THE WEALD RURAL GAMES A sleepy Kent town is about to be awoken.

The Weald Rural Games welcomes you to accept the challenge, and save the Weald from boredom. Feats of incredible strength and cunning.

Face-painting for the kids and supported by energy giving fluid and solid-fuel filling stations all with music that’s out of this world.

Come along, challenge family and friends or look on and laugh. Come along and rule the Weald!

Date : 17th May – 1pm until 5.30pm

Venue @ Cranbrook RFC, Angley Road, TN17 2PN.
Admission by donation at the gate.

Live music from the duo Crooked Style

Finale by the Smashing Dragons (The worlds youngest rock band)

Jurassic red Barrows display team

Record holder Bubbleologist

Prosecco & Pimms Bar, Turners Cider Bar, and the CRFC Club bar

Food Quarter offering – Paella and burgers and marshmallow and strawberry kebabs

Join us for the third Weald Rural Games, bigger and better than ever.

SPONSORED BY

PROFITS WILL BE SPLIT BETWEEN

EVENTS

        JURASSIC RED BARROWS

Guinness record holding Bubbleologist

TUG OF WAR TEAM EVENT

Tug of War

  • FREE to enter, max 8 per team.
  • Register your team before the event – email chris66bb@gmail.com
  • ENTER TO WIN THE WEALD  RURAL GAMES TROPHY

AIR GUITAR CHAMPIONSIP

Air guitar championship

Bring out your inner Eric Clapton, Jimi Hendrix or Slash,

Register your interest at the ticket booth or e mail chris66bb@gmail.com in advance

BOUNCE BACK / PING PONG EGGG CUPS

Ping-pong egg cups

Hit the golden egg cups

  • Furthest row in one minute
  • Entry one crane dollar per go
  • Three categories mens /ladies/ children under 14
  • Winners win a WRG Egg Cup
  • One minute Death row challenge, current one minute indoor record 19-29 age group 431m in 2020

DISCUS THROW

Discus throw – three attempts to knock the cans off

GOLDEN EGG / COCONUT SHY

Coconut shy

  • 5 Balls for One Crane
  • Knock a coconut off to win, a coconut
  • Knock the golden egg off, to win two coconuts

FOOTBALL DARTS

  • 5 Balls per go for One Crane
  • Football Darts / Kick n Stick Inflatable
  • Its huge 30ft x 23ft and 23ft High!
  • Highest adult and highest U14 at the end of the day win The WRG Egg Cup

WELLY WANGING

  • Three attempts for one Crane
  • Men’s, Ladies and mixed U14 WRG Egg Cup to be won
  • Furthest distance, within the lines, wins
  • Current world records
  • Men – 63.98m by Teppo Luoma (Finland)
  • Women – 40.87m by Sari Tirkkon (Finland)

CHUCKY EGG

Catchy Egg

  • One crane gets an egg
  • Longest throw and catch, wins
  • Winning team win the WRG Egg Cup
  • Rules : 2 person teams consisting of catchers and tosser’s.
  • Start at 2metres, then 2mtr increments spreading after each successful catch.
  • Drop the egg or break it and your out! Caution flying eggs

EGG ROULETTE

  • Half a dozen Eggs for One Crane
  • Five hard boiled, one raw !
  • Smash the egg against your head, before egg timer times out
  • Done in pairs, whoever gets the raw egg first, loses.
  • Challenge your friend, parents, grandparents, coach.
  • Danger – Yolks on you
  • Just for Fun

EGG AND SPOON RACE

  • One Crane per go – challenge your gran, mum, dad, Uncle, Coach
  • Eggs must make the winning line intact
  • First three across-the-line win
  • Winners get a Superheros Slapband, entrants all get a WRG sticker
  • DANGER – RUNNY EGGS

HAY BALE TOSSING

  • One crane per three attempts
  • Throw a sack of hay with pitchfork over a bar.
  • Highest at the end of the day wins
  • Three categories mens/ladies/ children under 14
  • Win the WRG Egg Cup

BOTTLE WALKING

  • Entry one crane dollar per three attempts
  • Three categories mens/ladies/ children under 14
  • From your feet on the ockey, you reach out with a bottle(wooden skittle) in each hand, the idea is to reach out as far with one bottle and without touching the ground return with the other bottle.
  • The furthest bottle at the end of the day wins a WRG Egg Cup.

BOWLING FOR THE PIG

Whats bowling for the pig?

It’s a game of bowling or skittles, in which in history the prize for the best player is a pig, or joint of pork/ham.

The Weald games is slightly different with only eight skittles in a scrum formation, the winner will be the one who knocks the most skittles with limited balls.

  • Three attempts for one Crane
  • Bowl down the pigs
  • If you knock all down within three balls, you get a spare ball
  • Challenge your family and friends, just for fun.
  • Please Note: No Pigs have been harmed in the making of this game!

GOLF BUCKET CHALLENGE

25-second bucket challenge, to see who could chip the most balls into a bucket in the time limit

Buckets are numbered, record your score on score card. Just for fun

Challenge your family and friends, get the bragging rights

TARGET RUGBY

Just for fun, challenge your family and friends to get the highest score and bragging rights

Pass a rugby ball between different-sized rings, all with different values

One crane per 5 balls

AUNT SALLY

Traditional game, in which players throw sticks to try and knock Sally’s head off.

Free stick every time you succeed.

Highest score at the end of the day wins the WRG Egg Cup

One Crane for 6 sticks

SPLAT THE RAT

  • One Crane per 3 attempts
  • How quick is your judgment, are you quick enough to splat the rat?
  • Just for fun, test your timing.

CALYPSO LIMBO CHALLENGE

  • One crane for 3 attempts, if successful, lower the limbo, and repeat.
  • Continue to challenge the bar, hand down does not count.
  • The winner with the lowest level by 4.30 pm wins a WRG Egg Cup.
  • Why not take on the pin and balloon challenge??

BUZZ LINE

  • Test your nerve, stay calm, get to the other end without getting shocked
  • Entry one crane = 3 attempts
  • Just for fun
  • Challenge your family and friends

STOCKS AND SHARES

  • Why not put your parents, grandparents or coaches in the stocks?
  • Throw soaking-wet sponges at them
  • Take a selfie, share it with the world
  • Enjoy, just for fun

HORSESHOE PITCHING

Just for fun – One crane equal 6 shoes

Family & friends challenge – record your scores on your own scorecards

Players attempt to throw six horseshoes so as to encircle a stake or to get them as close to the stake as possible.

Record three points for a horseshoe that landed around the stake, also known as ringers.

Record one point for horseshoes touching or leaning against the stake as well as horseshoes that land within 6 inches of the stake.

LADDER BALL

  • Just for fun –
  • One crane buys you 3 twin balls
  • The challenge is to score the highest points, each rung has a different value, Yellow score 3 Red score 2 Green 1
  • Beat the family/friends

BEAN BAG TOSS

Bean bag toss/ corn hole

STATIC CYCLE RACE

Static cycle race

Fly your family flag, challenge your friends and family, neighbours and Coaches

IMPORTANT

Like any serious sport, the use of performance-enhancing drugs is prohibited.

However, the local brewery at the bar on the other hand, is permitted and indeed recommended substance,(for those over 18) the organiser says!

DISCLAIMER / TERMS & CONDITIONS