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12 resolutions. Remaining finishers: Level 1 Spicy, Copy of Copy of Sheet1 - I think one of these is tetaputz but not sure. Is another a different

TTINNL vs TTBNL

Also maybe a 16th finisher last minute

@phenomist I've N/A'ed TTBNL. level 1 spicy is a teammate split, but teammate also hunted as teammate so that is separate

additional clarification on what it means to finish:

If a team solves the requisite puzzles to reach the runaround before wrapup, but the running team no longer is running the runaround interaction that counts as finishing as well

@phenomist YO WHAT MASSIVE CLARIFICATION JUST DROPPED

@phenomist Note that this team did not compete this year. The Team That is Now Named Later is distinct

@JimHays I'm still inclined to consider TTINNL to be the "successor" to TTBNL given that EMU is separately listed. Would rename in a future year

@phenomist Last year TTBNL and TTINNL hunted separately. TTINNL continued this year, and TTBNL did not, while EMU is new. So there’s some historical overlap in people, but TTBNL =/= TTINNL

If I hear TTINL/EMU as team names, I'm definitely trading with the assumption that TTBNL is lthe TTINL listing, not "There's no TTINL" listed. I definitely did that this year

@Soni As a member of TTINNL, I would say that would be a mistaken understanding of the situation

Several teams shift their names slightly every year. It feels odd for one such case to be a gotcha when others are more naturally parsing for people outside the team. There is no TTINNL listed on here, and it definitely is the only team having the name succession rule of Pheno mentioned above

I’d be more inclined to see it differently if TTBNL and TTINNL had not hunted as distinct teams last year

It's why this feels like a gotcha based on insider team understanding than what people would naturally assume from "Team renames will inherit the previous team name, as long as the team composition retains roughly the same team composition" and without knowing insider info from the team

It's definitely not a cut and dried situation, but TTINNL hunted last year under the same name, so there's no rename this year. The team was on the hunt wrap-up slide (sorry the pic is blurry), as the last entry: "NowNamed", separate from the ttbnl entry last year.

Given "Teams that split will be decided on a case-by-case basis, but only one of the splinters would "inherit" the team name.", I would say that last year, TTBNL would have inherited the name, and TTINNL would have needed to be bet on separately. If you claim that this year is a merge of the two teams, then from I'll mostly rule on team name. I think TTINNL should retain its status as independent, since it's literally the same name as last year. Going to sell some though, since it seems like @phenomist is not yet convinced

@JimHays I think the alternative is N/A on TTBNL, since EMU is a more accurate description of the team than TTBNL successor

I guess the question is if you would consider the teams a successor in rename or team comp enough? I claim they are, because 2024 TTBNL fits that question even if 2025 has naming dispute.

Either way, I think common sense says that TTBNL should be ruled as whatever the finish status of TTINNL was. BUt if not, N/A, yeah.

Thought Literally Animal Farm was walled on a meta and had effectively given up on it, so I bought NO...two minutes before someone had the breakthrough.

Changed market close date to Jan 20 (1 day after wrapup)