Hints

Check the hints often for updates.
Remember your puzzle answers. You will need them again.
Work together for the first stage and maybe even the second stage.
You are not actually competing against: J Z, Quest Master, z z, Evangelos Staikos, Ian Swartz, [uc] riot.

The first meta-puzzle is titled Meta-Tracking
Watch out for bold and italics
The first stage has 11 puzzles
Stage 1 "Mixing elements": each number corresponds to some oddly capitalized letters. To find what 167g corresponds to, you may need an anagram solver.
Stage 1 "Vive la résistance": Italy defeated Germany 16-6 and Brazil defeated India 24-23
Stage 1 "The long of the short of it": The WAV format of the attachment is indeed a red herring
Stage 1 "Complex Machines": after a bit of fiddling around, the answer will be in front of you.
Stage 1 "Utopia": All plans are 5x5 for a reason
Stage 1 "On a scale from one to ten": This conundrum has hardness...
Stage 1 "Discipline": this puzzle uses the theme of the first stage, which involves the puzzles and the rooms
Stage 2 "Wordoku X": Wikipedia is a good reference for Sudoku variants
Stage 2 "English, do you speak it?": This is a good reference
Stage 2 "Where in the World?": The context of each coordinate is important, and sometimes you have to use your ears too
Stage 2 "Synesthesia": The piece is part of Beethoven's 7th Symphony, 2nd movement
Stage 2 "Holism and Reductionism": The letters A-T just serve as coordinates
Stage 3 "Trinity": Part 1 of the Trinity has been updated to aid those who can see
Stage 3 "Sword in the Stone" Check the HTML source code if ever you are lost
Stage 3 "Processed Art": You may want to use some software such as MS Paint or GIMP to process this RGB puzzle

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