And the National Champion is . . . .

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It’s been an exciting 8 weeks of volunteering, games, and competition, and we’ve reached the end of the season. A big congratulations to Storable for beating out 19 other teams to take the championship title!

The Top 2 teams were presented with a Mystery Challenge that asked them to showcase their creativity, team spirit, team talents, and celebrate how their team came together throughout the season and all the fun they had along the way. This challenge came together in the form of a team video that was judged by our community of Judges as well as a live audience vote at the Awards Party and Ceremony yesterday. Check out their videos below!


 

The Judges vote accounted for ⅔ of the total points with the remaining ⅓ going from the audience vote. At the end, the Judges’ points pushed Storable to the top to take the championship title for the first ever Catalyst Games National Season! 

Our competing teams came together to play for our 6 nonprofits and donated a total of $25,000 to our partners. Each team chose a nonprofit to compete and win additional dollars for in the competition. Every nonprofit received a minimum $2,500 donation no matter how their teams did. Check out our winners and donations in the season recap on the right!

Awards Party Replay 🔽


Winners and Awards

 
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1st Place: Storable
Winning $4,000 for SaulPaul Foundation

2nd Place: Silicon Labs
Winning $2,500 for Code2College

3rd Place: Enverus
Winning $1,500 for E4Youth

4th Place: The Zebra
Winning $1,000 for Code2College

 
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The Volunteer Preseason Team Impact Award sponsored by POINTapp: Enverus
Volunteer Preseason MVP sponsored by Tito’s Handmade Vodka: Kerry Kendall, Storable
Best Team Cocktail sponsored by Buffalo Trace: Expedia Group


A big thank you to all of our participating teams; your commitment to your culture and giving back - particularly in this year! - is an inspiration. Hats off to you!

 

Accruent
AmRisc
Auctane
Carvana
Cision

Regions Bank
Saatva
Sage Foundation Partners
SailPoint

Enverus
Everlywell
Expedia Group
Hippo
LogicMonitor

Shipwell
Silicon Labs
Storable
The Zebra

 

Highlights

  • Our competing teams blazed through the puzzle rooms from The Escape Game! We broke records all around the country - Las Vegas, Austin, Nashville, Chicago, and New Orleans!

  • Whoa, speedy cookie athletes! Shipwell clocked an unofficial time of 1:32 on a relay practice round

  • There was a tie for 8th place between Shipwell and LogicMonitor with LogicMonitor moving on to the championship bracket

  • We saw some incredible team spirit from our teams but wanted to call out some that we saw great effort from:

    • The Amrisc team from Houston - a first-time team!

    • Carvana from Atlanta - another first-time team!

    • Enverus from Denver

  • The Escape Game raffle winners are:

    • Cynthia Taylor, LogicMonitor 

    • Rocio Hoskins, AmRisc

    • Daniel Ziegler, Enverus

Thank you to our nonprofit partners and beneficiaries for supporting the program and providing our volunteer opportunities for points on the POINTapp during the Volunteer Pre-Season. We hope our teams continue to support these organizations and create greater access to opportunity in their communities.

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Thanks to You, We Donated…

 
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Catalyst Games is all about providing shared experiences that builds teams and stronger communities and this year was no different. We are so grateful for the support of our sponsors for empowering us to pivot and deliver a fun virtual season for the community to create tangible, collective impact. We hope that this season has helped by creating memories that bring your team together. We hope you all have a great rest of the year and that your company continues to think about creating impact with our nonprofit partners from this season. Until we meet again, friends!


Thank you again to our National Season sponsors.
We can’t thank them enough for their continuous support!

 
 
Nicole Gandy