✈✈✈ Galactic Trendsetters ✈✈✈
✈✈✈ Galactic Trendsetters ✈✈✈ (pronounced "whoosh Galactic Trendsetters neeoww") is a MIT-affliated team that participates in the MIT Mystery Hunt, as well as other puzzle hunts in smaller groups. Started in 2011, they placed top 10 in eight MIT Mystery Hunts. They won the 2020 MIT Mystery Hunt and subsequently hosted the 2021 MIT Mystery Hunt. Since 2017, they have run four iterations of the online Galactic Puzzle Hunt, as well as BAPHL 11.
History
✈✈✈ Galactic Trendsetters ✈✈✈ first originated as an MIT Mystery Hunt team based in the 3W floor (also known as floorpi) of MIT's East Campus dorm.[1][2] They competed under the names Operation Catbus in 2011 and Occupy Leisure Station in 2012, eventually naming themselves after Galactic Trendsetters, a card in the board game Race for the Galaxy.
In other hunts, subteams of Galactic often use the name [pi] or floorpi, in reference to the dorm name. Additionally some subteams compete under variations of the Galactic name, often with six emoji and a name connected to the hunt theme.
Trendsetters are also a sister team to teammate, having previously hunted together in the MIT Mystery Hunt until 2017. teammate split off and formed a separate team in 2018.
Hunt performances
Hunt | Year | Placement | Comments |
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MIT Mystery Hunt 2022 | 2022 | 5th | - |
MIT Mystery Hunt 2021 | 2021 | n.a. | Hosted the hunt |
MIT Mystery Hunt 2020 | 2020 | 1st | - |
MIT Mystery Hunt 2019 | 2019 | 5th | - |
MIT Mystery Hunt 2018 | 2018 | 5th | - |
MIT Mystery Hunt 2017 | 2017 | 4th | - |
MIT Mystery Hunt 2016 | 2016 | - | Top 10(?) |
MIT Mystery Hunt 2015 | 2015 | 8th | |
MIT Mystery Hunt 2014 | 2014 | 8th | As Galactic Dogesetters |
MIT Mystery Hunt 2013 | 2013 | 16th | As wub / ✈✈✈Galactic Trendsetters✈✈✈ |
MIT Mystery Hunt 2012 | 2012 | 17th | As Occupy Leisure Station |
MIT Mystery Hunt 2011 | 2011 | 32th | As Desert Catbus |