Team Brunel ; the Dutch delegation sponsored by Brunel: founded in the Netherlands, now a global brand with a network of 109 offices in 40 countries.
Team Alvimedica : an innovative stent and catheter manufacturer originally from Turkey, also active in the Netherlands.
Mapfre : a Spanish insurer.
Team Vestas : the team sponsored by the Danish wind turbine manufacturer. The team, with Dutch navigator Wouter Verbraak, 5 ways google can evaluate eat that had to abandon the race in leg 2 to rejoin in the 9th leg .
In addition to the main sponsors, there are various other sponsors. For example, the various boat components of Team Brunel carry the names of Robeco, Schouten & Nelissen and Gaastra.
Serious and Social gaming
In addition to the previously mentioned teams, there was another team: the virtual regatta team. This consisted of about 100,000 enthusiasts, I was one of them, who could sail the VOR leg by leg in a virtual sailing regatta . With exactly the same routes, wind force, wind direction and currents.
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My result in the last leg of virtual regatta
The game can easily be classified under the heading of serious gaming. As a participant, you are faced with exactly the same choices as Bouwe Bekking, skipper of Team Brunel. Going straight ahead seems interesting, but your dashboard shows that the wind will come from a different direction in 12 hours. By heading higher now, you will benefit from the new wind direction later. And there are many more variables that sometimes present you with difficult, more complex choices.
Through the game I also got to know other sailors; Sirene du Zephyr, Piraat Bas and Hortensias became my new, virtual sailing friends who congratulated me, encouraged me or advised me to sail a different course. The game turned out to be a fun and educational extension of a sailing event singapore lead that was an experience in itself.
On board storytelli
Each participating boat has an onboard reporter. Using 5 fixed onboard HD cameras, editing and 5 marketing actions for b2b companies to be successfultransfer options via all conceivable (social) channels, he reports on what is happening at sea and in the boats.