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[[Category:Games]][[Category:Tradition]]
[[Image:Nerfwar.jpg|thumb|right|KAOS alums pose together in [[Bronfman Science Center|Bronfman]] during [[Homecoming]] 2007 after a few rounds similar to KAOS's [[#Endgame|final round]].]]A campus-wide game that takes place during Winter Study, Killing As Organized Sport (KAOS) is a proud Williams tradition [[Category:Tradition|tradition]] (started by [[Danniel Arramini]] '84 and associates) that brings students closer together through the magic of paranoia, assassination, and psychological warfare.
The basic idea of KAOS is simple. Each player receives a weapon and a target to hunt. Annoying constraints such as lawsuits and noise complaints from elderly Williamstown inhabitants prevent us from using actual firearms. These are replaced by silent, non-lethal plastic guns of dubious South-East Asian origin. In any case, each player is being hunted by another player. If you are killed by your hunter, you are out of the game. If you survive and make your kills, you live. Eventually, only one player remains.
Needless to say, the [http://wso.williams.edu/~kaos/rules.html complete rules] are far more technical and complex.
==Endgame==
When the number of players still alive reaches a certain critically low number, normal play is ceased by the KAOS organizers. Usually players are given a small respite from play before a final elimination round to determine a sole winner. The nature of final contest changes yearly, but usually takes one night, and many years has taken the form of a manhunt to the death through the halls of [[Bronfman Science Center]].
==The Death Squad==
===Claustrophobia===
One hour in a garbage chute is what it took to win KAOS 97. Ventilation shafts are also a good bet (worked in Star Wars).
===Vertigo===
The door's locked? Try a window. Don't look down.
===Paranoia===
