ATL’s innovative inter-parish challenge, Ram Goat Run, outperformed its initial staging at Hope Gardens in Kingston, last Saturday.

With a revamped route, new clues and a new app, more than 100 teams squared off in search of the elusive ram in the name of charity.

“We had approximately 130 registered teams this year,” Stephen Hector, global PR director at Sandals Resorts International and event organiser, told Auto.

Hector said this year’s event was tweaked around the feedback from last year’s inaugural staging.

“Ram Goat Run 2014 had a later start time to accommodate those non-early birds, and we had a shorter, more compact route, which pushed people into areas of the country they wouldn’t normally go,” he continued.

As expected, plans are already in train for the 2015 staging.

“Ram Goat Run will be back next November,” said Hector.

For a second year in a row, 2013 champions The Goat Islanders — sporting only one original team member, Michelle Ferguson, took the title.

“The current team was last minute, as the old members couldn’t make it this time. It feels great to win again,” Ferguson enthused.

Surrounded by friends and family, Ferguson bested the other teams with 1,590 points, completing every task save one. She felt the new team retained the vibe and energy of the previous group, thus ensuring their victory.

“The winning potion is having a good synergy with your team members and we definitely had that. We got along really well and I think that’s the winning ingredient,” said Goat Islanders’s Rene Gayle.

Capturing second place with 1,565 points was Team NOA (National Outdoor Advertising) representing event co-sponsor National Outdoor Advertising. Already raring to go for 2015, they promised to be in the winner’s enclosure next year.

Third was another family affair as Team RocknRolla completed the run just five points shy of second place. Having missed it last year, the team is also looking forward to 2015.

The luck of the Irish was with Irishman Damian Walsh who copped a special award for completing Ram Goat Run 2014 by himself.

“My team was out late night partying and couldn’t recover in time to make it to the event, so I had to do it or lose our entry fee,” he said.

Walsh said the toughest part of being a single competitor was in the picture taking.

“So many people were just so nice. Random strangers were helping me take pictures since I had no one to hold the phone for many of the challenges,” he added.

Grabbing the special prize of DL700s from Digicel were Team ChikunGOATya for the most creative picture using the company’s 4G comet prop, which had been hidden along the route to Port Royal.

“It was a surprise to win, our idea was to make it look like someone was holding it with two fingers,” said Andrew Gauntlett of Team ChikunGOATya.

Proceeds from Ram Goat Run and part proceeds from the Sunnation Cocoa J’Ouvert after-party, will be going towards Cornwall Regional Hospital in Montego Bay.