Two fouraEUR"men college teams, who couldn't possibly be more opposite, are playing a new radical military game called laser tag. There's gambling, deception, highaEUR" and lowaEUR"tech strategy, and finally, unique methods of cheating as the Ragtags and the Melting Pot viciously slug it out on the UVA campus of Charlottesville, Virginia. But if you think you can figure out the rest of the maniacal mess, you'd be oh so wrong. Halfway through, the story takes a bizarre left turn into hard science fiction, teaching us that cheaters do indeed prosper when the reporters, cameras, referees, and police are thrown away, leaving the Barbarians in charge!