Teammate

teammate is a team that participates in the MIT Mystery Hunt, as well as other puzzle hunts in smaller groups. The team was formed in 2015 to do online puzzle hunts by a group of MIT students. Since 2018, teammate formed its own team to do the Mystery Hunt, and has placed in the top 10 each time. In 2022, the team won that year's MIT Mystery Hunt, and subsequently hosted the Mystery Hunt in 2023. Since 2020, teammate has hosted 2 iterations of the Teammate Hunt annually.

History
The original members of teammate often hunted in Australian-style online hunts, as well as a few local walking hunts, having had hunted with each other since 2015. Many of these members were MIT students from the Burton-Conner dorm, which also served as the teammate Mystery Hunt HQ. For MIT Mystery Hunt, most of teammate solved with ✈✈✈ Galactic Trendsetters ✈✈✈ until 2018, eventually splitting to form their own team. The two are currently sister teams, and often have members swap between teams. For the 2018 MIT Mystery Hunt, teammate recruited members from Galactic, incorporating members from PuzzleHunt CMU, Black Fedora Group (centered around Berkeley/Stanford), as well as other non-floorpi members.

For smaller hunts, teammate teams usually include some anagram of TEAM in their name. The team "mascots", Matt Amee and later Emma Tate were created around 2015, with the names are often used to anonymize team members, and later as main characters in Teammate Hunt. Following the anagram theme, both full names are anagrams of teammate. In 2022, some members of teammate formed a new Mystery Hunt team, Teragram.