How much room we need

I have been looking into the layout of our room, wondering how we are going to fit. I have heard that the mini put team want 5m x 3m of space, I am not sure if we would be able to fit with this so I decided to do a quick trial of our game to see how much space we would roughly need. I used other students to test this out to also get their opinion of the game.

I did this experiment outside at night time in similar lighting to what it would be on the market palace day. I used beer bottles at similar size to our bottles.

I firstly tested with the bottles in a triangle shape fairly wide:

With the hoop being one glow stick at 0.5m it was too easy and everyone got it over in 1 go.

However 1m it took 15 shots before someone got it over a bottle therefore too hard. Then we tried using two braclets stuck together at 0.5 and 1m were too easy. 1.5m took on average two turns and 2m took 3 turns.

I then tried alot wider with two braclets and at 2m distance it took 5 turns.

When I put the bottles closer (touching each other), it took on average 4 turns at 1m and 8 at 1.5m with one glow in the dark braclets it was a lot harder and the people throwing the hoops didn't enjoy it as much. 

I lastly tested a square which at 1m with two glow in the dark hoops stuck together took 2 turns and 3 at 1.5m.

I also tested just having one bottle in the middle with two hoops stuck together, at 1.5m it took around three turns

From this I decided we would probably need around 1.2m (slightly bigger than the table) x 2.5m (.5m if we would like a stall at the front) at the most of space.

The students who tried this game enjoyed the first style the most at 2m where it was a bit competitve, the square version at 1m the second most and then there being only one bottle to aim for. They did not enjoy the triangle being bigger, or the triangle being smaller.
They also thought the game was fun, and said it helped get their minds off uni work, as they were competing against each other.

"It was good to take my mind off uni work, and focus on beating my friends"