Everyone is doing it, in the bathrooms, in the libraries, in the computer labs; they’re even doing it in the back of the Oracle room. It’s the new sensation that’s sweeping the WS nation: Haxball.
If you have a class where students are allowed to use computers you have probably seen them abusing that privilege by playing computer games. The hottest one right now is Haxball is a simple game featuring two teams; players control a circle that can push a small ball. The point of the game is to get the ball into your opponent’s goal the first team to five goals wins. Sometimes two teams are too closely matched and neither can score five goals, in this case the team with the most goals at the end of five minutes will win.
“Haxball is a lot like soccer, there are two goals and you try to get the ball in the goal,” said senior Antonio Bustamante
Haxball seems simple enough on paper but the game itself is a very small part of Haxball, another part is making sure your teacher doesn’t catch you it doesn’t matter if your friends get caught as long as you don’t get caught.
“Sometimes I’ll put my name in as another student so the teacher will yell at them instead of me,” said senior Jai Sharma.
The most important part of Haxball is talking trash to your so-called friends about how they are bad at a computer game which means that they’re useless. Friends will call each other terrible things in the heat of the moment.
“Antonio plays Haxball like he plays soccer, horribly”, said Sharma
This last part is always the most important because if your friends feel good about themselves you are obviously doing something wrong. By making fun of them now they will be ready for the real world when they leave high school and move on to bigger and better things.
Haxball is a dog eat dog world; it’s a place where people learn what their friends really think about them. Things are said on the field that would never be said during everyday conversation. Some say Haxball brings out the worst in people but really your friends are just toughening you up for the real world.
“Jai plays like he is five years old he just crowds around the ball and is no help to his team” said Bustamante.