I found the first round of VTA's to be fun and that they worked well over the zoom format. The reason I am giving this a 1 star review is because of the horseracing activity. Beside's the obvious that horseracing is an abhorrent 'sport', I found the curry themed horse names element of the second round to be utterly distasteful and verging on casual racism. We have South Asian members of staff and I cannot even begin to think how uncomfortable that may have been for them. I don't believe that taking an already bastardised version of South Asian culture and bastardising it even more to make it a party theme was appropriate. Student Services and The Student Experience Directorate as a whole stand for diversity, equality and inclusion and I believe that this game, no matter how ephemeral, was not the correct message to broadcasting to 64 members of staff at the end of a conference looking at the future of student services. I would encourage your team to think more carefully about the content you choose to present to a wide audience and I hope that this error in judgment can be learned from. I understand that you are not all to blame and that this also falls onto the staff who vetted and authorised this material who will also be hearing from me.