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
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?
Softball! Women's fast pitch! Much more interesting than baseball, yet in the same neighborhood.
Ha! True. Don't know about the spitting though.
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.
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?
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.
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)...
this idea sounds a lot like......
the Olympics!
wtf?
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.
kind of like a team decathalon
would be fun
Can't replace the FIFA world cup, though, but a great new idea.
Fine, but no government money... the teams have to sell enough lemonade, cookies, and vacuum cleaners to pay for it.
Throw in an 8 hour engineering test just for fun. We need to test mental abilities as well. They can do it as a team.
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.
Change it to cricket. Its even more international than Basketball.
Interesting but not all world countries have knowledge or resources of/for the listed sports.
Sudan isn't going to win the hockey portion.
Throw in an 8 hour engineering test just for fun. We need to test mental abilities as well. They can do it as a team.
NO, no engineers allowed.
We don't need any boring diatribes how GM hurt my feelings. :rolleyes:
two world girls, one world cup