Scav Hunt

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<p>Does anyone know when this takes place? I’ve seen the lists, but how many items do students actually manage to find? </p>

<p>Also, what is the second best dorm to go in if I want to win? I know Snell-Hitchcock is best, but it’s probably all filled up by now.</p>

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<p>Scav Hunt takes place every year over Mother’s Day weekend, starting on Wednesday midnight and ending in the afternoon (known ans Judgment) on Mother’s Day proper.
Basically, Scav is ridiculous. In addition to being a board member for PSAC, I am Scav captain for Snell-Hitchcock, and am totally willing to go in to more detail about Scav if you’re interested… but, for now, to answer your basic questions.
The Scav list ranges from about 10-14 pages, translating to 250-300 items yearly. Some teams go all out; some teams do as much as they can. Last year, of the 14 pages of items, Snitchcock managed to complete or at least attempt an overwhelming majority, averaging about 2 or 3 items uncompleted per page.
Max Palevsky (grrrr) and Snell-Hitchcock have a traditional rivalry, and usually battle for first and second. Snitchcock has won for the past two years, and is definitely looking to three-peat. MacPierce (made of Maclean and Pierce) and Burton-Judson are usually in the 3rd and 4th place spots, followed by Broover (Hoover House of Max P and Breckenridge), the Shoreland (which will become the South Campus), Broadview, and the Federation of Independent Scavenger hunt Teams (aka the FIST).</p>

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<p>Some of the items are completed “creatively”. For instance, last year one of the items required you to make a potato break the sound barrier. One team rigged a sort of mortar and shot a potato at a square of acoustic tile, breaking it. (Or tried at least.)</p>

<p>That sort of thing.</p>

<p>It is pretty impressively crazy, and a wonderful, unique institution.</p>

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<p>Incidentally, Snell-Hitchcock couldn’t break the sound barrier either, but we did complete the item, which was a super-sonic potato.</p>

<p>We just carved and painted a potato to look like Super Sonic, and shot it out of a potato launcher.</p>

<p>[File:Super</a> Sonic.png - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Super_Sonic.png]File:Super”>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Super_Sonic.png)</p>

<p>Scav is excellent.</p>

<p>Scav. <em>twitch</em> Scavscav.</p>

<p>Scavscavscav.</p>

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<p>Some interesting links concerning scav hunt. The first describes went into building the famous Scav Hunt breeder reactor, a picture of the students in front of it is in the second link.</p>

<p><a href=“http://www.nyx.net/~drwalker/scav99.txt[/url]”>http://www.nyx.net/~drwalker/scav99.txt&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>[World’s</a> largest Scavenger Hunt begins in Chicago](<a href=“University of Chicago News”>University of Chicago News)</p>

<p>[University</a> of Chicago Scavenger Hunt: Facts, Discussion Forum, and Encyclopedia Article](<a href=“Page Not Found”>University of Chicago Scavenger Hunt - AbsoluteAstronomy.com)</p>

<p>[The</a> University of Chicago Scavenger Hunt](<a href=“http://scavhunt.uchicago.edu/]The”>http://scavhunt.uchicago.edu/)</p>

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<p>My favorite instance of creative completion of an item was actually not from my team, but from MacPierce last year- one of the items was to get a DeLorean to campus. MacPierce didn’t wind up making this happen, but at Judgment, one of their team members called the judges out to see the “DeLorean” that they had somehow come up with, only to be confronted with flaming tire tracks on the road outside, a la the DeLorean of Back to the Future’s return to the future. Basically, it was an awesome way to get partial points for the item by maintaining its spirit, without actually doing the item itself.</p>