| You
will need a table for your
playing surface, a ping pong
ball, 4 or more bendy drinking
straws and four or more players
for this breathtakingly cheap
game.
It
is probably best if you don't
use the highly polished dining
table that has been in the
family forever because you
will need to make some field
markings somehow.
-
Divide
the playing field into
two parts by drawing
a line across it about
a quarter of the way
along from one end.
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The
small area is the defence
zone and the larger one
is the play zone.
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Place
a semicircle of paper
about 15 cm (6 inches)
across, at the centre
of the end of the play
zone. This is your Blow-off
area.
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Please
only use bendy drinking
straws with the little
end in your mouth because
when the game gets rough
you really don't want
the big end down your
throat, do you?
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The
Rules of Blow-off Soccer
The
idea of the game is for the
attacking team to 'blow'
the ball from the Blow-off
area along the field so that
it rolls over the end of
the field.
The defence team need to stop
it by blowing it back.
The game would be best played
by two teams of two players
each although, depending upon
how good your lungs are, you
might like to have reserve
players as well.
- Play
is started by the attack
team blowing the ball
from the Blow-off area
down the field to the
goal (the other end of
the table)
- The
ball may be passed from
one player to the other
across the table as required.
- The
defence team and their
straws must stay within
the defence zone
- If
a player, or a player's
straw touch the ball
the other team get one
point and the play
is restarted from the
Blow-off area.
- If
the attack team blow
the ball off either side
of the field it is a foul and
the teams change ends
and restart the game.
- When
the attack team blows
the ball across the goal
they score a point
and restart the game
from the Blow-off area.
- If
the defence team blow
the ball off the table
inside the defence zone
the attack team get a free
blow . Play is restarted
by the attack team from
any point on the dividing
line.
- If
the defence team blow
the ball off the table
in the play zone the
teams change ends and
restart the game.
- Reserve
players can only take
the field when a particular
play is ended by a goal,
a foul, a restart or
a free blow.
- The
length of the game should
be determined by the
ability of the players
not to pass out from
all the Blowing -off
and laughing.
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