MouseAdventure Wrap-up, Results, and Everything Else

[Alex]

The blame for the map and protractor thing is all mine and I'll fess up to it completely.

That said, three different people did the map portion of that for me, and none (including myself) took more than three minutes to get all four locations. So it was an extreme shock when Kevin put out the call for help saying that it had turned into a huge bottleneck. I don't know if I'm just and idiot savant at such things (as are my three acquaintances) or if something about the environment made it much, much harder. In the end it would just have been better to have never found any rulers/protrctors and given people credit for showing up at Fantasia Gardens.

I'm also suprised at how difficult people are saying the math code that led to Fantasia Gardens was.

It would never have occured to me that the Roger Rabbit one was so difficult (at one point I had someone test that for me over the phone (while I was listening) and they got it done in about 10 minutes). I don't intentionally put quests into the game that only 1.5% of the teams get right.

I don't think the score distribution is too far off from normal (though definitely a bit lower). The problem we hit when everybody plays together is making a game that is not too easy for the top 25% of teams (we don't want a nine-way tie for first with each a perfect score) and yet still accessible to everybody else. It's a hard balance to hit.

Well, regardless of all the second-guessing I'm doing this week, I'm glad that you (and apparently almost everybody else) had a lot of fun.

[DisneyDaniel]

Congratulations to all the winning teams, high-placing teams and even the low-placing teams that played.

A memorable quest: Counting the dolls coming out of the it's a small world clock and trying to figure out if there are more Janes or Johns. Who knew that the iasw dolls looked so androgynous?! But we got the answer rigtht! There are more boys than girls.

Here are a few photos:

The Happy Haunts (Ghoulish Delight and Cadaverous Pallor) were kind enough to let me take pictures of their shirts. If there was a MouseAdventure category for coolest shirts, I think they would win each time.



DCA Adventurers (Monorail Man, Bornieo: Fully Loaded, DisneyDaniel, TigerLily) shortly after finishing the game. Yes, we looked a little tired after hurrying back out to the Esplanade to turn-in the game packet, only to learn that we were suppose to return them to Carnation Plaza Gardens instead. So, after getting back in line, going through the entrance gates again, Monorail Man made a dash for the end of Main Street weaving through crowds of people waiting for the parade.


Anticipating the awards ceremony to begin inside the Festival Arena.


Where I was sitting, there was a lot of good-hearted cheering by those who did not win one of the raffle prizes, which included items from Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, Bear in the Big Blue House, Disney Mania, The Cheetah Girls, etc. However, the real prizes for MA winners looked pretty enticing.


Frodo Potter (right, in the white shirt) won one of the cool raffle prizes, a Toy Story 10th Anniversary DVD.


The Festival Arena is cleared out at the end of the awards ceremony. I think that is EuroMeinke (wearing black) in the middle.


One last group photo of people from LoT and MiceChat before leaving the Festival Arena.


Mr. and Mrs. NemoZorro (from MiceChat) visiting from Arizona, with Disneyphile, Frodo Potter and DisneyDaniel celebrating the end of MouseAdventure Sunday with dole whips at the Tiki Room.

[Not Afraid]

Originally Posted by ISM

And speaking of wasted time, that protractor/map thing was out of control. We wasted tons of time waiting for the map, coming and going back and forth to Fantasia Gardens - - only to have every team credited for the quest whether or not they completed it or even attempted it. Bah. It's sorta like the time every team was credited for the Sleeping Beauty Walk-thru quest when it suddenly closed forever on the day the U.S. attacked Afghanistan on MouseAdventure Day, after our team had spent time actually completing that quest. Of course, we were phenomenally glad that we were prompted to go thru the Walk-Thru one last time (sniffle, sniff) ... but all we got for the map time-waste was a little protractor experience. Not something we are going to cherish for a lifetime.

Yeah, this was one of our HUGE downfalls. We went the FG the first time to see a long list of people waiting and decided to come back. We came back to find an even LONGER list of people waiting and decided to stay as we were going to be losing one team member to the Mouse promptly at 2:00. So, we waited and did our puzzles until about 1:55 when we all had to go back to MA Central to get our numbers changed. We went directly back to FG after that. We were gone 7 minutes tops.

In that 7 minutes, our team number had been called and we were SOL on the puzzle adding our name, once more, to the growing list. At some point in there, Ales came in and kicked butt and got people moving and then paired us up with another team to do the map thing. So, once we got moving, we were fine. But, the time lost doing that prevented us from completing 3 other puzzles that really should've been done.

Oh well.

But, it was much more enjoyable wasting time drinking Mochas over at DCA on Saturday

[Tito's Kitten]

I swear one day I will do a mouse adventure.....

[Cadaverous Pallor]

I love looking at the team photos! Check these out:

Huey, Dewey, Louie, and Screwey had an awesome shirt setup:


Team Whateverland (which did rather well, and look how young they are!) gets into it:


Looks like The Happiest Team on Earth downloaded a photomosaic program:


There are so many cool ones, I don't have time to post them all...

[innerSpaceman]

Oh, I remember Mr. Screwy from the awards dinner. It's a good thing I didn't know his designation at the time, or I would have taken that as a confirmation of what was already in my head (and I don't mean crazy).

[€uroMeinke]

In retrospect, that glorious moment on Saturday night when our team was in DCA and bought a round of Mochas to complete our puzzles by, should have been an indicator that we were missing something...

[Stan4dSteph]

Originally Posted by €uroMeinke

In retrospect, that glorious moment on Saturday night when our team was in DCA and bought a round of Mochas to complete our puzzles by, should have been an indicator that we were missing something...

When did you come by the Main St. train station? I don't remember seeing you.

[Not Afraid]

Originally Posted by Stan4dSteph

When did you come by the Main St. train station? I don't remember seeing you.

WOW! We are on your ignore list in a big way!

You saw us and even spok to us as we were talking to AVP about the dead puzzle.

And you're young!

[Stan4dSteph]

Originally Posted by Not Afraid

WOW! We are on your ignore list in a big way!

You saw us and even spok to us as we were talking to AVP about the dead puzzle.

And you're young!

Oh right. That was right as I was leaving. Next time I'm going to request assignments that don't require me to be in exile for the whole time. It affects my brain. I did like the fireworks from there though.