Editing Big List of RPG Plots (section)

== Score One for the Home Team ==

The PCs are participants in a race, contest, tournament, scavenger hunt or other voluntary bit of sport. They must win.
* The other contestants are less honest, and the PCs must overcome their attempts to win dishonestly. 
* The PCs are competing for a deeper purpose than victory, such as to keep another contestant safe, or spy on one, or just to get into the place where the event goes down. 
* The PCs don't wish to win; they just wish to prevent the villain from winning. 
* The event is a deliberate test of the PCs abilities (for entry into an organization, for example). 
* The event becomes more deadly than it's supposed to.