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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.KAOS was absorbed by [[WARP]] in 1990. In recent years, [[ACE]] has put on KAOS under the new title of "Nerf Game."
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.
==Rules==
'''Basic Play:''' When play commences, you will receive a personalized email with information about your first target, including their name and assigned room (you should trust this information and not the WSO facebook, which may not be current). From that point, you have <u>48 hours</u> in which to kill your target. You are also being hunted by another player throughout the game. If you are killed by your hunter, you are dead and out of the game. Each time you kill a target, you inherit his/her assignment and begin hunting your new target with a fresh time limit.
Every player is required to make available via WSO or Facebook.com at least one photo showing a clear view of their face.
The hunted are not without defenses against the hunter, however. If one manages to ascertain which player is trying to eliminate them, the former can shoot in the latter and "stun" them, preventing them from engaging in further aggressive behavior for a fair span of time (12 hours in the case of the 2007 game, 24 in past games).
Needless to say, the [http://wso.williams.edu/~kaos/rules.html [#Rules|complete rules]] are far more technical and complex.
==Endgame==