Table shuffleboard

Shuffleboard, also called Sjoelbak, is a game of skill, which is operated as a sport.

Material and rules

The game is played on a 2 m long, 40 cm wide wooden board. At the end of this board are four Tordurchlässe with boxes and different rating. From left to count for a hit 2 - 3 - 4 - 1 points. In these boxes are pushed by hand round, concave wooden playing pieces, which have a diameter of 52 mm and a thickness of 13 mm. There are 10 extra bonus points if you hit each box with one disc, ie a "set" power of attorney. The results at 30 slices a maximum total score of 148 points ( equivalent to seven per Box 7x20 plus twice the "4" ). The problem is that not countersunk washers blocking the direct route into the boxes and thus a game about gangs or Preview a locking washer is required. Duration of the game: The player may, if in each case all discs are played, twice that lie on the outskirts of discs play again. Then the points are scored in the pits.

History

The 400-year- old game has its origins in the Netherlands, where it is called Sjoelen. Long forgotten, it was launched in the 1920s as a sport back to life. But a big tournament with 1,200 players in 1968 took place. Today, in the Netherlands there are more than 100 clubs in the association ANS with over 60,000 members.

The German name is a neologism of the German businessman James Schmidt, who provided the short form of his name " Jakko " with the suffix -lo and the game under this name in Germany spread. He discovered the game in 1960 in Holland and drove it off then in the Federal Republic.

The DJB ( Jakkolo German Confederation) was founded on 16 September 1995 Wüsting in Oldenburg in Lower Saxony. This year also saw the first official international match between Germany and the Netherlands in Wüsting took place, which won the Dutch players significantly. Meanwhile, countries find tournaments with Belgium and the former Dutch colony Suriname place.

Social Commitment

2011 stopped the tournament group around the shuffleboard - top players Horst Köster after the World Cup in May in Hude, Kreis Oldenburg ( Lower Saxony), the donation of the last three decades of the German Cancer Aid to a total of 227,000 euros. Cancer Aid Chief Executive Gerd Nettekoven praised " the exemplary donations loyalty " with a portrait of Mildred Scheel graphic by Andy Warhol.