At every company I’ve worked at so far (that’s 3), there have been issues about making the tea. In my world, it’s every man for himself, so I’m happy to get my own. However, when people start offering me stuff, I’m naturally inclined to say yes. But I’m not always the best at making the tea for other people, and sometimes I totally forget to return the favour, which has led to frequent banter around the workplace. On the other hand, when I’m feeling particularly generous, and dish out the tea rounds almost every hour, I find that few people realise my actions and likewise don’t return the favour. Thus I find myself in tea making infinity.

Well, at SEGA, I have always been impressed on the quite ingenious methods presented in order to decide who will make the tea. At Old Street there’s enough space in the Community Team’s office to have a miniature putting course. When a tea round was declared, whoever wanted a cuppa would have to tee off, and the person with the lowest score (in golfing terms this means the person who takes the most shots) would go and make the tea. For the full rules on Tee for Tea, check out our Facebook group.

Now at Brentford we’ve got a problem of space. So, when I moved here I was at a loss as how tea rounds would be decided again (fearing the return to mutual tea making). Then Dave turned up a couple of weeks ago and insisted that we have now have a flash game competition to determine who would make the tea.

The search for the perfect flash Tee for Tea took us far and wide on the Internet, but while using Stumbleupon, I managed to come across a veritable gold mine of flash sports games that we began to use for the competition. It’s called Allonga.com, and if you like your flash games, then I advise you to check it out. We’ve found a few others too, such as the mysterious green helicopter game and the classic smack the penguin. Basically, whoever gets the lowest score at certain games within a time limit (this is to prevent refreshing and cheating) has to make the tea. If you’ve read this far, take a look through Allonga and tell us what you think your best tea making game would be - because we’re still not sure we’ve perfected the virtual Tee for Tea. At the moment we’re regular players of Island Cruising, and Mini Golf, but we haven’t been able to check them all out yet. I’ll be posting our personal bests for Tea for Tee as and when, and I’d like to know if anyone beats our records!