As per tradition, the team that won this year’s Hunt went above and beyond the list provided by the panel of judges and exceeded all expectations, performing a four act play they had written earlier that day to capture first place.

“The first act was a soliloquy questioning the possibility of ethics in an inherently amoral society,” said team captain Cameron Baumgardener. He continued, “Then in the second act we all got naked and licked chocolate syrup off Ashley’s boobs.”

“I was really impressed with their use of anagnorisis in the second and third acts,” said Hunt judge Owen Craven. “The examination of the common man as a being simultaneously in control and not in control of his actions was fascinating and I found the ending to be cathartic, if a little trite.”

The team was awarded two thousand points for their play, enough to vault them into first place. The performance was described as “inspired” by two of the judges and “incendiary” by a third.

“The play was, like, sooooo good,” said Hunt judge Sarah Bridgewater. “I was all like, what are we doing here? What does it all mean? Oh my gosh.”

Baumgardener takes credit for the idea. “We were supposed to bring a bottle of vegetable oil and most teams end up chugging it, I think,” he said. “But I was like, wait a minute, guys. What if we use the vegetable oil as a metaphor for the impracticality of heroism in the modern day?”

In addition to their play, the winning team photographed themselves naked in front of Borders and upper-decked two toilets in Case Center.