The Verizon Wireless Urban Challenge hits Seattle on Saturday July 24. As far as I can tell, it’s something like the Amazing Race on a local scale. Teams of two race around the city using only their feet or public transit to find (& photograph) twelve checkpoints. Unlike the Amazing Race, the event probably isn’t long enough for relationships to self-destruct when partners to realize that they drastically overestimated their compatibility.
Registration, which costs $150, is open until the 23^rd. Winners compete for $50,000 in the the national competition in Miami. [urbanchallenge]