The Ultimate Question
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.
Many set their number around 30, but considering the kids would have a day of how-to-kick-ass-in-groups training, it could get dangerous. Two dozen screaming hellions sounds about right for me.
How many could you take on?
3 Comments:
Wow. That is a great question. I'm going to say 50. I don't care if they get a week of training and learn to swarm like the Zerg, 5 year olds wouldn't stand a chance. 8 year olds on the other hand would be a challenge!
I agree with the previous poster. I can take them, and I wouldn't even have to resort to violence. I've worked with five-year-olds before. The trick is getting them to cry so they lay off. For the ones who won't cry, you divide alliances so they can't gang up on you. You do this by complimenting certain ones on how well they're behaving, model behavior being determined by whatever you want them to do or not do. Pick girls first. They're more anxious to please as a rule, although female adult players might get a similar positive response from boys. With a little finesse and little people skills you could get them turn on each other. Only then can you find true enlightenment and domination of all kinder-kind.
I think I could take about a hundred of'em All it takes is one good pop in the mouth and just about any kid is down for the count, and I got about 100 good pops saved up from taking pictures of em for like 6 months.
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