London Gamers Shoot It Out In The Streets

ChocLinux writes "Gamers that take part in the Streetwars watergun assassination tournament in London could face arrest if they stalk their target in the tube. CNET has spoken to one gamer who has taken part in the tournament and disagreed that waterguns could be mistaken for firearms, as all contestants are using brightly-coloured super-soakers. He admitted that he narrowly missed being eliminated. 'Some guy tried to get me outside work, but he missed and fell off his bike,' he said. If the game isn't over by midnight on August 15, the remaining contestants will take part in a one week sudden death tournament." From the article: "You can hunt your target down any way you see fit; you can pose as a delivery person and jack them when they open the door, disguise yourself and take them out on the street, etc. If you are successful in your assassination attempt, the person you killed will give you their envelope and the person they were supposed to kill becomes your new target."

Comments

Re:Timing?

[Rob T Firefly]

What better possible way is there to fight "terror" than to openly have fun and enjoy life? If playing with brightly colored toy water squirters in Summer has become a punishable offense, all is finally lost.

Re:The tube?

[CrazyJim1]

Thanks for the explaination. I thought the tube was slang for the internet.

sock assassination

[AcidLacedPenguiN]

some of the residences at my university hold sock assassinations, basically the same thing except with bundled up pairs of socks. You're only safe in class and your own room (if you locked the door). It's a fun orientation activity, it is sad that you can't have fun like that in today's world of terrorisim and all that bollocks.

though from the blurb I thought they were talking about not being allowed to take someone out on the internet!

Rain.

[EnsilZah]

I wonder, if it rains, is that the equivalent of being nuked?

As a player in the London Streetwars...

[Nursie]

I'd like to comment once again how behind the news slasdot is. We've been playing for two weeks and it's moving into its final phase now!

It's been great fun, have done my fair share of stalking. My teammate managed to get inside our first target's apartment block and flush him out onto the street, right into my range of fire. Great fun. We did put in about 7 hours of stakeout over the course of a week to get him though!

Alas we haven't made a second kill inside two weeks and will be disqualified at midnight tonight unless we can pull something out of the bag in the next few hours. Haven't seen hide nor hair of anyone hunting us though, which has been a bit of a disappointment.

So far I don't think the cops have shot or even arrested anyone either, which is good.

Re:Not sure this is a good idea.

[Bogtha]

The table leg was wrapped in a bag and police had been told he had a shotgun. If you're suspected of being a terrorist, having a flourescent water gun isn't going to make the slightest bit of difference. And you fail to mention that the guy "armed with a lighter" was holding a lighter that was an imitation gun. It's a bit dishonest not to mention this crucial fact and fail to link the article properly so most Slashdotters won't bother reading the article, don't you think?

Yes, all of these were regrettable mistakes. But brightly-coloured water guns aren't going to make the slightest bit of difference, you're just scaremongering.

You make the fear.

[Lave]

I'm replying to the first post to get this near the top of the page (which is a dastardly thing to do, and I apologise).

But to those that are about to read this thread, please remember that people below this post who think that with the "current political climate" this will get you shot are wrong. I live in London, I was hung over and woke up late missing the tube on the first bombings. and then got stuck at work the second time. And these are my experiences.

Firstly, I suspect it is mainly Americans posting - or at least I hope so - and I truly do not want to be mean, but Britain's culture is quiet different to yours. Our parents grew up in the blitz. And I grew up with the IRA bombings. Attacks on Civilians aren't new. They are a consequence of getting to live free. Just because people die - does not mean you give up your life and your freedoms.

The point I'm trying to make is that after the bombing attempt I had to walk across london to get home. Before I left we flipped from the (relatively) informative and calm BBC 24 news to CNN - and watched the presenters talk of the ""chaos" and "panic" as "millions of londoners" have "no possible way to get home".

As I crossed most of central london through most of the effected areas what did I see? I saw a roaring Taxi trade, and I saw hundreds of people standing around every pub I walkied past - drinking, laughing, talking.

CNN, by it's comments created fear across the country and the globe. But where it happened - there was no such thing. And the tubes were full the next day.

This is people playing with water pistols in one of the hottest summers London's ever had for fucks sake. It's more important than ever they play this stupid little game - rather than sit around in fear listening to the News as it lies to them.

Dislcaimer - I'm not talking about the Blitz spirit - or any of that crap, nor am I suggesting London would have handled 11/9 better. What I am saying is ignore the fear filled retoric spewing from the news. As I know first hand how accurate that is.