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==Facts==
==Facts==

Revision as of 13:07, 27 February 2006

Please add links to your photo galleries below! If you need a login, ask in #syzygy and someone will create one for you. Also...we will be co-opting photos for this page.


General

  • On Saturday, Feb. 25, players gathered in London for the much-anticipated PCAG competition, the follow-up to the New York PCAG event
  • 25-35 people turned up for "Brunchfast", a pre-event social at JD Weatherspoon's pub (though no one brought a pink balloon, the pre-determined identification symbol)
  • Meanwhile, nine players and representatives crammed themselves into a phone booth at Trafalgar Square for publicity shots with a professional photographer (by the way, the world record is 14)
  • Doors opened at 12 PM for signing in 200 individuals, broken into groups of six (38 teams total)
  • After an introduction by Adrian, the games began at 1 PM
  • Goods including t-shirts, starter packs, mugs and posters were available for sale
  • Each team received one special, light blue PCAG bag, and every participant received a PCAG Leitmark
  • The members of the winning team received clear cubes as prizes
  • After the games concluded, the top 8 teams were taken to the London Eye, where they intercepted a conversation in morse code, flashed with torches on either side of the river
  • Later, everyone retired to the Horse and Groom pub on Great Portland Street for social interaction lubricated by alcohol


The Games

  • Teams received a sheet of questions to answer for points, and received text messages throughout the day containing trivia and spot challenges
    • 16 questions requiring observation from walking round an area of central London (a triangle between Leicester Square, Trafalgar Square and Picadilly Circus) that we had to text back to HQ for varying amounts of points (10-40). With hindsight the questions were in a good walking order, although those that did it backwards didn't get waylaid by the anti terrorism march and demonstration. (340 points)
    • A special National Gallery section that gave cryptic clues for a trail through the gallery with a bumper 250-point question at the end to tempt us. Also to be texted. (370 points)
    • Six photo questions that required you to MMS photos of your team in various locations (360 plus open-ended 5 points per letter photo)
    • Two questions requiring you to be witnessed either singing as a choir or playing video games (180)
    • Two questions that required you to compete against other teams building a biscuit tower or spelling backwords (60 plus open-ended 10 points per letter spelling).
    • Eight trivia questions texted through the day (7x20 + 1x10 = 150)
    • Three or four other tasks texted through the day, including choir practice, Wacky Races and a conga line
    • The final task was to purchase the largest object possible for £1, with receipt
      • The undisputed* winner of the biggest item for £1 was the toilet roll bought by the CRT (Cube ReCoventry Team). With two 2-ply rolls for the bargain price of £0.95, and weighing in at an amazing 119.04 metres long, or 13.09 square metres in area, it truly was value for money! Toilet roll runs from left to right through the far doors in the photo and then some way up the stairs.
        • (*may not have actually won!)


Results

Rank Team name Points scored Team photo
1 The Puzzle Monkeys 1200
2 Perplex Monkeys
3 Logic, Intelligence and excellance
4 The Cube ReCoventry Team
5 Team Jizz Hands :o)

Facts

  • 127 people in the conga line
  • 3838 texts sent out
  • 1148 texts recieved
  • 2 things going completely wrong
    • The first was that culture wardens in Trafalgar Square wouldn't allow any "professional" filming of the events around Nelson's Column.
    • The second was the huge angry protest march which gathered in Trafalgar Square, *on* Nelson's Column...about 30 seconds before the Conga Challenge started right in front of them.
  • 0 arrests
  • £1 challenge:
    • 5 people sold for £1
    • 3 countries
    • 3 newspapers
    • 1 toilet paper roll


Teams

Photographs

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References

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