RE: [Hunt03] This year's hunt & stuff to do

["Andrew Kantor" <ak whizkid com>]

FWIW, I vote (for the moment, anyway) against splitting the team. My gut
reaction is that there are a *lot* of puzzles to be done at any given time,
so the unwieldiness (?) gets broken up with the team as it splits to work 
on
individual problems. A large team (someone else define "large") would only
be a problem at the very beginning when the first group of puzzles is
divvied up. After that we become a group of "sub teams" working on 
problems.


Sometimes throwing a ton of resources at something is the way to go. :)

Drew







> -----Original Message-----
> From: hunt03-bounces cosmos phy tufts edu 
> [mailto:hunt03-bounces cosmos phy tufts edu] On Behalf Of 
> Thomas Weisswange
> Sent: Sunday, October 26, 2003 10:39 PM
> To: Mystery Hunt '03
> Subject: [Hunt03] This year's hunt & stuff to do
> 
> 
> I found myself thinking today about the Mystery Hunt, and a 
> few things came to mind, which I couldn't answer, so I 
> thought I'd get the ball
> rolling:
> 
> 1.  Are we planning on addressing the parts of the Hunt 
> registration page, quoted here?:
> 
>  >Teams should have a minimum of five people with at least one MIT 
>  >student. Optimal size is at least 10-15 team members, with 
> plenty of 
>  >MIT student participation.
> 
> I think I panicked a bit too much when I first saw this, but 
> upon looking back at it, I notice that it says "at least" 
> 10-15 team members, so even if our usual size is a bit big 
> for this, it wouldn't be disallowed.  However, it does say 
> "plenty of MIT student participation." If we add "plenty" of 
> MIT students to our team, assuming we could find them, the 
> team would get a bit large.  Which leads to the painful, but 
> necessary question of whether or not we should split up into 
> 2 teams. I'm not sure if we should or not, personally I don't 
> want to, but I can see the possibility that we might have to. 
>  I want to hear from as many of you as possible on this topic.
> 
> 
> 
> 2.  We do not have a hunt HQ as yet this year, and need to 
> reserve one, with the following in mind (again from the Hunt 
> Registration page):
> 
>  >Please note: our headquarters will be on the 1st floor of 
> building 4. 
>  >Please do not reserve a room nearby for your team headquarters.
> 
> Of course, we do need to address topic #1 first.  Any HQ 
> should have the usual amenities:
>     - proximity to main campus locations (preferably in the main
>           building of course)
>     - Network drops
>     - A wi-fi network if possible
>     - Plenty of outlets, windows, anything else comfy
>     - A decent amount of working space
> Can I get a volunteer to look for an HQ, once we've addressed 
> topic #1? Needless to say, we have to talk about team size 
> and MIT student membership ASAP.
> 
> 3.  Since we have the mandate of "plenty of MIT student 
> participation," does anyone have any ideas for getting more 
> MIT students onto our team? Do we want to consider people 
> with an MIT association, past or present, to be MIT students? 
>  Who on our team has MIT association?  Does the fact that I 
> got accepted to MIT while in high school count?  Answers to 
> these and other questions tommorow on "One Hunt to Live"...
> 
> Please, let's get this discussion going, so we can get our 
> team(s) set as soon as possible.  For many of us, plans have 
> to be made.  Thanks!
> 
> ---Tom Weisswange (occasionally Al DeSuda)
> 
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