastchallenge, but MCA finished first putting them ahead10-8. 7