If you have any pictures or videos of scavhunt from the last two years, please post them! Alternatively, email them to me so I can post them!
Jay – Vice Minister of Propaganda, Recruitment, and Cookies
Hi Everybody!
Some people have started to wonder, how many people are coming in for GASH this year? Well, I can guarantee you that at least 12 of us will show up. Probably at least 25 given the last two years. But these are minimums. So I’m starting a poll for now so you can vote on whether you’ll be coming to Scav. We’ve had some discussions about creating a list of names so you can let others know that you’re coming. We need to have some more internal debate about how to create this (and have somebody perhaps more adept at web content creation than me do this). In the mean time, tell us what’s up!
Sam
I’ve decided to get the ball rolling and start organizing GASH for 2010. I just sent an email to our main email list. As of right now, that email list is about the best way we have of organizing. I just sent an email to it as a rallying call to get this party started. And to give you some idea, it had 12 points. But I realize I forgot point #13: Recruitment! I suppose if you’re reading this, you might be wondering how to join GASH. We should start up a recruitment page. But for now, join the main email list and introduce yourself. You know you’re a Scav Rock Star (TM) already. You know you want to join. FYI, Scav starts May 6, 2010.
Captain Sam
For those of you who care, GASH shall return once more to Scav. I am judging this purely based on the sheer amount of fun and enthusiasm shown both in Chicago and on our listhost. We are preparing to get things more organized next year and to tell you better how to join us. Stay tuned….
For those of you uploading photos of Scav, can you tag them all with the tags gashscav AND scavhunt09 ? That way, we can easily find all of the photos.
Captain Sam
Dear GASH,
I have the pleasure of announcing that in the Great Scavenger Hunt of 2009, GASH took 6th place in a tie with Blint (a new team that is the combination of Broadview and Flint House). Let me say this: I am extremely proud of how we did. Why? We are a small team of rockstars. We had about 20 people on the ground in Chicago and about 5 more people remotely working with us. While the exact point total for us is currently unknown (due to the condition of us accepting a tie), I suspect that GASH received about 2000 points, thus giving each on the ground scavvie about 100 points. For reference, the winning team, Snell-Hitchcock, had roughly 5000 points with 100 people, about 50 points per scavvie. Yes, we rock, but we still need your help for GASH 2010: Odyssey Three (Arthur C. Clarke reference). It has become very obvious that we need more help on the ground in Chicago. Not only should you consider coming into Chicago and participating in Scav, you should talk to your friends and encourage them to do so as well. I am very confident that even five more people would make an enormous impact as we had many times where our entire team was busy doing items in front of all the other teams (AKA Quad Events) that prevent them from completing more items worth more points. This is not to say that we didn’t have fun, but that the additional people will enable us to Scav even better.
Captain Sam
For those of you NOT in Chicago, we are having a wonderful time here. We appreciate all the help we are getting from everybody this year. Our headquarters is amazingly huge and I am honestly amazed that everything is progressing as well as it is this year. If you are reading this blog, we would love to have you help. Click on this link for ScavDB to help find something to do. Look for the tags marked “easy” and/or “remote”.
We are going through and labeling items that are easy to do/complete and ones that can be done remotely. Give us some time, we’re busy working on items here and have to keep track of everything. If you’d like to see the Judge’s view, check out their own blog.
Hey alums,
Are you so old that you don’t have a CNET ID anymore? And don’t you need one of those to login to the UofC WiFi network? Well, you can go (re)claim your CNET ID! Go to https://cnet.uchicago.edu/claimacct/index.jsp and get it goin!
Sam
I’ve been directed by Cap’n Nikki to declare the 2009 GASH HQ officially open! Oh, and it’s totally awesome; undoubtedly the best scav HQ in the history of Scav. It’s huge, fully equipped with kiddy sized toilets, and has even been trashed prepped for scav by its previous occupants. We also have 2 studio apartments in the same building with kitchens, showers(!), and comfortable carpet space for crashing on. So bring your sleeping bags, coffee mugs, power tools, or just your bare scavvy selves, and come join us for some happy fun scavvy times.
Directions to HQ can be found in the HQ info page (duh).
-Ryo
Hello GASH. I am in Chicago, FINALLY, after 2900 miles of driving from California. Today’s update is about donating blood. Donating blood is a tradition as old as time, dating back to the days before blood type was no barrier and the red stuff flowed freely between all peoples, given from the sheer joy of giving. A lot of people died. Fortunately today we have needles and safety so that you, the modern Scavvie, can partake of this ancient bloodletting ritual in ease and comfort with the snacks and everything. So! Here are the details of the Scav blood drive:
WHEN: Starts today, Monday, May 4th and runs through Friday, May 8th. 8 am – 4pm, every day.
WHERE: 5th floor of Duchossis Center for Advanced Medicine (DCAM), 5758 S. Maryland Ave, Hyde Park. See map.
WHAT: An annual blood drive. You get a point for donating or attempting to donate, if you don’t meet the right criteria. Also you get juice and snacks and a sticker.
HOW: You walk into the DCAM, go up to the 5th floor, and go to section 5G (Blood Donation).
WHY: See above re: points, savin’ lives, snacks.
SEE ALSO: This Google Map.
