kroen Posted April 26, 2013 Report Share Posted April 26, 2013 The Pro Bending Arena in Legend of Korra is pretty awesome, which is why I find it weird there are no Allomantic sports yet in Scadrial. But until then, what do you think they could be? Well the obvious sport can be a Pushing match between Coinshots and a Pulling match between Lurchers, but that's not really all that exciting; it's more of an Allomantic arm wrestling than an actual sport. Do you have any ideas? Feruchemical sports also welcome. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pechvarry Posted April 26, 2013 Report Share Posted April 26, 2013 At some point I imagined an indoor mash up between American football, basketball, and that Harry Potter sport I can't spell (quiditch?). On the field are people wearing full pads with metal in them. Along the high ceiling are metal beams. Lurchers and coinshots score points while remaining airborne. The groundteam must therefore be beefy and tough, and try to position themselves for the air team while disrupting the positions of the opposing ground team. Most notably with pewter (both types), but Fe- Speed and Fe- weight would both have their places. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abevan Posted April 26, 2013 Report Share Posted April 26, 2013 At some point I imagined an indoor mash up between American football, basketball, and that Harry Potter sport I can't spell (quiditch?). On the field are people wearing full pads with metal in them. Along the high ceiling are metal beams. Lurchers and coinshots score points while remaining airborne. The groundteam must therefore be beefy and tough, and try to position themselves for the air team while disrupting the positions of the opposing ground team. Most notably with pewter (both types), but Fe- Speed and Fe- weight would both have their places. So the coinshots/lurchers in the air can only use the ground team as anchors? Definitely an interesting idea, particularly when you consider opposing air crew attempting to disrupt the ground crews movement. You could make it more interesting by having another ground crew above instead of the metal beams. Mostly I think that there would just be the addition of physical boosts to the sports we play in the real world (or variations of them). Only coinshots/lurchers have abilities totally unique to anything we have here. The real interest would be in what compositions of Ferrings/Mistings would be on the teams. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Observer Posted April 26, 2013 Report Share Posted April 26, 2013 I hate to be that guy, but I think there's already a thread for this. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tarontos he/him Posted April 26, 2013 Report Share Posted April 26, 2013 large set of rule questions. would twin born be allowed, or would they be permitted to use only their alomantic or feurochemichal power? would you be allowed to have a steel alomancer on the ground team as fast movement? what would be the rules on contact ,no eye gouging ear biting ect.? how large would the stadium need to be to make it effective? how long would the games need to be? would there be a limit on the amount of metals an almoancer could have how about a ferochemsist and charge or would they have to start at zero and build up a charge from there? are sliders and pulsers alowed. what about chromium and nicrosil alomancers, how about a chromium ferring? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pechvarry Posted April 26, 2013 Report Share Posted April 26, 2013 (edited) large set of rule questions. would twin born be allowed, or would they be permitted to use only their alomantic or feurochemichal power? would you be allowed to have a steel alomancer on the ground team as fast movement? what would be the rules on contact ,no eye gouging ear biting ect.? how large would the stadium need to be to make it effective? how long would the games need to be? would there be a limit on the amount of metals an almoancer could have how about a ferochemsist and charge or would they have to start at zero and build up a charge from there? are sliders and pulsers alowed. what about chromium and nicrosil alomancers, how about a chromium ferring? Probably contact rules similar to football/rugby (LOTS of padding needed). This means a Steel Feruchemist or other similar "not big guy" would need to be built like a linebacker since he would need to be capable of taking a hit from a Thug. Other than that, amount of metals/stores shouldn't be regulated -- but "compounding" should result in time in the box. I imagine only a few beams along the top. Perhaps it'd be an open-air event with a minimal "frame" around it. Perhaps a 50 x 100 meter field with a beam cutting across the width every 20-25 meters. It could also have bars that slide along it or spin on an axis to make things interesting but that seems like overload. Finally, coinshots should always have a single padded metal object in their hand known as a "safety ball" or something. Pushing on anyone's safety ball is a serious penalty. The purpose is if you have no anchors to catch you, you can drop and push to save yourself from faceplanting at 91 mph. Naturally, this means you "touched ground" and are penalized accordingly. EDIT: to expand on the "ground team up top" -- perhaps there could be a wood scaffold with scaffold crew that wears no metal and is responsible for physically pushing metal chunks around up top. This adds a ridiculous layer of confusion and is far too dangerous for heavy amounts of physical contact. This makes counterplay options very limited. But if something were worked out that didn't take away from the rest of the sport, it would be a fantastic place for Steelrunners. Edited April 26, 2013 by Pechvarry 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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