Sound the Retreat! - 20|20 Creative Group

20|20 went on the offensive this month and had our everyday routine running for the hills.

The heavy artillery being employed? The famed 20|20 annual company retreat. Wholeheartedly awaited for by some, nervously anticipated by others, at its heart is a guarantee of fun—and copious embarrassment—for all. While some retreats involve a day full of team-building exercises and awkward small talk, here at 20|20, we prefer to skip the small talk and simply focus on the awkward.

Calling upon a variety of tactics, most all of them involve some element of public shaming. This year though, through a combination of mad libs, charades, zip-lines and some good ol’ fashioned creativity, plenty of embarrassment was all but ensured.

After cryptically being assigned the task of writing down a noun, an adjective, an adverb and adverb on pieces of paper, we compiled them all and drew one of each.

Only after were we informed that we must use them to create unique super-hero personas complete with one-of-a-kind special abilities—and costumes—from our oh-so-random prompts.

Uh oh.