The MediaShop's 'Sporting' Celebrations 2005

Harry Herber and Virginia Hollis of The MediaShop celebrated a hugely successful year with the staff from Johannesburg, Cape Town, and Durban at the Inanda Club's Polo Field. The field was essential as many of the industry's media owners joined the festivities by setting up gazebos on the perimeters to celebrate with The MediaShop.

The day's theme of sporting challenge required the large MediaShop staff to be divided into teams of about 15 pax. Each team were given different colour T-shirts and they then elected their own themes to portray themselves. The All Blacks, The Blushing Bride and Runaway Grooms, Robin Hood, etc. were well represented.

Each media owner set sporting, and often not so sporting, activities for the teams to compete, awarding points (and in Jeremy Mansfield's Highveld quiz, penalising points) for good and bad answers. At the end of the day, MC and Competition Adjudicator, Frank Tilly, manipulated (mmmh?), to suit his bribes, the points for each team to win fabulous prizes donated by the media owners.