How we customise every Amazing Race

When people hear Corporate Amazing Race, they often picture the TV show. Teams racing through city streets, solving clues, tackling challenges and desperately trying to reach the finish line first.

And yes, there’s definitely some of that.

However, at Tailored Team Building, we don’t believe in pulling the same race out of a box every time a client books. Your team, location and goals are different, so your event should be too.

That’s why every Customised Corporate Amazing Race we create is designed around the group taking part. From the route and challenges to the start location, finish line and surprise twists, there are plenty of ways we can make your race completely your own.

Planning a conference breakout, Christmas party, leadership day or company celebration? Here’s how we can tailor your Corporate Amazing Race.

It Starts With Your Team

Before we start plotting checkpoints or dreaming up challenges, we want to know a little more about your group.

What are you hoping to achieve? Who’s taking part? Do you want serious competition or something more relaxed? Are you bringing different departments together? Celebrating a milestone? Or does everyone simply need to escape the office and have some fun?

Once we understand your group, we can start shaping the experience around them. This helps us create the right balance of competition, problem-solving, communication and laughs.

After all, the best corporate team building events aren’t just fun on paper. They need to work for the people actually taking part.

You Choose Where the Adventure Begins

One of our favourite things about a Corporate Amazing Race is how flexible it can be. There’s no need to get your entire group to a predetermined starting point just because that’s where our standard route begins.

Because there is no standard route. We can start at your office, conference venue, hotel, park or another convenient location. Then, we’ll design the race from there.

The finish line is just as flexible. Many clients choose to finish at a restaurant, bar, function venue or conference location. That means everyone can go straight from racing around the city into lunch, dinner, drinks or the next part of the event.

It makes the day flow better and saves you from moving a large group across the city afterwards.

Every Race Route Is Different

Sydney isn’t Melbourne. Brisbane isn’t Perth. Auckland certainly isn’t Queenstown. Even within the same city, there are countless ways we can design a race.

Rather than sending every client through the same checkpoints, we build your route around the location. We look for interesting landmarks, hidden laneways, parks, waterfront areas, public spaces and local attractions that can become part of the adventure.

We also consider your timing, group size and preferred start and finish points. From there, we create a route that keeps teams moving without simply sending everyone along exactly the same path.

The destination becomes part of the experience, rather than just the backdrop.

Then We Get to the Fun Part: The Challenges

This is where we can really start playing.

We have a huge library of tried-and-tested Amazing Race challenges, but we choose them based on your group rather than simply running the same set every time.

Your race could feature Slingshots, Marshmallow Towers, Minefields, Pipeline Challenges, puzzles, memory games, photo missions, creative tasks and communication challenges. We can mix physical challenges with problem-solving and strategy, giving different people the chance to shine.

We can also adjust the physical side of the event. Got a group of competitive fitness fanatics? We can turn things up. Have a mixed group that would prefer a more leisurely adventure? No problem.

A great team building event should get everyone involved, not leave half the team wondering why they agreed to come.

Want Something We’ve Never Done Before? Even Better.

While we have plenty of challenges ready to go, coming up with new ones is one of our favourite parts of the job.

If you have an idea, throw it at us.

Perhaps you want a challenge based around your industry. Maybe there’s an inside joke we can sneak into a clue. You could have a product launch, conference theme or company milestone that we can incorporate into the race.

We can also design completely new challenges specifically for your event.

Sometimes the slightly strange requests lead to the best team building event ideas, so don’t be afraid to challenge us.

Make It Completely Your Own

The customisation doesn’t stop with the route and challenges. We can weave your company throughout the experience too.

Company trivia can become part of a checkpoint. Business facts can be hidden inside clues. Teams might need to solve a puzzle based on your products, recreate a company moment or answer questions that only someone paying attention at the morning conference session would know.

Depending on the event, we can also incorporate branding, customised race materials, conference messaging and personalised tasks.

The aim isn’t to turn your Corporate Amazing Race into another work session. Instead, these little touches make teams realise the event has been created specifically for them.

Add a Few Unexpected Twists

Just when teams think they’ve figured out how the race works, we can change things up.

Roadblocks and Detours can force teams to make decisions along the way. Fast Forwards can give someone the chance to gain an advantage, while secret bonus missions can suddenly change the leaderboard.

We can also introduce passport-style races, mystery actors, charity elements, photo competitions and themed challenges. In some locations, we can even incorporate local businesses or additional activities into the course.

These surprises keep teams guessing and create some of the best moments of the event. Because where’s the fun in knowing exactly what’s coming next?

Perfect for Conference Breakout Sessions

A Corporate Amazing Race is also one of our favourite ways to break up a conference day.

After sitting through presentations and sessions, getting outside and doing something completely different can give everyone a much-needed reset. It also encourages people to interact with colleagues outside their usual teams.

We can design the race to fit around your conference schedule and venue. You could finish back at the conference, head straight into afternoon drinks or cross the finish line at your dinner venue.

Either way, everyone returns with a lot more to talk about than the PowerPoint presentation from three hours earlier.

Small Team? Huge Group? Bring It On.

A customised race doesn’t only work for smaller groups. We can scale the format for large corporate team building events too.

Whether you have 20 people or hundreds of participants, we can adapt the event structure to keep everyone involved. Multiple checkpoints, staggered routes and different challenges help spread teams throughout the course, while our hosts keep the action moving.

For larger events, we can also introduce live leaderboards and additional hosted checkpoints to build the atmosphere throughout the race. We love creating amazing races for large teams.

The bigger the group, the bigger the competition. And we’re definitely okay with that.

Corporate Amazing Races Across Australia & New Zealand

We create Corporate Amazing Race team building events throughout Australia and New Zealand, including capital cities, regional areas and conference destinations.

Planning a conference in Sydney? We can create a race through the CBD, The Rocks, Darling Harbour or another area that suits your event. Heading to Perth? We’ll build your course around your chosen part of the city.

Or perhaps you’re crossing the Tasman for a corporate retreat in Queenstown. We can create an experience that makes the destination part of the adventure.

Wherever you’re heading, we’ll look at the location and ask the same question: What can we do here?

Why Customisation Makes All the Difference

There are plenty of fun team building ideas out there. However, the experiences people remember are usually the ones that feel like they were created especially for them.

That’s what we want from every Corporate Amazing Race.

Your route should make sense for your location. The challenges should suit your people. The timing should work with the rest of your day. Most importantly, your event should feel like your event, not the same race another company completed last week.

So, if you’re searching for unique team bonding ideas, corporate team building activities or a completely Customised Corporate Amazing Race, tell us what you have in mind.

Give us your location, your team and your goals. Got a strange idea you’d love to include? Even better.

Challenge us. Let’s see what we can create.