It was indeed! It was a first-come first-serve, so I had written a script to post immediately upon the thread unlocking with a team name consisting of the entire text of Atlas Shrugged, as an homage to the MIT Mystery Hunt 2013 team. I happen to be an MIT alum and perennial MITMH participant. The use of a script was not explicitly forbidden, but no doubt would have been frowned upon; I had not at all considered the havoc it would wreck on the other posters (especially mobile users) caused by the "activity you may have missed" feature. I had performed tests in a private channel and found that a number of books written by less terrible authors would have length issues, so I went with the original.In post 220, Keychain wrote:I think it was Kagami who initially submitted the name (indeed as a reference to the MIT Mystery Hunt) as the very first team signed up, but otherwise all very true.In post 218, Jingle wrote:It was chesskid and the team ended up being named "Who is John Galt". The event did have people who didn't get to join right away, but also so many force replaces and permabans that anyone who wanted to play probably got the chance anyway. It was, speaking as one of the people responsible for running it, a colossal shitshow.In post 209, Thestatusquo wrote: Funny story, one team tried to submit that as their team name for one of the previous TM events, 2018 maybe? Given that it was back when the site was a little more active it was first come first serve for joining the event and multiple people were refreshing the thread waiting for it to unlock so they could immediately enter. Some of them submitted after the atlas shrugged entry which caused them to have to scroll through the entire text to submit in the preview window.
I don't remember if anyone actually didn't get to play because of this or not.
Like our MIT counterparts, we won that year.