Is there a "World Cup" tournament in Traveler?

[Blue Ghost]

What sports are there in the Traveller universe?

What would a World Cup or Superbowl look like in the Imperium? Other empires?

Create a sport or team

 

[Antony]

Well IMTU I do have a Rollerball league. The arenas are obviously more hightech than either the original film or the remake have. Afterall with artificial gravity much more is possible. It is also true that if paid enough humans, and Aslan, Vargr etc would take part.

An Aslan rollerball team would be interesting!

 

[Vargas]

There's boloball which has (intentionally) never beendescribed in any real detail other than to say it is a nasty professional sport.

 

[DaveShayne]

Originally posted by Blue Ghost:
What sports are there in the Traveller universe?

What would a World Cup or Superbowl look like in the Imperium? Other empires?

Create a sport or team

One of these days I intend to write up the rules for zero-g curling.

Otherwise you will get the normal run of kicked ball sports (soccer) carried ball sports (american football, rugby) batted ball sports (baseball, cricket) racket sports (tennis, badmiton) vehicle sports (racing of all kinds) and of course the martial sports (boxing, wrestling, judo)

These sports may or may not be recognizable to a twentieth century terran but will follow the basic pattern.

 

[Elliot]

According to the Traveller's Digest on 57th century Terra the Imperial Marines play the earthlings at soccer every year!

 

[soloprobe]

What about micro-gravity Baseball?

I should think MR. RAWLINGS would have to complete an orbit, before it's caught, for a "ground rule double". The ball would have to acheive escape velocity for the astroid it's played on, for a home run.......

 

[Blue Ghost]

Wow! These are really great!

Back "in the day" our group said there was always a "Zero-G" Bowling alley on every orbital facility. The fact that we had no notion of how the game might be played was academic

 

[phydaux]

Well, IMTU I have "Glisten Rules" bare knuckles boxing as popular among the the lower classes. I also allow dueling among Nobles and various service officer's corps.

 

[phydaux]

Also, IIRC, Starship racing was hugly popular in Cannon.

 

[N.I.C.E. Labs]

There's also the other races to consider. With the Vargr's drive for charisma, I'm sure several gravitate to becoming sports celebrities. Aslan males might go for the martial sports that mimic thier dueling. Of course also the Droyne have a whole cast section devoted to Sport (and the pictures of them show a sport droyne holding a sort of cup and ball so I expect they play a mean game of Jai Ali ).

...Now, if we could only convince the Virushi to play football

 

[Tanuki]

Originally posted by phydaux:
Also, IIRC, Starship racing was hugly popular in Cannon.

I understand one needed a mighty big cannon and it tended to be a little hard on the starships.

OTOH I recall there being a variety of starship races in canon.

 

[PinkSplice]

GravBall (which I beleive came from FASA)

 

[hunter]

There would almost have to be an Iron Chef contest among the Vilani shugilii...



Hunter

 

[autochthonic]

Droyne have a whole cast section devoted to Sport

LOL

....true. And they can do neat stuff in low grav, what with the wings. And the invisibility. Not to mention telekinesis. Which is why the Droyne team has always won every sporting gold medal in the Imperium except for the blindfold underwater wrestling event.

 

[samdx]

Originally posted by phydaux:
Also, IIRC, Starship racing was hugly popular in Cannon.

Isn't this how a starship race would go:
"How many Gs does your ship have?"
"Six."
"Well, my ship only has five, so you win." [ ]

 

[DaveShayne]

Originally posted by hunter:
There would almost have to be an Iron Chef contest among the Vilani shugilii...



Hunter

Hmmm. I'm not sure I like the thought of the likely mystery ingredient for that one.

 

[greypilgrim]

The Decadel Games

At the start of my new Traveller CT campaign, the backdrop consisted of The Decadel Games. Think a combination of World Series, Stanley, Kentucky Derby with a bit of The Olympics thrown in and you have The Decadel Games. It is the Final Four of basically Space Rubgy. located in the asteroid belt in the 4th orbital of the Jewell system in the Spinward Marches. Held every ten years, it is likely THE sporting event of the Spinward Marches, with VIP spectators coming from around the sector (and beyond) to view it in person from the veiwing stand where they sit in a heavy monitor-rich easychair console, picking several of the many POV camshots available. Available camshots are from each player's helmet, various staged points, with Zoom and enhanced visions. It is a week of festivities leading up to the Championship Game on Holiday.

 

[TNE2300]

Atmospheric Re-entry Surfing?

 

[Straybow]

Atmospheric Re-entry Surfing?

Haha, that would be awesome. I guess they'd wear something akin to battledress.

 

[BeRKA]

A Patron

I wrote this 12 years ago.
https://zhodani.space/2008/12/15/extra-imperial-grav-ball/