Create the sport that we haven't seen yet.

[Young Drachma]

With all the Tennis Polo/Viperball stuff, I spend a lot of time -- though not recently, but in general -- look at all sorts of things that people are willing to play. Some are interesting, others are bizarre.

Anyway, if you could spawn the next "big" thing or even just a niche sport, what would it be like? I mean, everyone has thought of ways to improve their favorite game, in one way or another, but...today's changes are tomorrow's major changes that facilitate the evolution of a new game.

Ideas?

[Franklinnoble]

http://www.calvin-und-hobbes.com/assets/images/chball02.gif
(http://www.calvin-und-hobbes.com/assets/images/chball02.gif)

[Young Drachma]

cute :)

[Franklinnoble]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/55/Baseketball.jpg/445px-Baseketball.jpg

[Franklinnoble]

I think that about covers it. ;)

[Desnudo]

NFL football without commercials

[Franklinnoble]

http://www.foxhome.com/schwarzenegger/images/photorunning1.jpg

[Franklinnoble]

http://www.videonorte.com.br/wallpaper/rollerball_1024.jpg

[Franklinnoble]

Does three dimensional chess count?

Podracing?

[Abe Sargent]

I created a variant of soccer once for my Orientation to Honors class called Poli-Ball.

One team was the Democrats and the other team was the Republicans. As the game progressed, a deck of randomized index cards that I made ahead of time was shuffled and every two minutes, the next card was read. It would change the rules of the game for the next two minutes based on some political event.

Whoever won the game would wbe who the prediction would be for the election.

The Republicans won 3-2. Clinton trounced Dole in 1996.

-Anxiety

[SFL Cat]

I created an arena football-type sport I called Zone Ball or Z-ball. Put together a rule book and everything. There are three 20 minute periods. Field is 75 yards long and about 45 yards wide. The main part of the field is divided into three 15-yard zones. The two endzones are 15 yards deep, and are also divided into three five yard zones. The sidelines in the endzone taper back from the goal line to a five yard-wide end line at the back of eacb endzone. There are eight men per team on the field at any given time. Play in the field starts with the snap of a ball like in football. A team has three downs to advance the ball from one zone to the next. Offensive players are downed by being tackled by defensive players. There is no punting or kicking, so if a team is unable to advance the ball to the next zone in three downs, the other team takes possession. All offensive players are eligible receivers. There can be multiple forward passes behind the LOS, but only one forward pass is permitted beyond the LOS. Forward pass incompletions behind the LOS are spotted where the ball a.) touched an eligible receiver or b.) hit the ground *only if it didn't touch an eligible receiver*. Forward pass incompletions beyond the LOS are placed at the previous spot. As in football, any backward pass or lateral that touches the ground is a live ball.

A team scores by advancing the ball into the other team's endzone. However, points are awarded as follows. If a player advances the ball past the goal line into the first section of the endzone and is downed there, his team is awarded 3-points; if he advances five yards into the endzone and is downed in the second section, his team is awarded 7-points; if a player is able break the plane of the third section of the endzone, which is ten yards deep, his team is awarded 10-points. Upon scoring, a team has the option to decline the points and run an extra play from scrimmage to try and score more points (i.e., a team scores a 3-point goal, but the game is in the closing moments and the other team is up by 9-points). The result of the extra play stands, whether a team scores the same number of points, scores more, or doesn't score at all.

To start each period, and to start play after an opponent's score, a team has to run a play called the Point-Break, from it's own endzone. If the team is unable to advance the ball out of the endzone on this play, their opponent receives 1-point. Any time a team puts the ball into play from the field and is tackled in its own endzone, the opponent gets two points like in football.

Penalties are similar to regular football. However, if a player is flagged for three fouls in any period, or five fouls total in the game, he is forced to leave the field for the remainder of the period/game.

I envisioned a wide-open game with lots of passing and rugby-like lateraling. After putting the rules together, I tried to oganize a test game with some flag-football buddies, but at the last minute the park decided they didn't want us remarking the field to Z-Ball specs. After a few more months of trying to organize another game, I put the project on the backburner and never picked it back up. That was over ten years ago.

[molson]

This would get my vote:

http://www.operationsports.com/fofc/archive/index.php/t-37395.html

[Franklinnoble]

You wouldn't believe how difficult it is to find a decent quidditch screencap.

[Greyroofoo]

I miss Calvin and Hobbes

[Mustang]

You wouldn't believe how difficult it is to find a decent quidditch screencap.

http://excelsiorstudios.net/photos/halloween_05/ghetto_quidditch_player.JPG


Ah... no.. not me.

[Logan]

We used to play "hall ball" in the dorms. Great game. Two players standing on opposite ends of a short hallway (maybe about 50 feet), in front of an open door. Object of the game was to throw the ball past your opponent. Simple, yet challenging. The most difficult part: trying not to hit the sprinkler system. How the game got sent into retirement: hitting the sprinkler and almost flooding the hallway.

[bbor]

Maximum football.

[MacroGuru]

How about a game called "Bthooy" pronouned b-thooie, stands for beat the hell out of you.

One of my role playing buddies in high school came up with the game....you basicall stand there naked, and beat each other with Nerf bats (Now I have never played the game, he just created it.....it was one of those scenes where I was backing away, leaving the room, saying......."ok" and dialing 911.)

[ice4277]

When I was in high school, myself and a couple friends laid the groundword for a professional keep-away style league. It would kind of look like rugby or aussie rules football, but it was every man for himself. Points would be awarded based on how long you held the ball and/or how far you could run with it. We may have had an end-zone/goalpost-type thing to score more points, but I don't remember. Anyways, we got pretty involved w/ the rules, and it seemed cool at the time.