For decades, The Barbados Cadet Corps has used military styled training to sharpen the personal discipline, character, self confidence, leadership skills and overall development of our cadets. Through this tapproach, we have been able to create conditions which allow us to fast track this kind of training, while being challenging and exciting enough to maintain the interest of our young people. Few other areas allow teenagers to hold serious leadership roles among their peers while relating with adults, teachers and other students.

Challenge seeks to:

1.    Encourage the formation of special organized teams, skilled in field craft, skill-at-arms, tactics and  focused on developing leadership and communication skills.

2.    Provide opportunities for these teams to compete against each other order to refine their skills, improve their knowledge, confidence and standards.

Each team captain will draw lots for one of the letters or characters shown in 'Round 1' above from a bag.

The first round will then proceed with team 'A' Vs team 'B'; Team 'G' Vs. Team 'H' etc. In the next round the winner of 'A' Vs 'B' will then meet the winner of 'C' Vs 'D' etc.

If 16 or less teams enter, then only letters A - P will be used in the draw. If 17 to 24 teams register, then the last teams to register will undergo a preliminary round to reduce the number to 16 teams. for over 24 teams the full 32 team draw will be used, in which case, teams that draw 'byes' will automatically move on to the second round.

The two teams are given a 8 figure grid reference to ID a special objective to be located and defended from attack. Their objective is to locate the position, Get a defensive team in place and fend off attack from the enemy.

The two teams will take turns escorting a VIP. Various bits of 'intelligence' some useless, some completely wrong and some useful will be provided to the enemy. The escorts will move from a start point to a 'safe house'.