MYF Amazing Race (Part I)

It all started with the grueling team division and rules meeting. 11 contestants showed up (later added 2 more), and who knew that dividing 13 people into 5 groups would be that hard? And also, lots of people don't understand the rules at all...so, a problematic start. Anyway, here are the teams:

Daisy & Michael
Roger & Jessie
Ingrid, James, Clarence & Christina
Laura, Louise & Ed
Steven & May

After that, we moved into the SLC courtyard, which is the starting line of the race. They left at 2:13PM, and their first clue instructed them to find five landmarks around the UW campus to collect pieces of a clue. They ran, despite me telling them it's better to walk... That clue tells them to find Francis in the 2nd floor of Dana Porter Library. One interesting anecdote here is that Ed's team found some orientation leader type of guy, who prompty told them where each of these landmarks are...so there's some authentic Amazing Racing right there. Order of arrival to Francis: Ed et al., Ingrid et al., Daisy & Michael, Roger & Jessie, and finally Steven & May. Surprisingly, nobody went for the time bonus, which is just searching for a book in the library. So they all went to my mailbox (hehehe) for the next clue.

Now "behind the scenes," right after the contestants left the starting line, I went straight to MC 3rd floor to do some more organizational stuffs. After I've done that, I wondered if teams have gotten to my mailbox yet, so I went up to check it. And two envelopes were already gone! So that was pretty quick, I thought. Then I hurried downstairs to wait at the first pit stop, which is the patio at MC 3rd floor. Once there, I found several teams running into the MC building, and I took photos of them without them knowing that I was up there. I thought that was pretty funny, doing a little bit of spying myself.