Brännboll

Brennball is a baseball related and derived from this sport that is played in Germany, especially in physical education from schools. In Switzerland, the sport is also known as Matt run or Balle brûlée.

The basic structure

Burning ball is played with two teams of any number of people. The game is played in an enclosed area (sports field, Hall ), at the edge of a number of " bases " (usually sports mats, etc. ) is. As a ball usually serves a volleyball, but it can also be played with other litter items. A team is distributed in the infield, the other waits outside the box.

The game

A player throws the ball into the infield and runs off. While he tries to run as many mats as possible, the opposing team must try to get the ball in a generally lying at the starting point vessel as soon as possible. A player who does not touch the mat into the vessel at the time of delivering the ball, the ball is considered to be "burned". He must return to the starting point, or separates this passage out. He touched a mat so he can continue to run in the next litters his teammates of this mat in the direction of the target mat. When it reaches the target mat so his team gets a point. Sometimes there is also an analogy to baseball home run scheme that the team whose pitcher completes after the throw a whole round, more than one point brings.

Is exchanged for the role of teams either after a predetermined period of time when a certain number of players "burned", or if a team can muster no more launcher, because all are either on mats or are "burned". At the end are the points scored to determine the winner. In some variants, may on a mat, only three players are. If a new addition, one of the players is considered a " burned" (eg, the newcomer, or, the longest is on the mat ).

Variants

There are various modifications which differ in the size of the playing field, the kind of the ball, and the game rules. In some variations, the ball is not thrown as in baseball, but beaten with a bat.

Miscellaneous

In Finland, a variant of the game (Finnish pesäpallo ) is discharged as championship with a league of its own. Pesäpallo even been considered a Finnish national sport. The variant in Sweden (Swedish brännboll ) there is also very common and is played with wooden rackets and a tennis ball. The longest focal ball tournament in the world, the Brännbollscupen, takes place annually on the last weekend of May in Umeå instead. At the tournament take several hundred teams participate ( in the record year 1997 over 1000 teams). Swedish Brennball is also played in Umeå 's partner city of Würzburg for many years. There, the International Würzburg Brennball tournament is held annually.