NationStates Jolt Archive

What's everyone's National Sport?

In Greater Googlia, the national sport is Surfing...

If I were to make one, it would be NRL.

Ours would be baseball.

Mine would be soccer.

We have sword fights in an arena.

I think ours would be EXTERMINATION! Well, we are Daleks y'know...

Capture The Flag

pfft.

Gladiator fights in the Colosseum all the way!! :sniper:

Coconut hurling, with and without usinng a sling. Points for accuracy and distance. Double points on the moving targets, with force meters on all targets to see how hard they are hitting. No points for a non-lethal blow.

The annual steak and kidney pie eating contest.

Rugby Union.

Rugby Union.
Same.

The Democratic Republic of Avarrelia´s national sport would be running.

Nearly everyone is able to run and it is everbody´s free choice whether he runs in a group of people or not. You also don´t need a lot of things to be able to run and it ´s first at all your own body deciding how good you are in running, not some machines.

So running is an ideal sport to represent the DR Avareelia which wants its citizens to be as free in their decisions as possible and which evaluates its people by their achievements, not by the money they have.

Baseball.

Cuba, the former Dominican Republic, Jamaica, and Haiti are all members of the Sunshine Republic as is Florida. So baseball is HUGE here.

In Czardas, the national sport involves jumping between a series of planks suspended 150 feet above a pit full of spikes in order to throw balls into a goal on the other side of the arena. It also occurs in an extreme version, in which instead of planks there are tightropes crisscrossing each other. :p

Any ideas for a name?

Same.
Whoo!

The Tannenmillians enjoy a fierce bout of competitive googlewhacking (http://www.googlewhack.com/).

We in Leafanistan enjoy all sorts of sports but our favorite is a good game of cricket.

Thats my nations 2nd sport.

sephrioths sport pain ball like nfl but weapons alowed

Oh, er nice.

There are no national sports because in an imploded economy no one can receive government wages for playing a game. However chess has grown popular along with odd internet political simulations. None have received government endorsement yet though.

Sports have been outlawed in the Republic of New Crystal Isles, as such activities are thought to go hand-in-hand with excessively-masculine attitudes and personalities which lead to human aggression, which the RNCI is working tirelessly to stomp out

www.freewebs.com/ncir

knife throwing and archery. The traditional sports

We have sword fights in an arena.
Freakin awesome...
I think ours would be the same. some to the death, others to first blood

Marching in an orderly fashion.

In I Still Like Oranges, we have a sport where midgets ride around on badgers throwing falaffles at each other. The winner is simply the one at the end who is wearing the most pairs of socks. Now the problem is that we don't have a national sport and i was wondering do you think that this is good enough to be it?

In Czardas, the national sport involves jumping between a series of planks suspended 150 feet above a pit full of spikes in order to throw balls into a goal on the other side of the arena. It also occurs in an extreme version, in which instead of planks there are tightropes crisscrossing each other. :p

Any ideas for a name?

Pitball, pitjump, pitsomething.

Freakin awesome...
I think ours would be the same. some to the death, others to first blood

Thanks.

Ours are usually to first blood, to the death is usually reserved for duels in legal matters.

Surrender is an option in both cases, although you look stupid.

Mine is world class Yo-yo. I dare anyone to challenge me.

Soccer/Football

Gladiatoral Combat between captured Capitalists and Opposition Sympathisers armed with kitchen utensils.

football (thats soccer to all you americans, not the rugby piss take with which you like to demean the word 'football')

Hockey, naked speed Twister, bobbing for birthmarks, and soccer

The national sport of Ausserland is shuffleboard. This status has come under some recent challenges from the Ausserland Union of Professional Quoits Players and the National Horseshoes League, but shuffleboard continues to reign supreme. :D

Hockey. In fact, it's been said that in the last week of May, during our nation's Stevenson Cup Finals, it's impossible to get any work done. We also play baseball, soccer, and American style football.

football (thats soccer to all you americans, not the rugby piss take with which you like to demean the word 'football')

Put a cork in it.

Cricket for sure; Football (soccer) is also prominent in the Federation of Belkan States.

Arakaria favors mushroom picking! Next are...
Space (sci-fi): Asteroid Racing
Planetary (modern): Martial Arts

Godzillasaur racing has become quite popular in Tomzilla. You take the national animal, tame it, and then race it against others of its kind. Quite fun to watch. And then we have Baseball.

Ha! War is our national sport.

Football (I refuse to call it the american name!HAH!)

Two teams are allowed: The Imperial and the Rebels. If the rebels win, they get control of the country. If not, they are executed. The Rebels usually have the bad luck (cough) of getting their goalie shot in the head during the games. And their forwards. And midfielders. And defenders. And fans, cheerleaders, mascots, trainers, owners, families and friends. Also people who look, sound, dress, smell or act like Rebel players are often in accidents.

The Imperial team have bodyguards with them on the field. Just in case.

Another game approved by the government is, well I guess you all know about it, the one where 7 teams of 3players in the ages 25-25.36217 are blindfolded, put in a bee costume covered in honey, then ride backways on blind donkeys (born blind, the government do not poke them in the eyes with a long, shiny piece of paper until they go blind) throwing Jello at any and all walls they can hear. The winner is of course the one with the blindest donkey, though refereeing has been proven difficult, so there is also the other way, which is simply judging who is the most bee-y.

The Emperor´s favorite sport is known as "the Challenge". It´s when some stupid son of a not-so-pious-woman challenges the Emperor to fight a duel. The duels are with spear-like things, though they use feathers instead and try to tickle eachother into submission. The loser is then forced to wear a hat made up of pillows for three years.
This is the way it is described as in the press anyway, but none who has challenged the Emperor has actually worn the hat as far as we know. In fact, none has ever even left the Arena...

Other than that, playing Monopoly and a few cardgames are not punishable by death.

EDIT: Way to go Richardinium! A game called "football" where you´re barely use your feet...

In Mimer, the national sport is spearthrowing on live and moving targets.
Very simple:
The first kind: Each contestant uses 3 spears (privately owned or bought there) to try and hit a pig with a shield strapped to it´s side running either from left to right or the other way around. The contestant with the most hits on a shield wins!
Second kind: Each contestant gets 5 spears, and the rest is the same except for one thing: The target is not hitting the shield, but killing the pig! This takes either extreme strength or extreme precision.

Coppertamias would be capture the Flag, since it involves sealth being ableto get around unnoticed, just like our national animals, The Copper-Tailed Lion.

Girgunaball is the game our nation plays. You need 10 players, 5 to a team. You give 3 balls to a team. All players hide in the forest hoping to hit a player from the opposite team with a ball. There are power-ups like extra balls and water balloons. The first team with all players hit is out and has to do whatever the winners say for 3 hours.

Calvinball

Calvinball
YES!!!!! Some one else knows about Calvinball!!!! I wonder what it would be like to play that in real life...

...is gypsy hunting... :mp5:

The national sport of the Grand Duchy of Trapobana is waterpolo, a close second is the version Rollerball documented in 1975. Both of these sports are endorsed by the Grand Ducals Office of the Interior because of the teamwork that both require for winning.