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Tango0111 Apr 2019 3:01 p.m. PST

"A group of eccentric millionaires are planning on hosting a Hunger Games-style challenge where the winner receives £100,000.00 GBP – it has been revealed.

In an advert posted on HushHush.com, a website described as 'Amazon for millionaires', the event's organisers announced they are looking for a designer for their 'battle royale' arena.

It is unclear where the event will take place although organisers are looking to stage it on a private island somewhere in the world…."
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Stryderg11 Apr 2019 4:47 p.m. PST

They will try to host the event annually. But it's a once in a life time experience. ???

They will use air soft guns and body armor. ???

You know, I could save them a bunch of money by pointing out that there are air soft arenas all over the US.

Oberlindes Sol LIC Supporting Member of TMP11 Apr 2019 5:17 p.m. PST

will camp overnight, following a gruelling 12 hours of competition for three days in a row.

Soft.

Camp every night. No 12 hour breaks, or any formal breaks. Sleep if you dare. Competition is continuous until only the winner is left.

Paint guns would be better than Airsoft because the hits would show without reliance on electronics.

The advert states: 'We're looking for someone who can help design the arena for a 100-person battle royale inspired event.

100 competitors in a war of all against all? That will be fun. We'll need body and helmet cameras, and cameras covering the action. Maybe we put RFID chips in the competitors so that we can track them in real time in the arena.

No doubt everybody will be doing selfie movies with their smart phones -- and checking each other's selfie movies to figure out where they are.

With 100 fighters, they'll need a lot of space. Maybe a Caribbean island that's been destroyed by a hurricane. In the alternative, anywhere in Syria. That would save a lot of design and construction cost.

Design and construction would then mainly be about camera placement, securing unreasonably dangerous things, and building an out-of-game area for the boat dock, helipad, infirmary, press accommodations, and the Losers' Bar, where defeated heroes can regale the press and tv audience with what was really happening in those videos and selfie movies.

At the end of the ordeal, the winner will walk away with a whopping £100,000.00 GBP in prize money.

Weak.

What's a 100,000 quid among millionaires? The winner should get his choice of a mansion, staff, and wife or mistress from each loser. (OK, then: his or her choice of mansion, staff, and spouse or special friend from each loser.)

<>Aaron Harpin, HushHush.com founder, said: 'Battle royale games have become incredibly popular over the last few years ago and our customer is a huge fan who wants to make the game a reality in the safest way possible.

I can only think of Laser Tag. Even paintball seems to be a team sport.

It would be interesting to set this up as a miniatures game. 100 players would be unmanageable. 20 might be OK. 6 or 8 would make an interesting game, and there could be NPC fighters run by a rules system.

I would just assume that everyone knows where everyone else is. A vigintuple-blind scenario would be impossible to run.

rmaker11 Apr 2019 10:09 p.m. PST

WHY DOES ANYBODY STILL TAKE SERIOUSLY ANYTHING PRINTED IN THE DAILY MAIL? Or the equivalent US tabloids?

Twilight Samurai11 Apr 2019 10:49 p.m. PST

Only one man could pull off such an event.

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Tango0112 Apr 2019 11:39 a.m. PST

(smile)


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bandit86 Supporting Member of TMP12 Apr 2019 11:33 p.m. PST

Yeah they say they will use Airsoft guns but they are millionaires and well….

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