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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
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) 27 (Sun)	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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