Drumstik - a New Sport
The new sport of Drumstik was created by Alexander & Armando Norman, Bryce & Charlie Thompson-Wood, & Haider Afzal from Canada in April 2024. In Drumstik, you strategically pass a stick (shaped like a chicken drumstick) to your teamates and meet a minimum amount of passes to be able to get the stick to the other side and score a point. The first to 4 points wins the period. The first to 4 periods wins the game.
Equipment Required: 2 Goal posts (or trees is possible/needed), a stick or baton (preferably shaped like the titular leg), opposing colored jerseys or pinnies, cones for boundaries or a line if more professional.
Sport Details
- Sizes of the field shall vary. Small (approx. 25x15m) Medium (approx. 35x25m) Large (approx. 50x30m) Xtra-Large (approx. !!!!).
- If the drumstik is dropped pass # resets.
- If goalpost is passed before pass # threshold is reached, there will be a goal-line
violation and the drumstick is given to the opposing team, resetting the pass #.
- Players can intercept the drumstick.
- No hailmary's unless large or XL field size.
- All required passes cannot be done before moving up (that is a cheap pass).
- Like in touch football, a play can be intercepted by a two-hand touch on the back once passing threshold is reached, which ends the play, restarting at the opposing team's goal post, with a reset pass #.
- Pass # must be called out as a pass happens so it can be kept track of.
- No holding longer than 8 seconds.
- Checking is allowed but no tackles.
- There must always be at least one pass per half of field length.
- There are four periods and within them there is a first to four method.
- First to four points in a period win the period.
- Only the number of periods won matters for score.
- If periods are tied 2-2 a bo1(best of one) overtime first to 4 points determines the winner.
- If a player holds another player there will be a penalty and the violating team will lose that player for 1 minute and 30 seconds.
- Delayed penalties will take place once the opposing team gets possession of the stick.
- No pushing above the torso.
- Double tap (two hands on the opposing player) to reset their pass # and cancel their poinf enacted a new round starts.
Note
Related Pages
- See our large list of other New Sports
- How to Submit a New Sport
- Complete list of unusual sports
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