Very serious question

[apolyon]

Stolen blindly in a very unoriginal fashion from http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/sh...4&fpart=1&vc=1

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Good drunken debate from a few nights ago.

The question: How many 5 year-olds could you take on at once?

The specifics:

- You are in an enclosed area, roughly the size of a basketball court. There are no foreign objects.
- You are not allowed to touch a wall.
- When you are knocked unconscious, you lose. When they are all knocked unconscious, they lose. Once a kid is knocked unconscious, that kid is "out."
- I (or someone else intent on seeing to it you fail) get to choose the kids from a pool that is twice the size of your magic number. The pool will be 50/50 in terms of gender and will have no discernable abnormalities in terms of demographics, other than they are all healthy Americans.
- The kids receive one day of training from hand-to-hand combat experts who will train them specifically to team up to take down one adult. You will receive one hour of "counter-tactics" training.
- There is no protective padding for any combatant other than the standard-issue cup.
* The kids are motivated enough to not get scared, regardless of the bloodshed. Even the very last one will give it his/her best to take you down.

I set my magic number at 30, but upon reflection, I think I could take on a few more. How many could you take on?

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I have no idea for myself

[Yoda]

one maybe

[Brabble]

Hmmm. The average 5-year-old weighes what, 40ish pounds?
If you can pick the first two up and DW 'em, that would make a difference. If your STR limits you to using just the first one as a 2-hander, the equation would change.
Hard to say, though, until you know what the damage bonus is on them and whether any of them proc. Maybe the ones who talk the most would have a yak proc & you'd get a bit of traction DW-ing from the extra offhand dd component (one assumes aggro would not be a problem, as you'd be soloing).
Then there's the whole question of whether they riposte & how much damage you'd take from that.

[Brutul]

Warriors can't solo

[Shikarii]

5 year old kids are like fire ants...no matter how many you can take on..sooner or later you will go down.

[naulab]

Hrmm depends if I can sneak in an earthshaker or not... how many HP does the normal 5 year old have?

[Yoda]

actually your best bet, if same rules is applied to all, is to push/throw them away to make them touch a wall and thus being "out". But still, as Kiadan said, there is nothing more zergling than a raid of five years old kids.

edit: naulab, rules say no foreign objets, fists only fight. Nevertheless, you aren't McGyver for building an earthshaker from random corpse's kids

[Detheb Ultimaweapon]

Heh, After Awhile, you would get tired of the merciless ass kicking you are handing to these 5 year olds(5 years old are not tall enough to really hit me anywhere above my waist line, so, my legs would take a beating). I think it would really come down to how much endurance you have vs a Raid of 5 year olds ^_^

[Yoda]

did you thought after your balls ? or have you already lost them ? well that's would be the raison for making so poor rape on sw.TSW

[Ooka]

I do like the <imaginary> mental pic of wielding a toddler. Hold em by the ankles and spin!!!

[Yoda]

why grabing the ankles when you can catch feet !!!! they should soon understand what cyclone attack means

[Detheb Ultimaweapon]

Yoda, look at the rules. You get a cup ^_^

[Fjalarr]

Punch me in the CUP, go ahead, ooo I like that , again.

You ever get shot in the chest while wearing a bullet proof vest?

Ok try watching Happy Gilmore and examine the hocky puck flying ballistic into his body. Sure he can take the hit, but man that's gonna leave a welt. Cup isn't gonna stop the blunt force trauma you getting on your weee little boys.

Ok, saying they are too stupid to realize that they the perfect height to knock down your gonads, since they aint got any really, then you might stand a chance until the first few launch in the air and start flingin each other like catapulted pigs. Oh you better believe they are crafty at 5.

Personally, I wouldn't last more than 1 second since I refuse to harm a hair of a 5 yr. old, even if I'm getting wailed.

[Frig Coldheart]

Well you could always furious then go defensive.

[Isk]

give me a pipe and it'll be burly brawl from matrix reloaded