It s a philosophy not lost on games manager Rachel O Connor. It could be anyone from your well-trained athlete to just somebody getting out there for the first time. Our first time entrants this year are about 39 percent of our overall entries, so just short of 2000 so it s fantastic to see them giving this event a go, but yeah it s literally anyone and everyone.
And they re not all old-timers. So each sport has a minimum age. We ve got a couple of sports that start at 20 otherwise around that 30 to 35 mark, so it s a lot younger than you would expect. And we ve had a huge growth in the 30 to 39 which we ve been targeting as our up coming masters, so it s good to see people are realising they can compete which has been fantastic.