The missing player is a hybrid team building that takes place outdoors and whose content is customized to the company. It is adapted for teams ranging from 10 to 1,000, and you should allow 2 hours in your agenda (30 minutes for the preparation, 90 minutes for the main activity). Teams can be geographically distributed in different locations (or not) but the members of the same team must be physically gathered.
This is a cooperative game where the goal is to rescue a valuable member of your company who has been kidnapped. You will have 90 minutes, in teams of 3 to 6 players, to complete physical, cognitive and social challenges. All activities are performed directly on the players’ smartphones through our mobile application and players will have to be ready to move around to advance the game.
A member of your organization has been kidnapped by a criminal organization led by an unorthodox character called “The Goalie”.
The kidnapper threaten to torture your colleague if the employees do not carry out his demands to the letter. To do this, the employees will have to show courage, cooperation and not be afraid of ridicule! Fortunately for you, inspector Samson of the Tactical Forces is leading a large police operation to assist you.
Between the criminal’s outlandish demands and the tactical forces’ risky missions, will your employees succeed to find their colleague in one piece?
A few days before your team building activity, we inform your employees that a kidnapping could occur in the next few days within your organization. Through videos and a newspaper article, they learn who the perpetrator is, what his intentions are, and why your company could be the Goalie’s next target.
This is a great way to create mystery, excitement and speculation for your event!
Only a few hours/minutes before your team building activity, your employees learn that a member of their work team has been kidnapped, via a breaking news report.
A newsreader, a live reporter, a personalized report – everything is done to add credibility to this unbelievable situation.
Divided into teams, your employees use a mobile app to help the ongoing police investigation and track down their missing player. The 90-minute activity takes place outdoors. It doesn’t matter where the teams are physically located, as they only have to walk around while waiting to receive further instructions. So you can mobilize your employees (in small or large groups), regardless of distance or even country!
2 to 3 hours after your Rescue Operation, you’ll receive your very own highlight video featuring the highlights of the investigation in which you were involved.
It’s a great way to round off your activity. Laughter guaranteed!
It starts with a news article. Your organization has given an interview about a police investigation: employees have been receiving suspicious packages. Someone calling himself “The Goalie” abducts key people from companies and organizations and forces them to work for him. At this stage, nobody knows who will be taken.
Meanwhile the victim — someone from your organization, in on it for weeks — plays along. They pose for three photos in three states, from mildly dishevelled to badly roughed up. They record a surveillance camera clip, gagged, tied to a chair. Then a whispered selfie message, so as not to be overheard.
They also fill out a questionnaire their colleagues will spend the game trying to guess. Including two truths and a lie about their life that nobody at the office knows.
On the day itself, someone from your leadership team puts on a performance: a crime has been committed, it is on every channel. The TV goes on, the Breaking News Report rolls, and there are your offices, your parking lot, the victim’s street.
After that, nobody plays to win. They play to bring them back.
What we need from you: a few photos, two or three accomplices, and the secret kept to the very end.
The missing player is an outdoor activity. It can take place in the heart of the city, in an urban park or a resort. The chosen location must have good cell phone coverage (avoid natural sites that are too isolated or remote).
Only one person can be kidnapped. However, it is possible to involve other members of the management or staff in the concept.
Absolutely! It’s an activity that’s accessible to everyone. Players walk an average of 2 to 3 km in 90 minutes. Since players are free to cover the distance they wish, and at the speed they prefer, the total distance covered is not a factor in the success of our adventures.
Yes. A disappearance has no season, and the rescue operation runs as well in February as in June.
December and January work particularly well: they are the months when teams cross paths the least, and when a shared 90-minute mission stands out most against the ordinary.
In the activity called The Missing Player, players move around in small teams of 3 to 6 players in an outdoor environment. Since we don’t require them to go to any specific places, or to cover any specific distance, teams are free to go wherever they want.
This is the only one of our team building themes that can be held indoors — a shopping mall, an underground walkway, a large hotel. The other themes require an outdoor site, because the game relies on virtual beacons placed on the ground. That said, we strongly recommend holding the activity outdoors, rain or shine. The outdoors gives teams far more freedom and far more room to be creative.
A news article in your name, a breaking news bulletin showing your offices, and the victim themselves — a colleague, photographed and filmed for the occasion. Players recognize the places before they recognize the face.
The activity lasts 90 minutes, but we prefer you to book 2 hours in your agenda. The Best of video is delivered the same day (2 to 3 hours later) and lasts 12 to 20 minutes, depending on the number of participating teams.
Coordination starts 3 to 4 weeks before the activity. Not because there is much for you to do — it is so your accomplices have time to shoot their photos and videos without rushing.
The staging itself begins 7 to 10 days out: your employees receive a first signal, then a second one 2 to 3 days before.
