Profile Featurette #7

The Challenge.

aka. The most popular team ever


The Challenge were definetely a team to beat. Although their physical attributes were not perfect, their skill made up for it ten-fold.

The only unfortunate aspect about The Challenge was that the team was around exactly when Equinov were reaching one of their many peaks. The predominantly Chinese team had easy beats in all competitions right up until the final when most of the time they were beaten by Equinov.

The Challenge have left a lasting imprint on the history of the competition by the massive crouds that gathered when The Challenge played. Even teams like The Sam, Tui Tubbies and shiney helicopter stripes are not able to get crouds of one tenth the size.

The Challenge, although they are a completely asian based team, actually originated in Trinidad. The people in Trinidad were sick of people comparing them to Tobago so They decided to create a wonder team to whip any Tobagan teams. Unfortunately, it seems that there were no good Tdinidadian players good enough, so they had to send players from China to beat them. The Chinese players (the challenge) were horrified by "these Tobagan rituals" that they saw on Tobago that they fled to New Zealand for recuperation.

After years of competition and only a few medals, The Challenge saw hope in 2006 with the Match fixing debarcle which destroyed Equinov. Unfortunetely The Challenge were now old and there once superstars withering into nothing. The Challenge was also losing money from their unsuccessful campaigns. They were then forced to sell their players for small amounts of money. But teams in the competition did not want the players so they were sold into illegal slavery in Herzegovina. One player remains however. He was bought by The Tree Ninja Kollektiv for $4million.

It is sad to see an old superpower of the game to fade like this. But it leaves more space for the rest of us.