For the past three years, seniors have waged war on one another with water guns during finals and end-of-year plans. The idea of senior assassin, organized by students themselves, is relatively new, and Woodmen have fully bought in.

The game is run on the app Splashin. Each participant is assigned a target and is supposed to eliminate that person in a week. Wearing floaties, goggles and other swim gear allows players safety from their hunters.

The rules of the game have been simple. All players must eliminate their targets by the following week, or they are eliminated. A floatie or goggles must be worn on the arm or head, respectively. A player’s location may not be turned off at any point in the game. Eliminating a player’s target on school grounds is strictly prohibited, and players are not to physically remove their target’s goggles or floaties.

Senior Avah Wallischeck, organizer of the game this year, said players took the game too seriously at the beginning of play with a group of seniors grouping up on another player for not understanding the rules.

“I attribute the problems this year to people taking everything too seriously. It’s supposed to be fun, and when people do stuff like not following the rules and putting others down, it makes it not fun. When people who are running it are contradicting each other by one shutting it down and the other contributing to the problem, that also feeds the fire,” Wallischeck said.

One of the strictest rules of the game is keeping players’ locations on. Some players, like senior Ava Griffin, were accused and eliminated due to the lack of a location.
“I was accused of my location not being on when it was on. I showed the admin, and she said that she could see the mistake and let me back in. We figured out that the problem was my VPN being on, so it glitched with my location,” Griffin said.

She said a few other problems have occurred, too, but nothing too significant.

“The biggest problem this year has been people not wearing their gear correctly. Whether they just don’t read the rules or it was never clearly stated, people were not wearing their protection right,” Griffin said.

Nearly every player chooses a partner to help their cause, and senior Carter Swain landed on senior Cruse Glidden

“I chose Cruse because we hang out a lot and he’s my good friend, so I figured we would strategize well together. We also get a good team name because both our names start with C, C-Monsters,” Swain said.

When signing up, every player has an idea of how they would spend the prize money of $500. Car fanatics like Swain instantly knew what they wanted.
“If I had all the money, it would go towards my car and upgrading it. The first thing I would probably buy is a ram bar,” he said.

On the other half of team C-Monsters is Glidden, who chose his partner for a different reason.

“I chose Carter to be a partner because I knew I could trust him and we could work together to find ways to get our targets,” Glidden said.
Some people choose their partners off past experiences.

“I chose Rhyan Pierce because we already drive around all the time trolling people, so adding a water gun feels like it would fit right in,” Griffin said.