And You Thought Your Law School Was Cutthroat and Competitive

Today marks the start of two weeks of “Assassins” at Columbia Law School. The game will start internally, undoubtedly as a training exercise for CLS students before they start hunting the deadliest prey: NYU students.

The game, if you’ve never played it, is awesome. The rules are simple:

* You will be given a target. Find them and “assassinate” them by hitting them in the back with a sock.

* Get your next assignment from your “assassinated” target; his/her former target becomes yours.

* If you “swing & miss” your target, you must wait one hour before attempting another assassination.

* Once you are “assassinated,” you are out of the game.

* The last player standing is the winner.

As we understand it, over 200 students have signed up. An organizer tells us why:

If stereotypes are to believed, CLS students are familiar with watching their backs, eyeing their rivals with suspicion, viciously taking any means necessary to eliminate their competition, and gloating with vituperation at victories over colleagues.

In this job market, “Assassins” is much better training than M&A.

Read the full rules and regulations, after the jump.

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COLUMBIA LAW SCHOOL — ASSASSINS RULES

Play

* You will be given a target. Find them and “assassinate” them by hitting them in the back with a sock.

* Get your next assignment from your “assassinated” target; his/her former target becomes yours.

* When you have eliminated a target, register your assassination with the commissioner [Redacted]. The commissioner will notify the target. There is a 4-hour dispute window.

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* If you “swing & miss” your target, you must wait one hour before attempting another assassination.

* Once you are “assassinated” you are out of the game.

* The last player standing is the winner.

Assassinations

* Make your weapon by stuffing socks into the bottom of a long tube sock. The sock may only be filled with another sock(s).

* People will “assassinate” other players by hitting them with a sock.

* Only hits to the back count, though the person being hit doesn’t have to be unaware.

* Any hit to a backpack worn on the back counts as a hit.

* No throwing the sock. It must be held in the hand.

* Assassinations may be made both on & off campus.

Logistics

* The game will start on Monday, November 10 at 5am.

* Regular play will end on Monday, November 24 at 5pm. At this time, if there is no winner, the top 10 active assassins (by number of kills) will go into a sudden death round.

* The game will be administrated by a non-playing Commissioner who will maintain the targets, keep score, and be the final arbiter in all disputes.

Restrictions

* NOTHING IN A CLASSROOM DURING CLASS OR ANY SCHEDULED EVENT.

* NOTHING ON THE 5TH FLOOR OR ABOVE.

* NOTHING IN ANY OF THE UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES.

* YOU MAY NOT ASSASSINATE ANYONE ELSE’S TARGET.

* PLEASE KEEP IN MIND THIS IS AN EDUCATIONAL ENVIRONMENT; DON’T BE DISRUPTIVE. [Ed Note: Hahahahahahahahaha]

* REPORTS OF EXCESSIVE DISRUPTION WILL SUBJECT THE PLAYER TO DISQUALIFICATION.

Anyone who doesn’t abide by the rules is out of the game.