# Watergun Assassination Tournaments StreetWars By Marquese Lewis | Published 2008-02-19 | Lifestyle Source: Trend Hunter, https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/london-assasins-do-you-have-what-it-takes-to-be-an-assassin References: [current](http://current.com/items/88845625_london_assassins) & [streetwars.net](http://www.streetwars.net/index.php) 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](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/ultimate-gladiator-experience) 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](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/delta-force) 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](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/fortnite-ballistic). If nothing else its hilarious to watch. Check out the video...it may be coming to a city near you... ## Trend Insights (Trend Hunter) - Score: 2.2/10 - Popularity: 2% | Activity: 56% | Freshness: 8% - Audience gender: 70% men, 30% women - Primary generations: Millennial - Top markets: North America, Europe ## Categories [Trend Hunter](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends) > [Lifestyle](https://www.trendhunter.com/lifestyle) > [Life](https://www.trendhunter.com/life) ## Key Themes ### What Makes This Trend Stand Out - **Assassin Tournaments:** Creating large-scale events based on imaginative role-playing offers major opportunities for disrupting the events and entertainment industry. - **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. - **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. ### Sectors Adopting This - **Event Planning:** Organizing large-scale immersive events based on playful and imaginative themes represents an opportunity for disrupting the event planning industry. - **Gaming:** Innovating new gaming paradigms that fuse digital and physical realities can disrupt and re-imagine the gaming industry. - **Marketing:** Integrating gamification into advertising can revolutionize the way brands engage with their target audience and disrupt the marketing industry. ## Related on Trend Hunter - [Interactive Outdoor Games](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/city-chase.md) - [Triple-Mode Powered Water Blasters](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/spyrathree.md) - [Power-Free Water Blasters](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/spyralx.md) - [Battle-Style Art Events](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/the-art-of-competition.md) - [Synchronous Firing Water Guns](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/synchronous-firing-water-gun.md) - [Competitive Web3 Shooting Games](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/wilder-world.md) - [Creator-Backed Toy Guns](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/mrbeast.md) - [Gel Pellet Toy Guns](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/hasbro-1.md) - [Adult-Targeted Foam Disc Blasters](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/disc-blaster.md)