Western European Style Dodgeball

Today I will describe the type of dodgeball we played, which I called it as “Western European style” dodgeball. It will also be the basic type of dodgeball, which mean there’s no twist or special rule, such as invisible-player in the court where that selected player is unbeatable.

The picture above is the common dodgeball court where there's both end line at the end of the court with centre line to separated both sides, and two lines beside the centre line forms a "dead-zone" where no contact is permitted. However, "dead-zone" are usually smaller. 

Teams consist of 6 players on each side and the main objective is to end the game with more players than your opposition. There will be a main referee stands off the court but in front of the centre line to empire the game, also two side-line referees will stand on the far side parallel to the main referee and responsible to empire the team on their side. 

A standard number of balls for a 6 player game is 4, and these balls will be place on the centre line with distance between each ball. Those 6 players will stand on each end line preparing to run forward steal the ball when the game starts, and those players are called "runner". The number of "runner" is depend on the amount of ball in the centre line, in this case, there can only be 4 players going for the ball when the game starts.

The length of the game and the rules will depend on the organiser or the event creator. For example, 5 rounds of 2 minutes on each game or 7 rounds of 3 minutes each game. Also, special rules can be set for the game, such as if the last person can survive in the court for 30 second, the rest of the team member can all come back into the game. 

The most important and a MUST-SET rules is, do not aim above the chest and any player got hit above the chest will not be count.

So here you go, here is the basic structure and rules of the "Western European style” dodgeball, and Yes, if you missed the post on "dodgeball in Asia", click here for more detail of that!! 

Billy