From November 2nd to 6th NUIG will become a hive of espionage, as the cloak and dagger game of Assassins is played out across the campus. After registering to play on Thursday 29th or Friday 30th of October, you will return to collect your first envelope the following Monday. This envelope will contain the mugshot of your first target, and a copy of their student card, to help you find their lectures. You will use stealth and evasion to track down and assassinate your first target, all the while watching your own back for the assassin who is trying to hunt you down. Be the best assassin and at the end of the week, you could win a cash prize of €1000 and two VIP tickets to the Rotaract Socs in the City Fashion Show 2009, happening on 10th November.

How to Play

1. Registration will be open on Thursday and Friday, 29^th and 30^th October.

2. When you come to register, we will take a photo of you, copy your student card and take the €10 entry fee.

3. On Monday 2^nd November, you will return to Socsbox between 10am and 12pm to collect an envelope containing the photo and ID card copy of your first target.

4. You must then track down and assassinate your target as soon as possible.

5. To assassinate your target, you must tap them on the shoulder and say “You’re assassinated”.

6. You must then show them the photo from your envelope.

7. You will then take their envelope(s).

8. The person inside that envelope becomes your new target.

9. As the game continues, if you assassinate a player who has several envelopes, you assume their most recently acquired target, but also take their other envelopes.

10. At 12pm on Friday, Assassins will conclude, and all remaining players must return all of their envelopes to Socsbox. The winner is the person who has accumulated the greatest number of envelopes within the rules of the competition.

Prize Money

If less than 100 people sign up there’ll be a guaranteed first prize of 100 euro, if more than 100 people sign up we’ll raise that to 500 euro and if more than 300 people sign up we’ll raise the first prize to 1000 euro cash in hand!!

Rules & Conditions

1. Assasssins is open to all current students of NUI, Galway.

2. All players must carry their envelopes with them at all times, while on campus.

A player may only assassinate their own target.

No contact may be made above the shoulder or below waist.

Neither the organisers, nor the Rotaract Society, NUI Galway, will be responsible for the actions of any player during the game.

No player or non-player may assassinate a player on behalf of another player.

A player may only be assassinated on the grounds of the main campus of NUIG, as outlined in the map attached.

A player may not be assassinated when they are in a safe zone.

The safe zones are all lecture theatres, classrooms, laboratories and other teaching rooms, the library and the reading room.

The winner will receive a prize of cash and two V.I.P. tickets to the Rotaract Socs in the City Fashion Show, 2009.

There will be no cash alternative to the Fashion Show tickets.

In the event of any dispute on the rules or their interpretation, the decision of the organisers of the game and the Auditor of Rotaract, will be final.

After the prize money has been distributed, any remaining money will be donated to the Galway Positive Mental Health Foundation. For more information on the Foundation, visit www.positivementalhealth.ie