Archery Tag - Modern Fix

This is a ‘team’ of archery tag players. Posing. Because, apparently, if you actually belong to an archery tag team, part of the deal is to pose, usually in an ‘attack’ posture, for a group photo. I think it is supposed to be intimidating, so stop giggling.

Also, not the pips of the 5 on a giant dice. (Did you know those are called pips?)

That is the ‘target’ and one of the few paths to victory in an archery tag duel. Skirmish. Match… whatever overly fierce name they attach to a game where giant foam tipped arrows are lobbed across designated fields in yet another way for man to pretend to kill each other for fun.

And aside from the nerfed bows (the power is obviously limited to a certain draw weight), it does look fun.

I mention the low power bows, because one of the rules actually allows for a player to ‘catch’ an arrow shot from an opposing player, which allows for the arrow-catcher to ‘revive’ or bring back one of his own teammates that had previously been tagged out.

‘Hey… these foam things rip right off… cool.’ – 13 year old boy, any state in America

There are three ways to win: (1) eliminate all opposing players, (2) knock out all 5 of the opposing teams target, (3) or be the team with the most targets remaining at the end of a pre-determined match length.

Typically, there is a designated field of two clearly marked sides, often with a ‘safe area’ that separates the opposite sides. The safe area is used as a neutral zone that players are not allowed to fire, or be fired upon, and is used to exit the field once tagged, or gather arrows available.