Super soaked showdown

Senior Assassin winners (Whitney Cia, Victoria Salazar, Lillian Terrell), courtesy of @mchs_senior_assassin_26 on instagram

By Isa Dajalos and Sloane Crocker

Senior Assassin. It’s the highly anticipated senior activity of the spring, an intense (sometimes a little too intense) battle to outlast classmates and make it to the very end. And this year was no disappointment, with the competition having just wrapped up after months of exciting action. 

According to senior Annie Lee, who ran this year’s game, the final three contestants were Lillian Terrell, Whitney Cia, and Victoria Salazar. Because it was a general consensus that the game should end before the upcoming slew of AP tests and senior activities, and because the final three were friends and didn’t want to battle it out any further, Lee described that they agreed to end the game and “split the pot.” Cia earned ten dollars per kill as the finalist with the most kills, meaning that she got about 300 dollars while Terrell and Salazar ended with about 200 each.

Other contestants who almost survived until the end included Johnny Wintermeyer, Cooper Jeffus, Chloe Morelle, and Kalen Barrisford. Barrisford was very committed to the competition but according to Lee “turned off his location and got kicked out.” She said that he told her he “wanted to go out on [his] own terms.”

Throughout this entire competition, Lee was tasked with assigning targets, setting and enforcing rules, and updating the Instagram account with new kills. However, she didn’t take any of the money from the pot, saying that she “just wanted to run it for the fun of it. She summed it up perfectly, saying “It’s fun. People are a little crazy, but most people are pretty nice.”