Team Basics

Having a team requires:

• Teams are made up of 10 to 15 friends, co-workers, family, clubs, organizations and, basically, anyone. Teams can be smaller than 10, but that puts the team at a definite disadvantage in fundraising.
• Teams must register online at the ACS Macon County Relay Web site. Forms for survivors, luminarias, etc., are also available online. Registering online allows, if the team/member wishes, the use of e-mail fundraising from the site, donations to be made to teams and individuals online through use of a credit card or by printing out a mail-in form and team and individual team member Web sites.
• Cost is $100 to register a team for Relay for Life. However, there are special "deals" for registering, if you time it right. Macon County’s deal for 2007 is that team registration is $60 through the kickoff, which is Saturday, April 28. We will also be giving away a few "free" registrations as door prizes at the kickoff.
• A team captain/co-captains/leaders must be willing to attend information meetings once a month (more in June/July, as the event gets closer) or send someone in their place and pass that information on to team members. Meetings are not limited to team captains or to one person per team. Anyone interested in Relay, being on a team, being a captain or volunteering is welcome.
• Fundraising: Suggested fundraising goal is $100 per team member, with a total per team of $1,000 to $1,500. However, this is only a suggested goal. There is no fundraising police to bust teams that don’t make the suggested goal, and every dollar raised is important. However, the whole purpose of Relay for Life, and one of the main reasons for the all-night celebration, is how much money is raised for ACS, so be serious about soliciting funds for your team. Fundraising gets easier the more and number of years you do it.
• Teams must clean up their own campsite area when the night is over or before leaving, whichever comes first. When decorating campsites, remember, what you bring in, you must either take to the trash or take with you.

Having a team does NOT require:

• Staying on site all night. It’s more fun when teams stay the whole time, and they get more of a chance to participate in the activities and fundraising, but it’s not a requirement. Also, there is a significance to the all-night format.
• Fundraising online or having a personal Web site on the ACS Macon County Relay Web site. Those tools are there if individuals/teams wish to use them.
• Participation in any games/activities the night of Relay for Life. Each team is asked to do a lap with all the teams as part of the opening ceremonies, and teams are asked to have one person on the track at all times, but sitting and enjoying the fellowship, stories and atmosphere is fine, too.
• Elaborate campsite decorations. It’s up to each team as to how much/little they wish to do.