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Watergun Assassination Tournaments

StreetWars

— February 19, 2008 — Lifestyle
Could you handle being an assassin? Well this trend has become the latest craze in London and has now moved on to the US.

Streetwars, tournaments that run 24 hours a day for three straight weeks, have already taken place in New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, London, Vienna and Wroclaw, Poland. Next, they'll be coming to San Diego, Burning Man in Nevada and Barcelona.

Each person or team is assigned a target they must find and 'kill' using a water gun or super soaker. If you kill your target, you win their envelope and must then kill their assigned target. This continues until you find the envelope containing your own information.

The winner takes home cold, hard cash as well as much earned bragging rights.

For a visual, imagine a bunch of adults in a citywide Water Gun Fight. If nothing else its hilarious to watch. Check out the video...it may be coming to a city near you...

Trend Themes
1. Assassin Tournaments - Creating large-scale events based on imaginative role-playing offers major opportunities for disrupting the events and entertainment industry.
2. Social Competitive Play - Using social games as a way to encourage community and competitive interactions among people is a powerful disruptive opportunity for the technology industry.
3. Live-action Gaming - Developing innovative and immersive gaming experiences that merge digital and physical realities is a disruptive opportunity for the gaming and technology industries.
Industry Implications
1. Event Planning - Organizing large-scale immersive events based on playful and imaginative themes represents an opportunity for disrupting the event planning industry.
2. Gaming - Innovating new gaming paradigms that fuse digital and physical realities can disrupt and re-imagine the gaming industry.
3. Marketing - Integrating gamification into advertising can revolutionize the way brands engage with their target audience and disrupt the marketing industry.
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