We’re still adding up the final scores, but there’s a pretty clear winner. Congratulations to The Boom Squad!
Final scores will follow soon, along with some awards, and more pictures and videos. If you have anything electronic which you haven’t sent us yet, please do, so we can share it with everyone.
We’d like to thank everyone who entered for making this the biggest and best scavenger hunt yet. Also for the beer, which was much appreciated.
P.S. Stop Rickrolling us now kplzthx
We’ve had some excellent video submissions. Here are a few highlights.
If you have video submissions that we’ve seen on your camera, please try to get them to us either by email, YouTube, or on a USB stick, so we can share the love.
After a flurry of activity, we’ve totalled the scores after day 1, not including those items still at the discretion of the judges or anything that arrived even just after midnight. Here’s the rundown:
What an afternoon it’s been! Boobies Make Me Smile still hold the lead, with some scavenging of the highest standard, although they did get told off for filming in Sainsbury’s.
Also this afternoon, we’ve had reptiloids, a Moustache Party, Action Benjamin Harrison, some very sad looking emo rocks, and Angela Merkel has been at the biscuits.
The Scavenger Hunt is 3 hours old, and Boobies Make Me Smile have raced into an early lead. Just behind them though, are Team Rofflecopter and Team Ridiculous.
Thus far we’ve seen a fiendish rick-roll, some high-quality underpants/head/Sainsbury’s interaction, and more simple machines than you can shake a stick at.
That’s a team name. Not that boobies don’t make me smile you understand. But in this case it’s a team name. Boobies make me smile!
Members: Sabrina Verjee, Ed Moffett, Helen Randall, Hannah Darcy, Emma Kenney-Herbert
You thought the last guys were last minute? They were obviously merely second-last minute. Possibly even third-last.
Please welcome The Pirates!
Jenny Molloy
Janet Scott
Matt Thomsn
Felicity Loudon
Ros Higman
A last minute addition to our roster is Bazalgette and the Englings, a group of freshers from Magdalene. Welcome!
Tim Bazalgette
Roisin Kiberd
Sophie Sawicka-Sykes
Jenny Stark
Beth Williams
A team enjoying post last exam revelry, Hatchets and Flies consists of:
Robin Brown (Jesus)
Tim Pattison (Downing)
Charlotte Roach (Trinity)
Polly Keen (New Hall)
Liam Richardson (Jesus)
They are all students of the Development Studies program (MPhil) and apparently, can’t resist a good pun!
They’ve been having a hectic time of late, but they made it! Pretty David have some rather excellent names!
Members: Anyetta White, Quinby Frey, David Mack (not eponymous, though of course also pretty), Adam Bennet, Alice Shone
Less than 15 hours to go until the 2008 Scavenger Hunt begins! The excitement is palpable.
If you don’t want to miss out on the fun, there’s still time to enter a team. Just send us a list of team members, a team name, and if possible, some sort of team photo/scribbled crayon drawing. Emails, as always, to cush@srcf.ucam.org.
For those who are taking part, the fun starts tomorrow (Wednesday) morning at 9am, outside Great St Mary’s. Wear a hat. We will be.
And, if you can’t make it to Great St Mary’s, don’t worry. The list will be online from 10am, and you can find out where and when to hand in items on the schedule.
Team Rofflecopter weren’t able to get a photo, but they used their exceptional skills with Microsoft Paint to produce a team portrait.
Members: Matt Gamage, Jess Allen, Maria Moynihan, Alison Baylay, Lia Chappell
It wouldn’t be a scavenger hunt without some Trinity Mathmos. Here’s Phase space and the Wronskians!
Jon *hesitation* Tims
James ‘Science!’ Brister
Will ‘oooer’ Brooks
Ed Ignatius Morland
Matt ‘flirting with respectable’ Hickford
Or, as I have decided, Team Ridiculous for short. – Martin
Members: Sam Stone, Donald Ross, Daniel Gorton, Bryan Ghosh, Dean Reilly – Sidney Sussex freshers all.
They didn’t have a team name so I (Chris) cruelly made one up (it should be pretty obvious how), Aural Bizarre consist of:
Laura Brazier (New Hall)
Thomas Acland (Robinson)
Jess Hyslop (New Hall)
Nicholas Walters (St. Catz)
Sarah Kelly (New Hall)
A group of third years from Churchill, Steve and the Cake-o-nauts presumably have some kind of vessel capable of travelling through the treacherous medium of cake.
Members: Jon Ahearn, Christopher Berry, Dan Oliver, Alex Rea, Chris Smowton.
With some members of last year’s triumphant Team Internet, the temporarily named Internet 2.0 have quite a reputation to live up to! Indeed they are now named The Famous Five.
Members: Anthea Heyes, Jeyaveni Chedumbarum Pillay, Hannah Kitchener, Emilie Yerby, Laura Vale
Announcing the return of the Cambridge Unnameables! There may well be evidence that we’re a little older, creakier, and slower (that, or we’re taking our work/dissertations more seriously!), but WE’RE BACK, MHUWAHAHA!!
True to form, we have no team picture yet. So here’s one of them from last year, and we’re super-pleased to see them back! – Chris
Team Members: Mary Hom, Aidan Brown couldn’t make it so instead there is the mysterious ‘Ulrich’, Miranda Garfoot, Joe Garfoot and Blaise Thomson.
Are you holding out for a hero? Need them to be strong, fast and fresh from the fight? Never fear! The Boom Squad is here! On the hunt, this elite crime-fighting, scavenging team will be around Cambridge for 36 hours of supreme antics. Consisting of:
Akiko - special skills including super radar ears, always tuned into “what’s going down”.
Korlin - with the power of charm, she can attain anything.
Elaine - with experience in assassinating, flag capturing and general mischief, Elaine is an asset to the team.
Emma - with the gift of the gab she can be counted on to get what you need.
Henri - the token male/Johnian, an essential part of any New Hall team is on hand to fulfill all the manly requirements.
THE BOOM SQUAD, they’re gonna shake this mother’ up.
Some Assembly Required: Scavenger Hunt Team – Churchill College Freshers edition. Contents include 3 Compscis, 1 Mathmo, 1 Linguist, 1 tube solvent based glue. WARNING: Choking Hazard – Unsuitable for children under the age of 3.
Members: Ryan Hamlet, Oliver King, Yuan Zhang, Alex Collins, Simon Coll
We’re glad to see that they’ve risk-assessed themselves. They’ve also been told to include the tube of glue in any team photographs or activities. – Chris
