As one of the many second-semester seniors right now, it’s that time of the year for the annual Senior Assassin game. It’s irresistible not to join the game to win the first-place prize of over 1,000 dollars. After a trip to Five Below to buy some floaties and water guns, I decided to participate in Senior Assassin with the intent to go big and win it all.
The rules are simple. Everyone is given a target that they must eliminate with a water gun by the end of the week, or else they are removed from the game. However, at the same time, you must avoid being eliminated yourself throughout the week. Tuesdays and Thursdays are immunity days, meaning that if students wear floaties and goggles correctly, they cannot get eliminated at that moment. The last senior standing wins the game.
Day 1: I was out of town visiting the University of Virginia (UVA). I knew I was safe for the day, but I still brought my water gun in case someone was waiting at home. Luckily, when I returned home, no one was there, so I survived day one. What I found really funny from that day was that at UVA, several admitted students wore floaties and goggles, providing them with immunity.
Day 2: It was immunity day, so I wore my goggles when getting into the car to school to remain safe, just in case someone was stalking outside my house. I got to school safely with my goggles ready in my backpack for when I come home from school. I was teaming up with my friend to win the game, and that day we devised a plan to eliminate both of our targets during the week.
Day 3: Today was the day we had decided to risk it all and go after my target. When I left my house to go to school that day, a girl had hid behind my shed and ran after me in an attempt to eliminate me. Just in time, my dad shouted at me to quickly run inside our car, so I escaped. It felt good knowing who had me as a target, because then I knew who to keep an eye out for.
Now, this is where things get intense. After school, I volunteered at Hollin Meadows Elementary School for track and field, and noticed on my phone that the girl who tried to eliminate me that morning was located at my house. Of course, I naturally started freaking out and prepared to try to get her out in self-defense. However, as I was on my way home, I noticed she had left my house and was being chased by two other people. I probably should have taken more notice of this, but I was too paranoid about making it safely inside my house, so I could execute the plan to eliminate my target in the evening.
The plan went like this: my friend and I swapped phones before I headed to my target’s house, so that he wouldn’t know I was at his house. Once I got to my target’s house, my friend and I hid behind a bush in his yard. The goal of the plan was to eliminate him when he was leaving his house to go to volleyball practice, but it was then that we realized that his car was parked in his garage. So, we had to find a way to lure him outside of his house before he left for practice, and when I saw two kids in his neighborhood watching us hide behind the bush, an idea popped into my head.
These two kids would knock on his door and say that they saw two girls with water guns hiding on the left side of his house. We were on the right side of his house, so we hoped he would leave his house to go after us, and we would sneak up behind to eliminate him. When the two kids knocked on his door, his sister answered, and once they pointed her in the wrong direction, she immediately went back inside their house. We waited for about 30 minutes expecting him to leave his front door to come chase after us, but the plan went so askew when all of a sudden I heard a noise coming from the roof of my target’s house.
Lo and behold, I find my target on top of his roof, trying to use his water gun to eliminate us from afar. Obviously, the water never reached us because he was too far away. So, my friend and I spent another 30 minutes trying to figure out what to do, while completely shocked that he was dancing on his roof, laughing at us. We tried to talk him into coming down to do a one-on-one battle, but he refused to do so and told us he had all day to stay on top of his roof. He skipped his volleyball practice and chatted with us for a while about school from his roof, but I didn’t realize that it had all been a setup.
All of a sudden, in the blink of an eye, someone starts sprinting at me from behind and shoots me with their water gun. I actually jumped, because I was so scared and confused, because the person who just ran full speed at me wasn’t the girl I saw this morning trying to eliminate me. Turns out, the two people who chased her away from my house eliminated her, and they now had me as their new target; however, I didn’t know this because I didn’t have my phone at the time. So, my target had called the new person who had me as their target to come to his house and eliminate me from behind. I have to admit, I had been outsmarted, and it was a genius plan that I never would have seen coming. To that came the end of my time playing senior assassin.
Though my days were short-lived, I had fun scheming ways to eliminate my target. Going into this, I knew the second I got my first target, I didn’t stand much of a chance, because I knew he would pull a stunt like this to try to win first place. It’s nice not having to sprint to the car every morning on the way to school and not having to worry if someone is waiting for me at my house behind a bush anymore. Therefore, I’ve come to terms with getting eliminated the first week.
I highly recommend keeping up with the rest of the rounds of Senior Assassin, which you can find on Instagram @westpo26seniorassassin. As a reminder, Senior Assassin is not affiliated with West Po or FCPS.
