I wouldn't call something so base and violent as that a 'game', nor would I think the activity appropriate for using a volunteer based system of electing who participated.

[Sabriel hasn't heard of anything so crude, not in the time she's from in any case and that's still a good few decades before a good portion of the village. It's hard to keep the disbelief out of her voice but she tries.]

Do such...'games' happen often in your world?