COURTNEY CURTIS / Scroll Illustration

Battleship: the final sinking coming this week

Derek Ardmore ARD03001@BYUI.EDU Scroll Staff

Quickly, students jump into their canoe with roommates and friends. They are all armed with their weapon of choice, a plastic bucket. They look around to assess the enemy and hastily fill their buckets with the water below and charge towards the enemy ship with one purpose in mind: to sink the enemy’s ship.

These students represent just one of the teams participating in the intramural co-ed sport Battleship. Not only do participants get to wear the BYU-Idaho issued bathing suits, but they get to ride canoes in a swimming pool.

The main object of the game is to sink the other team’s canoe by throwing buckets of water at the opponents’ canoes in an attempt to fill it to the brim with water and down they go. So what’s the best way to do this? The first thing to do is to assemble a winning team.

“Choose some friends that are strong enough to throw big buckets of water,” said Bryce Evans, a junior from Kaysville, Utah.

Once a team is assembled, a strategy for success is needed. Evans, coming off last season as a member of the bronze team, said his secret weapon was a big green bucket.

“People came to recognize the big green bucket and would get scared when they saw it,” Evans said.

This of course is not the only winning strategy. Clay Smith, a junior from Highland, Utah, used a strategy of a smaller weapon.

“I would use a juice pitcher because it was lighter when filled with water and was easier to throw water at canoes from long distance,” Smith said.

He also suggested wearing kneepads during the games to lessen the risk of scraping the knees on the bottom of the canoe.

Battleship represents not only a game of challenging competition, but a game of fun for guys and girls.

The finals will be held this Thursday, March 9 at 8 p.m. in the Hart pool.