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Have an idea for a new sport? Post it here. Team sports, individual sports, professional sports, virtual sports, sports to be played in space or on Mars - all welcome here. I'm still working out my idea, but I think it could be a lot of fun to have a team sport which combines capture the flag/ball and sabre fencing. In fencing, you have the lights that go on when you make a hit; I think we can have this for each person on that person, more like in laser tag. Then you have some ball or flag on either side, and you have to make it back with that to your side. If you get hit, you have to put the ball down or hand it over or something. I guess it's basically fancy LARPing, but it might be fun. Cons: Requires special equipment and probably difficult to convince enough people to play with you Pros: Swords and LEDs Feel free to tell me how bad my idea is (very) or tell me your ideas for something new and exciting in the world of sport!
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Current ball sports, but with multiple balls
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Nov 1, 2022 14:07
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Competitive jousting. It should come in two flavors too; the more serious technique-focused "real" play (MMA), and the more pageant and narrative infused spectacle style (WWE).
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Nov 1, 2022 17:06
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American football, but replace the football with a baseball and give the receivers mitts.
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Nov 1, 2022 18:28
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Basketball, but played with an american football ball (yes you still have to somehow dribble the ball)
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Nov 1, 2022 20:13
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Leperflesh posted:Basketball, but played with an american football ball (yes you still have to somehow dribble the ball) do you think it's harder to sink a three with a basketball or a football
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Nov 1, 2022 20:49
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Hockey but played in a big bowl like at a skate park and it's on rollerblades instead of ice skates and the skates all have rocket boosters on them. Rocket hockey.
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Nov 1, 2022 21:12
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Hitlerball
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Nov 1, 2022 21:37
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Toaster Beef posted:do you think it's harder to sink a three with a basketball or a football well I think a football gets caught in the net more easily but probably it's harder if you need to use the backboard at all, and easier if you can just dunk it since you can easily grip it which btw makes me realize you'd have to do something about traveling rules? Ooh I know how about volleyball, but with a football ...actually just every sport, but with a football, now I think about it!
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Nov 1, 2022 21:45
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Toaster Beef posted:American football, but replace the football with a baseball and give the receivers mitts.
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Nov 1, 2022 22:58
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There needs to be more sportified obstacle courses. Possibly relay style while having to carry a modest size ball. Like softball sized, but very bouncy.
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Nov 1, 2022 23:10
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Not Important posted:Hockey but played in a big bowl like at a skate park and it's on rollerblades instead of ice skates and the skates all have rocket boosters on them. I swear I saw this on ESPN 2 back in the 90s
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Nov 1, 2022 23:44
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Toaster Beef posted:American football, but replace the football with a baseball and give the receivers mitts. This has so much potential. Either with tagging with the ball or tackle. The opposing team has to pitch to a batter for the field goal. Stiev Awt posted:Hitlerball It’s only redeeming quality is that every game ends in sudden death.
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Nov 2, 2022 04:21
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Maigius posted:There needs to be more sportified obstacle courses. Possibly relay style while having to carry a modest size ball. Like softball sized, but very bouncy. I saw an obstacle course with single prop airplanes a long, long time ago on ESPN. They had cameras with a forward view and it was awesome. Back in the day, ESPN used to show really weird, off the wall sporting events instead of 24/7 commentary. edit: Drone races are fun too.
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Nov 2, 2022 04:28
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There is one faberge egg. Two players. Players flip a coin. The game lasts two hours. The only way to move is to toss the egg into the air and catch it. The game is played on a football field. You get one point for every score. Then you put it down and your opponent picks it up and tries to get it to the other end of the field. If the egg hits the ground and breaks, the last person who touched it automatically loses. Of course there are pass interference rules and limited contact allowed so there's enough controversy for fan interest.
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Nov 2, 2022 04:44
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MakaVillian posted:Current ball sports, but with multiple balls I actually kind of like this idea, but with teams instead of balls. Imagine the dynamic of having four teams instead of two. Alliances forming and breaking on the field as the game goes on and such.
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Nov 2, 2022 18:47
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Polo, but with hot air balloons Jousting, but with hot air balloons Airsoft, but with hot air balloons
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Nov 2, 2022 18:48
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Leperflesh posted:Basketball, but played with an american football ball (yes you still have to somehow dribble the ball) Totally possible. See Aussie rules football.
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Nov 2, 2022 19:11
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Shadow0 posted:Polo, but with hot air balloons Ok there Phileas Fogg
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Nov 2, 2022 22:21
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Extreme Curling
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Nov 3, 2022 00:59
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baseball but all nine people on the field have to both hit and play a position or pitch.
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Nov 6, 2022 19:00
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SHITASS: it's a hacky-sack circle and if you drop the hack or are responsible for a non-receivable pass resulting in a dropped hack, you gain a letter. Much like the basketball game "HORSE", each letter gained in sequence will spell SHITASS. The first person to receive the SHITASS title must face the nearest wall and bend over. Each other participant takes one turn throwing the hacky sack as hard as they can at the loser's rear end.
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Nov 6, 2022 22:01
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Every time I try to invent a new sport, it always turns into Pro Thunderball.
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Nov 6, 2022 22:21
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-There aren't that many sports that use a puck/wheel as the object in play, so maybe you could do something with that. Like some combination of hoop rolling and air hockey, where you roll the wheel around the field and score it by hitting it into a narrow goal. -Or how about something based off of paper airplanes, like a variant of handball that uses a winged object that you can do tricks with in the air. -Special Stage from Sonic 2 but real.
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Nov 7, 2022 05:13
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Game I played as a kid. Start at one end of the living room. Get on knees. Throw remote control forward into the air. Catch it. Get to the other end of the living room without breaking the controller. Repeat until you get tired or break the remote.
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Nov 7, 2022 05:56
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We need more winter sports. High-speed downhill ice skating. Like grand slalom skiing, but with an ice course that looks like those olympic snowboard sets for all the tricks you can do. I'm sure this won't be that dangerous. 12-man bobsled. The sled can be articulated so it goes around corners like a train. That sport where you ski a course and then also shoot at targets with a rifle? Let's upgrade that poo poo. You ski a course and at various stations you have to scramble up an ice wall using mountain climbing gear, make snowballs and throw them through progressively higher hoops over part of the skiing course (so if you want you can pelt your competitors as they ski by), do a big ski jump for maximum distance, etc. Also in the rifle bits instead of shooting a little round targets make it more like those carnival shooting galleries, with moving clown faces and ducks etc. Let's have a fully winterized version of baseball, played with snowshoes on a thick blanket of freshly blown snow (they can use those huge snowmakers they have at ski resorts to blow more snow on the field between every inning) and a black baseball so you can see it when it thunks into a snowbank.
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Nov 7, 2022 06:00
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Leperflesh posted:We need more winter sports. the winter olympics need more Flat Sports. It's the winter olympics not the loving Mountain Olympics, sincerely a person from Illinois.
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Nov 7, 2022 06:01
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they already have curling, objectively the best winter sport; and also hockey, and cross-country skiing is sorta flat, what more do you want? Ice Basketball? Fine. We can have Ice Basketball.
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Nov 7, 2022 06:10
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competitive shoveling
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Nov 7, 2022 06:12
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Making fun of people in cold weather the sport.
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Nov 7, 2022 06:58
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Leperflesh posted:We need more winter sports. Red Bull Ice Cross is similar to this, though with no jumps and 5 people on a bobsleigh track
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Nov 8, 2022 03:53
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hardcore raking
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Nov 8, 2022 04:01
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baseball but with water balloons
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Hand Knit posted:I swear I saw this on ESPN 2 back in the 90s It was called Pro Beach Hockey and it loving ruled and I miss it every day
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Nov 8, 2022 20:27
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Mixed martial arts in a bowl could be neat. Prevents the boring fence-smooshing part. They tried it once, but the bowl was more of a sloped wall bolted to a flat boxing ring, so that people would trip on the bottom of the slope. Also, they left they left the seats in the same place so the first few rows couldn't see over the wall.
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Nov 9, 2022 01:20
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Leperflesh posted:they already have curling, objectively the best winter sport; and also hockey, and cross-country skiing is sorta flat, what more do you want? Ice Basketball? Fine. We can have Ice Basketball. More curling, obviously.
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Leperflesh posted:We need more winter sports.
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