A Queue of BANGs

So we've finally officially announced to the BANG mailing list that we of The Smoking GNU are going to be hosting BANG 22, a simulcast of SNAP 5. (There was a short announcement at the the Microsoft Puzzle Haunt 123, but I don't know how many people were awake enough to notice...)

Which adds one more BANG to the queue. It's funny that within the next three months, there are three BANGs planned (with a fourth set for some unannounced time after that). Not all that long ago it seemed like the dearth of BANGs might mean the end of the line for the event.

I'm curious, though, as to what effect having so many so close together will have on attendence. My guess is that BANG 22 will have the lowest team count of the three: It's long (eight hours is the current estimate), it's north of the Golden Gate Bridge (the Petaluma BANG only had 24 teams, while the recent average has been closer to 35), it's a simulcast (which generally seem to come in on the low side in the Bay Area), and the other two BANGs are original hunts by more experienced, well-known teams.

Doesn't really matter in the end. We just hope to provide a good time and fun challenges as one small way of showing our appreciation for all the hard work other teams do to put on events that we participate in. Plus, it'll give us great experience for the currently purely-theoretical day we put on our own original puzzle hunt.