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Sports in OTU?

Gnusam Netor

Gnusam Netor

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An hour or so ago, the Swedish Olympic hockey team for Turin 2006 was announced ... so instead of conjuring c# spells, I started pondering about important stuff – well, I spaced out I guess :-p. Since I have this knack for looping thoughts in the head forever and ever I... Well to sum it up, hockey - and thus sports in general - morphed with the "religions of the future" thread/think.

So, are there any sports in OTU, YTU, IMTU, whatever-TU? Is there something called Olympics still? What about aliens in "human" sports for instance? And are sports-stars empire-wide in fame?
 
IMTU, Inter-species events happen, as well as single-species events. Some games, depending on who hosts them, are even single-human species, as in, only terran humans, only viland, etc. It really depends on the world.

As for what kind of sports, most of your standards survive in some more or less recognizeable form, both team and solo events, as well as a wide variety of motor sports. Equestrian events have branched out into sports with many different types of animals, and the introduction of grav technology allows all sorts of interesting variations on many older sports.

Hell, what with grav 'brooms', one could even play something like harry potter's quidditch, if so inclined. I mean, our sports were mostly invented by a single person or a small group, and just formalized as they caught on.
 
Lacrosse, with grav assist, Shere! You make the ball a mini-grav generator, with grav generators in the sticks and the goals. The ball is naturally attracted (at accelerating speeds, naturally) to the sticks and the goals, as they will all want to slide downhill toward each other.

Actually, the stick would be switchable, so when you threw with it, it would be repulsed (to increase velocity). You could get some pretty good finesse techniques in there.
 
no grav assist.....pure human skill with almost nothing to aid the players.

besides..grav tech imtu is expensive and energy hungry.

not everything in the far future will be made high tech
 
You're probably one of those purists that thinks stickum is bad, too. ;) (For you deprived folks between the Atlantic and the Channel, thats stuff American football receivers sometimes spray (sprayed?) on their hands to help them hold onto the ball.)

I think there would be some purist sports, though. Just like the current hot vacation trend for executives is to go somewhere with no internet/cell towers/cable tv. "Back to basics" would be a big deal in Traveller sports. (Think Kirk v Spock in Final Frontier.)
 
Originally posted by Fritz88:
[QB] You're probably one of those purists that thinks stickum is bad, too. ;) (For you deprived folks between the Atlantic and the Channel, thats stuff American football receivers sometimes spray (sprayed?) on their hands to help them hold onto the ball.)
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That was outlawed some time ago though wasn't it, there was this CB who used to cover his jersey with the stickum so he'd just have to jump in the way of the ball, then pluck it off his jersey and it would be an interception.
 
Rugby. Rugby is the sport of choice IMTU. Both in grav and 0-grav.

Divisions by home G and status, and of course, specific ruleset... typcially 6 downs then mandatory kick, full tackle, line out and free kicks, no scrums.

Golf and Croqette too.

Something akin to smash; sealed court, being vs being, electronic scoring. Usual size is 3x3x12m.

Fencing, as well, 7 classes, both electric and traditional: Foil, Epee, Saber, Rapier, Cutlass, Townsword, and Dagger. Beware the IMC Regional Cutlass teams... and no one survives the IRIS Dagger Team. (Bad, bad pun intended. SFU reference.)

Frisbee & Chakram. (Yes, I've had players take frisbee skill! Moreover, I've had PC's commit homicide with them!)

Billards. Quite a variety.

Ships-golf: using a course laid out across the whole of the ship. Putters only. Golfer's indoor-floor-cups standard.
 
In the 10K dton luxury liner I've been working on for the past few weeks I will include the following (with dtons in parentheses):
Badminton (61.2), Basketball Court, Pro/College (408.1), Bowling Alley, 8 lanes (53.6), Fencing, 2 lanes (27.4), Handball Court (17.9), Horseshoes, 4 lanes, (82.8), Racquetball (17.9), Shuffleboard, 4 lanes, (76.8), Volleyball (181.6).

Also to be included will be a couple of theaters, a couple of dining rooms, a casino, a few bars/discos, an excersise room, a zero gee room, speciality shops, massage parlor, library(via computer), and card-play room (for non-gambling games [inc. ftf RPG's]).

Hopefully, it will be enough to keep 600 passengers and about 140 crew occupied for the nine day journey between worlds (one day outbound, one week jump (+/-), one day inbound).
 
I think wide acceptance of a sport relies on how accessable it is to the overall population...that means it must be low cost. Soccer is popular because all you need is something to kick around as opposed to ice hockey where there is a large amount of equipment and a specialised playing 'field' ( unless its in a location where such a 'field' occurs naturally).

The alternative is that the sport has only a niche audience < aka polo >, because so few can actually participate. Or perhaps a show sport mean more for couch pototaoes' entertainment only.
 
I think the Vilani would like cricket. Zho's wouldn't be keen on poker. And I haven't a clue what the K'kree would think about polo...
 
I recent all this specie-al stereotyping that is going on here - what's the deal? Are you lot Solomani or something?

(ok, i know: lame ... )
 
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