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There is a subjective element to judging and so we made a decision on judgment to consider any difference in scores of at or under 1.5% the most points earned to be a tie. This ended up being the number 60. Bear in mind this amounts to only 1 significant point of error in judgment for every 66 insignificant errors and points objectively awarded.
There were two ties among nine teams. Two teams tied for fifth place, with a difference of only 13 points. Two teams also tied for first place, with a difference of 37 points, still only barely over 1%.
The results of the 2005 University of Chicago Scavenger Hunt, then, were as follows:
9th place
Burton-Judson
8th place
The Vegans/Co-Op Team
7th place
Broadview
5th place
Broover
ties
Pierce Tower
4th place
The Shoreland
3rd place
The F.I.S.T.
1st place
Max Palevsky
ties
Snell-Hitchcock
And happy hunting, kids!
EDIT: Wait! There’s more! I forgot to tell about how, after the judges had cleaned up Ida Noyes, and after we’d cleaned Courtney’s, and once Jess and I had taken all of our stuff back to her place and taken it in, as the craggy man from Scholars Corner apartments hosed down the sidewalk and the sun began to slide between the buildings, we rode off south to the 57th Street beach, where Judge Steve had urged us to go earlier.
There, with memebers of several teams; most extensively F.I.S.T. and Snitchcock, we drank hard lemonade and beer, and swapped stories bridging several generations of scavvies, and fired rounds of potatoes far out over the lake until the sun had long since set, and the only light was glow of the freighters, far out over the water.