In 2006, Game Day was relatively easy to organize. There were three games, 60 people, and six teams represented by colors. The day included round robin Bocce Ball and Kickball competitions. It concluded with a relay race involving all the teams, which ended in a human six-person pyramid. Everyone was slightly pink the day afterwards.

By Game Day 2007, the number of participants had doubled, which presented a challenge. Like so many engineering challenges at Facebook, Game Day itself had become a scalability problem. In order to accommodate everyone, we added two more teams to the team roster. Teams got creative that year and gave themselves names based on their colors: Orange Crush, Purple Haze, and Gang Green were among some favorites. A single-elimination tug-of-war tournament was added as a main event to spice things up a little. The end relay race was elongated, but still ended in a human pyramid. The day after, everyone was slightly pink, but mostly sore. Many blamed their soreness on the addition of Capture the Flag.

By Game Day 2008, the number of people playing had more than tripled in size since the previous year and we were looking to host nearly 400 attendees. As scalability challenges go, this one would be a doozy. No longer would the organizers (myself and 6 others) be able to partake in Game Day games; each of us would need to act as a full-time Game Day referee. To deal with the massive increase in players, we added two new team colors, increasing the total number of teams to ten. New teams and new names formed: Blue Steel, Redrum, and Purple Reign were among some creative favorites. Five 80-person games at a time would be a little excessive, so each team would be strategically split into playing two games each round. We added six new games to the roster, including a parking lot relay featuring separate Green Machineâ„¢ and Ripstikâ„¢ courses. In order to avoid rampant post-Game Day soreness issues, we also required each team to do a bit of team stretching before the day began. Like the previous year, the day concluded with a tug-of-war tournament and a relay race that ended in a six-person human pyramid. The day after Game Day, everyone was still sore and slightly pink.