Participants and spectators had the opportunity to network with rugby players and celebrities. These included the likes of Jean de Villiers, Danie Gerber, Chad le Clos, Siya Kolisi, Herschelle Gibbs, Siv Ngesi, Schalk Bezuidenhout, Francois Van Coke, Carl Wastie, Irma G, Zoe Brown, and Sibongile Mafu and others.

A total of 697 matches were completed across all sporting codes. The rugby players ended the weekend, scoring a total of 964 tries while the netball players achieved more than 4 668 goals.

The Rugby Division had seven different divisions and, at the end of the weekend, it was the Stor-Age Invitational VIP Legends who walked away with the top honours in the Veteran’s Division, while Goodwood Legends were winners in the Masters Division.

The Netball Division was contested with the JAG Netball team, winning first place in the Premier Division. Beach Volleyball saw Cindy Nell and Jade Hubner participating in the social league.

The 'That's What She Set' team were named as the Beach Volleyball champions, while on the Dodgeball court, it was the ‘Sitting Ducks’ who walked away as the winners of the Premier Dodgeball Division. The ‘Saints’ were the winners of the Social League.

The JAG Hockey team were crowned winners of the Social Hockey League, and the JAG Soccer team won the first Soccer Premier League. The ‘Shooting Blanks’ won the Social Soccer Division.

Some of South Africa’s bands were on various music stages, including GoodLuck, the Kiffness, Arno Jordaan, Majozi, Sketchy Bongo, and the Light Years, who flew in from the United Kingdom, 10 years after making their Cape Town 10s debut in 2008.

Other highlights of the weekend included the annual rugby development clinic, which was hosted in partnership with Laureus South Africa and the Coolplay Trust, a project that aims to use sports as a tool to ignite positive change in communities across South Africa.

A hundred boys and girls from the Laureus-funded CoolPlay project spent the morning with sports players, including Laureus ambassadors Jean de Villiers, Corné Krige, Dan Nicholl, and Zanele Mdodana.

The event also implemented a water saving policy. In 2017, event organisers actioned a water saving plan that incorporated a Water Wednesday message to all the sports captains of the teams in an aim to raise awareness around the drought.

The event introduced a number of future-facing water initiatives, including an 'Air to Water' osmosis process, which supplied over 3 000 litres of drinking water over the weekend as well as a process that purified non-potable water to pure drinking water.

Other water was sourced outside of the province for drinking and cooking. All showers, misters, and splash pools were banned. Chemical sanitation was used and ablutions employed the use of blowers and waterless cleaning techniques. Spectators aimed to co-operate by bringing their own drinking water.

The strategy included suppliers, sponsors, and vendors at 10s, which resulted in zero municipal water being used from the municipal grid at the festival. All remaining water left after the event was used by the sports clubs for irrigation of the playing fields.

The Stor-Age VIP Invitational Team promoted Level 6B on their playing kit along with the '#6BFORME' campaign, which was launched at the event. There was also a collaboration with the City of Cape Town.

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