✈✈✈ Galactic Trendsetters ✈✈✈
✈✈✈ Galactic Trendsetters ✈✈✈ (pronounced "whoosh Galactic Trendsetters neeoww") is a 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 4 iterations of the online Galactic Puzzle Hunt, as well as BAPHL 11.
Etymology
✈✈✈ Galactic Trendsetters ✈✈✈ first originated as an MIT Mystery Hunt team formed out of the 3W floor (also known as floorpi) of MIT East Campus.[1] 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] (as a reference to floorpi). Additionally some teams compete under variations of the Galactic name, often with six emoji and a name connected to the hunt theme.
Mystery Hunt performances
- MH22 - Placed 5th
- MH21 - Hosted the Hunt
- MH20 - Placed 1st, winning the Hunt.
- MH19 - Placed 5th
- MH18 - Placed 5th
- MH17 - Placed 4th
- MH16 - Placed in Top 10(?)
- MH15 - Placed 8th
- MH14 - Placed 8th as Galactic Dogesetters
- MH13 - Placed 16th as wub / ✈✈✈Galactic Trendsetters✈✈✈.
- MH12 - Placed 17th as Occupy Leisure Station
- MH11 - Placed 32nd as Desert Catbus in their first hunt.
