Blue Ocean Enterprises Challenge changes name, moves finals to Los Angeles

FORT COLLINS – The Blue Ocean Enterprises Challenge business pitch competition is leaving its Fort Collins roots and going Hollywood.

Officials for Blue Ocean, the investment company founded by OtterBox founder Curt Richardson and his wife Nancy, announced on Friday afternoon that the $250,000 challenge is being renamed the Capital Championship and aligning with a series of RECESS Music + Ideas Festival events this spring. The finals will be held in Los Angeles, with semifinal events in six different cities around the country, including Denver.

Known the first two years as the CSU Blue Ocean Enterprises Challenge,