Team Blank Space (2024)
Setec Astronomy Total Landscaping is a MIT-affliated Team that usually participates in Mystery Hunts. Since 2010, they have placed in top 10 in eight Mystery Hunts. They won Mystery Hunt 2013 as the entire text of the novel Atlas Shrugged and hosted Mystery Hunt 2014 as Alice Shrugged. They won Mystery Hunt 2003 as Kappa Sig and hosted Mystery Hunt 2004 as The French Armada.
The team is famous for changing their name every year to something completely different, resulting in chaos, and being harder to identify every MH. For consistency, they have sometimes been called Senior Slugs (A portmanteau of the two principal MIT East Campus residence halls that it is composed of, Senior House and Slugfest (4E)). On his Puzzlvaria blog, post, Dan Katz has referred to them as *A.T.T.O.R.N.E.Y (A Team That Obstinately Replaces Names Every Year). [1] See the table below for their other names.
Mystery Hunt performances
| Hunt | Year | Placement | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| MIT Mystery Hunt 2022 | 2022 | 18th | as Setec Astronomy Total Landscaping. The name is a reference to Setec Astronomy and Four Seasons Total Landscaping. |
| MIT Mystery Hunt 2021 | 2021 | 13th | as We Can't Hear You, You're On Mute |
| MIT Mystery Hunt 2021 | 2021 | Top 75 | Second Team fielded (Tetcetera?) |
| MIT Mystery Hunt 2020 | 2020 | 10th | as United States Census[2] |
| MIT Mystery Hunt 2020 | 2020 | Top 60 | Second Team fielded (Tetcetera?) |
| MIT Mystery Hunt 2019 | 2019 | 9th | - |
| MIT Mystery Hunt 2018 | 2018 | 6th | - |
| MIT Mystery Hunt 2017 | 2017 | 5th | - |
| MIT Mystery Hunt 2016 | 2016 | 7th | - |
| MIT Mystery Hunt 2015 | 2015 | 4th | - |
| MIT Mystery Hunt 2014 | 2014 | n/a | Hosted the hunt as Alice Shrugged |
| MIT Mystery Hunt 2013 | 2013 | 1st | Won the Hunt, as the entire text of the novel Atlas Shrugged (MH13, 1st) [3] |
| MIT Mystery Hunt 2012 | 2012 | 3rd | - |
| MIT Mystery Hunt 2011 | 2011 | 3rd | - |
| MIT Mystery Hunt 2010 | 2010 | 3rd | - |
