Portable, compactible armed competition arena and apparatus

A system for armed competition comprising:

• a compactible, portable, indoor/outdoor arena, components of which are manually disassembled from each other for stacking and transportation to another site and facilely, manually assembled to each other into the arena for use at the other site, said arena comprising:
• means defining exterior walls for the arena;
• means defining interior walls for the arena to simulate rooms;
• means defining visual pathways across interior walls within the arena;
• the means defining visual pathways comprising means providing for travel by a competitive participant within and between simulated rooms within the arena;
• stabilizing means spanning across at least some of the visual pathways to strengthen the same;
• means for structurally bracing between exterior and interior walls;
• protective clothing means for covering a competitive participant whereby the competitive participant remains mobile but safely protected from injury caused by a projectile used in the competition.

A method of erecting and using an arena for simulated armed combat comprising the steps of:

• erecting an exterior wall in vertically directed orientation to define a perimeter of the arena having at least one opening for ingress and egress of a combatant;
• erecting interior walls in vertically directed orientation to define a plurality of simulated rooms comprising openings between a maze of simulated rooms and barrier regions which obstruct lines of sight between adjacent simulated rooms;
• joining the interior and exterior walls together with structural connectors into a stable, unified maze assembly;
• causing at least two combatants to enter the interior of the maze arena and to engage in simulated combat on a room-to-room basis within the maze arena.

A method of removably erecting and using an arena for simulated armed combat comprising the steps of:

• removably erecting exterior wall panels in vertically directed orientation to define a perimeter of the arena having at least one opening for ingress and egress of a combatant;
• removably erecting interior wall panels in vertically directed orientation to define a plurality of simulated rooms comprising openings between a maze of simulated rooms and barrier regions which obstruct lines of sight between adjacent simulated rooms;
• joining the interior and exterior walls together with removable structural connectors into a stable, unified maze assembly;
• causing at least two combatants to enter the interior of the maze arena and to engage in simulated combat on a room-to-room basis within the maze arena.