Teammate Hunt 2021

Teammate Hunt 2021
Running Team	teammate
No. of Registered Teams	497
Winning Team	banALITY AND CIRcuses
No. of Rounds	2
No. of Puzzles (Feeders and Metas)	48
Timeframe and Location
Location	Online
Start Time	2021-10-01 23:00 UTC
Finishing Time (Winning Team)	2021-10-03 1:13:39 UTC
Official End Time	2021-10-11 4:00 UTC
Links
Hunt Link	Link
Wrapup Link	Link
Teammate Hunt Chronology

Teammate Hunt 2021, titled Matt & Emma's Carnival Conundrum, was the second iteration of the Teammate Hunt, run by teammate, which ran in early October, 2021. The hunt has a carnival theme, with teams following Matt and Emma by solving various puzzles themed around carnival attractions.

However, once the first pair of metas is solved, Matt & Emma each find themselves in another dimension, where any mention of the existence of the other twin is lost. At this point, solvers can switch between two different versions of the site ("Matt" and "Emma"). Any mention of the other twin on the site (both in text and in pictures) disappears. Here, a signature element of the hunt comes into play: Click to revealSome of the puzzles are each entangled with another puzzle from the other dimension. That is, each puzzle in an entangled pair requires information or interaction from the other puzzle in order to solve it.

Plot

The story was conveyed mostly visually through art on the story page and the individual puzzle pages. A traveling carnival has arrived in town, and Matt and Emma were enjoying the carnival attractions, when they were eventually invited by the Magician to each enter a box to take part in a magic act (Magical and Entanglement metas).

Once they exited the boxes, however, they found themselves in a dark dimension, and were told that their twin sibling does not exist. Each of them solved puzzles in their own dimension, sometimes Click to revealworking together to solve cross-dimensional pairs of entangled puzzles, and tried to find the Magician. Once both of them fought the Magician in their respective dimensions (The Mystical Plaza and The Sword Swallowers metas), and solved the finale Hall of Mirrors, Matt and Emma returned to their home dimension and finally reunited.

Structure

Matt & Emma's Carnival Conundrum is divided into two main rounds. The second round is further divided into the Matt and Emma sub-rounds ("dimensions").

Round Title		Number of Feeder Puzzles	Number of Metapuzzles
Act I		9	2
Act II	Matt	17	3 (one in each sub-round, and one unifying finale)
	Emma	17

List of Puzzles

Act I

• Itinerary
• Par Re-Sing
• Radio Noise
• Guessing Game
• Nonodropmasyu
• Objection!
• Tunnel of Lust
• Photobooth
• The Shooting Gallery
• Magical (Meta)
• Entanglement (Meta)

Act II (Matt side)

• Solving Pumpkin Patch with NO Given Pumpkins?!
• Suspicious Partner
• 🔗
• Beep Arcade
• Marquee Fonts
• Karaoke Machine
• Oxford Fiesta
• Symbolic Table
• Ring Toss
• Global Gift Shop
• Whirring of the Wheels
• Hexes and Spells
• Remember to Hydrate!
• Light Show
• Quick Response
• Contortionist's Act
• Pin the Tail
• The Mystical Plaza (Meta)

Act II (Emma side)

• All That's Left To Do Is Extract
• Menagerial Problems
• The Bazaar
• Souvenir Photos
• Time of Your Life
• DC Meet and Greet
• Pendulum Ride
• Unhealthy
• Plagiarism
• The Directory
• Mystery Manor
• Fun Testing softWare
• Monster Bash
• Tumbled Tower
• Human Pyramid
• Meta-Eval Times
• Single Elimination
• The Sword Swallowers (Meta)

Finale

• Hall of Mirrors (Meta)

Accolades

Award	Date of Ceremony	Category	Result
Bravo Awards	January 13, 2022	Best Presentation	Won
Bravo Awards	January 13, 2022	Best Direction	Won
Bravo Awards	January 13, 2022	Hunt of the Year	Runner-Up
Bravo Awards	January 13, 2022	Most Innovative Structure	Nominated