5 Reasons Why Archers Arena Toronto Is The Best Place For Team Building Events
1. Epic Games That Encourage Teamwork 🏹
Hold onto your quivers, folks! Our game modes aren't just about having fun; they're designed to build stronger, more cohesive teams. So why not make that next workday a playday? Square off with your colleagues in team-centric challenges and show your boss you've got the right stuff! It's not just about arrows and nerf bullets; it's about leadership, strategy, and teamwork. Rise to the occasion and become the office hero!
2. A Variety Pack of Activities 🎯
Why settle for one, when you can have 'em all? We're talking:
Combat Archery - The ultimate crowd-pleaser and the bread and butter of team-building shenanigans.
Nerf Blaster Wars - Think laser tag, but with Nerf guns. It's literally bang for your buck!
Blacklight Dodgeball & Basketball - Picture this: dodgeball and basketball, but in a glow-in-the-dark arena with a DJ dropping beats. Talk about a baller time!
Saber Wars - Fencing? Please, we're way past that. We've got lightsabers! May the scores be with you!
Bubble Soccer - Soccer, but you're inside a bubble. It's like being a human bumper car!
3. Chill, Eat, Sing To Your Heart's Content 🎤
Not everyone's a sharpshooter or a Jedi in training. We get it! Our Karaoke Party Room is decked out with all the creature comforts. Think unlimited billiards, foosball, board games, and a killer karaoke system with HD sound. We're BYOB-friendly and you can bring all the munchies you want!
4. Tailor-Made for YOU 🛠️
Size doesn't matter here; whether you've got a lean startup team or an entire corporate army, we've got you covered with our Private Activity Packages. Need a dining space to debrief? Check. How about a karaoke room for that one guy who swears he's the next Drake? Double-check. We're all about making sure your event is a custom fit!
Oooh sneak peak 😎
5. Go Big or Go Home! 🎉
Wanna feel like royalty? Try our Facility Bookout package. That's right— the whole arena is yours! Get unlimited access to every single one of our epic activities. Plus, you'll get private access to our Karaoke Party Room, Dining Room, and all the extras. Coaches, gear, you name it, we provide it. It's the epitome of team-building luxury!
So, Toronto, are you ready to revolutionize your team-building game? Archers Arena is ready to roll out the red carpet for you and your team! Get your game face on and let's do this! 🏆
Try Combat Archery at Toronto’s Archers Arena!
Craving excitement? Join us at Archers Arena in Toronto for a unique adventure in Archery Tag. Here's a place to challenge yourself, have fun, and create lasting memories!
The Game
Step onto the battlefield armed with a foam-tipped arrow and bow. Experience the thrill of Combat Archery, a dodgeball-archery hybrid gaining popularity in Toronto. No matter your skill level, this interactive game demands strategy, skill, and teamwork. Let our coaches guide you more in this video. Let our coaches tell you more through this video (Want to stay 'in-tok' with all the archery action? Follow us on TikTok!)
Our Battlefield
Our battlefield is designed with numerous obstacles and hiding spots to test your strategy skills. Safety is our top priority, and we've taken steps to make sure our arena offers a safe and fun experience. We also have sniper towers for spectators. With all equipment provided from safety gear to our very own Archers Arena bow, you have all you need to bring out your inner Robin Hood!
Training
New to the sport? Our instructors will teach you basic archery techniques, and battle strategies to help even a beginner become a pro. Our coaches are amazing at what they do. Not only are they the talk of the arena from their amazing reviews on Google (click here to see our reviews), they also show their prowess as they hit the bulls-eye at winning 1st place at the Golden Acres Tournament in Ottawa as The Untouchabows (catchy eh?)
James (upper left), Tai (upper right), Lucas (lower left), Josh (middle), Sam (Lower Right)
See them in action as Toronto hosts the next Archery Tournament this August. Exact date and details will be announced soon
Group Events
Combat Archery is an exciting choice for birthdays or team-building events. At Archers Arena, anyone can shoot their shot at Combat Archery because we offer it for any group size you come with.
Have a fun game of Archery tag with just your buds with our Private Activity Packages, not only can you play a tactical game of archery tag, but you can try out other activities too. Prices start at $53.10 . Click here to know more.
We can also bring the unique archery battle experience to you because Archers Arena also does External Events to run at your location, indoor/outdoor, that suit any event you can think of. Company's Teambuilding event, Social Get-together, Picnic, Seminars, Brunch - you name it and we'll be there! We’ve brought Archers Arena to anywhere in Canada, from North York and even recently to Cambridge. Packages are available here
Make strangers into allies in under 1.5 hours at one of our Public Combat Archery games. All equipment and coach are included for $53.10. Better yet! Be part of the Archers Arena community by joining us at our Community Nights and Beginner Nights, 2 hours of combat archery for the affordable price of one.
Ready to try Combat Archery? Sign up today for a session of Combat Archery at Archers Arena. Get ready for a thrilling game! What are you waiting for? Join us now!
Click here to book. For more details give us a call at (647)-992-7362 or email us at info@archersarena.com.
Lockdown Lifted!!!
We are back!
Starting from the 1st of February, we are now at 50% capacity!
Up to 24 people in the Party Room and up to 15 people in one court!
We have all sorts of activities to celebrate your birthday, participate in a team building event, or just have a blast! Come find out what's happening today with us - we promise it will be exciting!!!
Party Room
Need a private room for your birthday party, team building event or gathering?
Our Karaoke Party Room is a great space to relax and bring in outside food and drinks, and BYOB with a Special Occassions Permit
We have lots of amenities included and a premium karaoke HD sound system with 200,000 songs and on YouTube!
Combat Archery
Want to be able to shoot at your friends Hunger Games style?
Or headshot, headshot, pow pow pow like Hawkeye?
You’ll not only be able to shoot at your friends, but they’ll also be able to shoot back at you! It's like playing extreme dodgeball with bows and arrows - only instead of being thrown into the mix when someone scores on their opponent, there are rules!
Ricochets don’t count, your bow or arrow also counts as an extension of your body, you wear helmets and the arrows are foam-tipped so you get to feel/witness the impact without it being dangerous!
Beginner Archery Training
Want to practice your target aiming before stepping into combat?
Rack up those headshots?
Our coaches can guide you through in a one-hour long session! There are digital targets to shoot at and you and up to 6 of your friends can play together - with a variety of games such as Around the World or Headshot Bob with everyone for themselves by testing their accuracy or speed (or both!) or teams or maybe even against the coach!
Personal scores and stats can be generated and if you compare yourself across the different session, you’ll be able to measure your progress and improvement! Plus if one person has been playing longer than another maybe they know some secrets that might give an edge?
Nerf Wars
Prefer shooting in a more modern fashion?
Do so Nerf Blaster Style! With the Nerf Surgefire, you can fry your opponent from afar with its powerful darts. The gun has quickly spinning barrels that can release its multiple darts at once or in rapid-fire succession for the distance!
The Nerf Strongarm’s high-powered blasters make it easier than ever to take down foes in close quarters combat as well; just don't forget about those rangefinder capabilities if there are obstacles between yourself and an enemy target.
Saber Wars
Relive your Star War’s fantasy by joining the ranks of the Jedi Council or succumbing to the dark side! Defend Princess Leia from being captured or (if you’re bringing kids) reenact the infamous Youngling’s scene 😈
Bubble Soccer
You can't stay grounded for too long when you’re playing Bubble Soccer! The Bubble Soccer Suit will make you feel like an unstoppable force.
Get ready and feel the world tilt as you bounce off your friends (safely of course!) in this activity. You’ll be running, tumbling and rolling around without even realizing that time is passing by until it's over too quickly.
The suits are sanitized and cleaned before and after each session!
Blacklight Dodgeball or Blacklight Basketball
We play a different type of dodgeball. We forget our problems and just have fun. We bring back nostalgic childhood memories while dodging brightly-colored missiles thrown by our arch-enemy!
We also have another option: glow-in-the-dark basketball. We thought of a way for people of all ages to enjoy their favorite sport indoors when it is dark or raining outside.
At any of these sessions, you can have a music dance party. You can provide the music or we can do it for you. You should wear bright-colored clothes so they will be easier to see and play with.
Private Gym Space
At $12 per person per hour - minimum 2 people charge on weekdays, and minimum 4 people charge on Friday, Saturday and Sunday - Archer’s Arena offers private gym space if you want to exercise without having to worry about a monthly subscription or other outside people.
Train with no judgment at our indoor gym that will be private to you and your group during your session and lose all those extra pounds built up during quarantine.
Team Building For Your Business Is More Important Now Than Ever
It’s a strange time for business owners and employees alike. Many more people are working from home due to COVID-19. Everyone is adjusting to this in their own way, but the fact of the matter is that this kind of isolation and upheaval from the norm has caused many people stress, anxiety, and even depression. These aren’t easy times by any means, and I think we all know that.
Team Building Can Help
This is why we want to make the case that team building for your business is more important now than ever. It really is. Those zoom meetings and digital cocktail hours are fine, but they don’t have the true human to human connection that we all crave. Even more, if your employees or coworkers are in the customer service industry and are currently “essential” workers, they’re probably having a hard time too. Many people are on edge and sadly, our amazing hospitality service staff and heroic front line workers sometimes take the brunt of it. It’s time you have some good safe fun as a team, and build morale while pelting each other with foam arrows in an epic game of Combat Archery.
Not the solution you were expecting?
Hear us out. Combat Archery is the perfect socially distanced sport. Staying 6 feet away from each other is not a problem at all in our spacious 10,000 square foot facility. You can launch marshmallow tipped foam arrows across the large court from your personal bubble. Plus, if someone gets too close for your liking, you’re holding a bow, and arrows are everywhere. Before COVID, we were used to hosting massive corporate team building events. We’ve changed things up of course. Even though the city of Toronto is currently allowing 50 people or less inside indoor businesses, we’re playing it safe and limiting our team building to 24 people for the time being. That would make 4 teams, on 2 courts, with 6 people per team. Combat Archery is essentially dodgeball with bows and foam tip arrows. It’s exciting, a great workout, and lots of fun for people of all ages and skill sets.
Team Building At It’s Finest
Combat Archery is a perfect way to team build, and let off some steam while you do it. With dozens of game modes led by our expert coaches, your teams will have to work together to come out on top. While it’ll 100% be a joy for those with a competitive side, we also harness the community aspect of gaming, and make sure everyone feels included, safe, and gets something from their time in the arena. Just stepping outside one’s comfort zone with your co-workers in a place like Archers Arena and can help build confidence, camaraderie, and spirit.
We Keep Things Safe And Clean
If you’re at all worried about safety, we’ve been keeping things clean and safe since day 1 due to constantly hosting large group events. We’ve always sterilized and deodorized all equipment between use. Now, post COVID, we’ve even added UVC lights to the mix to take things even further. We love hosting team building events, and even though our group limit has gone down, we promise the same high energy, rewarding and exciting experience we’ve always given. Keep aiming!
—Team Archers Arena
If you’re interested, reach out to us at info@archersarena.com or call (647) 992-7362 to book your team a spot today! ($35.00 per person, includes 30 minutes of training and 1 hour on the court. After that, you can add on an extra hour of gameplay for only $10.00 per person.)
A Love Letter To Combat Archery
The first time I tried Combat Archery (also known as Archery Tag) at Archers Arena in Toronto was for a friends B-day. I enjoyed it, but the main thing I noticed was how quickly it went by and how good of a workout it was. It’s a really good workout. I was surprised. After a few hours of running around and pelting my friends with arrows, I was absolutely exhausted, sweating, and my crotch region hurt a lot. This is because I didn’t take the website’s advice and wear a jock, so I got pegged square in the nut sack a few times.
Disclaimer #1: Wear A Jock
Anyway, we happened to show up on a night called “Community Night”, which fell on a Friday. So there were other archers there, some new to the game like us, but also some more seasoned players. The vibe was friendly, and at the end of the evening the coach welcomed us back. They said something like “we do this every Friday”. On the drive home, I pondered. I’d wanted to make some big changes moving into the New Year and a workout routine was one of them. I asked myself if this could be a sport I could play every week, and the quick answer was “Hell Yes!” As the great Charles Bukowski once said, “go all the way.” So I went all in.
Disclaimer #2: Go All The Way
I made a promise to go play Combat Archery at least once a week, and was able to make that consistent. I played every Friday, and on Tuesdays sometimes too. The months passed, and just like with many things, as I put more time and practice in, I kept getting better. I was no longer as scared to face off against some of the best players. I even started entering into tournaments that took place in Toronto at Archers Arena, and in Ottawa at Archery Games. I met so many great people and incredibly skilled Archery Combat players at those tournaments. Players hailing from Montreal’s Combat D’Archers, folks from Archery Games in Boston, and from Vancouver’s 6 Pack Beach, which I even got to go visit and and join in their community night on their awesome indoor sand court. Now, I’m not trying to pretend like I went to some Archery Combat boot camp where I did nothing but breath, eat, sleep, and poop the sport until I came out a hardened archer warrior… but I did immerse myself in the community, and I was consistent.
Disclaimer #3: Be Consistent
With anything in life really, to see progress, you have to be consistent. Chip away at it, slowly but surely. That’s why I feel that if you’re interested in diving into Combat Archery, or another passion of some sort, really give it time. Understand that you’re going to fail a bunch, that’s part of the fun. Honestly, I’ve listened to an unhealthy amount of motivational speakers in my lifetime and I would say that one of the most common threads in all of the conflicting noise is that we must embrace failure. I’ve had my good days and bad days. For starters, I can proudly say I’ve worn a jock every time since that first fateful day when my gonads were threatened. See, I learned from my first fatal error, adjusted, and improved. There were lots of these little improvements, and still are. The gang is starting to call me the “human net” because I catch everything, but you think this was always the case? I was pummelled with foam arrow after foam arrow until I really started to hone my catching skills.
Disclaimer #4: It’s About The Community
When it all comes down to it, it really is about the community. It would be fun to take all the credit for how far I’ve come in this sport, but that would be a flat out lie and I’d deserve to be full drawed at point blank in the tallywacker (no cup). It’s the community that has kept me coming back, the coaches, the regulars, the newbies, everyone. Without getting too sentimental, there are many great people who come and go from Archers Arena, as well as some just as great people from other facilities that we’ve competed against along the way. We all come from so many different backgrounds, careers, and life experiences. However, we are brought together by one common thing, the love of Combat Archery.
Disclaimer #5: Find a Common Goal
For whatever reason, us Combat Archers enjoy aggressively launching foam arrows at each other, or maybe it’s the games, or the competition we love. Either way, it’s amazing how this shared interest can bring out such a wide array of people. We go to battle on the court, but in between it’s all smiles. It makes me think about our species, and this wacky time we live in. It makes me wonder if we’d all be better off, and much happier, spending our moments on this earth focusing on the ways we’re the same rather than the ways we are different.
Disclaimer #6: We’re All In This Together
I’ve been playing this sport for over a year and a half now, and honestly, I have more fun every time I come out. As things are opening back up and regulations are loosening over group activities, I understand that times have changed. All businesses that host Combat Archery are having to adjust the ways they operate. The good news is that by the nature of this sport being a group activity with shared equipment, these establishments have been ahead of the curb on cleanliness and safety. I know that if we all work together, and learn from each others communities, we will get through this uncertain time. In doing so we’re going to come out of this pandemic stronger and safer than ever. Looking forward to the day when we can all join together again for another epic tournament, but until then, much love, and keep aiming!
Written by: James McDougall
Visit www.ArchersArena.com to learn more about Combat Archery and many of the other activities you can try out at Archers Arena in Toronto.
