Here's the list of venues. We had a 40 percent chance of being in a standard venue (50 percent in the first round, and if not, a non-standard venue was used. A lot of the non-standards weren't drawn, which was unfortunate. I kept voting for "in a phone booth" or "in a giant hamster ball" to come up.
Standard venues:
Classic sandy arena
Classic jungle terrain
Classic temperate forest terrain
Classic desert terrain
Classic downtown big-city street
Classic large yard with occasional trees
Classic home living room (Starting distance: 18 feet)
Classic hilly rough terrain (moderate trees)
Non-standard venues:
The local mall, extremely crowded with shoppers
An operating room with angry scalpel-wielding doctors and nurses all screaming at you to leave
Up two separate pine trees five feet apart with two Grizzly Bears looking up each tree from the base
The summit of Mount Everest, with no supplemental oxygen
a pre-school full of children
In free-fall at 20,000 feet, with parachutes, and with a snake and gator-filled swamp below you. Initial Distance: 500 feet apart
Window-washers on separate window-washing platforms next to each other
Outer space INSIDE the space station (not in space suits)
A comedy club full of half-drunk people
A McDonald's kitchen (Starting distance: 25 feet)
Across a moderately busy 8-lane highway (Starting distance: 200 feet)
In the Thunderdome (roaring audience present)
The British Isles (one starts in Glasgow, the other in Dover)
Arrowhead stadium at halftime (roaring audience but no players, officials, security)
Aboard a 747 (no passengers)
Backstage at the Broadway production of*Cats (actors and staff present)
A penguin rookery in Antarctica
Ice skating rink, both of you on skates (Starting distance: 200 feet)
A flat plain, no trees for miles in any direction, during a raging violent thunderstorm
In a strip club (normal crowd present)
a bouncy castle (no kids present) - Starting distance: 25 feet
On a dinghy in a small lake (Starting distance: 7 feet)
On the wings of a biplane in flight
Carnival Fun House
wal mart parking lot
Inside a phone booth
On a spinning carousel (no one present). Starting distance: 40 feet (opposite sides)
Hog Farmer's Pig Pen (hog farmer not present, pigs present)
A 5-mile by 5-mile hellish volcanically active rock field with lava flows and geysers randomly erupting without warning
A coastal beach
At the CP bash (people know the combatants)
the bridge of the USS Defiant (Star Trek-type ship)
Floating in the Dead Sea
volcanic slope during a mild flowing eruption
Inside a bank vault full of loose money
A computer lab filled with tables, computers, desks, shelves, and unsuspecting college students (Starting distance: 20 feet)
Outer space in space suits and jet packs OUTSIDE the space station
USS Seawolf (SSN-21) 1,000 feet below the surface in the middle of the Pacific ocean (no sailors on board - remotely piloted). Starting distance 350 feet - 1 at bow, 1 at stern.
In a barn
On a relatively steep mountain slope at same initial height
Pool filled with Jello (cannot climb out), random depths from 4 feet to 6 feet
On a short school bus (no kids present)
A "Robot Wars" cage with 4 armored and bladed robots battling it out, all completely oblivious to your presence in the cage. (30x54 asphalt rectangle, starting 54 feet apart)
Waist deep in the Amazon river
A rickety wooden bridge swaying over a gorge
In the killer whale pool at Seaworld
In a jail cell
indoor basketball court infested with angry killer bees
Downtown Detroit at rush hour
Inside a giant hamster ball.
On opposing gondolas in the canals of Venice (gondoliers steer as you wish but don't fight)