The rules, the game.

When sat on a turbine, bored stiff waiting for something to do, its amazing what you can come up with to pass the time. In order to pass a few minutes this past weekend, myself and Braai Man came up with this little game that you too can play at home in order to feel somewhat more socially accepted.

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DISCS

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Required Items:

• 2 off discs (material and size irrelevant, as long as you can balance them on your index finger)
• 1 off random piece of plastic (recommended) / lead (dangerous) / sponge (silly) / nuclear waste (insensitive at the moment) / etc

Rules

1) Both players sit opposite each other with one disc each, with approximately 3 yards between them. Each player balances a disc on an index finger of their choice, ensuring that the finger only has one point of contact with the disc. When drunk, the finger may be substituted for a digit of your choice (preferably on the hand). 

2) Having agreed on a piece of plastic that is suitable to both players, each player takes turns to knock the disc from the opposing players index finger with the plastic, by throwing it. In the interests of fair play, the player being thrown at must keep his or her disc as still as possible to prevent accusations of cheating, whilst the thrower must minimise the risk for the person being thrown at (in line with Method Statement D0120110416v6 and Risk Assessment v3.

3) The winner is the first player to successfully knock the disc off of the opposing players index finger. Traditionally the game is played in 'sudden death' mode (first knock off wins), but best of three five, seven or even nine can be played. If players wish to play best of 11, then self harm may be more your thing.

4) At all times, players and officials in the sport should make it sound far more exciting than it actually is. This should be reflected in the language used to describe the sport and the events that make up the sport, including, but not limited to stealing phrases from far more exciting sports in order to imply action, drama or intrigue. For example, each player should be referred to with their (suitably outlandish) chosen nickname (whilst the general word for a Discs competitor is a 'warrior') whilst the sport should colloquially be reffered to as the 'Sport of the Gods'.


Notes

The inaugural World Disc Championships were hold in IGG09, 25km offshore near Harwich, Sussex on April 16th, 2011. The first world champion was Richard Slaughter (WAL), who secured a 6th round knockdown vs Nick Burmeister (RSA).