Cambridge University Scavenger Hunt

Welcome to CU Scavenger Hunt – it’s time for fun and frolics once again!

CUSH 2012 is this year running from 9 a.m. on WEDNESDAY 13TH to 9 p.m. on THURSDAY 14TH of JUNE.

Spend 36 hours gathering unusual items, performing silly tasks and enjoying yourself in lovely springtime Cambridge.

Turn up with your team outside Great St Marys Church at 9.00 on WEDNESDAY in an interesting hat (with points awarded to the most interesting hat. Start off your hunt with points!) to get the list. The list will be posted online afterwards.

Interested? Drop us an email at cush@srcf.ucam.org with your team name, your team members’ names (max. five) and preferably a team photo.

This year Team Robyn will Kick you in the Face are running the show with lots of thanks to the Laser Raptors for their help!

Hi all,

With all this free time I’ve done some quick and fun analysis of the numbers from cush2011! To start with, here’s a histogram of how many teams attempted each item:

There were 412 items attempted out of a possible 500 (82%), and 329 items had maximum points awarded to at least one team.

The following items were not attempted by anyone:

The most popular items (attempted by 8 teams) were:

338 points were awarded for superlative entries, out of a total of 4288.5, for 8% of all points going to superlatives.

Here’s a chart of the number of items attempted by each team:

And to finish off, here’s the money shot: the scores of each team over the two days!

Hope you enjoyed these stats!

The results are in! After a very very close finish that was eventually settled by some fantastic and very entertaining superlative entries, we have the results!

The Winners:

Robyn Will Kick You In The Face! Well done! They had perhaps the best stories from Newnham, with a special commendation for their fantastic costumes and delicious bribery brownies. They also supplied us with morning whiskey! It kept us going all day :)

Second Place:

Lion Hunters! Sheer efficiency, a huge quantity of items, they were here almost the entire time presenting stuff, acting out, doing some fantastic singing and completed the most sections.

Third Place:

F.B.M.! No signup email, they turned up briefly Wednesday morning to collect the list and we thought that was all we’d see of them… until Thursday afternoon, where they turned up with a punt full of 500 points worth of items! They had a huge quantity of items, a lot of quality of items and a lot of naked man! Seriously special commendation for bringing everything on a punt in one massive hit.

The Scores:

Robyn Will Kick You In The Face: 988.5
Lion Hunters: 917.5
F.B.M.: 607
Socksoc 3: 378.5
Lesbian Steampunk Samurai Lizard Detectives: 329.5
The 87s: 288
Nyan: 274.5
Captain Friendless: 255
BAJJA: 226
Lips To Suck A Mango: 24
Team “Couldn’t think of a team name”: 0

Special Commendations:

• The 87s for a lot of gratuitous nudity (almost got kicked out of the Union!) and the look on the judges’ faces when it happened!
• Captain Friendless for getting 255 points with only one team member plus Biscuits the Sock Monkey, and for his fantastic films
• Robyn Will Kick You In The Face’s jazz chicken
• F.B.M.’s working difference engine
• Nyan’s fantastic text from last night
• Lion Hunter’s brilliant singing, team rocket rendition, getting The Duke on Skype and reasoned vim/emacs debate
• Socksoc’s absolutely disgusting/amazing skin infection and entertaining extreme ironing
• Lesbian Steampunk Samurai Lizard Detectives’ for memorising 75 spells and their brilliant Pokemon LARPing
• BAJJA getting us the first submission of a beautiful Venus Fly Trap

Check out the tumblr for the items we’ve put online! we’ll probably put a bit more up in the next day after we’ve recovered a bit.

Well done to all the teams that took part, we had an absolutely brilliant, fun, exciting, incredible, sexy, strange, disturbing, exhausting, arousing, magical, &c., &c., time and we hope you did too!

We’ll be giving out prizes (maybe) at a pub meet tomorrow with details to be announced! Hopefully see some/all of you there :)

Signing off,

2011 Judges
The Laser Raptors

xoxoxox

We’re now back in the Union (well, we’ve been back a little while judging some of yesterday’s digital submissions, to our delight and amusement) and are all ready to receive your efforts for day two!

If you haven’t checked the tumblr, it’s got a load of great stuff on it now – see the sidebar link. Equally, if you haven’t been checking the twitter you’ve been missing out on some fun special items! You should check that. We had a secret meeting at midnight where a mysterious stranger from the past even turned up and donated items to one team!

See you all soon!

Hey everyone, we’ve been getting loads and loads of great stuff, check out the Twitter or Tumblr for what we’ve uploaded so far:

http://cush2011.tumblr.com/

http://twitter.com/cush2011

It’s out! Below and on the sidebar. Only a little late!

cush2011_list

We’re actually only going to be open until 9pm, not 10pm! Just so you know.

We’re nearly set to start! Here’s how things should unfold:

Wednesday:

9.00 a.m.: We’ll be outside Great St Mary’s with printed copies of the list for anyone who turns up with any kind of cape (open to interpretation!). It might be worth your while getting a paper copy!

10.00 a.m.: The list goes up online. We’ll post it here and it’ll go on the sidebar.

10.00 a.m. to 9.00 p.m.: We’ll be in the Union’s Mountbatten room (there will be signs from the street), sitting tight and waiting to be brought your excellent items.

Thursday:

9.00 a.m. to 9.00 p.m.: We’ll be in the Union’s Mountbatten room for the second day to be wowed and delighted by your finds.

9.00 p.m.: Doors close. If you’re in the room by 9, we’ll judge your stuff, but not if you’re late!

approx. 9.30 p.m. to 10.00 p.m.: Results! Depending on how long final judging takes, we’ll publish the results on the blog, twitter etc as soon as possible and tell anyone who’s stuck around in person. Hint hint, the bar’s next door!

Some stuff to bear in mind:

• Completing any whole section of the list will net a 20% bonus on that section’s points
• You should bring stuff as often as you can! Leaving it all until the end makes for busy busy rooms and bored judges!
• Points on the list are the approximate maximum for that item — great attempts will get the maximum points, merely mediocre will still get some points. Going above and beyond the call of duty is likely to net you bonus points.
• Be sure to check the Twitter feed (@cush2011)! Who knows what we’ll post?
• Unless you ask us not to, we’ll probably post your exciting/entertaining photos and videos, and may photograph items and post them too. They’ll end up on the website or Twitter.
• We’ll have computers with us, so please bring digital items on USB sticks if you can!
• Any questions, email or tweet us

See you all tomorrow morning and best of luck!

If you can’t find a team to go scavenging with, don’t worry – drop us an email and say so, and we’ll put you in an exciting team of people in a similar situation!

Hi everyone!

We’re getting ready for the 2011 scavenger hunt at full pace now, with plenty of items ready to be found and a lot of ideas brewing up. The rules are pretty much the same as ever: teams of up to 5, two days to gather items and get them judged, judges’ decisions are final.

The 2011 Scavenger Hunt will be run 9am Weds 15th June to 9pm Thurs 16th June and all judging is in the Union’s Mountbatten Room.

We’re holding off on sending out emails to the various lists until closer to the time, but team signups are now open if you want to get in early! Email cambridgescavengers@gmail.com with your team name, team members’ names and ideally a team photograph.

Follow us on Twitter for potentially exciting updates and/or secret items!

The Laser Raptors are running the show this year, with thanks to all the previous organisers for helping get everything set up!

Update: Emails now sent! Signups open! Get your teams signed up!

1. 291 – Purple Clouds WIN!
2. 245 – Laser Raptor
3. 216 – Socksoc – Honourable mention for most amusing attempts at bribery
4. 192 – Curious Duck
5. 189 – Dolman Army – Honourable mention for bringing us a 1209 scholar imitation and team T-shirts
6. 182 – Pointedly Unremarkable
7. 151 – Stormin’ Normans  – Honourable mention for most amusing video submission
8. 141 – Blue Steel

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIxUNMHB3rA – some Geek Pop!

Purple Cloud

Well done to all the teams involved!

A Full (New) Moon:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yFiXSrcssM

How to catch a leprachaun:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtHKUHD0jgQ

The Lion King in under 2 Minutes:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSP6QHjg5aE

A 3 Body Problem:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CuLOLYS0l7M

All courtesy of the Stormin Normans!

Only 6 hours left to bring all your items and have them registered!

We are back in the Union and being regaled with a tasty breakfast, kite-flying antics and some amusing videos and images:

(260 – Nerd Sniping)

Keep those submissions coming!

CUSH committee

Despite all the crowds of people drinking champagne, we are still in the Union Mountbatten room – go through the crowds of people and instead of turning right into the bar, carry straight on. No-one has yet claimed the cookie point..

We iz tiring of teh monotoniez of sittingz here wit no1 to visit us. 1 bonus pointz iz availablez for the first team to arrivez here from now, chantingz “I stole the cookiez from the cookie jar and eated them”

Or here

http://www.srcf.ucam.org/cush/list%202010/

.. or thereabouts

We’re now set up in the Union, but for the next hour have no blu-tac (what can I say, 9am is too early to remember everything!) so please ask the recpetionist if you dont know where the Mountbatten room is. The list will go online fairly soon…

Meet us tomorrow at 9am outside the front entrance to Great St Mary’s to pick up a copy of the list!

…Slay Belles!

Congratulations to the winners who romped away with 703 points.

The judges would like to say thanks to everyone who entered this year. We have been highly amused and will be posting some of our favourite items on the website in the coming weeks. We hope that those of you who entered this year, and who are around next year, will enter again and take on the challenge of a new list!

We’ll do a summary during the summer with photos and all that – if you want any of the photos, just email us and we’ll sort something out.

THE RESULTS WILL BE REVEALED TONIGHT IN NEW HALL BAR AT ABOUT 2230. THE FINAL RESULTS WILL ALSO BE PUBLISHED ON THE WEBSITE SHORTLY AFTER THAT.

HOPE TO SEE YOU ALL LATER

Hello all,

We have been thoroughly entertained in New Hall Bar – an impressive scale model of the solar system, a fully working volcano, some toto-ing of fellows…

AFTER 9PM:

SUBMIT ALL YOUR PHOTOS AND VIDEOS TO: cuscavengerhunt@googlemail.com

My hermes isn’t really able to cope with all the videos so please send them to the google. We will watch all the submissions,