10 HOURS REMAIN Can’t wait to see everyone at Ida tonight. It’s going to be PACKED!
Here’s just a taste of what last year was like for all you first-year Scavvies.
Meet the MacPierce Judges: ADAM C
Adam “Adam B” Coleman will be welcoming you to Scav Hunt 2012 tomorrow evening. Get excited everyone! Here’s a bit about him —
What’s your first Scav-related memory?
My AP Chem teacher junior year in high school telling us about the breeder reactor they built. Also UC sending out postcards with items from previous lists to try and get me to come here. They included a quiet riot, deaf leopard, and slithy toves.
Favorite item from last year?
I really liked the time-lapse video of your HQ item. From the ones I worked on though the machine that drops quarters from 3+ft heads up every time. Just about everyone on the team seemed to have an idea about how to make the thing, so Brian R. and I screwed together some wood just to make a stand to run trials off of at 3am Saturday night and magically (accidentally) discovered that the contraption actually dropped quarters heads every time. It would fall off and then roll dramatically for about 20-30 feet before falling heads up every time. The judge was about as completely baffled as we were and even called other judges over to watch. Full points!
I also should give a shout out to the display your team’s logo at the highest possible altitude next to an altimeter for proof. My dad who is a commercial airline pilot happily helped us out on this one and even took his (fully loaded with people) plane an additional couple thousand feet up to ~42,000ft. Then, before his next flight someone from Max P. came up to him and asked for the same item, only he took the picture at ~20,000ft instead! It also turns out that you can just type in whatever altitude you want on an altimeter, so we could have put in 100,000ft while simply sitting on the tarmac. Who knew.
What’s your favorite classic arcade game?
Pong. Brilliantly simple. Also a great way to get through agonizing math/physics classes when you have it programmed into your calculator.
Inky, Blinky, Pinky or Clyde?
I’m pretty indifferent on this one. In fact, I did not even know those guys had names. I have always been partially to blue one though, so I guess I have to go with Inky.
Scav is this week! Here are the currently registered teams, for your amusement.
Can’t wait to get this party started — see you all on Wednesday NIGHT.
COUNTDOWN: MacPierce Scav 2009
So many BOWIES.
COUNTDOWN: MacPierce Scav 2009
Personally, one of my favorite years. Bowies, bowies, and more bowies!
Excellent roadtrip outfitting, including a gigantic pegasus head for one of our roadtrip crew made out of chicken wire, duct tape and squishy eyeballs (we got a box of these from one of our sponsors — and we use every part of the sponsor).
Captains had to dress like David Bowie, and at least once during the hunt transform into another incarnation of David Bowie — so Ziggy Stardust to Labyrinth Bowie. Or, the best thing ever!
Earlier in the FOURDAYS an item called for Moai statues to rise from the dew on the quads, our Moai statue — affectionately called David Mowai rose to the challenge. And then, when we realized we still needed to make a functioning vending machine for Showcase, we put it INSIDE the Moai statue. And it worked.
Robert Pape the friendly Muppet. A classroom-interruption item (the best!) called for a muppet to replace one of your professors before class. Needless to say, Muppet Pape got a fantastic response from the class, his doppleganger, and remained a beloved mascot for the remained of Scav.
Camp Scavvahunta: skits, ghost stories and camping on the quads Friday night.
Scavagon trail. Ford the MIDWAY! And make sure your 8-bit oregon trail theme plays all the way back to Headquarters. Dun doot doot doot.
Have your own Scav stories to add? Submit them here.
COUNTDOWN: MacPierce Scav 2008
The year the tartan came out.
Strong start with a roadtrip out to OZ. To prep our roadtrip car, we figured we ought not only have Dorothy’s house land on top of the vehicle — but that house’s cardboard chimney should also have smoke coming out of it. A small fire emergency really makes a morning lively.
An incredible year for Scav Olympics. ORCSA somehow approved students swinging raw poultry with knives tied to it at other students (“Two chickens enter, one chicken leaves!”) AND we got to experience Battleship in person by lobbing waterballons over a low wall at students strategically placed on the other side — the best.
A pie fight. A glorious pie fight.
The last year of the Friday night Scav party. Nautical theme edition. Hard tack, fake harpoons, a whale tail, and some casual rickrolling are what a night in the late aughts should be all about.
Have your own Scav stories to add? Submit them here.
COUNTDOWN: MacPierce Scav 2007
An exciting year for MacPierce, the team on the verge of making it big!
The theme song ‘Heck no! (I’ll never listen to techno)’ coursed through our brains, and birthed a dancing robot.
Great successes at Scav Olympics, where our favorite mustachioed plumber won a skateboard & plunger based race to the finish line. And who could forget the RPS-15 tournament? DRAGON beats GUN!
The strandbeest, an elegant machine built out of PVC pipe, marched triumphantly down Woodlawn to Judgement where it dwarfed the competition. After all was said and done, confused Hyde Park residents could still find it parallel parked on 55th street.
Stand-outs at Judement: our trampoline version of Simon and all of the TERRIFYING clown beds (“Can’t sleep clowns will eat me”) which some sleepy Scavvies definitely took advantage of.
Have your own Scav stories to add? Submit them here.
To get everyone excited for SCAV 2012 we’ll be going through and posting some of our very favorite memories of Scavenger Hunts past on the MacPierce Tumblr — starting way back in the year 2007, running through four years of glorious fourth place, and celebrating last year — when we finally reached the promised-land of THIRD PLACE.
Have some photos to add? Submit them here.
The Scav Hunt is a brilliant example of the entrepreneurial and improvisational spirit typical of our students—a spirit that they take from the University as a whole and, even more important, a spirit that their Scav Hunt—their irony, wit, playfulness, curiosity, risk-taking, self-reliance, and open-mindedness—sustains for the whole community.
John W. Boyer, Dean of the College of the University of Chicago
MacPierce will always be John Boyer’s Science Warriors
Scav Hunt starts this week. The madness starts Wednesday night and runs through Sunday. How are you getting ready?
