As the class of 2025 is winding down the year, one thing is filling their hearts, anxiety. Moving out of Lampasas, starting college, heading into the workforce; but none of these quite match the fear of seeing your classmate point a water gun at you.
Senior Assassin was started this year by senior Peyton Baird, using the app “Splashin.” The app allows for players to see opponents locations and who gets eliminated. Players are assigned a random opponent, and have to get them out before the round is over. But sometimes, these opponents are not so random, like for senior Chloe Cowdrey, who’s opponent was her boyfriend, senior Jonathan Harris.
“Honestly, I didn’t really have a plan to eliminate him,” Cowdrey said. “When we first got our targets, I lied to him and told him I had gotten someone else, but I mainly did that to give myself time to figure out what I wanted to do. I really contemplated just letting myself get eliminated because I felt like he wanted to win more than I did but I figured he would also want me to have a chance so I shot him on a last minute decision when he came to pick me up. I felt really bad the entire time though.”
In other versions of Senior Assassin, players are allowed to wear pool floaties or goggles to be “safe” from getting eliminated, however for this game it was decided against.
“People would just wear them everywhere they went,” Baird said. “It would make the game unfun.”
In order to enter the game, students had to pay $5 to a pool that would be given to the winning player. The total for the pool is around $370. However, the game is not an easy one, so the money will be well deserved.
“The best thing to come out of this game is $370 for the winner,” Baird said. “The worst, you’re always paranoid.”
Some students involved in the game claim that other players have been cheating by turning off their locations, or even paying to be let back into the game.
“I think our admin did a pretty good job with the rules,” Cowdrey said. “I just would have posted them more clearly and been more strict with the enforcement. Especially with people turning off their locations or setting their phones in airplane mode so their location doesn’t update. I feel like it just takes away some of the fun and purpose of the game.”
As of April 25, the remaining students were seniors Brayden Phillips, Danica Myers, Solomon Torrez, Chesley Breuer, Cindy Ramos, Daniel Norton, and Essence Ivery.
“I got eliminated after the senior awards ceremony, when I went out to eat with Jonathan’s family at Alfredo’s,” Cowdrey said. “Chesley Breuer got me out there, but I wasn’t too upset about it, I had already made it to round three and Chesley had done a good job. I hadn’t even known she had me.”
