Dodgeball
выбивалы
Two players with a ball stand at the edges and throw it across the ones in the middle, trying to hit them.
Soft Ball
Under these rules: Several soft balls, usually six; they are laid out along the centre line.
A ball that does not hurt to be hit by: here being hit is the ordinary case.
A volleyball, a rubber ball or a foam one. Nobody plays this game with a hard ball: it strikes somebody every minute.
The rules of the two-team form
The court
A rectangular court divided by a centre line into two equal halves. Each team takes one.
About three metres from the centre on each side an attack line is drawn.
The start
The balls are laid out along the centre line. The teams stand at the far edges of their halves.
At the signal both sides run to the centre for the balls. A ball taken in this rush must first be carried back behind your own attack line before it may be thrown.
Hits
A player is out if a thrown ball hits them before touching the ground, a wall or anything else, if they cross the centre line, or if they step over a sideline.
A ball that has touched anything stops putting players out until it is thrown again.
Catching
A ball caught cleanly puts the thrower out, and the catcher's team brings back one player who is out — the one who went out earliest.
Try to catch and drop it, and you are out yourself.
Blocking
An incoming ball may be blocked with a ball held in the hands. If the block knocks your own ball out of your hands, you are out.
Holding on
A ball may not be held for longer than ten seconds: it must be thrown or rolled to the opponents. If a team gathers every ball and does not put them back into play, they are given a short count and the surplus is taken away.
Winning
A game ends when one team has nobody left in the field. A match runs to an agreed number of games won.
Worth knowing
The number of balls, the size of the court, whether a catch brings a teammate back and what counts as a headshot are all set beforehand and answered differently by different companies.
Glossary of terms
- Catch
- A ball taken out of the air in the middle, before it touches the ground. It buys an extra life or brings a teammate back.
- Life
- The right to survive one hit. Lives accumulate through catches.
- Thrower
- A player who throws the ball at those standing in the middle. They do not enter the middle themselves.