As in past years, the organizers of the hunt have reserved a large number of rooms and will handle reservations for almost all the teams. If you need to reserve rooms for your team headquarters, please do NOT go through the Schedules Office. Teams should contact us with their team information.
You can read about 2004's room reservation system if you didn't register a team that time. This year's will be more or less the same.
*** We would like to stress that the Mystery Hunt is continuing to grow but the available number of rooms is growing much more slowly. Teams should make every attempt to use departmental space, dorm space, and other rooms that are not obtained through the Schedules office because those are spaces that we cannot reserve, and this will take the load off our base registration system. And those rooms tend to be nicer anyway. ***
Please feel free to ask us questions and we'll post the answers.
Correct. If two weeks is not enough time for you to plan a setup for the room, you're trying too hard.
Almost. We have a large number of rooms reserved. Getting you a space should not be a problem. But again, see the note above.
Do not contact the Schedules Office to reserve rooms. Bear in mind that if *we* can't get Mystery Hunt rooms, *nobody* can. Seriously.
In fact, teams that normally base themselves out of a room that the MIT Schedules Office doesn't administer, such as teams based out of nearby dorms or student-group lounges (like ESG), should continue to do what has worked for them in the past. However, we hope that teams based out of isolated places, such as most West Campus dorms, will use the new system to get a more centrally located base on Main Campus.
Teams wishing to just squat a room and hope for the best can still do so, but we don't recommend it. The odds are very much against your picking a room that is totally unused during the entire weekend, and having to move your base once you've set up camp, while not difficult, is irritating to you and could jeopardize our relationship with the Schedules Office.
Teams should not contact the Schedules Office directly, even if they don't like any of the rooms on the list. Your mail will just get forwarded back to the hunt organizers. If none of the rooms match your criteria, contact us and explain why. We will try to accomodate you and will contact the Schedules Office if we deem it necessary.