My team beat the other team because our design was vastly superior. Our first idea to move the ball from person to person involved a zigzag type motion where the ball touched every persons' hand only once and every other hand was either face up or face down. We then since modified the idea to a staircase meathod, where as the ball just uses gravity to move around the circle.
If you can view the image I incorperated that was the basic concept of how we moved the ball from person to person. The only other way I could see it being faster was to maybe have the ball touch less fingers. Gravity is the key factor to controling the speed the ball can travel.
