The day of the tournament had arrived. As soon as the clock struck eleven everyone rushed to the town square to hear what the first event was to be. An air of arrested anticipation rose from the crowd when the Mayor stepped up to the podium and turned on the microphone.

"Welcome to the Lazytown Tournament. For today we have chosen five events. Once each event is over the next event will be revealed. The first event is a tug of war. The first team to cross the red line loses. Everybody ready?"

When the crowd nodded the Mayor exclaimed, "Then let the tournament commence!"

The heroes picked up their end of the rope while the normals picked up theirs. Ché was the anchor for the hero's side whilst Ziggy, who was slightly bigger than all the other normals, was chosen for the anchor on the normal's side.

Greta stepped up and instructed both teams to take the strain. When this was done Greta held up her hand and double checked that the red ribbon was lined up with the red line. Everything checked out and both teams declared they were ready Greta shouted, "heave!"

A furious test of strength ensued. The normals pulled with all their might and the hero's pulled back just as hard. Using their advantage of strength and size combined Ché and Sportacus stopped giving the normals and easy time and started really putting in some effort. The normals struggled to stay on their feet when the heroes gave an almighty tug on the rope and their feet slid forward. Trixie's feet narrowly missed crossing the line and with a renewed vigour she ordered the others on her team to pull as hard as they could. Taking up whatever slack they'd let slip the normals pulled back with more force than they thought possible. Finding himself able to move backwards Ziggy kept shouting 'heave' prompting his team to pull whenever he shouted the word. Feeling the strain from the other team's amazing strength the heroes began to lose ground. Sportacus' feet came dangerously close to the line as Trixie's had done and Sportacus called to Ché to 'pull the lead out'. Ché shouted back that he was trying but he couldn't regain the ground they'd lost. His feet were beginning to slip too.

Smelling victory the normals redoubled their efforts and pulled harder than ever before. Ché had managed to dig his heels in and had begun to pull back. The normals fought to keep their gathered ground and dug their heels in. Not intending to be defeated the heroes summoned all the strength they had left to muster and heaved. They were beginning to claw back their early lead when….

The rope snapped.

Both teams were thrown back and landed in piles on the ground. Greta went to check on the heroes and Robyn went to check on the normals. Thankfully everyone checked out fine. The only things that had gotten hurt were their bottoms and their prides. After a minute of deliberation the Mayor, Bessie, Robbie and Stephanie concluded that as the rope snapped no one had one the event. It was null and void.

The next event was the discus throw. Trixie nominated herself for the normal team and Sportacus nominated himself for the heroes. Ché was too busy sulking to offer to participate. Sportacus, being the gentleman, let Trixie throw first. She did so and threw the discus five hundred metres. Sportacus threw his discus and it landed a whopping eight hundred metres away beating Trixie's throw by three hundred metres. The heroes had won round two.

With the score at one to the heroes and nil to the normals the third event was about to begin. After a rethink by the planning committee the sack race and relay race had been combined to form a relay sack race. The idea of this was that three members of the normals team would stand at one end of a pre-drawn race track and the other two members with the addition of Robyn would stand at the other. Sportacus stood on one end of the track and Ché stood at the other. One member from each team had to jump in their sack to the other end of the track and tag their team mate who would jump back and so on. Each team member had their own sack to make things go smoother. Quite surprisingly a sack had also been found to fit Ché. To beat the normals at this event the heroes had to complete ten relays backwards and forwards before the normals team members had all swapped sides.

Greta stood in the middle of the track with a starting pistol. Making sure that each team was ready she fired the pistol into the air and ran to the side lines.

The first relay was Stingy versus Ché. Ché took an early lead but stumbled, this was enough for Stingy to gain the advantage and he tagged Pixel. Pixel had a five second head start on Sportacus and jumped with all his might. Sportacus soon caught up however and was neck and neck with Pixel when he tagged Ziggy. Because there was no one for Sportacus to tag he had to do another relay back to tag Ché. Sportacus built up a good lead against Ziggy and tagged Ché before Ziggy was even three quarters down the track. Ziggy's team mates urged him on and he tagged Trixie just as Ché had picked himself up after falling flat on his face. Trixie powered down the track and tagged Robyn just before Ché could reach the end and turn himself around. With expert finesse Robyn jumped towards the end to tag Kit, the normals were in the lead by a nose when Kit started his relay. Sportacus bounded down the track chasing Kit's heels and almost overtook when the unthinkable happened, he fell over. Getting up quickly Sportacus tried to catch up with Kit and did so just after Kit had crossed the finishing line. The normals had won.

With three events down and the score tied a recess was called. It was lunchtime and after the sack race all of the contestants were rather tired. Ché could be heard grumbling in the background about his nose which had started to bleed after his fall. The sack race had been incredibly close but yet the heroes felt the sting of defeat. Sportacus had been forbidden from flipping as it would have been cheating, he was sure that he would have won had he been allowed to.

Everyone finished their lunch quickly eager for the final two events. When arm wrestling was announced Kit nominated himself thinking he'd be against Sportacus. His confidence soon faltered when Ché stepped forward and cracked his knuckles. Kit's cockiness soon kicked in though and he smiled wickedly at Ché, he wasn't going to lose without a fight.

Both men lay on their stomachs with their elbows resting on the ground. Kit clasped Ché's left hand with his right and prepared for the command to start. When the Mayor was sure that both men were prepared he gave them the go ahead. The best two out of two wrestles would win the game. Ché effortlessly defeated Kit on the first wrestle and almost defeated Kit on the second when someone shouted:

"Ché! Your airship is moving!"

Ché looked up and could see his airship flying off. Swearing he ripped his hand from Kit's and ran off to bring it back. As Ché had forfeited the wrestle it was declared that Kit had won by default. The scores were now tied.

Robyn slanted a sideways glance at Greta when the woman resumed her seat beside her.

"You sabotaged that round didn't you?" Robyn whispered knowing where Greta had disappeared to instead of going to the toilet like she'd said.

Greta held her hands up, "I couldn't let that poor boy have his arm ripped off. After all, the air brakes on these older airships can come off by themselves. Ché knows that."

Robyn smiled, "our little secret then."

This agreed the two women chuckled. No one was any the wiser as to where Greta had gone and no questions were asked.

With four out of five events down it was now time for the well awaited grand final.