
This summer, the minds behind Maveristmas, a.k.a. the Party Planning Committee (and Allen), put their heads together to create the next great virtual event. What did they come up with? A two-week long series of challenges modeled after the 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympics and creatively dubbed the “Maveris Olympics”.
The event was announced during a companywide virtual lunch session at the end of June and was met with excitement and anticipation as the details rolled out over the next few weeks. In the Olympic spirit the Maveris Olympics were created as a team event and interested employees were asked to sign up via a Google Form. From here, the Party Planning Committee (and Allen), utilized a rigorous set of complex and secretive processes to randomly assign team structures.
The festivities began with six teams vying for a generous assortment of prizes, including virtual gold, silver, and bronze medals, and of course, fame, glory, and bragging rights. With the events spread out over a two-week period and opportunities to participate in both team and individual challenges, the teams got right to work formulating their winning strategies.
THE GAMES
The Party Planning Committee (and Allen) designed a total of six events for the teams to participate in and earn points, as well as one additional competition which took place before the rest of the events for the opportunity to earn bonus points. Each event lasted for several days to allow ample time for teams to make submissions.
The competition consisted of individual and team events. In the individual challenges, each team member could submit their own interpretation of the event, while the team challenges were a single submission with contributions from all team members.
Submissions were reviewed by employees at the end of each event period during a virtual lunch where the winners of previous events were also announced.
All submissions were then compiled and sent out to all employees for voting. The individual events allowed the voter to rank their top three choices while the team events only allowed voting for a single submission. Each event turned out a gold, silver, and bronze medal winner with points allocated for each.
The designers of the Maveris Olympics ensured that participants could check their team’s standings daily in the Maveris Olympics slack channel with a clever script that ran each day to keep the scoreboard updated.
INDIVIDUAL EVENTS
TEAM EVENTS



CLOSING CEREMONY
At the end of the two weeks, the Maveris Olympics officially wrapped up with a virtual lunch/closing ceremony where the scores for the pentathlon and digital marathon were revealed before the final gold, silver, and bronze medalist teams were announced. Participants relived the highlights of the games and congratulated each other on an Olympics well done.
The design of the Maveris Olympics ensured that all employees could take part and contribute, and a great time was had by all. With the games complete, the Party Planning Committee (and Allen) sought companywide feedback to gauge the collective experience of employees.
With another virtual event in the books, it’s safe to say that the Maveris Olympics were a wild success and hopefully an indicator of what’s to come in the future.
