Organising treasure hunt in the Blitzschlag'15 was an awesome experience. I along with Neeraj and apparently another guy X organised it.
The very idea of organising it started about a week ago with Neeraj and X with Neeraj being the mian organiser. I was keen on participating in it because i always enjoy treasure hunts. I tried to form a tram but as the number of participants in a team could not have exceeded 5, it was difficult to make a team and then i decided not to participate but to help neeraj in organising it. So i went and asked him if i could be a part of the organising team and he agreed. Then i and Neeraj decided as to what all rules we could have and the places we would hide the clues and umpteen number of things. One thing that we both agreed on was that we were not going to tell the clues to X as in the past he had done things which made him untrustworthy.
So we went on a night walk at around 11 in the night two days day before the treasure hunt. Neeraj had made posters and had uploaded them and also he had made the google form for the registrations. We took an entire tour of college and marked places which were relatively unknown to people and decided to hide the clues there.
When we returned we started making the clues and we slept when we were done. By 5 PM that day around 20 teams had registered and we were expecting a total of 30-35 teams to register. The same day we had our ED Cell's Farewell so i went there. Had loads of fun. But when i returned at around 10PM..50 teams had already registered and the form was to be closed by 11:30. By the time the registrations closed nearly 70 teams had registered and managing 70 teams was a nearly impossible task for 2 people. But what really worried us was that we were prepared for only 35-40 teams at the max and seeing such a participation was ......... Neeraj had printed around 50 sets of clues to be on the safer side but we were not prepared for such a response. then we went to the CACS office at night only to find it closed. then we got the keys from the OS. We printed another 20 sets of clues cut them in halves. But the biggest task of coding the clues so that only one team can take the clue was the most difficult task. We prepared a coding system and then typed it on excel sheet which consumed about 2 hours as we had to make sure that no team gets the same clue twice. And then writing the codes on the 560 clues was............ you know right.. writing the code of the next clue inside and the code of the current clue outside for identification and then folding it and stapling it, the sheer idea of doing it was unimaginable and that too we had 6 hours for the treaure hunt to begin. We started it and did the first lot by around 6. then we arranged the clues as to which code will be dropped where and then i and neeraj took turns dropping those clues. We then had to call our friends to help us in coding the rest set of clues. It was only because of them that we were able to organise it.
To be frank, i dont know what we wuld have done had they not been there.
Then came the most important person X after a sweet slumber and asked us if there was something for him to do. All i knew was that i had to control my anger. Well once the coding was complete, i and neeraj rushed off to the venue in the same attire and started assembling people to tell them the rules and regulations. Well, it so happened tht soeone had removed the clues fromt heir places. so while some teams had an awesome day.. some were....
The very idea of organising it started about a week ago with Neeraj and X with Neeraj being the mian organiser. I was keen on participating in it because i always enjoy treasure hunts. I tried to form a tram but as the number of participants in a team could not have exceeded 5, it was difficult to make a team and then i decided not to participate but to help neeraj in organising it. So i went and asked him if i could be a part of the organising team and he agreed. Then i and Neeraj decided as to what all rules we could have and the places we would hide the clues and umpteen number of things. One thing that we both agreed on was that we were not going to tell the clues to X as in the past he had done things which made him untrustworthy.
So we went on a night walk at around 11 in the night two days day before the treasure hunt. Neeraj had made posters and had uploaded them and also he had made the google form for the registrations. We took an entire tour of college and marked places which were relatively unknown to people and decided to hide the clues there.
When we returned we started making the clues and we slept when we were done. By 5 PM that day around 20 teams had registered and we were expecting a total of 30-35 teams to register. The same day we had our ED Cell's Farewell so i went there. Had loads of fun. But when i returned at around 10PM..50 teams had already registered and the form was to be closed by 11:30. By the time the registrations closed nearly 70 teams had registered and managing 70 teams was a nearly impossible task for 2 people. But what really worried us was that we were prepared for only 35-40 teams at the max and seeing such a participation was ......... Neeraj had printed around 50 sets of clues to be on the safer side but we were not prepared for such a response. then we went to the CACS office at night only to find it closed. then we got the keys from the OS. We printed another 20 sets of clues cut them in halves. But the biggest task of coding the clues so that only one team can take the clue was the most difficult task. We prepared a coding system and then typed it on excel sheet which consumed about 2 hours as we had to make sure that no team gets the same clue twice. And then writing the codes on the 560 clues was............ you know right.. writing the code of the next clue inside and the code of the current clue outside for identification and then folding it and stapling it, the sheer idea of doing it was unimaginable and that too we had 6 hours for the treaure hunt to begin. We started it and did the first lot by around 6. then we arranged the clues as to which code will be dropped where and then i and neeraj took turns dropping those clues. We then had to call our friends to help us in coding the rest set of clues. It was only because of them that we were able to organise it.
To be frank, i dont know what we wuld have done had they not been there.
Then came the most important person X after a sweet slumber and asked us if there was something for him to do. All i knew was that i had to control my anger. Well once the coding was complete, i and neeraj rushed off to the venue in the same attire and started assembling people to tell them the rules and regulations. Well, it so happened tht soeone had removed the clues fromt heir places. so while some teams had an awesome day.. some were....
