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Undertoad 06-23-2010 02:17 PM

New idea for world cup
 
OK, it's nice that countries in backwards areas can win World Cup games, because every plays one sport. But if they all concentrate on one sport, what does that prove? No diversity needed! What I'm proposing is that every country put up 16 athletes - no substitutions - and they compete in all of the following team sports:

Football aka soccer
Hockey (maybe the roller version to save money for poorer nations)
Basketball
Rugby
Volleyball (full team rotates)

Teams play one match per day. The first team to win three of the matches goes forward in the tourney.

what say you

jinx 06-23-2010 02:20 PM

Could we come up with a substitution for basketball? The squeaking is just so awful...
Softball maybe? Or swimming of some kind? Tag-team wrestling? Wing bowl?

Shawnee123 06-23-2010 02:21 PM

Softball! Women's fast pitch! Much more interesting than baseball, yet in the same neighborhood.

jinx 06-23-2010 02:22 PM

and no nut scratching...

Shawnee123 06-23-2010 02:22 PM

Ha! True. Don't know about the spitting though.

Undertoad 06-23-2010 03:06 PM

That's fair, softball instead of basketball. Basketball's a little more international. Softball's a better sport.

I actually thought about it a little and went to the wikipedia page for team sport. They have a table at the bottom of the page that's interesting, it breaks all of team sport down into categories like "ball over a net codes" and "safe haven codes".

So, limiting it to only team sports.

Spexxvet 06-23-2010 04:18 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Undertoad (Post 665803)
what say you

Go!

Sundae 06-23-2010 04:48 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Undertoad (Post 665803)
OK, it's nice that countries in backwards areas can win World Cup games, because every plays one sport.

Does backwards mean the same as retarded?

gvidas 06-23-2010 07:09 PM

Pretty Anglo-centric list of games there, boss. I don't really have any alternatives. I know there are some Aztec or Incan games that are team-based ball sports involving sacrifice. Maybe someone could do some research.

It's an interesting idea, though. Grueling.

Undertoad 06-23-2010 08:40 PM

Retarded is one way to get backwards (N. Korea, Libya). Then there are the poor fucks (Nigeria, Burma), the isolated fucks (Peru, Nepal), the tiny fucks (Mauritius), the out-of-control fucks (Somalia)...

lumberjim 06-23-2010 09:08 PM

this idea sounds a lot like......


the Olympics!

wtf?

Undertoad 06-23-2010 09:32 PM

No but it is only team sports, which the Olympicksa are not, and it is only one team so the same people have to play in all five sports, so there is strategy.

lumberjim 06-23-2010 09:40 PM

kind of like a team decathalon

monster 06-23-2010 10:11 PM

would be fun

Can't replace the FIFA world cup, though, but a great new idea.

xoxoxoBruce 06-24-2010 12:20 AM

Fine, but no government money... the teams have to sell enough lemonade, cookies, and vacuum cleaners to pay for it.


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