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BEGINNER

• 1st: Serpentco, 17, 7:41:16
• 2nd: Snakes On An Inclined Plane, 17, 7:56:44
• 3rd: Asp Bandits, 17, 7:56:50
• 4th: Anacondaleeza Rice, Secretary of Snake, 17, 8:08:20
• 5th: Going Cobra Commando, 17, 8:16:11

REGULAR:

• 1st: Public Venomy, 16 correct, 7:15:234
• 2nd: The Sss-Naked City, 16 correct, 7:30:44
• 3rd: Three Men Anaconda, 16, 7:47:37
• 4th: Thus Spake Zarathustra, 16, 7:56:39
• 5th: Snake Who Complain, 16, 7:58:06

THINKS FASTER THAN WALKS:

• 1st: Forget It Snake, It’s Chinatown, 12, 7:45:13
• 2nd: Quit Dragon Your Asp, 12, 8:21:10
• 3rd: The Slithereens, 12, 8:31:07
• 4th: Snake Eyes, 12, 8:31:41

MASTER'S

• 1st: The Lowdown Dirty Rattlers, 15, 7:03
• 2nd: Friday the 13th Part VI, 15, 7:26
• 3rd:Snake, Riddle & Stroll, 15, 7:28
• 4th: I Just Coiled to Say I Love You, 15, 7:42
• 5th: Thin Man With No Limbs Who’s Covered In Scales, 15, 7:54

Special Awards & Contests: Team Names

About the Best Noir-Themed Name Award

Demonstrate your knowledge of arcane femmes fatales and G-men from Film Noir history. We’re big fans of the genre (in case you hadn't figured that out).

The Best Noir-Themed Team Name is awarded for team names connected with film noir and hard-boiled detective fiction (which can be related to the Chinese zodiac).

• BEST NOIR-THEMED NAME 2013, 1st Place:
  A Hiss Before Dying
• Best Noir-ish Team Name, 2nd Place: Hiss Me Deadly
• Best Noir-ish Team Name, 3rd Place: Public Venomy
• Best Noir-ish Team Name, 4th Place: Go Ahead, Snake My Day
• Best Noir-ish Team Name, 5th Place: L.A. Anaconfidential

Past winners include:

2010 (year of the Tiger): Purrtigo; P.I. Of The Tiger; The Big Cat Nap; Cat On A Hot Tin Sleuth; Cape Fur

2008 (year of the Rat): The Postman Always Brings Mice; The Big Squeak; Plague It Again, Sam; The Erratic Mob

In 2007 (Year of the Boar): Truffles are my Business; The Other White Heat; Play It Again, Spam; Key Lardo; The Pig Sleep

In 2006 (Year of the Dog): Bark Passage; Belgian Malinoirs; Pup Fiction; Great Dain Curs; Big in Heat...

In 2005 (the Year of the Rooster): The Bantam Menace; Rhode Island Red Harvest; The Postman Always Cocks Twice; Coq Au Pinot Noir; Sweet Smell of Cluckcess...

In 2004 (Year of the Monkey): The Continental Ape; The Primate Eyes; Show me the Monkey; No Esc-Ape; The Manchurian Candidapes... and so on.

We encourage creative naming of teams. To reward that effort, we offer two different awards for best team names in pun and noir categories. Prizes are awarded to the top five team names in each category. In the event that more than one team chooses a winning name, the award goes to the team that registered first. (You register your team name when you buy your tickets).

About the Jayson Wechter "I Never-Met-a-Pun-I Didn't Like Award"

The Jayson Wechter "I Never-Met-a-Pun-I Didn't Like Award" is given to the teams with the cleverest names, which are often related to the year of the Chinese zodiac. 2013 is the Year of the Serpent. If your pun refers to something that might be obscure, please include an explanation of the reference so we won’t overlook it.

• BEST PUN TEAM NAME 1st Place:
  Does This Make My Asp Look Big?
• Best Pun Team Name, 2nd Place: Diamondbacks Are A Girl’s Best Friend
• Best Pun Team Name, 3rd Place: There’s An Asp For That
• Best Pun Team Name, 4th Place: At The Cobra, Cobracabana
• Best Pun Team Name, 5th Place : I Just Coiled to Say I Love You

Year of the Serpent (2013) Scores

NOTE: As specified in the written Instruction sheet that everyone received, teams were required to list the time they were at each clue location on their scoresheet. Teams that failed to include all the times on their scoresheet were disqualified from the prize competition.

Beginner Team Scores

Finish	Status	Completed	Time	Team Name
1	On Time	17	7:41:16 PM	Serpentco
2	On Time	17	7:56:44 PM	Snakes on an Inclined Plane
3	On Time	17	7:56:50 PM	Asp Bandits
4	On Time	17	8:08:20 PM	Anacondaleeza Rice, Secretary of Snake
5	On Time	17	8:16:11 PM	Going Cobra Commando
6	On Time	17	8:16:35 PM	Snake and Bake (Matt)
7	On Time	17	8:18:56 PM	It Had To Be Snakes
8	On Time	17	8:23:25 PM	Christina’s Team
9	On Time	17	8:26:52 PM	Snaked City
10	On Time	17	8:27:10 PM	Perseus
11	On Time	17	8:31:45 PM	Barry’s team
12	On Time	17	8:31:59 PM	Boa Constricors
13	On Time	17	8:36:50 PM	Slither Me Timbers
14	On Time	17	8:38:48 PM	Serpentine Sleuths
15	On Time	17	8:44:10 PM	77 Wide Snakes
16	On Time	17	8:46:38 PM	Don’t Be an Asp
17	On Time	17	8:47:06 PM	Actarially Sound
18	On Time	17	8:52:17 PM	Hisssy Fitsss
19	On Time	17	8:52:34 PM	A Keen Trashy Foe
20	On Time	17	8:55:08 PM	City Slithers
21	On Time	17	8:55:49 PM	Stick It Up Your Asp
22	On Time	17	9:00:07 PM	All About Eve
23	On Time	16	7:35:23 PM	Super Bestest Friends
24	On Time	16	8:00:45 PM	Snake Rattle and Roll
25	On Time	16	8:08:05 PM	Gary and Elisa Hunt Some Snakes
26	On Time	16	8:17:30 PM	Snakes on a Caltrain
27	On Time	16	8:22:45 PM	Slytherin
28	On Time	16	8:25:56 PM	Loch Ness Mess
29	On Time	16	8:37:32 PM	Smells Like Team Spirit
30	On Time	16	8:41:03 PM	Speckled Band
31	On Time	16	8:54:29 PM	The Slithy Toves
32	On Time	16	8:55:26 PM	Pathos-ssss
33	On Time	16	8:56:31 PM	Serperior
34	On Time	16	8:58:56 PM	Boa Con-Richter Scales
35	On Time	16	8:59:17 PM	Two Shall Remain Nameless
36	On Time	16	8:59:33 PM	At the Cobra, Cobra-Cabana
37	On Time	16	9:00:24 PM	A Reptile Dysfunction
38	On Time	16	9:00:35 PM	Jamba Mamba, Hisstory Mystery Three
39	On Time	15	8:31:24 PM	Just Having Fun
40	On Time	15	8:32:29 PM	Sorry, Wrong Rattle
41	On Time	15	8:32:50 PM	There’s an ASP for That
42	On Time	15	8:47:22 PM	Ssslide the Brick
43	On Time	15	8:48:21 PM	Slytherin Sleuths
44	On Time	15	8:49:09 PM	The Kick Asps
45	On Time	15	8:53:50 PM	Medussa, Coit the Stair
46	On Time	15	8:58:04 PM	Boa Head, Snake My Day
47	On Time	15	8:58:15 PM	Killer’s Khiss
48	On Time	15	8:59:23 PM	Slithering Sleuths
49	On Time	14	7:52:42 PM	Booty Chasers in the Snak-ed Game
50	On Time	14	8:46:28 PM	Snakes on a Hunt
51	On Time	14	8:54:24 PM	The Pies
52	On Time	14	8:55:16 PM	Asp’s Fault Bungle
53	On Time	14	8:56:24 PM	Snakes & Adders
54	On Time	14	8:56:47 PM	Trina & the Tetratania
55	On Time	14	8:58:48 PM	Slithery Sleuths
56	On Time	14	8:59:51 PM	Go Ahead Snake My Day
57	On Time	13	8:54:40 PM	SLincoln
58	On Time	13	8:57:13 PM	Clued In
59	On Time	13	8:57:44 PM	A Hiss Before Frying
60	On Time	13	8:59:09 PM	Gerbie-Force
61	On Time	13	9:00:13 PM	Serpentine Fire
62	On Time	12	9:00:51 AM	Gan-bei Skal
63	On Time	12	8:51:37 PM	Hungry Hunters
64	On Time	12	8:53:23 PM	Madame White Snake
65	On Time	12	8:56:01 PM	Tastes Like Chicken
66	On Time	11	8:36:00 PM	Jasnakin Me Crazy
67	On Time	11	8:46:16 PM	SF
68	On Time	11	8:47:36 PM	Asp’s Fault Jungle
69	On Time	11	8:54:07 PM	A+B Scales of Balance
70	On Time	11	8:54:54 PM	Snakes and Ladders
71	On Time	11	8:55:41 PM	Half-Blood Sytherins
72	On Time	9	8:40:43 PM	Mexican Train
73	On Time	9	8:46:02 PM	Hissterical Boa Ties
74	On Time	9	8:53:09 PM	Bossy Boas
75	On Time	9	8:57:06 PM	Liane’s team
76	On Time	9	9:00:30 PM	The Snake Is a Lie
77	On Time	8	8:39:06 PM	Snake Shake
78	On Time	5	8:57:32 PM	Kiss My Asp
79	On Time	5	8:59:47 PM	The Rookies
80	On Time	2	9:00:03 PM	Puff Adders (only two times entered)
81	Late	17	9:28:00 PM	Mallory-Weiss Memorial Treasure Hunters
82	Late	16	9:11:08 PM	The Amazing Sleuthering Scavacandas
83	Late	16	10:00:00 PM	Soggy Puppies
84	Late	14	9:20:00 PM	Team Mauce
85	Late	13	9:09:22 PM	Speckled Band (Jeanste)
86	Late	13	9:17:39 PM	Sarah, Andre, Jason, Nate
87	Late	12	9:21:00 PM	Snaking Suspicion
88	Late	11	9:04:05 PM	Vipers
89	Late	11	9:09:35 PM	Team Slitherin’
90	Late	10	9:23:12 PM	Team Awesome
91	Late	0	9:03:19 PM	James (no times entered)

Regular Team Scores

Finish	Status	Completed	Time	Team Name
1	On Time	16	7:15:24 PM	Public Venomy
2	On Time	16	7:30:44 PM	The Sss-Naked City
3	On Time	16	7:47:37 PM	Three Men Ana Conda
4	On Time	16	7:56:39 PM	Thus Spake Zarathustra
5	On Time	16	7:58:06 PM	Snakes Who Complain
6	On Time	16	7:59:57 PM	Mist Connections
7	On Time	16	8:01:51 PM	Asp & You Shall Receive (Donald)
8	On Time	16	8:03:17 PM	The Bus Drivers
9	On Time	16	8:04:52 PM	Kiss My Asp
10	On Time	16	8:14:16 PM	On Hiss Majesty’s Secret Serpents
11	On Time	16	8:16:11 PM	Asp Kickers
12	On Time	16	8:17:08 PM	Sweep The Leg
13	On Time	16	8:17:33 PM	The Long Hiss Good Night
14	On Time	16	8:18:59 PM	Sneaks on a Plane
15	On Time	16	8:21:30 PM	Out of the Passsst
16	On Time	16	8:21:41 PM	The Sidewinders
17	On Time	16	8:25:36 PM	Asp-iring to Victory
18	On Time	16	8:27:04 PM	Kiss My Asp (Glenn)
19	On Time	16	8:27:12 PM	Does This Make My Asp Look Big?
20	On Time	16	8:28:46 PM	Snakes on Barbary Lane
21	On Time	16	8:31:01 PM	L.A. Anacondfidential
22	On Time	16	8:33:50 PM	Monty Pythons
23	On Time	16	8:35:51 PM	Pandas Not Snakes
24	On Time	16	8:40:50 PM	Roo Laska Tox
25	On Time	16	8:42:27 PM	The Asphalt Jungle
26	On Time	16	8:43:16 PM	Yellow Jackets
27	On Time	16	8:50:06 PM	Kicking Asp & Snaking Names
28	On Time	16	8:50:10 PM	General Ignorance
29	On Time	16	8:50:42 PM	Serpentor
30	On Time	16	8:56:36 PM	Harlem Snakes
31	On Time	16	8:56:56 PM	Serpensortia
32	On Time	16	8:58:28 PM	Gurp Gork
33	On Time	16	9:00:48 PM	SMS
34	On Time	15	7:54:01 PM	Vindshield Vipers
35	On Time	15	8:04:17 PM	Dr. Snakelove
36	On Time	15	8:09:21 PM	The Secretaries of Snake: Anacondaleeza Rice, Coilin Powell, Madeleine Allbite, and Henry Hissinger
37	On Time	15	8:19:38 PM	The Thing From the Star Wars Trash Compactor
38	On Time	15	8:20:19 PM	Arbiters
39	On Time	15	8:21:18 PM	Stranglers on a Train
40	On Time	15	8:24:45 PM	Sleutherin
41	On Time	15	8:31:54 PM	Haight Snakes
42	On Time	15	8:32:56 PM	Why Did It Have To Be Snakes?
43	On Time	15	8:39:37 PM	Slithering Idiots
44	On Time	15	8:40:21 PM	Sam Clam’s Disco
45	On Time	15	8:43:39 PM	Anonymous Venomous
46	On Time	15	8:49:23 PM	Herpatology Simplex
47	On Time	15	8:53:17 PM	Trivial Pantsuits
48	On Time	15	8:59:12 PM	Brony Style
49	On Time	15	8:59:48 PM	Crabs Rangoon
50	On Time	15	9:00:27 PM	Fang Shui
51	On Time	15	9:00:39 PM	The Team Who Must Not Be Named
52	On Time	14	8:08:11 PM	Snakers
53	On Time	14	8:26:17 PM	Our Anaconda Don’t Want None (unless you got dim sum)
54	On Time	14	8:29:11 PM	The Fangtastic Four
55	On Time	14	8:30:43 PM	Snake Eyes on the Prize
56	On Time	14	8:42:42 PM	Quetzalcoatl Too, Wouldn’t You
57	On Time	14	8:46:25 PM	TBD
58	On Time	14	8:51:32 PM	Slithering Slueths
59	On Time	14	8:54:01 PM	Fang-Nam Style
60	On Time	14	8:54:29 PM	Snakes Alive
61	On Time	14	8:54:34 PM	John Cook is an Asp
62	On Time	14	8:55:00 PM	Snake N Bake
63	On Time	14	8:56:50 PM	Trouser Snakes
64	On Time	14	8:57:23 PM	Team Oblivious
65	On Time	14	9:00:05 PM	Asp Me No Questions I’ll Tell You no liasirs
66	On Time	13	8:47:58 PM	Brony Style II
67	On Time	13	8:50:13 PM	Snakes on a Kludge
68	On Time	13	8:52:33 PM	Maltese Fang
69	On Time	13	8:53:37 PM	San Serpentine’s Slithering Sect of Scavenging Sleuths Seeking Secret Signs and Sleek Solutions
70	On Time	13	8:59:07 PM	Smart Asps
71	On Time	12	8:48:31 PM	Snaked Lunch
72	On Time	12	8:56:11 PM	Jaunty Pythoms
73	On Time	12	8:56:16 PM	Asp & You Shall Receive
74	On Time	12	8:58:41 PM	Hiss Hiss Bang Bang
75	On Time	11	8:04:36 PM	The Big Sssssleep
76	On Time	11	8:46:03 PM	Hong Kong Quintet
77	On Time	11	8:50:01 PM	The Pythongs
78	On Time	11	8:54:11 PM	Hiss of the Vider Woman
79	On Time	11	8:58:11 PM	Noah’s team
80	On Time	11	8:58:52 PM	San Francisco Garter Snakes - Fully Protected Species
81	On Time	10	8:45:49 PM	Pythons on the Slither
82	On Time	9	8:51:51 PM	Snake Boy Family
83	On Time	8	9:00:57 PM	Mercifer
84	On Time	7	8:54:23 PM	Le Serpent Etait en Noir
85	On Time	1	8:48:58 PM	Eight Treasure Race
86	Late	15	9:02:44 PM	Django Unfanged
87	Late	14	9:22:01 PM	First Timers & Old Timer
88	Late	13	9:29:00 PM	Team Pajamaconda
89	Late	10	9:02:26 PM	Tony & Tammy
90	Late	8	9:13:59 PM	Cobra Kai
91	Late	6	9:07:45 PM	Fang Sluts

Thinks Faster Than Walks Team Scores

Finish	Status	Completed	Time	Team Name
1	On Time	12	7:45:13 PM	Forget It, Snake, It’s Chinatown
2	On Time	12	8:21:10 PM	Quit Dragon Your Asp
3	On Time	12	8:31:07 PM	The Slithereens
4	On Time	12	8:31:41 PM	Snake Eyes
5	On Time	12	8:40:03 PM	Risky Snakes
6	On Time	11	8:49:53 PM	Undercover Trouser Snakes
7	On Time	10	8:29:32 PM	Fang of Four and Slithering Sleuths
8	On Time	10	8:55:25 PM	Snakespear’s Asp you Like It
9	On Time	9	8:45:29 PM	Venom, Vidi, Vici
10	On Time	9	8:49:41 PM	Diamondbacks Are Forever
11	On Time	8	8:48:45 PM	Semetic Slithering Sleuth Society
12	Late	11	9:11:21 PM	Vivien & Mike Anthony
13	Late	10	9:07:51 PM	The Slithering Sleuths of San Francissssssssco

Masters Team Scores

Finish	Status	Completed	Time	Team Name
1	On Time	15	7:03:39 PM	The Lowdown Dirty Rattler
2	On Time	15	7:26:25 PM	Friday the 13th Part VI
3	On Time	15	7:28:09 PM	Snake, Riddle, Stroll
4	On Time	15	7:42:11 PM	I Just Coiled To Say I Love You
5	On Time	15	7:54:56 PM	The Thin Man w/ No Limbs Who’s Covered In Scales
6	On Time	15	8:07:58 PM	Throw Mamba From the Train
7	On Time	15	8:08:18 PM	Wind-Chilled Vipers
8	On Time	15	8:15:11 PM	The Python Always Wrings Mice
9	On Time	15	8:22:04 PM	Slytherin Succotash
10	On Time	15	8:33:09 PM	Shanghai Kelly
11	On Time	15	8:39:53 PM	Forget It, Snake, It’s Chinatown
12	On Time	15	8:43:08 PM	Disobedient Children
13	On Time	15	8:57:01 PM	I've Had It With These Mother F’ing Clues on This Mother F’ing Page
14	On Time	14	7:55:26 AM	Mass Hissteria
15	On Time	14	8:12:24 PM	Parade Monitors
16	On Time	14	8:55:33 PM	Snake It in the Asp
17	On Time	14	9:01:20 PM	FMG
18	On Time	13	8:48:18 PM	Anacondaleeza Rice: Secretary of Snake
19	On Time	13	8:54:38 PM	Glass Snake of Key Largo
20	On Time	11	8:58:58 PM	Don’t Asp Don’t Tell
21	Late	14	9:08:52 PM	March of the Serpenguins

Complete standings from past years have been archived:

» view 2012 (or earlier) archives

Past winners include:

In 2011, Year of the Rabbit: Take the Bunny & Run; The Warren Commission; Don't You Want Some Somebunny to Love?; O Brother, Hare Art Thou?; Bay Area Rabbit Transit.

In 2010, The Year of the Tiger: ...But I Tigress; Black Eyed Paws: I Gotta Feline; Bright Lights, Big Kitty; Fangs for the Memories; Irritable Growl Syndrome

In 2009, The Year of the Ox: Apocalypse Cow; Bar-Ox Obama And Joe Bison 2012; Cattle Stars Galactica; Don’T Ox Don’T Tell; Random Ox Of Kindness; Team Parrot-Oxes; Think Outside The Ox; This Pun Is Ox-Idental; Ox Tale Snoops; Just The Yaks, Ma’Am; The Bull-Ettes; I Herd It Through The Bovine; and 2009’s one-time-only “Best Oxymoronic Team Name” went to Oxymorons

In 2008, The Year of the Rat: Tai Cheese; Ethyl Vermin; Rat@2E; Ratters Guild of American (On Strike Just in Vermin Plaza); Subprime Interest Rats. 2008 also saw a special award for Best Palindrome Name: Oozy Rat In A Sanitary Zoo

In 2007, The Year of the Boar: I Never Sausage A Team; Bacon it to the Streets; Days of Swine & Roses; Hog Day Afternoon; Born to Swill

In 2006, The Year of the Dog: Rex Marks the Spot; Dogged Pursuit; Ni Howl; Asta La Vista, Baby; Spay it Again, Sam.

In 2005, The Year of the Rooster: Poultry in Motion; Cockeyed Optimists; Huntin' Peckers; Capon Crusaders; Marco Pollo.

In 2004, The Year of the Monkey: We are the Chimp-ions; And Darwinners Are; Apes of Wrath; Marmoset Said There'd Be Days Like These; The Counts of Monte Frisco; Monkey See, Monkey Deux; Thelonius Monkeys

In 2003, The Year of the Ram (or Goat): Insufficient Ram; Shearluck Holmes; Goateam.

In 2002, the Year of the Horse: The Hoof Hearted; Those Opposed Who Say Neigh; Glueless; Hoarse Whisperers; The Neighsayers

Special Awards & Contests: "Best-Dressed"

2013 Costume Contest Winners

Don’t Asp, Don’t Tell, 2013 Best Attired (photo by Jef Poskanzer)

Don’t Asp, Don’t Tell, 2013 Best Attired (photo by Jef Poskanzer)

Two prizes will be awarded for the best dressed teams, one for the team with a theme related to the year of the Chinese calendar (again, 2013 is the Year of the Serpent), and one for any sort of costume. We will be taking photos on site the day of the hunt. Alternatively, teams may submit photos of themselves in their costumes (attach your photo to an email and send to (address will be posted here before the Hunt) - one photo per email). Please don’t forget to include your contact info (or Flickr ID) in the email body so we can reach you. HOWEVER, in order to be considered for an award, teams must be present at the beginning of the Hunt in their costumes.

Winners in this category will have their photos posted on the Treasure Hunt website AND Facebook page OMG. And for those who missed out - read your packets! We put a note in there stating that photos would be taken up front by the podium...

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