Hide-and-seek may not yet be an Olympic sport (although efforts are being made in that regard), but it's apparently popular enough to have its own world championship.
What started out as a one-off event created by CTRL magazine in 2010, eventually grew into an annual event. This year, the 6th Nascodino World Championship — “nascondino” is Italian for hide-and-seek — will take place on September 3-4 2016, in Consonno.
The village was once a bustling tourist attraction complete with a zoo, sightseeing train, and several buildings, but has since become a ghost town. Event organizers consider the setting perfect for a grand hide-and-seek competition.
The rules of the tournament are a bit more complicated than the childhood game we all used to play, but then again, this is a contest for grownups (18 and over). Participants may register to take part in teams of five, with a €125 fee per team. The teams are then divided into four groups and one person per group hides while a “neutral searching team” counts 60 seconds.
The hidden player then has 10 minutes to come out of their hiding spot and reach a soft mattress (for diving purposes) placed in the middle of a field without being found or at least before a member of the searching team finds them. If they fail to reach their target within the time limit, players are not awarded any points. The game goes on for two days until the winner is declared.
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