Carnegie Mellon University
Jeremy Doo
"React Fast":
Description:
This game is played by two players on a hard surface. They each have a hockey net set 10 feet apart from one another and they take turns, one on offense and one on defense. The player on offense holds two hard rubber balls, one a perfect sphere and the other a reaction ball. A reaction ball is a sphere with other spherical knobs on it so that when it bounces the direction it goes in is very hard to predict. The offensive player shoots on the other players net by bouncing either the regular or the reaction ball at least once on the ground before it goes in the defenders net. By not knowing wether the reaction ball or the regular ball is being bounced, it makes it hard for the defender to know which way the ball will go off the bounce and therfore more difficult to stop. Once a player has shot, it is the other players turn.
Priniciple:
The players will learn about how both a regular ball and the reaction ball will bounce and how to control them.
Cost:
Since two hockey nets will have to be provided with the balls, the game will not be cheap. However, since the two hockey nets can also be used for hockey, for someone who was interested in owning hockey nets anyway, covering the additional cost of the balls would be cheap. Additional packages could also be created which only sold the balls, for those that already own the nets.
Durabilty:
"React Fast" would be very durable. The balls, which are made of hard rubber, would be very durable and probably would never break. The nets are hockey nets, so are designed to take a beating, and would also probably never break.
Safety:
Like in any sport type game, there is a risk of injury; primarily getting hit in the face with a ball in this game. The people who would purchase this sort of a game would most likely accept this danger as unavoidable, and would be aware and prepared for possible nose bleeds and such.
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