Indeed, the competition for Battle of the Buildings was very fierce. During Capture the Flag, people hid in the most unlikely of places around each other’s buildings and there was some damage to a building in the process. Consequently, that event was canceled. We also had another game called “Bounty Hunter” (a.k.a. “Murder”). That ended without notice at all and took me by surprise.
Those were the two things that did not show up on tonight’s scoreboard, and that is where the once-dominant building holds some of its dissent in the way the game was scored. Even more unimaginable was what happened in Penny Wars. In summary: Every building has a jug. A penny = +1 pt, anything else = negative points (e.g. $1 bill = -100 points). One person put in a $50 bill, and another put a $100 bill. That landed them in the last place despite the honorary title of raising the most money.
Repeating what I did last year, I put in $10 in pennies into my building jug and two $1 bills in everybody else’s. For that, someone is mad at me (allegedly for exacerbating the problem). So, I’m letting you readers decide what I did wrong.
Update:Murder was canceled because of the reactions from people who got “killed.” I heard that the person in charge of the event (who is a rep in the building that lost) gave up the event. There is also a Facebook group over this. As a veteran and mentor, I would like to put on the record that I am shocked and appalled at this.
