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Godiva Week

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[[File:godivaweek.jpg|250px|thumb|right|Godiva Week schedule]]
Godiva Week is a week-long celebration at Skule™ in the spirit of [[Lady Godiva]], the patron saint of engineering. Godiva Week festivities include various engineering traditions and events, including [[Ye Grande Olde Chariot Race]], F!rosh Hardhat Decorating Competition, [[Ultimate F!rosh]] as well as the popular [[Mr. Blue & Gold]] and [[Godiva's Crown]] Competitions. The week is traditionally rounded off by the annual engineering semi-formal, [[Cannonball]].

Godiva Week is organized by the [[Blue & Gold Committee]], and typically includes many charity elements, such as the Charity Date Auction, Stores Auction, and Charity Car Smash. These events often raise thousands of dollars for a local charity group such as United Way or the Cancer Society of Canada.

The events of Godiva Week generally take place during the first full week of the Winter semester, beginning with the reading of The [[Fundamental Theorem of Calculus]] during Godiva's Resurrection on Monday of Godiva Week, and culminating in the ceremonial burning of Godiva's Coffin during [[Godiva's Wake]].

During the week, many competitions are held, including the popular Mr. Blue & Gold and Godiva's Crown Competitions, which determine two of the principal figures of Skule™ spirit for the following year, Mr. Blue & Gold and Godiva's Crown. The new Baby Bnad Leedur and D(r)umb Miner of the [[Lady Godiva Memorial Bnad]] are also selected during Godiva's Wake.

Welcome

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Skulepedia is a source of information for all Skule™-related things. It is a repository maintained by students and alumni of Skule™ who are proud to have gone through our great institution, with its grand traditions and deep history.

The goal of Skulepedia is to comprehensively collect and organize information about Skule™ life over the years. We welcome the participation of all Skulemates and alumni to help us along the way!

==Featured Pages==
*[[Godiva Week]]
:*[[Ye Grande Olde Chariot Race]]
:*[[Mr. Blue & Gold]]
:*[[Godiva's Crown]]
:*[[Ultimate F!rosh]]
:*[[Godiva's Quest]]
*[[Sword in the Stone]]
*[[Skule Cannon | Skule™ Cannon]]
*[[University of Toronto Engineering Kompetitions]]
*[[University of Toronto High School Design Competition (UTHSDC) | University of Toronto High School Design Competition]]
*[[List of Clubs]]

==Content by Year==
*[[2010-2011]]
*[[2009-2010]]
*[[2008-2009]]
*[[2007-2008]]
*[[2006-2007]]

Godiva's Quest

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Godiva's Quest is a traditional quest of wits, skill and determination. Questers have to solve a gauntlet of puzzles and challenges, both on line and around campus. The first person to finish the Quest is awarded the ultimate prize: the third and final Chariot Race Judge position.

===Rules===
*F!rosh cannot win. They are encouraged to participate.
*There is only one winner. You can work as a team, but only one person can win.
*No one already judging the Chariot Race can win.
*No fisticuffs.
*Hacking and cheating is not permitted.
*Hints may be provided at the discretion of the QuestMaster.
*Have fun!

==History of the Quest==

===0T3===
The puzzles in this Quest were all cryptographic in nature. In order to claim the prize however, the winner had to sing Bust a Move at Eglinton Station.

===0T4===
This Quest incorporated music trivia and word searches into puzzles. The winner had to perform The Tale of Mr. Morton by Schoolhouse Rock near the Union subway station. They brought some instruments down and played during the evening rush.

===0T5===
The Quest this year was styled after the 'Keeper of the Bridge of Death', from Monty Python and the Holy Grail. It was 5 puzzles, including a euchre-based puzzle and a question about the air-speed velocity of a swallow. This was the last purely text-based quest.

===0T6===
Up to this point, the Quest was just a bunch of puzzles thrown together. This year the puzzles were all linked together with an overall story, taking participants to various buildings around campus in the story. The order the buildings were visited was the solution key to the final puzzle. This was the last year where participants would bribe the QuestMaster for hints to the puzzles. Some of the puzzles required participants to piece together further instructions from the text on landmarks, such as the 0T5 wall in the SF atrium which had the verses of Godiva's Hymn.

===0T7===
This year's Quest followed suit from the previous year's, using an overall story to link the puzzles together. However, with the graphics help of Henry Cheung (B&G co-chair with John McLeod that year, and the designer of the still-used godivaweek.skule.ca layout), each puzzle was stored as an image, and additional visual clues were embedded in the image. This Quest led participants around campus, and each puzzle solution was a piece of the final puzzle, which required participants to find a specific book in the SF library to win.

===0T8===
This Quest was unique in that no one knew who the QuestMasters were until the final puzzle. The Quest was run as an ARG, where participants got instructions from an unknown person, identified as 'Godgifu of Mercia' a couple puzzles in. No one actually knew who was running the quest, which allowed the QuestMasters to intermingle with participants until the end reveal. This was the first Quest to use instant-feedback for correct answers, as well as IP logging to detect cheating, and puzzles built in Flash. It featured 14 online puzzles (more than double the amount of most years), and a run-around portion where participants got information on where and when the final puzzle was. Puzzles ranged from simple decryption to piecing together images on the plasma screen. At one point participants had to answer a public phone at a certain time, and were given instructions from a pre-recorded computer message.

===0T9===
Without a doubt, this was one of the nicest looking Quests ever made. It also made huge improvements to the back-end. Up until this point registration was dealt with by the QuestMaster. This Quest had automated user registration, generating aliases for each participant to be used when submitting answers. On top of that, you could see which users had solved what puzzles on their automatically updated scoreboard. There were 16 puzzles to be solved, using a wide variety of puzzle types. The first 9 puzzles could be solved in any order, however the 9th puzzle was easier after solving the first 8. Clues to help solve the 9th were emailed to the participants once they solved each of the puzzles leading up to the 9th. Upon solving each puzzle in the last batch of puzzles, participants were emailed a section of a lock combination. The final puzzle gave the location of the locker, and inside were instructions to phone the QuestMaster to claim victory.

===1T0===
This Quest returned to a linear model, and was similar to online challenges like the Tim Tang Test and notpr0n. Registration returned to the traditional method of filling out a form, and user progress was not tracked. Puzzles included hidden text in images, clever riddles, and a clue inside the Beast.

==Past Winners and Masters==
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Year
! Winner(s)
! Quest Master(s)
|-
| 0T3
| 1st) Don McAuslan
| Andrew Overholt
|-
| 0T4
| 1st) Andrew Overholt
| Don McAuslan
|-
| 0T5
| 1st) Cameron Fraser & Evangelos Staikos
| John McLeod
|-
| 0T6
| 1st) Luke Wesley
| Cameron Fraser & Evangelos Staikos
|-
| 0T7
| 1st) Robert Nesci
| Igor Denisov
|-
| 0T8
| 1st) Sanae Rosen*
2nd) Tommy Liu
| Evangelos Staikos & Ian Swartz
|-
| 0T9
| 1st) Evangelos Staikos* & Ian Swartz*
2nd) Benjamin Schmidt
| Tommy Liu
|-
| 1T0
| 1st) Evangelos Staikos*
2nd) Alvin Ho
| Kathy Grycko & Kevin P. Siu
|-
| 1T1
| 1st) Ian Swartz*
2nd) Alvin Ho
3rd) Victor Zhang
| Evangelos Staikos
|}
<nowiki>*Ineligible</nowiki>

Godiva's Quest

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Godiva's Quest

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Godiva's Quest is a traditional quest of wits, skill and determination. Questers have to solve a gauntlet of puzzles and challenges, both on line and around campus. The first person to finish the Quest is awarded the ultimate prize: the third and final Chariot Race Judge position.

===Rules===
* F!rosh cannot win. They are encouraged to participate.
* There is only one winner. You can work as a team, but only one person can win.
* No one already judging the Chariot Race can win.
* No fisticuffs.
* Hacking and cheating is not permitted.
* Hints may be provided at the discretion of the QuestMaster.
* Have fun!

==History of the Quest==

===0T3===
The puzzles in this Quest were all cryptographic in nature. In order to claim the prize however, the winner had to sing Bust a Move at Eglinton Station.

===0T4===
This Quest incorporated music trivia and word searches into puzzles. The winner had to perform The Tale of Mr. Morton by Schoolhouse Rock near the Union subway station. They brought some instruments down and played during the evening rush.

===0T5===
The Quest this year was styled after the 'Keeper of the Bridge of Death', from Monty Python and the Holy Grail. It was 5 puzzles, including a euchre-based puzzle and a question about the air-speed velocity of a swallow. This was the last purely text-based quest.

===0T6===
Up to this point, the Quest was just a bunch of puzzles thrown together. This year the puzzles were all linked together with an overall story, taking participants to various buildings around campus in the story. The order the buildings were visited was the solution key to the final puzzle. This was the last year where participants would bribe the QuestMaster for hints to the puzzles. Some of the puzzles required participants to piece together further instructions from the text on landmarks, such as the 0T5 wall in the SF atrium which had the verses of Godiva's Hymn.

===0T7===
This year's Quest followed suit from the previous year's, using an overall story to link the puzzles together. However, with the graphics help of Henry Cheung (B&G co-chair with John McLeod that year, and the designer of the still-used godivaweek.skule.ca layout), each puzzle was stored as an image, and additional visual clues were embedded in the image. This Quest led participants around campus, and each puzzle solution was a piece of the final puzzle, which required participants to find a specific book in the SF library to win.

===0T8===
This Quest was unique in that no one knew who the QuestMasters were until the final puzzle. The Quest was run as an ARG, where participants got instructions from an unknown person, identified as 'Godgifu of Mercia' a couple puzzles in. No one actually knew who was running the quest, which allowed the QuestMasters to intermingle with participants until the end reveal. This was the first Quest to use instant-feedback for correct answers, as well as IP logging to detect cheating, and puzzles built in Flash. It featured 14 online puzzles (more than double the amount of most years), and a run-around portion where participants got information on where and when the final puzzle was. Puzzles ranged from simple decryption to piecing together images on the plasma screen. At one point participants had to answer a public phone at a certain time, and were given instructions from a pre-recorded computer message.

===0T9===
Without a doubt, this was one of the nicest looking Quests ever made. It also made huge improvements to the back-end. Up until this point registration was dealt with by the QuestMaster. This Quest had automated user registration, generating aliases for each participant to be used when submitting answers. On top of that, you could see which users had solved what puzzles on their automatically updated scoreboard. There were 16 puzzles to be solved, using a wide variety of puzzle types. The first 9 puzzles could be solved in any order, however the 9th puzzle was easier after solving the first 8. Clues to help solve the 9th were emailed to the participants once they solved each of the puzzles leading up to the 9th. Upon solving each puzzle in the last batch of puzzles, participants were emailed a section of a lock combination. The final puzzle gave the location of the locker, and inside were instructions to phone the QuestMaster to claim victory.

===1T0===
This Quest returned to a linear model, and was similar to online challenges like the Tim Tang Test and notpr0n. Registration returned to the traditional method of filling out a form, and user progress was not tracked. Puzzles included hidden text in images, clever riddles, and a clue inside the Beast.

==Past Winners and Masters==
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Year
! Winner(s)
! Quest Master(s)
|-
| 0T3
| 1st) Don McAuslan
| Andrew Overholt
|-
| 0T4
| 1st) Andrew Overholt
| Don McAuslan
|-
| 0T5
| 1st) Cameron Fraser & Evangelos Staikos
| John McLeod
|-
| 0T6
| 1st) Luke Wesley
| Cameron Fraser & Evangelos Staikos
|-
| 0T7
| 1st) Robert Nesci
| Igor Denisov
|-
| 0T8
| 1st) Sanae Rosen*
2nd) Tommy Liu
| Evangelos Staikos & Ian Swartz
|-
| 0T9
| 1st) Evangelos Staikos* & Ian Swartz*
2nd) Benjamin Schmidt
| Tommy Liu
|-
| 1T0
| 1st) Evangelos Staikos*
2nd) Alvin Ho
| Kathy Grycko & Kevin P. Siu
|-
| 1T1
| 1st) Ian Swartz*
2nd) Alvin Ho
3rd) Victor Zhang
| Evangelos Staikos
|}
*Ineligible