Current Events
Family Picnic
Join us for a day of fun! You and your immediate family are invited to be a part of the Family Picnic on Saturday, July 27, 2024 from 11am-3pm at Rock Creek Mansion in Bethesda, MD. For travel and event details, explore the Valiant Family Picnic website. Please RSVP here by June 26th. Contact Shea Raydo if you have questions.
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Past Events
Holiday Party
Team Valiant brought the fun to the Holiday Party at Howl at the Moon DC! Check out all the Professional Photos and 360 Degree photo booth.
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Chess Tournament
The Valiant Chess Tournament has concluded and we had an epic run by Elliott Hirzel and Tayo Tychus who won every match throughout the tournament and then played each other in the Finals and Tayo won. And then Tayo played our Grandmaster, Marcus Bowie, and in an upset Tayo won. Tayo is the 2024 Valiant Chess Tournament Champion and GrandMaster!
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March Madness Bracket Contest
Congrats to UCONN for the back to back victories and congrats to all Valiant winners! Our Valiant Champion is none other than Tuba Superstar David Ellis! Great picks!
2nd place and only 4 points behind the champ, went to Derek Acheampong.
3rd through 5th went to some of our internal staff with Jenn Shelton bringing in the bronze, and Brittany Gload/Katy Workman getting 4th and 5th places!
Prizes:
1st: $200 gift card / 2nd: $100 gift card / 3rd: $50 gift card / 4th: $25 gift card / Everyone: Game of Games Raffle Ticket
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Poker Tournament
Congrats to David Campbell for the big win in the Valiant Poker Tournament!
- 1st Place - David Campbell - $100 gift card, Trophy and bragging rights
- 2nd Place - Jarman Taylor - $50 gift cad
- 3rd Place - Eric Chinn - $25 gift card + $25 bounty for knocking out the host
- Other Finalists: Leo Trendowicz, Chris Losack, Chad Thacker, Kevin Chen, Alfred Khoury, John MacDonald (Sarah's husband)
- Everyone who participated will be included in the next Big Drawing in July!
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Game of GAmes
Trophy Winners
Leo Trendowicz
EVP, Corporate IT
Game of Games Winner (Year 1)
Chess Champ 2020, Poker Champ 2021, Codenames Team Champ 2021
David Ellis
Senior Archer engineer
Family Feud Champ 2020
Geoff Gregory
Chief Operating Officer
Family Feud Champ 2020
Marcus Bowie
Security Engineer
Mayor of Chess 2020 & 2022 & 2023
Tom Zarycki
Incident REsponse Analyst
Jeopardy Champ 2020, Smartini Hour Team Champ 2022, Poker Champ 2022
Cat Buchanan
EVP, Talent &
Culture Strategy
Fitness Challenge for Charity Champ Fall 2021
Katy Workman
Technical Recruiter
Fitness Challenge for Charity Champ Spring 2021
Tim PUTZ
director, Security
Advancement & Operations
Fitness Challenge for Charity Champ Spring 2021
Brittany Gload
EVP, Strategic Initiatives
Fitness Challenge for Charity Champ Fall 2021 & Winter 2022 & Fall 2022
Mark Williams
It & QA Support
Codenames Team Champ 2021
Nate Raydo
Government Solutions
Lead
Chess Champ (Novice) 2022
Kannan Chithiraputhiran
Sr. DevSecOps Engineer
Fitness Challenge for Charity Champ Winter 2022, Fall 2022
Sara Wenke
Culture & Marketing
Manager
Fitness Challenge for Charity Champ Spring 2022, Smartini Hour Champ Spring 2022 &Fall 2022
Drew Fields
Proposal writer &
Program Specialist
Jeopardy Champ 2021 & 2022
David Foli
Technical SEcurity
Assessor
Fitness Challenge for Charity Champ Spring 2022 & Fall 202
Shrikant Agashe
security operations
Manager
Chess Champ 2023
Richard adarkwa
Senior ISSO
Fitness Challenge for Charity Champ
Spring 2023 & Fall 2023
Your name
your title
Champ
Do you have a suggestion for an upcoming game or event? Email Sara Wenke or Shea Raydo