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Cambridge University Scavenger Hunt 2012
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!
Post-Hunt Stats
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 |
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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 |
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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!
and the winners are…
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 back!
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!
Loads of submissions!
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/
Tweets by cush2011
Lesbian Steampunk Samurai Lizard Detectives
Team Members: Alex Guttenplan, Steph Leddington, Emily Room, Greg Weir
The 87s
Team members: Zoe Asquith, Danny Johnson, Joe Seaton, Benth Webb, Amelia Booth
Captain Friendless
Team members: Cap\’n \”Bringing down your local oppressive coologarchic groupthinkocracy\” Friendless, Biscuits the Sock Monkey
Scavenger Hunt List 2011
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