Past BANGs
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Here is a list of previous BANG races in reverse chronological order (note this does not always correlate with the BANG number):
| # | Date | Name | Host | Location | # Teams | Won by | Web Site | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 37 | 7/24/2016, 7/31/2016 | Ghost Patrol: Late Night Snack | Desert Taxi and lowkey | Walnut Creek | 34, 36 | Knights of the Square Table, Burning Halves | official site | |
| 35 | 6/25/2016, 7/09/2016 | BANG 35: The Secret of the Sapphires | Burninators | San Mateo | 41, 39 | LXP, Cardinality | official site | |
| 34 | 10/24/2015, 11/07/2015 | BANG 34: Hill Hunt | Larry Hosken, Jan Chong, Yar Woo, and Paul Rundle | Telegraph Hill, San Francisco | 28, 26 | Burnin' Beaters, Semiswift (formerly known as Pale Starches) | official site | Debbie Goldstein co-authored a puzzle, and Scott Royer III was involved in the planning stages. Three teams who had run recent BANGs got a couple of early-access invites each, getting them past the usual game-fills-up-in-five-minutes situation. |
| 33 | 06/02/2012, 09/29/2012 | BANG 33: A Charity BANG | Elevate Tutoring (Bob Schaffer of Team Longshots) | San Jose | 20, 14 | Burninators, The Judean GNUs | official site | |
| 28 | 07/09/2011, 07/26/2011 | Bang 28 | Burninators | Morgan Hill Community Park | 31 (week 1)
29 (week 2) |
n/a | official site | |
| 29 | 10/31/2010 | Bust A'Nother Ghost | lowkey and Desert Taxi
Mystic Fish |
Berkeley
San Francisco |
47 (BK)
33 (SF) |
n/a | official site | the game was written by lowkey and Desert Taxi; Mystic Fish hosted the simulcast |
| 23 | 09/18/2010
09/19/2010 |
MR EVIL BANG | The League of Extraordinary Puzzlemen | BVRLINGAME | 28 (Sat)
|
CRANEA / Judean People's Front (Sat)
Golden Golems (Sun) |
official site | |
| 26 | 09/26/2009 | Viking Conquest | Code Yellow | Mountain View | 24 | The League of Extraordinary Puzzlemen | official site | Simulcast of SNAP VI |
| 25 | 08/22/2009
08/23/2009 |
Back to School | Team Longshots | Stanford campus | 30 (Sat)
31 (Sun) |
Burninators (Sat)
The League of Extraordinary Puzzlemen (Sun) |
official site | http://www.stanford.edu/~wro/cgi-bin/gc/wrapup.php (Honorable mention also goes to our highest-scoring team, coed astronomy, who took the voluntary disqualification for their team size.) |
| 24 | 07/18/2009 | 24: The BANG | CRANEA | Downtown San Jose | 29 | Burninators | official site | |
| 21 | 05/02/2009
05/03/2009 |
Bang 21 | Burninators | Menlo Park | 26 (Sat)
25 (Sun) |
CRANEA | official site | 21-themed |
| 22 | 04/18/2009 | Bang 22 - Mobius Research | The Smoking GNU | San Rafael | 33 | CRANEA | Results | Had a time travel/deja vu theme. Simulcast of SNAP 5. |
| 20 | 03/22/2009 | Get Lucky! | XX-Rated | North Beach in San Francisco | 61 | Burninators (tie)
The League of Extraordinary Puzzlemen (tie) |
official site | |
| 19 | 11/01/2008 | Zombie BANG | Team GoldFish (Golden Golems and Mystic Fish) | Berkeley | Coed Astronomy | results | Simulcast of SNAP 4 | |
| 18 | 09/06/2008 | Iron Puzzler BANG | Coed Astronomy, Burninators,
BootyVicious, Evil Geniuses, Platonic Solids, Wrong Ideas |
Presidio, San Francisco | 29 | The League of Extraordinary Puzzlemen
(aka White Ninjas) |
official site | repurposed the 10 best of the 12 puzzles from the then most recent Iron Puzzler |
| 17 | 04/28/2007 | Knights of the Round Table | The Platonic Solids | UC Berkeley campus | 21 (M)
13 (H) |
Kittens Kittens Kittens (Mellow)
Get on a Raft with Taft (Hardcore) |
official page | |
| 16 | 08/12/2006 | The Amazing BANG | Blood & Bones | Los Gatos and Saratoga | 37 | Burninators | official page | |
| 15 | 04/08/2006 | Bang Appétit | Continental Breakfast | Petaluma | 24 | Burninators | official page | |
| 14 | 02/19/2006 | Hail to the BANG | Burninators | Downtown San Jose | 28 | Blood & Bones | official page | |
| 13 | 10/29/2005 | Trick or BANG | Get on a Raft with Taft | Union Square in San Francisco | Burninators (tie)
Condimental Bratwurst (tie) |
official site | ||
| 12 | 10/01/2005 | Bang 12 | coed astronomy | Downtown San Mateo | 36 | Get on a Raft with Taft | official site | |
| 11 | 08/06/2005 | Bang 11 | Everybody Loves Nutella | Downtown Mountain View | Get on a Raft with Taft | official page | ||
| 10 | 06/18/2005 | The Big BANG | Kittens Kittens Kittens | Google campus | coed astronomy
Nobody Expects the Spanish Inquisition The Red Sea DespARRRadoes (3-way tie) |
official site | ||
| 9 | 02/13/2005 | Sealed with a BANG | XX-Rated | Stanford campus | 33 | The On Point Kings | official site | |
| 1AE | 12/04/2004 | BANG 1 Anniversary Edition | David Alyea (of Desert Taxi) | Presidio of San Francisco | Team Tristen | |||
| 8 | 09/18/2004 | Bang H8 | Desert Taxi | Haight district in San Francisco | 12 (R)
14 (E) |
Everybody Loves Nutella (Recreational)
Burninators (Expert) |
official site | |
| 7 | 06/06/2004 | Nontrivial Pursuit | Burninators | Google campus | Kittens Kittens Kittens | official site | ||
| 6 | 04/18/2004 | Tall Tree | Blood & Bones and Bad Hair Day | Palo Alto | 34 | Desert Taxi | official site | |
| 5 | 03/14/2004 | Bang 5 | Desert Taxi | Fisherman's Wharf in San Francisco | Burninators | |||
| 4 | 07/26/2003 | City Lights | David Alyea | San Francisco | Team Blood | |||
| 3 | 05/31/2003 | Eyes Wide Open | 13th Avenue | UC Berkeley campus | 20 | Bad Hair Day | official site | |
| 03/29/2003 | BANNG - GPS game | Greg deBeer (of Desert Taxi) | Berkeley | Blood & Bones | ||||
| 2 | 01/11/2003 | BANG Harder | Blood & Bones | Stanford campus | 13th Avenue | official site | ||
| 1 | 11/16/2002 | Bang | David Alyea (of Desert Taxi) | Presidio of San Francisco | Mudbloods | official site |
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