So, you're kidnapped and left on a deserted island...

In My Humble Opinion
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Last night, I watched a Japanese film called Battle Royal. It was really well done, but sitting with my friends, we started talking…

If your seventh grade class were suddenly hijacked on a school trip, set on a desserted island, and forced to kill one another, how would you react?

The constraints are such: Each person is given a bag with a map, food and water, and a weapon. The weapons are random, so you could get a gun, you could get an axe, you could get a pair of binoculors. Also, everyone is fitted with a necklace that monitors location, heart rate, and all that jazz. Plus, when activated, a small explosive inside will detonate, blowing a whole threw your neck, causing you to die rather painfully. The island is divided into sections, and every now and then, a section is declaired a “danger zone,” meaning any extended time in such zones results in said collar detonating. In three days, if there’s not one singular winner, all the collars explode, everyone dies, and no one wins.

In the film, of course, groups of kids band together with friends and try and form little communities. Some of the more determined or shunned students take no time in turning on their fellow students. And others use these next three days as a way of admitting their little crushes while they have the chance.

So, if you were in such a situation, where would you fall? Would you be one of these “Let’s stay together and make a happy little home for ourselves and all die together as friends” kind of people, or the more “Sorry, I know we’re friends, but it’s you or me, and I never really liked you anyway, so bye” kind of people?

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  1. Get rid of the annoying kids that don’t contribute to the group;)
  2. Proclaim that I am the Great Holyness and Ruler of 7ers.
  3. Get rid of anyone that opposes me.
  4. If there is anyone left, go to step 5.
  5. Band together find the s.o.b that put us there and kick the crap out of him. Or if thats not possible just sit there. A bunch of kids sitting around doesn’t make for good entertainment. Also I’d try to get the collar off. But being in grade 7 and all, I’d probably have to idea wtf I was doing and blow myself up anyway.
    Sounds like a interesting movie. I’ll have to get it sometime.
    Wearia
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Assuming that the control freaks who set it up just liked bloodshed, then the best strategy for someone would be to become a bloodthirsty gladiator, killing all others quickly and with dramatic moves.
That would be his only hope of being spared for future contests.
That said, it wouldn’t be my choice, because I’m not good at fights, always leaving my guard down or missing an opening.

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being me, i’d go hide somewhere by myself until i either die from my collar blowing up or the stupid popular jock that thinks he’s won appears, then shoot/stab/poison/bludgeon/etc. him and then find a way to get the damn monitoring thing off.

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Try to use the weapon to get the collar off or die trying.

Other then that, I’d use the hide till there is one left method.

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I’d hide for about 2.9 days and hope everyone else had been busy killing each other off.

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Yours truly takes his bag o’ goodies and swims straight out to sea. How far out? I don’t know. Just how big are these “zones”?

72 hours of bobbing in the surf ain’t that hard. I’ve got drinking water, I’m pretty bouyant :stuck_out_tongue: , I’m a REALLY good swimmer and three days without food isn’t gonna kill me.

Let those landlubbers kill each other. What do I win?

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I would try to find a way to disable the blowing thingy.

Hiding is useless, as soon as someone notice you’re not here, they’ll find you and you’ll be the first to die…

Happily dying all together sounds cool actually 8-))