The United of Islands of Muralos is presenting the inaugural International Playground Wallball Championship, a tournament for the sport of playground wallball. It will be held in Urbego, the capital city of Muralos, at the Zemlinsky National Wall-Sports Center. The IWBC represents the first time in world history that a wallball tournament – with these particular rules – has been open to players outside of Muralos and its region Asian Archipelago.
Playground wallball is a sport akin to squash, racquetball, and its New York City-wide, British, and Irish counterparts. Playground wallball is sometimes called "handball" as well, but the IWBC forgoes that name due to its being shared with Olympic handball, a much more popular sport.
In RL, playground wallball is popularly played by schoolchildren in parts of the United States. IC-ly, the sport made its way to Muralos around the 1980s, not long after the establishment of diplomatic relations between the United States and Muralos.
Because this is such an niche sport, please feel free to sign up athletes of any background (professional, amateur, youth, adult). Your athletes do not need to be familiar with the sport of playground wallball; athletes who are new to the sport are equally welcome, though they should ideally have experience in another racquet or ball sport.
Tournament Information and Sign-ups
The IWBC will be a doubles tournament, with two players to a team.
UPDATE: 8 teams will compete in this tournament in a double-elimination format. Sign-ups for the IWBC have closed.
Because the scoring scheme of playground wallball is identical to that of table tennis, xKoranate's table tennis scorination will be used to scorinate matches in the IWBC. RP bonuses will be cumulative for each nation, increasing by 0.2 to 0.6 for every RP posted. Cut-off times are expected to be at midnight EST.
Nations signed up:
Muralos (MUR)
Sofia Tremojosa/Georgo Chu
Daniel “Lerta” Donaldson/Georgo Zhong
North China (NCR) (The Northern Chinese Republic)
Kecheng Liu/Mai Chen
Shi Zhang/Dai Dong
Grey County (GRC)
Joe Schmo/Tom Schmom
Crystalline Caverns (CCN)
Steinarr Hanssen/Jon Beck
Kasper Axelson/Viktoria Losnedahl
Hebitaka (HTK)
Jessica Axerman/Natsume Byodo
Thank you for your interest, and have fun!