Senior Assassin 2024 had it all: betrayal, deception, and ultimately three winners, seniors Jake Solecki, Reegan Lamantia, and Sydney Hnatiuk, splitting the total pot of $1800. “We had already been playing for 5 weeks so we figured ending it on a good note would’ve been ideal. We all would’ve felt bad if we had gotten to this point and lost, so we just split it,” Hnatiuk said. This year’s game was run by seniors Matthew Sirota and Lola Bogwill, who engineered the rules, pairings, revivals, and distribution of money. “It was a very exhausting yet rewarding experience. It was strange being in class and in the hallways, hearing people talk about the game knowing you’re the mastermind behind it all,” Sirota said. Read below for the top “kills” of the game this year. 

Promposals

The game started at the beginning of March, but that didn’t stop senior Adi Zaveri from teaming up with Emerson Mitchell to fake prom-posing to Ava Cleveland. Zaveri showed up to Clevelands’ door March 4 with a pizza and “prom?” in black sharpie on the box. The night didn’t go as planned though – Cleveland never came to the door, and Zaveri walked away with $20 and a free meal. As the game started to come to an end, senior Ella Dominow was taking all necessary precautions to avoid being shot, but didn’t think she’d need to the night she was getting actually promposed to. As Dominow was getting asked, senior Steven Toth came running and shot her. Not all the prom-posals ended in tragedy, however. Senior Sarah Lampsa shot her target, senior Niko Fotos, during the first round of the game. Later, Fotos prom-posed to Lampsa with a sign that read, “My turn to take a shot: Prom?”.

Best friend betrayal

Best friend betrayal was a common theme among participants this year. Senior Ella Dominow makes a second appearance in the top kills of the game, killing one of her closest friends, senior Maddie Suroweic, during the first round. Dominow hid in the trunk of her friend’s car, disguised in a camo mask with the Pink Panther theme playing on the radio. With her friends in the car, Dominow shot Suroweic, eliminating her from the game. Senior Rajan Fisher got overly confident after “accidentally” posting on his social media story that his target was his close friend and teammate senior Ryan Eddington. Eddington drives Fisher to school in the morning, and quickly realized Fisher’s plans to “kill” him. Eddington teamed with Fisher’s assassin, and helped to eliminate him from the game three days into the round before Fisher even had a chance.

Craziest Kills

It’s February 29, and the first direction of the game is posted by Gamemasters Matthew Sirota and Lola Bogwill: “First kill of round 1 gets $50.” Everyone had been assigned their targets mere hours before, and was buying their nerf guns to prepare for the coming month. Cut to 6 a.m. March 1, senior Curtis Mysliwiec arrives at senior Annie Pleune’s house, his girlfriend of two years, to pick her up and take her to the gym before school. “We had talked about potentially getting each other, and we agreed that if we did, we would just play it out,” Pleune said. Thus, Pleune pulled out her gun and was $50 richer after shooting her boyfriend at 6:15 a.m. Pleune received backlash from Mysliwiecs friends, but as Sirota wrote in the caption confirming the “kill”, “all’s fair in love and war.”