On Saturday, 19 intrepid teams were dropped 99 miles away from Southampton to a mysterious location and had to get back as fast as they could, with no money. They also had to complete challenges along the way that knocked minutes off their final time. The higher the difficulty, the more time is reduced. You can re-live the nail-biting moments on our live-blog here.
There were some incredible efforts by each and every team.
The costumes were amazing…
#lostsoton starting in Gloucester hitchhiking our way home for charity! If you would like the donate https://t.co/EF4DMfxEqI pic.twitter.com/y393V74eoX
— Liam Edgeway (@LiamEdgeway) May 13, 2017
As were the team’s imaginations, when it came to the 99 challenges they were tasked with completing.
We found the Queen in a church. All alone. So we just picket her up and ran away. #lostsoton pic.twitter.com/nEjEilwQE4
— Sa+her (@Lektorstudent1) May 13, 2017
In fact, team Charlie and the Chipmunks absolutely smashed their challenges, getting a grand total of 412 minutes knocked off their time for their hard work, beating The Lost Boys by only 8 minutes, although The Lost Boys completed four more challenges.
However, we can now announce that the official winning team of LOST99 2017 is…..
Gone Girls!
Taking into account a time reduction of 315 minutes, this team had a finishing time of only 43 minutes. Amazing!
Rogue Rangers came second by nearly an hour and At least one Science finished in just over two hours! Hartley Heavyweights deserve a special mention for completing the challenge in a solid 10 hours and 32 minutes. Spectacular.
You can see the full results below.
| Team Number: | Team Name: | Finishing Time: | Current Location: | Challenges Completed (Time Reduction): |
| 2 | Gone Girls | 0:43 | Finish | 35 (315 mins) |
| 20 | Rogue Rangers | 1:37 | Finish | 36 (296 mins) |
| 14 | At least one Science | 2:06 | Finish | 29 (354 mins) |
| 13 | Charlie and the Chipmunks | 2:46 | Finish | 44 (412 mins) |
| 7 | BRUNOST | 2:51 | Finish | 24 (198 mins) |
| 1 | The Lost Boys | 3:22 | Finish | 48 (404 mins) |
| 12 | Jumping Amazing Super Optimistic Noodle Squad? | 4:12 | Finish | 19 (130 mins) |
| 17 | Team Found | 4:38 | Finish | 16 (189 mins) |
| 19 | 99 problems but being lost ain’t one | 5:45 | Finish | 17 (155 mins) |
| 8 | Firefox | 5:50 | Finish | 29 (129 mins) |
| 10 | From Non-Existence to Existence | 6:00 | Finish | 27 (207 mins) |
| 18 | Road Killers | 6:49 | Finish | 15 (175 mins) |
| 11 | The Senate | 6:53 | Finish | 12 (69 mins) |
| 4 | Tequila Mockingbird | 7:34 | Finish | 12 (115 mins) |
| 15 | better now Tommy’s morgone | 8:05 | Finish | 6 (92 mins) |
| 3 | Pandamonium | 8:50 | Finish | 18 (130 mins) |
| 9 | Sometimes Win, Sometimes Lyun | 10:08 | Finish | 6 (31 mins) |
| 5 | Searching for A-Free-Car | 10:11 | Finish | 5 (29 mins) |
| 6 | Hartley Heavyweights | 10:32 | Finish | 3 (27 mins) |
