How far would you go to win $280? With Senior Splashin season arriving at AL, students participating are on edge. Senior Splashin is a student-run event made to give graduates a fun way to win money. Students are given a target to eliminate however, there are a lot of rules they must follow. Students have to make sure they record whoever they eliminate and have to do it at a certain time. Students may not eliminate others during school time, practice, or while at work; they can eliminate them at their homes, but must be let in by a person living at the home. Students also have the ability to wear goggles or swim floaties to help them stay in if others try to eliminate them. As students eliminate more players, they gain points, which gives them the ability to buy power-ups. This includes purge day (nothing is a safe zone, and it’s free game), vanish (you can’t be tracked for 12 hours), and more. 

Senior Brady Watts is participating but is also running the AL version of the game. He makes the rules, approves the videos, and updates students with any change on the “Senior Splashin Page”. He says his friends were the one that pushed him to run it as he had never had the idea to.

“My friends and I were talking about it, and they told me to run, so I did. I never really thought about it,” said Watts.

While playing is a lot of fun, so is winning. By winning, not only do you get major bragging rights, but you also win the money put into the event. To participate, you have to pay $5, and whoever is left standing wins $206, and the person with the most eliminations wins $68.

Senior Joanna Kern would celebrate with her friends and have bragging rights for life if she won. 

“Winning would be pretty cool because of the major bragging rights, but also the prize money is an insanely great added bonus,” said Kern. ”I plan to use the prize money to take my friend out to a crazy nice dinner and buy some fun stuff for both of us.”

Senior Connor Price says his plan to win is to make sure he always has goggles or floaties on and to eliminate as many people as possible.

“I will be wearing my goggles in and out of my house and school, and for the purge, I will just drive around all day trying to get other people,” said Price. “My plan to get others out is to hide outside their house and get them while they walk in.”

While Price and Kern said they would eliminate their best friend if they got them, Watts had a different approach.

“If I got my best friend, I would try to avoid having to get him by putting bounties on them and hoping they get out in the purge.”