Cambridge University Scavenger Hunt http://cush.soc.srcf.net Collecting objects for fun and profit Tue, 22 May 2012 08:49:41 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Cambridge University Scavenger Hunt 2012 http://cush.soc.srcf.net/2012/05/21/cambridge-university-scavenger-hunt-2012/ http://cush.soc.srcf.net/2012/05/21/cambridge-university-scavenger-hunt-2012/#comments Mon, 21 May 2012 21:52:37 +0000 Robyn http://cush.soc.srcf.net/?p=733 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!

]]> http://cush.soc.srcf.net/2012/05/21/cambridge-university-scavenger-hunt-2012/feed/ 0 Post-Hunt Stats http://cush.soc.srcf.net/2011/07/01/post-hunt-stats/ http://cush.soc.srcf.net/2011/07/01/post-hunt-stats/#comments Fri, 01 Jul 2011 11:39:45 +0000 Randomskk http://www.srcf.ucam.org/cush/?p=716 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:

Num. Item
6 The biggest Royal Wedding photograph
11 A Superinjunction
13 An RSA SecureID token
25 A Carriage
31 A glass slipper
33 Stag do photos
35 Cartwheeling whilst dressed as a vicar
40 Tobin’s spirit guide
45 High voltage laser containment facility
46 Bill Murry
47 Total protonic reversal
48 Twinkie (bonus points if 35′ long and 600lb)
67 Most people on a punt
71 A stress detector machine (bonus if it works)
75 Flammable sea parks model (bonus points if burnt down, with explanation)
76 Wear an Aunt Irma t-shirt
77 Grand Designs DVDs (bonus points if you don’t have a receipt)
80 Shithead of the Year Award
81 A Flappy Duck take away dinner
114 Holiday snaps from Girton
115 Girton passport stamp
116 Surfboard
127 Mr. ASBO
136 A video on saving money
138 Cardboard box house (must be able to fit at least one judge)
141 Cave Johnson quotes recited from memory
143 A personality core
145 Long fall boots
147 An ASHPD (bonus points if it works)
164 Myrrh
166 A snow ball
173 Pigs in blankets (bonus for quantity)
175 An ugly Christmas jumper
198 A probability drive
201 Bistromath
203 Deep Thought
206 A properly labelled book of matches
220 Meatloaf
221 Old fashioned rattle
222 Micky Mouse Hat
224 Charles Atlas
231 The Eye of Gallifrey
233 Time Lord robes
235 Tom Baker scarf
239 The Rod of Rassilon
244 A monocle
245 A cravat
253 The source
256 A ruby on some rails
258 The Sea
259 HAL 9000
265 Most twitter followers
266 Get #cush11 trending
270 Proof of fattest mum
300 Arabic dictionary
310 Shot put
322 An anti-bullying video
350 Oldest Varsity hoody
361 A Betamax tape
363 A polaroid
367 A TV watch
368 A thermionic valve (vacuum tube)
373 Gramaphone
374 A Laserdisk
376 A typewriter
381 An HD-DVD
402 Ancient Mew Pokemon Card
409 Hansom Taxi
415 Hover car
416 Hoverboard
420 A space suit
421 A square melon
424 Soylent Green
426 Nicotine patches
428 A Jade hairpin
433 An ASBO
440 Carl Powers’ shoes
452 Red weed
455 Triffid
461 Four-leafed clover
468 The Angry Inch
478 Rollerblades and goggles
481 A mithril skateboard
486 Ramona’s bag
488 A glowing head
489 The Power of Love
490 The Power of Understanding

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

Num. Item
17 Chequered Shirt (up to 5, must be wearing all of them)
19 Pretentious band t-shirt
122 Alcohol
189 A towel

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!

]]> http://cush.soc.srcf.net/2011/07/01/post-hunt-stats/feed/ 0 and the winners are… http://cush.soc.srcf.net/2011/06/16/and-the-winners-are-3/ http://cush.soc.srcf.net/2011/06/16/and-the-winners-are-3/#comments Thu, 16 Jun 2011 21:28:06 +0000 Randomskk http://www.srcf.ucam.org/cush/?p=710 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

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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!

]]> http://cush.soc.srcf.net/2011/06/16/were-back/feed/ 0 Loads of submissions! http://cush.soc.srcf.net/2011/06/15/loads-of-submissions/ http://cush.soc.srcf.net/2011/06/15/loads-of-submissions/#comments Wed, 15 Jun 2011 12:44:11 +0000 Randomskk http://www.srcf.ucam.org/cush/?p=651 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

]]> http://cush.soc.srcf.net/2011/06/15/loads-of-submissions/feed/ 0 Lesbian Steampunk Samurai Lizard Detectives http://cush.soc.srcf.net/2011/06/15/lesbian-steampunk-samurai-lizard-detectives/ http://cush.soc.srcf.net/2011/06/15/lesbian-steampunk-samurai-lizard-detectives/#comments Wed, 15 Jun 2011 10:18:33 +0000 Randomskk http://www.srcf.ucam.org/cush/?p=702 Team Members: Alex Guttenplan, Steph Leddington, Emily Room, Greg Weir

]]> http://cush.soc.srcf.net/2011/06/15/lesbian-steampunk-samurai-lizard-detectives/feed/ 0 The 87s http://cush.soc.srcf.net/2011/06/15/the-87s/ http://cush.soc.srcf.net/2011/06/15/the-87s/#comments Wed, 15 Jun 2011 10:04:10 +0000 Randomskk http://www.srcf.ucam.org/cush/?p=700 Team members: Zoe Asquith, Danny Johnson, Joe Seaton, Benth Webb, Amelia Booth

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]]> http://cush.soc.srcf.net/2011/06/15/captain-friendless/feed/ 0 The List 2011 http://cush.soc.srcf.net/2011/06/15/the-list-2011/ http://cush.soc.srcf.net/2011/06/15/the-list-2011/#comments Wed, 15 Jun 2011 09:31:41 +0000 Randomskk http://www.srcf.ucam.org/cush/?p=690 It’s out! Below and on the sidebar. Only a little late!

cush2011_list

]]> http://cush.soc.srcf.net/2011/06/15/the-list-2011/feed/ 0 Times update http://cush.soc.srcf.net/2011/06/15/times-update/ http://cush.soc.srcf.net/2011/06/15/times-update/#comments Wed, 15 Jun 2011 09:21:12 +0000 Randomskk http://www.srcf.ucam.org/cush/?p=686 We’re actually only going to be open until 9pm, not 10pm! Just so you know.

]]> http://cush.soc.srcf.net/2011/06/15/times-update/feed/ 0 F.B.M. http://cush.soc.srcf.net/2011/06/15/f-b-m/ http://cush.soc.srcf.net/2011/06/15/f-b-m/#comments Wed, 15 Jun 2011 09:20:17 +0000 Randomskk http://www.srcf.ucam.org/cush/?p=684 Team members: Phil Richman, Ben Evans, Will Keir-Nuir, Georgia Plunkett, Esther Momcilonic

]]> http://cush.soc.srcf.net/2011/06/15/f-b-m/feed/ 0 Socksoc 3: Revenge of the socks! http://cush.soc.srcf.net/2011/06/15/socksoc-3-revenge-of-the-socks-2/ http://cush.soc.srcf.net/2011/06/15/socksoc-3-revenge-of-the-socks-2/#comments Wed, 15 Jun 2011 08:00:51 +0000 Randomskk http://www.srcf.ucam.org/cush/?p=657 Team members: Cillian, Tea, Sophie, Sally, Phineas

Team photo:

]]> http://cush.soc.srcf.net/2011/06/15/socksoc-3-revenge-of-the-socks-2/feed/ 0 Robyn will kick you in the face http://cush.soc.srcf.net/2011/06/15/robyn-will-kick-you-in-the-face/ http://cush.soc.srcf.net/2011/06/15/robyn-will-kick-you-in-the-face/#comments Wed, 15 Jun 2011 08:00:49 +0000 Randomskk http://www.srcf.ucam.org/cush/?p=674 Team members: Robyn Moates, Helen Hoogewerf-McComb, Christine Stafford, Lea Hampton-O’Neil

Team photo:

]]> http://cush.soc.srcf.net/2011/06/15/robyn-will-kick-you-in-the-face/feed/ 0 Team “Couldn’t think of a team name” http://cush.soc.srcf.net/2011/06/15/team-couldnt-think-of-a-team-name/ http://cush.soc.srcf.net/2011/06/15/team-couldnt-think-of-a-team-name/#comments Wed, 15 Jun 2011 08:00:41 +0000 Randomskk http://www.srcf.ucam.org/cush/?p=678 Team members: Ellie ‘the Elephant’ Brodie, Rishi ‘the Raptor’ Khullar, Georgie ‘the Juggernaut’ Straughan, Adin ‘the Avenger’ Samson, Sam ‘the Sausagey’ Pattuzzi

]]> http://cush.soc.srcf.net/2011/06/15/team-couldnt-think-of-a-team-name/feed/ 0 Lips to suck a mango http://cush.soc.srcf.net/2011/06/15/lips-to-suck-a-mango/ http://cush.soc.srcf.net/2011/06/15/lips-to-suck-a-mango/#comments Wed, 15 Jun 2011 08:00:26 +0000 Randomskk http://www.srcf.ucam.org/cush/?p=659 Team members: Jack Hurst, Alex Watson, Jack Tawney, Wupat Bartong, Phin Adams

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