Snowball fight competition, (yukigassen in Japanese)
Monday, 10 September 2007 01:48
From:
http://english.people.com.cn/200701/30/eng20070130_346020.html
http://www.yukigassen.jp/english/index.html
Snowball fight competition, called yukigassen in Japan, started in the country in 1988.
According to official rules of the game, fourteen players battle in a court 40 meters long and 10 meters wide. Four forwards attack, while three guards defend the flag in the center. Players behind a 90-centimeter tall snow wall pop up and fire snowballs at the opposing team, also behind a snow fort.
Any player hit by a snowball is out. A team loses when all of its players are eliminated, or if the opposing team captures its flag from the center of the court. Each set lasts three minutes, and the first team to win two sets takes the match.
