High School Literary Character Brawl!

So, ya, this program was a ton of fun!

While we've been discussing programs at Next-Gen Advisory Team (NGAT), we thought it would be a ton of fun to dress up as literary characters and then have some sort of contest. Originally, we were thinking of playing Mafia (or Murderer or Body/Body or some variation of the bunch) around the library, but with emergency lights, I didn't think it would be dark enough to be ridiculously awesome.

Then I started thinking about Live Action Role Play (LARP) and Cosplay. I figured that basic idea would give a purpose to dressing up, and would let us have a contest. So after discussing my brainstorming ideas with members of NGAT, I set about building a framework for our High School Literary Character Brawl!

The basic idea for the night would be 1-minute rounds where two participants would battle with pool noodles. After each brawl, the audience (the participants waiting their turn to fight) would decide who won and who had lost. The loser had to give 10 of their coin (we used LEGO pieces) to the winner. After all of our brawl rounds and challenges, the person with the most coins would win!

We gave each participant 30 coin at the beginning of the night. They also received 10 health points (they lost 1 point after each brawl lost, and in a couple of our other challenges), and 5 defense points (each 1 defense point meant 2 less coins you had to give your victorious opponent). If our participants had either or those left at the end, a health point was worth 5 coins, and the defense points were worth 1 coin. 

While this program was ultimately pretty simple, there were a few different pieces to it. So, I'm going to be talking about it for the next few weeks on the blog. Check back next week for the other challenges we did in-between the brawl rounds =D