The 3rd annual Translation Games took place at Concordia University and featured seven universities from three Canadian provinces – newcomers Glendon- York representing Ontario. Université de Sherbrooke also debuted at this year’s Games. The 2008 Games were also uniquely identified by the logo, a hybrid of the historic Tower of Babel and a conch, a mythical instrument used by the Tritons and other legendary sea creatures for communication. The Games also introduced an equal number of translation challenges in both language pairs, taking advantage of the participation of non-francophone provinces. Thanks to past committees, the 2008 organizers were able to find time to increase the number of participating teams and to fine-tune official Games documents. They also introduced a new, but short-lived, challenge: instantaneous translation, where the source text is dictated and teams have to transcribe a translation instead of the original text. Likewise, “translator’s telephone” was played for the first time. The game was invented by participants and operates similarly to “broken telephone” – the difference being that the message is translated between each person. 2008 was also the year that the Translation Games were featured on the show L’Union fait la force, and the team won by a landslide. This source of much-needed funding was called upon again in 2010.