Cornhole

Cornhole, also known as " bean bag ", is a recreational game in which several players alternately filled with corn small bags ( bean bags ) throw on a raised platform with a hole. If a bag lying on the platform, a point is scored, a bag falls in the hole, are three points. The game is especially popular in the United States, but also enjoys a growing fan base in Germany and Switzerland.

Regulate

General rules of the game

Stand-in

A game is held by four players who form teams of two each. They are distributed on the left and right in the so-called pitcher's box, located next to the Cornhole platform of the opponent. Each player now puts the opposite Cornhole platform four sacks. Players have twenty seconds throw time. The two Cornhole platforms are measured by the hole 10 meters (33 ft. ) apart.

Single

A single game is played with only two players kept playing against each other. The other rules are applied by the Double.

Points

In general, a sachet to touch after the throw without the ground remains on the Cornhole platform, a point counts, and a bag that falls into the Cornhole hole three points counts. However, points can be lost if a player pushes a bag with another bag from the platform. In addition, a small bag, which is located on the platform to be pushed using a different sac in the Cornhole hole. Sacs that are located on the platform but touch the ground are invalid and will be immediately removed from the platform. The player who scored the first 21 points, won the game.

History

It is unknown where the true origin of the game is, although there are suspicions and stories about the origin of Cornholes. A guess is that the game was first played in the 14th century in Germany and was rediscovered in the last century in Ohio. There are eyewitnesses who say that Indians (mainly the Blackhawk tribe) near Illinois played a very similar game. The game gained significant popularity in the 1990s in Athens, Ohio, and East Lansing, Michigan, at the Universities of Ohio University and Michigan State University. Since then it has established itself as an integral part of the United States very popular " tailgating " (of English. Tailgate, " tailgate "), a social event in the run-up to numerous sporting events, in the event of parking is jointly grilled and drank.

In Germany the game was introduced in the show Schlag den Raab in December 2011 as part of the competition and thus known for the first time to a wider audience. The German Cornhole Association focused on 16 and 17 June 2012, the first official German Championship of Cornhole in Hanover.

German master

• 2012 Hannover: German champion Maya Göbel ( Witten); German champion Kim Kant ( Pinneberg )
• Lindhorst 2013: German Champion Nadine Hattendorf ( Reinsen ); German champion Timo Nerge ( Beckedorf )
• 2013 Lindhorst: German champions women's doubles Linda Fornefeld and Veronica Becker (both Witten); German Champion Men Double Mario Schlinke ( Lindhorst ) and Timo Nerge ( Beckedorf )