Scav 2010: Helping a Scavvie in Need

Hi folks,

We have a Scavvie who needs our help.  You know how crazy Judgment is, right?  A modified message from a desperate Scavvie:

Did anybody, by any chance, pick up a Sony Cyber-Shot digital camera, black, at Judgment? Hers is MIA and nearly-new, and has pictures of her engagement on it that she hadn’t uploaded.   She was at the MaxP table.  At this point, she doesn’t suspect it’ll be found, but she’s “desperate at this point.”  She’ll do about anything to get it back. If you have it, have seen it, or have any leads, please contact Meredith directly via email at blessedsophia@gmail.com.

Sam

Scav 2010: Updated Point Totals

Breckinridge recorded some of the final results.  I listened to it, but it is missing the point totals for 4th and 2nd places.  I have updated the point totals to reflect what I think I are the correct results (7th place, I’m not 100% certain about still, see time 5:45).  There are some non-minor corrections.  I apologize for the previous errors, but I was sitting towards the back of the room and the Cloister Club was noisy.  Again, these are not authoritative, only the Judges can give those numbers.

• 11th Place:  A T-Rex Ate My Team Name, 0 points
• 10th Place:  Team Lanie, 310.75 points
• 9th Place: FIST, 1231.315 points
• 8th Place: GASH, 1922.745 points
• 7th Place: Blint, 2100.91 points
• 6th Place: Breckinridge, 2180.7 points
• 5th Place: South Campus, 2512.454 points
• 4th Place: MacPierce, 2783 points
• Tie for 2nd Place: Burton-Judson and Max Palevsky, 3211 and 3244 points.  Points are not in any particular order
• 1st Place: Hitchcock-Snell, 3379.24 points

Captain Sam

GASH 2010: Pictures and videos

Hi everybody,

If you have pictures or videos of this year’s Scav and would like to share them, please tag them with “gashscav”.  Also, could you let Captain Jay know about them since he is still nominally the Minister for Propaganda and what not.

I will try to see that Item #141, the Molassacre, gets put online.

Captain Sam

GASH 2010: Eighth Place! Amazing!

In Scav Hunt 2010, GASH took eighth place!  Amazing! While this is a lower finish than the previous two years (sixth and tied for sixth in 2008 and 2009 respectively), I have to say that I am very proud of our finish.  We had slightly lower points this year, slightly fewer people on the ground this year (in terms of full-time scavvies and/or their equivalents), but had a higher percentage of points of the first place team.  I had a blast and I hope everybody else did as well.

That said, let me post here my quick recording of the Judges results.  This is just a copy of what I jotted down as the Judges were announcing the final results.  This is not authoritative, but just what I could hear over the crowd to some nearby integer point value.

• 11th Place:  A T-Rex Ate My Team Name, 0 points
• 10th Place:  Team Lanie, 310 points
• 9th Place: FIST, 1731 points
• 8th Place: GASH, 1922 points
• 7th Place: Blint, 2134 points
• 6th Place: Breckinridge, 2180 points
• 5th Place: South Campus, 2512 points
• 4th Place: MacPierce, 2783 points
• Tie for 2nd Place: Burton-Judson and Max Palevsky, 3211 and 3244 points.  Points are not in any particular order
• 1st Place: Hitchcock-Snell, 3379 points

I want to congratulate all the teams ona a Hunt well done.  And if you’re a graduating fourth-year, an alum, or grad student of/at the UofC, please consider joining GASH for Scav Hunt 2011, the Scrolling-LED-Signs-Are-SO-2010-What-Fangled-New-Device-Will-We-Use-Now Scavenger Hunt.

If you played on GASH, please let us know how we can improve Scav Hunt for you.  No time like the present while memories are fresh in your head to send them to one of the Captains or to the general listhost.

Captain Sam

Cap’t Jay’s Saturday Morning Briefing

Hey everyone -

Let me just say, you guys all rock my world (literally).  The party last night was awesome.  We got a dude from Max so drunk they KICKED HIM OUT OF THEIR HQ!  He’ll be playing with us next year.  We had half a dozen judges here until 3 AM.  That’s the first time ever I’ve been somewhere and the beer has RUN OUT!!!  Thank you everyone who helped out!  HQ is clean and back to normal.

Rockefeller Chapel was pretty kickass too – the judges seemed more interested in goofing off with us than doing anything else.  We’re responsible for the crowd surfing idea, by the way.  Many thanks to Dee and the random guys who helped!  I was personally grabbed by Tricky and asked to pose for a photo.  So were a bunch of us.  Our jam was the coolest, by far, and our disease ridden person was the hottest (Actual Judge Quote – “Hot as Shit”).

I’ve been told Road Trip is kickin’ ass and takin’ names.  Make sure you congratulate them when they wander in!!!!

Someone left a signed Jane Goodall book in HQ, it survived the party with no damage.  Yay!

Things to look out for today -

Scav Olympics at 11:30.  We need about 5 people on Eckhart Quad.  The judges claim this may go on until 5:00 – so be aware!  I’ll be there at the start, until I need to leave to work on dinner.

Between 4:30 and 5:30 the judges are measuring penises at Harper 125.  Yeah, I know.  You can take a fluffer if you like……..

At 7, I’ll be serving the judges dinner at eX Libris in the Reg (Captains and Cooks only, please).  I’ll be dropping off dinner for HQ around 6:30 or so.  I need some thousand year old eggs from Chinatown for the appetizer.  PLEASE – if you can go to Chinatown, I will love you forever (Call — — —- to hear Cap’t Jay personally profess his love for you).

We need shit done!  Lots of items are still unclaimed!  I love the discussions about stuff, but it’s GET ER DONE time people!  If you want to do something, claim it in the DB.

Kisses you glorious old bastards,

Cap’t Jay

Cap’t Jay’s Friday Morning Briefing

Holler when you’re up, about, etc.  i need to start working on the zombie cake, the gingerbread saw, cookies, and dinner, which means i’ll be at D’s apt. most of the afternoon.

got 9 hours of rest, about  7 1/2 of sleep.  raring to go.  in HQ now with sam, who is preparing to nap.  Rest up, and prepare to kick ass.

BIG THINGS – we need syphilus inspired (open oozing sores at point of infection) zombie costumes for tonight, and the entire team (Please!!!) at 10:30 at rockefeller.  come even if you’re not in costume (or just tell the judges the sore is on your junk, and its really nasty, and they don’t want to see it).  if you have a diagnosis of syphillus from your doctor, there’s no shame, so please tell the judges all about it.

Dinner tonight – roast chicken and stuffing at HQ.  I’ll try to get it there by 7.  Cookies will be baked this afternoon.

Dinner tomorrow – judges and us are eating the same thing.  hungarian ghoulash over noodles, roast new potatoes, french beans, salad.

Housekeeping – we have trash cans now (YAY!!!).  Please pick up after yourselves.  I cleaned up a bit this morning, and put the batteries for the power tools back on their chargers.  Dumpsters are on the east side of the building.

special thanks to the remote folks who are doing such a killer job on the remote items, and the road trip team, who are humming along beautifully.

We’re rocking the judges’ world, kids.  If you’re reading their blog – you’ll notice we keep getting special little mentions without them using our team name.  elephant polo is a great example (which we prepped for in LESS THAN 3 HOURS!!!).  keep up the great work!

Cap’t Jay

HQ Internet Working!

GASH’s internet is working fully now in HQ!  We will try to keep things more up to date!

Captain Sam

HQ is open for business!

We’ve just gotten access to our HQ at 1009 E. 53rd! There is internet and electricity already… now to fill the space with supplies and materials! I’ll be in and out of the HQ all day today and tomorrow, plus I have a car so I can drive you/your stuff over here if that’s helpful.  Just call me to get into HQ: 617-308-1689.

So psyched! See you all soon!!

scav scav scav scav,

Clara

Scav 2010 is Nigh!

Scav is nigh.  You should be pumped, amped, excited, psyched, thought I do not need to convey to you the contents of a thesaurus entry. I want to tell you a few things:

1. If you want to come visit our headquarters, feel free to do so.  We’re at 1009 E 53rd St this year.
2. Should you want to join GASH, please follow the directions in Captain Clara’s post.   We’re looking for UofC graduate students or UofC alumni.

Captain Sam

Reminders!

OK, so, Space Fogies, some of you may be wondering: what do I need to do to get ready? Or actually, how do I become a Space Fogie in the first place??

Well, here is what you do:

1) sign up for the gash-fogies@googlegroups.com listhost

2) enter your information on the GASH spreadsheet (a Google doc; link was sent to the fogies listhost)

3) check out the GASH positions list (a Google doc) and the HQ supplies list (a Google spreadsheet), and add your info there if you’re able to take on any of the positions we need or help us out by lending/donating some supplies. (links to these docs were sent to the fogies listhost)

4) sign up (or update your info) at ScavDB: http://db.scavhunt.net (username and password to access the site were sent to the fogies listhost), and play around to make sure you understand how to claim items, etc. (I will send a scavdb tutorial to the listhost soon).

5) Donate money!  Click that PayPal donate button or click here.  We ask for $50 per person, but feel free to give more or less depending on your circumstances.

If you have trouble getting access to any of these sites/documents/listhosts, email me: clara.raubertas@gmail.com

See you at the Hunt!!

-Clara