Sunshine Coast's Tough Mudder event one of the biggest and most successful worldwide (From left) Chelsea Enright and Jordana Demos of Brisbane tackle the "kiss of mud" at the Tough Mudder event on the Sunshine Coast. THE first Queensland running of the world's toughest team adventure challenge has emerged a global success. Tough Mudder Sunshine Coast attracted more than 24,000 participants over two days, providing a multi-million dollar injection into business and tourism. The organisation's Australasian managing director, Drew Ward, said the overwhelming turnout ensured the three-hour survival test would return to Caloundra Downs in 2014. "This is our first time in Queensland and the first time it's been done in a strong partnership with regional government," Mr Ward said. It exceeded all expectations and will now be the basis of our approach to engaging governments, landowners and communities going forward. Tough Mudder Sunshine Coast will be the biggest event we run anywhere in the world for 2013 and ranks up there with the biggest worldwide to date. Sunshine Coast Mayor Mark Jamieson said Tough Mudder was a wonderful addition to the event calendar because it attracted a broad audience. "It's different because you don't have to be a supreme athlete to enter," he said. Our economic development team saw the opportunity and chased it. The region and all of Queensland has embraced it and we hope to keep Tough Mudder here for up to five years. Tough Mudder is a supreme team-building exercise labelled as "the biggest, baddest obstacle course for civilians in the world." Challenges include the Kiss of Mud, where entrants crawl commando style under low barbed wire, electroshock therapy where "mudders" run through a forest of 10,000 volt dangling wires, and Arctic Enema that involves an icy mud bath. On the Funky Monkey, contestants turn back time to when they were five and could swing like chimpanzees in the playground and the Everest challenge requires teams to work together to scale a greasy half-pipe. The event moves to Melbourne on September 14 and 15, and Sydney on October 12 and 13.