Puzzle 1 -- Not what you signed up for

Puzzle: Teams revisit the 2019 Pi Day Sign-up form and find the following puzzle:

[Solution: Teams realize that "Mr. Bacon" is a reference to Bacon’s Cipher, which is then used on the message with italicized letters being Bs and non italicized letters being As to get bit.ly/mixedarts]

• Hint 1: Who’s this Mr. Bacon fellow? And what codes does he use...

• Hint 2: I have a weird form of synesthesia. I see italicized letters as Bs and non italicized ones as As.

• Hint 3: Mmm… Bacon(‘s cipher).

• Hint 4: Use a baconian cipher, group the letters in groups of 5, and treat the normal letters as A and italicized letters as B.

Available Star: The answer "mixedarts" hints to an anagram of "arts," which is "star."