Hops Ball

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Hops Ball is a new and increasingly popular sport, being played in the smaller schools around London.

1 Background
2 How to play
- 2.1 Equipment
- 2.2 Gameplay

[edit] Background

Hops Ball was created by William Hops in 1938, but has only become more popular in recent years, due to an increase in popularity among adolescents from the years 1998-2003. The sport was originally made as a method for keeping people active in refined areas, as space is limited at many locations.

[edit] How to play

[edit] Equipment

Hops Ball uses very few objects to play the game. All that is required to play this game is a standard soccer/football, a pole in the middle of a small field (roughly 4x5 metres) and coloured flags (one for each team member).

[edit] Gameplay

Following similar rules to the game dodgeball, Hops Ball requires for teams to continually throw balls at each other, trying to elliminate them from gameplay. Teams consist of 2 players per side on the field at any one time, and benches can have up to 6 people off. If a player is hit on or above the torso by a ball, he/she is elliminated and must substitute with a player from the bench of his/her team. Once all members from a team are elliminated, the opposing team is victorious.

If at any point the pole in the middle of the field is hit by a ball, the team responsible for hitting it is required to begin side-stepping around it, whilst still following the conventions of the game. This has to continue until they hit somebody on the opposing team with a ball.