Lovejoy High School’s Senior Assassin made its debut for the senior class on February 17th, and boy it’s competitive. The senior class council members, Genevieve Jones, Kathryn Hannah, and Avery Nish, put this intense game together. Each player must pay 5 dollars to participate and join a team who has another team as their target each week.
“You get in teams of about four and each team has a target team,” Jones said. “If they don’t get one member of their target team out by the end of the week, everyone is kicked out. Every week you get a new target.”
There are many new rules that have been implemented this year that are different from previous years. The class council posts these rules on the senior assassin Instagram page (@seniorassassin20252025). If a team or player breaks any of the rules, they are warned or kicked out of the game.
“You can’t do anything on school campuses even after school hours, during sports events and away games, and if you’re at work you can’t get shot,” Jones said. “If these rules are broken there would be consequences for breaking them like there would be in any game.”
If you want to prove your elimination of your opponent to the admins, you have to have a valid video if you shoot your target with the water gun and post it on the app SplashIn. The team “Watergoons” with Jack Bardwell, Caden Krause, Lawson Nitschke, and Eli Silva had a close call in getting eliminated.
“On the first day, we were scouting out of the house with one of our targets, and a black car pulled up next to us on the road,” said Bardwell. “They rolled down their window and pointed a water gun out on me, so we hopped a bunch of fences and ran through fields to get one of them. I heard one of them say they forgot their phone, so they turned around because you have to have your phone to video the elimination.”
Last year, players were able to purchase a Premium version of the app which allowed them to have bounties on their targets, immunities, and purges. Faith Knuckles, Chloe Murphy, Alexa Sims, and Talia Wirth-Holmes are on the team “Super Soakers” and do not agree with the decision to not allow Premium.
“I agree with the safe zones that we have for the most part,” Knuckles said. “But I don’t agree with the no revivals or no bounties like how we cant have any protection.”
This year, with so many participants, the prize pool is bigger than ever. If the game isn’t completed by March 17th, the funds will be donated to charity. The seniors are fully engaged in this exciting and competitive game, making it a memorable and enjoyable way to wrap up their final year.
“There is a prize for the winner in my venmo and it’s around $1,200,” Jones said. “That’s a pretty hefty prize, and I cannot wait to see who wins!”
