IPSN (Imperial Professional Sports Network)

[Barsanuphius]

:CoW: Here is a thought, What would be the type of Sport that could be see in the Far Future? What would Imperials play?

After all the Athlete is a Character Template?


I'm think of this while watching Barklay's Premiere League Football (Soccer) Crystal Palace v. Arsenal.


:smirk:

 

[aramis]

Ball Games
Ball games of various sorts. Including variations on balls such as pucks and shuttlecocks.

Ball games come in several basic varieties...
Put the ball through the goal (Aussie Rules Footie, Soccer-Football, Hockey, Basketball, polo/waterpolo, croquet, pool)
move the ball across the end (Rugby Football, Gridiron Football)
Keep the ball away from the defenders (Baseball/Softball, kickball)
Hit the other guy with the ball (baseball, red rover)
Hit targets with the ball (bowling, pool)
Accuracy of putting the ball on a target (bocce, curling, rock, snooker)
keep the ball in motion (slop, tennis, pingpong, badminton, hot potato, hackey sack)

Modes of ball handling:

• 1 hand carry
• 2 hand carry
• 1 hand dribble
• 2 hand dribble
• kick
• foot dribble
• paddle/racket (big flat thing)
• stick/crook/mallet
• Scoop (jai alai, Lacrosse)

Method of motion

• foot
• swim
• ride animal
• ride another player
• ride a vehicle
• bounce on a trampoline
• balance on a beam or platform

Combat Sports

• Duels
• small unit teams
• open melees
• course runs
• private wars

• Unarmed
• primative weapons only
• weapon simulators (including MILES gear, Holosims, etc)
• reduced lethality weapons (rebated fencing blades, paintball, wax bullet...)
• live modern weapons

 

[Enoki]

http://wiki.travellerrpg.com/Squamish

:rofl:

 

[Spenser TR]

With grav technology, there could be Quidditch.

I'm not saying there would be. But there -could- be

 

[Barsanuphius]

With grav technology, there could be Quidditch.

I'm not saying there would be. But there -could- be

My wife's college friend is on the Syracuse University Quidditch team! :rant:

 

[Barsanuphius]

http://wiki.travellerrpg.com/Squamish

:rofl:

Holy Crap! This is one complicated game! I could see how cricket could develop into this outrageous form. :devil:


I think I like it and I like cricket!

Heh. o: I thought cricket was complicated!

 

[mike wightman]

Cricket is simple:

You have two sides, one out in the field and one in. Each man that's in the side that's in goes out, and when he's out he comes in and the next man goes in until he's out. When they are all out, the side that's out comes in and the side that's been in goes out and tries to get those coming in, out. Sometimes you get men still in and not out.
When a man goes out to go in, the men who are out try to get him out, and when he is out he goes in and the next man in goes out and goes in. There are two men called umpires who stay out all the time and they decide when the men who are in are out. When both sides have been in and all the men have been out, and both sides have been out twice after all the men have been in, including those who are not out, that is the end of the game.

 

[Condottiere]

Of all the races in the Galaxy, only the English could possibly revive the memory of the most horrific wars ever to sunder the Universe and transform it into into what I'm afraid is generally regarded as an incomprehensibly dull and pointless game.

 

[Barsanuphius]

Cricket is simple:

Hah! :coffeesip: Simple my ass! :rant: o:

 

[Enoki]

Holy Crap! This is one complicated game! I could see how cricket could develop into this outrageous form. :devil:


I think I like it and I like cricket!

Heh. o: I thought cricket was complicated!

But think of it as a "jobs" program by government and a way to keep unemployed lawyers busy forever! That's the sort of thing a Vogon-like bureaucracy could get behind! :rofl:

 

[Barsanuphius]

But think of it as a "jobs" program by government and a way to keep unemployed lawyers busy forever! That's the sort of thing a Vogon-like bureaucracy could get behind! :rofl:

Somehow I want to wack you in the face with a spade...Vogon! :rofl:

 

[Enoki]

What's really crazy is, Squamish as described actually works! You could play it as a game, as insane as the rules are.

Here's the game from antiquity...

http://43-mansquamish.weebly.com/

 

[whartung]

http://wiki.travellerrpg.com/Squamish

:rofl:

As quality as this is, this is my standout favorite line of the rules:

A team can have a negative or positive score. The team with the greatest score from zero (positive or negative) is declared the winner.

 

[Spinward Scout]

:CoW: Here is a thought, What would be the type of Sport that could be see in the Far Future? What would Imperials play?

The longest running hide-and-seek game ever between the Imperium and the Psionic Institutes. Currently, the Institutes are winning.

Go, Institutes!

 

[Barsanuphius]

The longest running hide-and-seek game ever between the Imperium and the Psionic Institutes. Currently, the Institutes are winning.

Go, Institutes!

o::coffeesip: