Boutaoshi, the new Japanese sport
The goal is to overtake the position on the pole from the other team which is protecting it. I can get a little rough...
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4. Xionbox (admin) 306 days ago
Let's just hope players of this game don't become zombies one day, or we'll all be very very screwed.
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"LOLOL only in Japan". This is some event that happens at a military academy. Nobody else does that shit, and nobody even knows about it. Nobody ever says "LOLOL only in Scotland" when some assholes throw around trees and stones wearing skirts.
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From Wikipedia:
Bo-Taoshi (or pole pull-down) is a capture-the-flag-like game, played predominantly by cadets at National Defense Academy of Japan, wherein two teams of 75 individuals each vie for control of a single large pole.[1] One team begins in a defensive orientation respective to the pole, while the other attacks from a position some measure away from the pole once the match has commenced; the attacking team is victorious if it is able to lower the pole (which begins perpendicular to the ground) to a thirty-degree angle (respective to the ground). Until a rule-change in 1973, the angle of victory was only forty-five degrees.[2]
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10. agentreeko 306 days ago
broken ribs, arms and legs. each team should have a field hospital....
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13. Comment rated too low. Show this comment FatalBaboon 306 days ago
IN SOVIET RUSSIA oh wait...
The concept just makes me wanna say the words "tower defense" 
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#2 and #7 are right. It's not new -- a friend of mine was on his high school's botaoshi team in Tokyo almost 40 years ago... And the point is to bring the pole down (as the wiki article pointed out). But it's definitely not just academy cadets who play it -- some high schools have it listed as a sport too.
But thanks for posting this. I had only heard of it -- never actually seen it until now. I'll be sure to show this to my friend. Who knows, it may be from his old high school?
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1. Comment rated too low. Show this comment imagic 306 days ago
only in Japan.........