The Ultimate Viking Challenge (Day 1)

The Ultimate Viking Challenge (UVC) was last night. Teams of 4, two girls and two guys, compete in different challenges to be the Ultimate Vikings.
I did this competition with Sean Edwards, Kelsey Hinde and Anna Holt. It was really fun.
There are five events in the challenge, three on the first day and 2 on the second.

There is Power ball, a fast game where you try to run a ball and dunk it into a trashcan while 3 large football players try to knock you away from it with large pads. It was a blast.
The second event was The Joust, an inflatable jumping gym where you stand on a small circular section of the inflated thing and try to knock the other guy off with a giant padded quarter staff.
The last one was the Pull and Plunder, one on one tug of war in which you try to get to a rag that seems to be just out of reach.
Unfortunately, the person in charge of taking photos did a rather poor job and didn't get that many of the competition. Here are the ones he did get. Also, the second day is two weeks from now and includes an obstacle course and flipping an 800 pound tire.

Left to right,
1)Ben, Will, Chris, Jon, Brooks, DK
2)Levi, Mike, Sean
3)Brooks pulling and others
4) Nicole pulling, Jesse on left, then Sarah then Kelsey in black ninja suit and Sean on right
5)Group photo with multiple teams. Don't know everyone.

I need your thoughts.

What do you notice?
What details do you notice in each passage? These details should be publically verifiable details NOT opitions. Leave your responses as comments.


#1
“To photograph people is to violate them, by seeing them as they never see themselves, by having knowledge of them they can never have; it turns people into objects that can be symbolically possessed. Just as the camera is a sublimation of the gun, to photograph someone is a sublimated murder-a soft murder, appropriate to a sad, frightened time.” (Sontag 197)


#2
“As photographs give people an imaginary possession of the past that is unreal, they also help people take possession of space in which they are insecure” (Sontag 193)