This scheduled game event will begin at Tompkins Square Park (inside the 7th St. Entrance between Avenues A/B) on Saturday, September 13, and will run from 12:00 PM to 2:00 PM. Up to 10 teams of 4-5 players can participate. At least one member of each team should have a video iPod. Those without full teams will be assigned teammates. Teams should sign up by emailing cbcrewnyc@gmail.com.

UPDATE: There is still room for one or two more teams! (9/12/2008, 2pm)

PROJECT DESCRIPTION:

The Lower East Side, the East Village, Alphabet City, Loisaida – many names for a once neglected neighborhood that now represents some of the most valuable real estate in New York. New condominiums, nightclubs, and high-end retail dot every corner. Meanwhile, the inspiring legacy of landmark efforts to shape a neighborhood’s future suffer obfuscation. But their traces remain, underscoring the area’s personality, at least for the creative and the curious.

Up to 10 teams of 4-5 players will compete to collect and solve video puzzles featuring quirky figures and events from this formerly raw and DIY neighborhood as well as to create challenges for and complete challenges from other teams along the way. Racing to the finish line is important, but the team with the most points at the end will win the victory and the glory.

Kick over the traces to look inside the neighborhood’s past, present and future. Reimagine future-forward activism and neighborhood shapes. Place meets face as you find traces of organizers, rent strikers, squatters, community gardeners, and settlement house workers amidst a crowded landscape of pre-fab luxe. Yes, ordinary people can take extraordinary action to create a community and a place to call home.

Website: www.cbcrew.org
Twitter Updates: http://twitter.com/cbcrew

Conflux HQ and Kicking Over the Traces Starting Line:

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Confirmed Teams:
Team Triumphant