Saturday, February 7, 2009

Riot or sport?

COMORRO STATION - Comorro's landing hub ended up in disarray after a so called sport took place. The sport itself is alleged to involve keeping a silver ball and a player keeping it in their possession. However, players of this "marketball" seem more interested in trying to maim each other than to get the ball. This resulted in four of the 10 players receiving injuries, despite wearing protective clothing. This so-called sport appears to have no rules and no real objective, outside of injuring other players.

Or in one case, accidentally disrupting a group of Lotorian onlookers, as one drunken Hekayti was rumored to have done.

Tamila Romeno, one of the participants who was injured, said, "This isn't a sport for the weak of heart. In fact, it's usually a good thing if the weak of heart stay well away. But after the rules are reviewed and designed so that it's closer to the traditional sport of shockball as opposed to the modern descendent, marketball, it may actually catch on. In the future I would like to form a league, however due to lack of equipment, it makes it impossible to even consider training more than two or three teams."

Romeno, one of the refugees from the year 4009, added that shockball was a lot safer to bystanders than marketball and the rules are much easier to understand.

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