The question: How many 5 year-olds could you take in a fight?

The specifics:

- You are in an enclosed area, roughly the size of a full court basketball court.
- You are not allowed to touch a wall.
- At no point can you leave the area. Children will be entering but can't leave.
- 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." If you choose to kill the child, they are still obviously considered "out." However killing is not required. I'm going to assume that there will be a few people who will go for blood.
- 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.
- If you choose to have a weapon, then each child will also recieve the same (For example if you choose to have a gun, then every child will have a gun.) Also during their training they were taught how to use the weapon effectively.
* 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 shall take the role of the person determined to make you fail. However if I were in your situation i would choose a dodgeball as my weapon. Think carefully.
I should also note that once their are a decent amount of posts I can proceed to the next phase of the challenge.

Gatling Gun Emplacement. Preferably a gun with a single-shot mode. Let them burn their ammo while I stay behind cover, then just snipe them till they charge. Take out a bunch. The Basketball court is the only real limitation.

How many children do you choose to take on?

How much larger are you willing to make the field? If there was something resembling reasonable space, one per 10 bullets. Basketball court, those tactics are wholly unfeasible.

Exactly. You must think wisely to compensate for the space. Note that it is a room the size of a basketball court (indoor), not an actual court. There are no bleachers or anything to get in your way.

Well I would choose a grenade. This way, when one goes off, they all go off.

Everyone please include a number of children you'd choose with your posts. Also as far as grenades go, it would be pretty hard to dodge them in an enclosed area.

No weapon. I could take as many 5-year olds as you could find to fight me at the same time.

You don't realize how weak they are, and easily intimidated.

When I kill one, they all run. I'm good at fighting I'm quicker than most of my friends with strength to match all but a few.

God that would be fun.. And good for anger distribution

As for a number.. How many could you find?

No weapons. I'd take 20 kids or something...

I really have no life if I'm posting here. O_o

The kids don't get daunted, read the fucking rules.

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Yo I can kick all dey asses, I can beat up any 5 year old in da world fo'sho

All I gotsta do iz use my thug-fu and made gat skillz, naam sayin'? Den I'd do a couple of Mortal Kombat style fatalities and stomp on dem wit' da new Jordans I gots fo'shizzle

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