The challenge is to build a spaghetti bridge in one hour. Deans enter teams that are from recognized student organizations housed within their Colleges. Prizes and cash awards are given to teams who build the strongest, ugliest, most beautiful, gaudiest and weakest bridges. Student participants are provided boxes of spaghetti, glue, and a glue gun to build their bridges. Each bridge must span a 24-inch open area as well as meet a number of other requirements.
Finalists build a second bridge in a two-hour contest to determine the winners of the Challenge Cup.
Last year, the cup was awarded to the College of Technology. All participants and spectators will be treated to a free spaghetti lunch. The CCHA will post scores, statistics and updated league standings as soon as games are completed on a given weekend. Other features include notes on each team, links to audio broadcasts and news outlets, an updated list of alumni, and ticket information for each school's home games, the CCHA Championship, and the NCAA Championship. A link to the CCHA's site is conveniently located on the Ferris web site through the Bulldog Hockey homepage.