The Upside Down-The Final Portal
The Upside Down: The Final Portal – Stranger Things Themed Mystery & Puzzle Competition
- Organized by: IEEE GCET Computer Society & IEEE GCET Signal Processing Society
- Date: 15th September 2026
- Venue: Auditorium, G H Patel College of Engineering & Technology
- Time: 2:00 PM to 5:00 PM
- Participants: 350+ participants
- Opening Round: 59 teams
The Upside Down: The Final Portal was a Stranger Things themed mystery and puzzle competition organized as part of NEXORAE 2.O, the flagship event of IEEE GCET Student Branch. The event was designed to test participants’ decoding ability, logical reasoning, observation, deduction, and teamwork through three progressively challenging rounds.
- Round 1 – Signals From the Upside Down: A 30-minute puzzle round involving a flipped alphabet cipher, Morse code, binary, Caesar shift, a pop culture quiz, and a case file mystery. The top 25 teams advanced.
- Round 2 – The Case File: A 30-minute murder mystery in which teams analysed witness statements, clues, and evidence to identify the culprit and justify their conclusion. The top 8 teams advanced to the finale.
- Round 3 – The Final Portal: A 30-minute campus-wide scavenger hunt where finalist teams followed riddle-based clue cards across locations including the Canteen, Foyer, Front Lawn, and Library area.
- Final Challenge: Highlighted letters hidden across the clues had to be unscrambled to reveal the final destination, with the first team to reach it successfully closing the portal.
- Winning Team: Team Hawkins emerged victorious, with Team 3 reaching the final destination first.
The event concluded with the announcement of results, prize distribution, and closing remarks. Gift hampers were awarded to the winners, while certificates were presented to the participants. A Vote of Thanks was extended to the participants, volunteers, and organizing committee for their efforts in making the event a successful experience.
Event Highlights: Decoding, deduction, mystery solving, observation, teamwork, campus-wide exploration, and immersive storytelling.
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- G H Patel College of Engineering & Technology
- Bakrol road, Vallabh Vidyanagar
- Anand, Gujarat
- India 388120
- Starts 21 July 2026 05:30 AM UTC
- Ends 05 September 2026 06:30 PM UTC
- No Admission Charge
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The Upside Down – The Final Portal is a Stranger Things-inspired adventure event that blends technical investigation, cryptography, clue solving, strategic gameplay, and campus-wide exploration. Participants compete in teams to decode encrypted messages, solve logical puzzles, complete checkpoint challenges, and navigate through the campus to locate the Final Portal. The event encourages collaboration, communication, leadership, observation, and critical thinking while delivering an engaging and immersive technical adventure.
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| The Upside Down Poster | 5.50 MiB | |
| The Upside Down Report | 792.06 KiB |