Ricochet Tradition / Ritual in Opposition: Mars | World Anvil

Ricochet

Ricochet Ball/Ricochet is a more recent niche sport that is gaining traction. Ricochet Ball is exclusively played in zero/microgravity. Ricochet is most similar to Basketball, albeit the court is an elongated box with all six walls in play. The walls are colored differently to help players maintain orientation. The goal is a trapezoidal box/truncated pyramid affixed to the opposing narrow walls. The narrow side of the box is solid, while the four trapezoidal sides are open, forcing goals to be scored from oblique angles or directly alongside. Ricochet teams must use the physics of microgravity to their advantage, propelling the ball and themselves off of walls without the burden of gravity impeding their momentum.   As one might expect, this game is most popular with those living in artificial colonies orbiting the Earth. Their mastery of microgravity navigation gives them a distinct advantage, but that doesn't prevent teams from Mars, Earth, and Luna from putting up their nation's best to compete in space, to include the famous UNAS Armstrongs. The sport has been steadily and rapidly gaining popularity in the United North American States, especially among naval personnel who have taken empty storage bays aboard ships and turned them into makeshift Ricochet arenas.

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