teammate
teammate is a team that participates in the MIT Mystery Hunt, as well as other puzzle hunts in smaller groups. Started in 2018, the team has placed in top-10 every year of the Mystery Hunt. In 2022, the team won the MIT Mystery Hunt (2022), and consequently will be hosting the MIT Mystery Hunt (2023). Since 2020, teammate has hosted 2 iterations of the Teammate Hunt annually.
History
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.
The starting members of teammate often hunted in Australian-style online hunts, as well as a few local walking hunts. After a recruitment process that mostly involved ✈✈✈ Galactic Trendsetters ✈✈✈ members, incorporating members from PuzzleHunt CMU, Black Fedora Group (centered around Berkeley/Stanford), as well as other non-floor-pi members from Galactic.[1]
For smaller hunts, teammate teams usually include some anagram of TEAM in their name.
Hunt performances
| Hunt | Year | Placement | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| MIT Mystery Hunt (2022) | 2022 | 1st | Won the Hunt. |
| MIT Mystery Hunt (2021) | 2021 | 4th | - |
| MIT Mystery Hunt (2020) | 2020 | 3rd | - |
| MIT Mystery Hunt (2019) | 2019 | 4th | - |
| MIT Mystery Hunt (2018) | 2018 | 10th | - |
