The Inaugural Cape Fear Roller Girls Scavenger Hunt and Pub Crawl Come for the beer, stay for the shenanigans! Contributed by Nicole Schmidt Photos contributed
On Feb. 28, the sun was shining, temperatures were above average, and the streets of Downtown Wilmington were calm and quiet. But that was all about to change when 150+ Cape Fear Roller Girls, their rowdy fans and friends met in Downtown Wilmington for one purpose: The Inaugural Cape Fear Roller Girls Scavenger Hunt and Pub Crawl. The goal of the Roller Girls’ event was to pay back support to their generous downtown sponsors: Pour House, Cape Fear Wine and Beer, The Blind Elephant, The Husk, Hell’s Kitchen, and A Tasting Room. Prizes included gift card to participating locations, merchandise and season passes to watch CFRG in action, and gift certificates to Heritage Tattoo, also a Cape Fear sponsor. The mission was simple: five hours to complete as many random, quirky tasks Downtown Wilmington has ever seen. Each team of 2-4 people was given a treasure map of tasks, some Cape Fear Roller Girls stickers, and the official beer stein of the Cape Fear Roller Girls. Each item was a crucial tool for scavenger hunt success. The beer stein was good for draft specials. The sticker was to place somewhere that was untagged by the Cape Fear Roller Girls and also had the information for the Season Opener Bout on the back. The treasure map of tasks had items as simple as collecting a bottle cap and increased in point value up to the highest point value task: get a piercing at one of the downtown tattoo shops. Surprisingly, this was 46
Carolina Brew Scene
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the most popular task and there were lines out the door to Glenn’s Tattoo Service, who had no idea what was happening until the event Coordinator from CFRG explained the task to them. Naturally, they were very pleased to be an unexpected key portion of the scavenger hunt and hope to work with the Roller Girls again in the future. About a half hour before the time limit expired the exhausted, smiling faces of the participants returned to the “home base location” at the Pour House, some scrambling to complete last minute tasks down to the wire. Prizes were to be awarded to the first and second place team. A special prize was given to the team with the best name voted by CFRG and the Pour House Staff. After the points were calculated by the highly trained Cape Fear Roller Girls staff the winners were announced. The overall victor went to team Tyranatharus Rexth’s. Coming in a close second was team MC Hammered. The Cape Fear Roller Girls were so pleased by the turn out of the event they added a last minute third place prize, which was awarded to team We Three Queens. The Event Coordinator for the league hopes to hold an end of the year Scavenger Hunt at the conclusion of the Cape Fear Roller Girls Season. This time increasing the tasks to a whole new level of crazy…but then again, the Cape Fear Roller Girls are Wilmington’s only hard hitting, surly, girls on wheels.
