For bush race you need to be holding the bush when you get to the trophy... but team fort is 100% a waste of money. There's a bunch of events that are impacted so heavily by the lag that they're unplayable.
Soccer, basketball, snowball fight (half the time), cliff climber, dodge to name a few.
Also the 'Hidden Paths' is a waste of money because people have created automatic bots to swim through the pathway, which is the same every single time, at this point.