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Jan 11, 09 at 3:46am ^
GORILLA GAMES
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Log in to remove this sponsored message The Gorilla Games have started: On Saturday night the Ghaisias Brothers faced off with the Okies for the first Gorilla Game. The Ghaisias Brothers wee pushed to the limit and had to play two overtime sets before they were able to win the game. Every two weeks on Saturday night between 6:00 and 7:00 pm, two teams will compete for the winner's prize of $50. The winners will return two weeks later to defend their Gorilla rights and a chance to win another $50 against a new opponent. The losers of a Gorilla Game go on training leave for one month before they are eligible to challenge any current team that won Rocball's Gorilla title. And, although $50 isn't a lot, it does give a Rocball team bragging rights and enough money for a pizza party. In the first of the Gorilla Games, the Ghaisias Brother, this year's world Rocball champions, had to dig in deep in order to defeat the Okies. In the first set, the Ghaisias jumped off to a great start with a 25 to 10 win. Ben Pelisamen of the Brothers set the tempo of play by scoring a three point goal in volley off the Okies first serve to start the game. In addition to the three point goal, the Brothers scored a total of six two-points plays in set one, while the Okies scored two, two point plays. In set two, the Okies pushed the Brothers hard and only came up four points short, losing set two 22 to 26. The Okies hit five two-point plays against the Brothers who scored another three point goal and six two-point plays. In the third set, the Okies came out on top 27 to 25. But, the Brothers outscored the Okies in multiple points scoring with Ben Pelisamen scoring his third goal of the night in addition to the Brothers' seven more two-point plays. The Okies scored six two-point plays, were held at set point three times, and won the set after the Brothers were penalized one point on a bad first serve, for delay of game. In the fourth set, the Brothers had game point advantage 76 to 59 and only had to win set four, juice-out, to win the game. In the Rocball rules of the quarter/set system of play, a team can only win a game in a winning set, regardless of the difference of team's game points. The Okies denied the Brothers their exit strategy, and won the fourth set 25 to 22. And, the Okies defeated the Brothers in the fourth set mostly by one-point court plays. The Okies only scored three two-point plays in contrast to the Brothers who scored four two-point plays and their fourth, three point goal of the game. After four sets of play, the Brothers had scored the most game points. The final score after four sets of play was the Brothers 98 and the Okies 84. But, the Brothers ended the game in a losing set and were robbed of their victory. By winning the fourth set, the Okies forced the game into overtime. And, when a Rocball game fails to end under the rules of the quarter/set system, the game continues with 10 point sets or when a goal is scored; whichever happens first. The Brothers scored the most game points in four sets; they only needed to win one overtime set to win the game. The Okies won the fourth set with the least amount of game points and were required to win two overtime sets to win the game. The Okies stunned the Brothers in first OT with their first and only three point goal of the night, and won nthe first OT set 4 to 0. The Okies first OT set win set up the second OT set as the do-or-die set of the game. Whichever team won the last OT set would be the first Gorilla of the games. The Ghaisias Brothers tighten up their defense, played conservatively, and won the last set without any two or three point plays 10 to 6. Ben and Freddy Pelisamen were the heavy hitters with Ben scoring 2 aces, 1 xunk, 5 kees, and 3 goals for 23 points, and Freddy scoring 2 aces, 1 xunk, 7 kees, and 1 goal for 23 points. | |
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Jan 25, 09 at 10:21am ^
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Rocball Gorilla Games News Release: ..1/25/09 Evenflow took the "Gorilla" out of the Ghasias Brothers Saturday night in a sudden death overtime set. The game point between teams after four quarters of play was tied 99 – 99. Evenflow snatched the victory off a serve from Mariano Lisua that was deflected into the Brothers' goal: Overtime sets are won by a team that scores 10 points or a goal whichever comes first. In the first set, Evenflow shot out to 26 to 16 win giving them a ten-point margin of comfort going into the second set. The Ghasias Brothers took the second set 26 to 25 and chipped the game point lead down to 9. In the third set, the Ghasias Brothers came from behind and won the set with a four-point margin 29 to 25. And, with their third set win, the Brothers cut a little deeper into Evenflow's lead ending the third set 76 to 71. Under the quarter/set rules of Rocball play, a team not only has to outscore their opponents in game points, they must also win the fourth set "juice-out" to win the game. The Ghasias Brothers needed to win the fourth set by six points for closure and Evenflow only had to win the fourth set to win the game. The Ghaisias Brothers did mange to win the fourth set, but only by 5 points. The Ghasias Brothers won set four 28 to 23 and forced the game into overtime. Even though the Ghasias Brothers won 3 out of the four sets of regular play, this ain't volleyball and it's not rally point scoring, its Rocball and Rocball lives off it's own rules of play. Because teams were tied at the end of the fourth, only one set of overtime was needed to determine the winner. Evenflow had the lead 7 to 2 in overtime when Mariano brought the game to completion with a goal and Evenflow took home the $50. The next game will be in two weeks with Evenflow as host Gorilla. | |
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Feb 08, 09 at 7:07am ^
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On Saturday night, the Islanders challenged last month's Gorilla winners and walked off with the $50.00 prize and the bragging rights to be the world's toughest Rocball team. The Islanders won their title in four sets "juice" 98 to 81. Team Evenflow won the first set 27 to 21 but came out sluggish in the second set and were dumped to a hard 25 to 10 loss. The Islanders more than made up for their six point deficit of the first set in their 15 point second set win and went into the third set with a nine point lead. In the third set, both teams got off to a good start with Evenflow scoring twice with two point plays and the Islanders came back and scored a three point goal. The Islanders pulled ahead when both teams were tied at eleven points each, and then went on to win the third set, 25 to 19. Evenflow was trailing by 15 points going into set four and needed to win the set by 16 points to win the game. If Evenflow could have won the fourth set by any score less than with a 16 point margin, they would have at least stopped the Islanders from juicing out and force the game into extra sets. The Islanders only needed to win the set to win the game. But, the fourth set was a series of plays that that tasked the teams in back and fourth, give and take action. Evenflow at one point was at set point and failed to convert their service into the winning point. Both teams were at 25 points each win Evenflow served for set. The Islanders broke their serve with a court point and went on to win the game with a two point back court score. The Islanders won sets two, three, and four 25 to 10, 25 to 19, and 27 to 25. In addition to one point court scoring there were 33 two point plays; 10 aces, 5 xunks, and 18 kees. And, there were 5 goals scored for three points each. The heavy hitter of the day was Ben Lisua of the Islanders with 3 aces, 1 xunk, 2 kees, and 2 goals for 18 points. There is no fee to play in the Gorilla Games and the next challengers can sign up or submit their teams for games at the MHS Gym in person Monday thru Thursday between 5:00pm to 7:30pm or call Jim Feger (670) 237-3235: Volleyball teams are welcomed to test their skills against Rocball teams. | |
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Feb 25, 09 at 5:44am ^
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Islanders juice out Soul Rebels By Roselyn Monroyo Reporter / Saipan Tribune The Islanders notched their first win in "Gorilla Games, two weeks ago, dislodging Jan. 25 winner Evenflow from the top with a 98-91 juiced out win. "Gorilla Games" started the first week of January with 2008-2009 Rocball league champion Ghasias Brothers pulling off a 108-84 victory over first challenger Okies in double overtime. When Brothers attempted to defend the bragging rights in "Gorilla Games, Evenflow entered the picture, stunning the league champions with a 109-101 overtime win. But Evenflow's reign in "Gorilla Games" did not last long, as the Islanders came out smoking with a 17-point juiced-out win early this month. When "Gorilla Games" resumed Saturday, the Islanders' guns were still blazing. The Islanders prevailed in the opening set, 25-23, before the Soul Rebels recovered in the second set in similar scores. In third set, the Islanders pushed all the right buttons en route to a dominating win, 26-4. Entering the fourth set, the Islanders were ahead, 74-50, putting pressure to Soul Rebels to win the last regular set to send the game into overtime. The Islanders took an early lead in the fourth set, 10-4, before the Soul Rebels rallied and moved within one, 10-11. The Soul Rebels kept the Islanders within striking distance in the ensuing plays, before the latter pulled away, limiting the former to four points in the closing phase of the match en route to a 26-15 win. Former Ghasias Brothers mainstay Freddie Pelisamen suited up for the Islanders in Saturday's game and was the match's heavy hitter, scoring 23 points. He had nine kees, one ace, and one goal. Fifteen aces and 25 kees were scored in the game. The Islanders will face a new challenger next month, as "Gorilla Games" allow losing teams to rest for a month before returning to play. Besides the right to defend its biweekly title, the winning team in "Gorilla Games" takes home $50 cash. | |
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Mar 09, 09 at 8:56am ^
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Rocball Gorilla Games News Release
The Islanders are proving to be the dominators of "Gorilla". The Islanders defeated their third challengers in a juice-out, four set game 93 to 71 Saturday night at the MHS Gym. On Saturday night, a relatively new Rocball team, the Sevens Kings made an attempt to dethrone the two time Gorillas of Rocball but failed. The Islanders, lead by their heavy hitter, Freddy Pelisamen, won every set 26 – 14, 27 – 21, 25 – 15, and 25 – 21. There were 18 aces, 7 xunks, 1 jam, 16 kees, and 1 goal scored in the game. Freddy Pelisamen of the Islanders was the games heavy hitter with 5 kees, 1 xunk, and 1 ace for 14 points. The Islanders walked off with the Gorilla money for the third time in a roll and planning for a fourth cash out game in two weeks. Rocball's Gorilla Games got started as a lunch time activity at MHS about five years ago. At that time, games were fast and unpredictable. A game was ten points or a goal, whichever came first. It was set up to get a lot of players in as many games as possible during a lunch period. And, an invitation to all team net sport players of this kind of game, if your tired of the rally point scoring method of play, come on up and join the rough point action of "Saipan's Own Sport", Rocball. | |
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May 02, 09 at 11:35am ^
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Islanders Rex Regis
The Islanders are the Rex Regis (kings) and rulers of Rocball’s court of action. The Islanders and Fanians met on Saturday night to determine which team would walk off with the World Title, prize money, and bragging rights as Rocball’s best team of 2009. But, the Fanians forced the Islanders into a situation where no team has even come close to this year. The Fanians forced the Islanders into double overtime before losing the game. In the first set of the regular game, the Fanians took an early lead and trounced the Islanders with a hard lesson of reality, and drew first blood with a 25 to 14 win. The Islanders came back in the second set and put up a good mixture of backcourt spikes, net kills and dinks to outscore the Fanians in set two 28 to 24 At half time the Fanians had the lead in game points 49 to 42 and started off the third set with serve. In the third set, teams switched the lead numerously, both teams were mixing up their plays and making good defensive saves and hard hits. The Fanians had the momentum in the last series of plays. The Fanians were trailing 19 to 20 when Julius Saito scored a three point goal that gave Fanians the morale boosting energy to finish the Islanders off in the third set at 26 to 20. The Fanians went into the fourth set leading in game points 75 to 62. The Islanders were at a disadvantage because in order to win the game, they needed to win the fourth set by 14 points. If the Islanders won the fourth set with anything less than 14 points, they could force the Fanians into overtime, because a team cannot juice out, win a Rocball game in a losing set under the quarter/set rules of play. However, the Islanders would still be at a disadvantage because winning the fourth set as the team with the lowest game points after four sets of play, meant they would have to win two overtime sets to win the game. The Fanians only needed to win the fourth set to win the game and knock the Islanders out of their undefeated winning streak of the bi-weekly Gorilal Games. But, as it happened fate was not with the Fanians. The Islanders were desperate and dangerous. They played their best under pressure and won the fourth set 25 to 16. In overtime, the Islanders were ruthless. They took the lead and put a series of plays together that shocked the Fanians with a 12 to 1 first O.T. win; in Rocball an O.T. set is won at ten points or a goal, whichever is scored first, when no goal is scored, a team as in regular sets of play, cannot win set or game without the serve. In the final set of the game, teams traded the lead twice with hard spikes to the each other’s goals. And, both teams scored defensively, but it was offensive scoring that made the difference, and the Islanders had a few more different moves than the Fanians. In the last O.T. the Fanians did better but lost 10 to 6. At the end of the second O.T. the final score was Islanders 110 and Fanians 108. The game lasted an hour and 30 minutes. There were seven aces, 12 kees, and 2 goals scored. The game’s heavy hitter was Jazz Rosokow with one ace and four kees: Next on the agenda for the Rocball players is to issue a challenge to the beach masters with a Rocball version of playing in a sand box. Who do we contact? James W. Feger | |
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Jun 13, 09 at 2:44am ^
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Beefed-Up or Watered Down
Is it beefed up or watered down volleyball? There was a proposal within the Asian International Confederation Coaches Commission (AICCC) and the Federation International de Volleyball (FIVA) to redesign volleyball in the areas of defensive scoring, left and right side court service, and to include kicking as a legitimate hit. And, there were more renovations under considerations in their attempt to remodel volleyball into a more balanced and complete sport. However, the commissioners and officers of those different federations had already received the fundamental rules of play for Rocball. Rocball, the sport derivative of volleyball but as different from volleyball as baseball is from cricket, was the innovative force behind offensive and defensive scoring, kicking, multiple point scoring, changing service areas, and more. Rocball rules of play have been in print, registered with the Library of Congress, International Copyrighted, in play, and presented to the FIVB, AICCC and many other national and international sport organizations since 1979, fifteen years before rally point was adopted and one year after Rocball made international media exposure on the CNN World Report Program in 1993 & 1994. Volleyball had been around for about a hundred years before rally point or any other significant rules changes were adopted in 1995. Rocball is the pioneering game of innovative rules for a team net sport of this kind. Rocball news reports openly criticized volleyball as outdated service/side-out game where a team often as not outscored its opponents and lost a game in sets. Now, volleyball is a sport with rally point scoring that is actually a water-downed version of Rocball’s offensive and defensive scoring system. And, where Rocball holds to the premise that competition is best represented, in this kind of team net sport, with the scoring advantage and set/game closure as a reflection of the side-out version of play, volleyball adopted the anemic method of rally scoring where a set/game can be won off a bad serve by the receiving (defensive) team without having to touch the ball to win a set/game. The Libero is definitely rally point flavored. Rocball is based more on the all-around player for this kind of sport. In Rocball, certain positions have scoring advantages and all players no matter what position can execute a three point play. The adaptation or development of the Libero feels like it should belong to rally point. In conclusion, players, coaches, commissioners and officers of various teams and sport associations don’t have to wait for the Federation International de Volleyball to experience more revelations or mystical esoteric insights on any further developments for this kind of team net sport, they can write or e-mail the Library of Congress, Washington D.C. and request Rocball Literature. (Revised Article 1994) | |
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Nov 22, 09 at 12:47pm ^
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Rocball’s Prominence & Dominance
In the sport of Rocball, a team has to completely dominate their opponents in quarter-sets of play in order to win a game. In what has been described as a variation of volleyball or a volleyball/hybrid sport, Rocball’s deviant and rogue rules of play are based on a balance of challenges that clearly defines teams in either the offensive or defensive situation of competition. Rocball “Saipan’s Own Sport” is the first game in the world to implement offensive and defensive scoring in this kind of team net sport, and it is now the only sport of this kind which maintains that the serve is the catalyst by which competition is best served: A team cannot win a set or game without the serve. Whereas, volleyball was designed as a soft impact sport for middle age men back in 1895 and adopted the rally point system for softer competition in 1995; Rocball’s development was based on the Maya/Aztec warrior’s sport of Talachtli with the unimpaired, hard-drive components of the pre and post puberty syndromes of young athletes, fueled by natural human growth hormones. Whereas, volleyball’s equation of profit per play is limited to one point executions off any possible athletic skill, at any level of difficulty, from any area on court by simply grounding the ball on an opponent’s court, Rocball implemented multiple point scoring techniques that identify the different degrees of difficulty of grounding a ball on an opponent’s court, and a Rocball court includes three dimensional vertical areas of play, goals, at either end of the court. Whereas, volleyball is bogged down in a monotonous bump, set, spike three hit numb-lock repetitious mind set, Rocball play includes five hit plays to allow more diversity in game strategies, more spontaneous active and reactive scenarios in both offensive and defensive scoring, and has implemented more unpredictable dramatic activity in this kind of team net sport than volleyball. What is Rocball? You can read and/or down-load the rules, regulations, and graphics of how Rocball is played on the internet. The Rocball homepage has been recently revised and you can connect to it by using Google, Yahoo, MSN etc. or find more materials in news releases on forums of volleyballforums.com in general discussion under “Wooden Stakes, Silver Bullets, and Hemlock, or about.com volleyball in general discussion under Rocball, or volleyball.com.au in general discussion under volleyball/soccer all by Feger. What Rocball isn't, is that it is not the sissy sport FIVB implemented with rally point volleyball on either a hardcourt or sandcourt. Edit: Nov 23, 09 | |
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Nov 26, 09 at 12:44am ^
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Sand-Roc Tournament
In 2010 Rocball will temporarily move its court of activity from the MHS gym floor back to a sand court. On January 1st thru the 3rd, Rocball is going back outdoors. The first Rocball sand tournament since the late 1990s and the early part of this century will take place on the sand court of the Pacific Islands Club. The rules for the “sand-roc” games will basically be the same as the rules for indoor Rocball except, teams will have four players and not five on court, the person serving will also be the goalie, the goalie/server will be allowed to charge the net, and only the goalie/server will be allowed to play-off court in the service area and in front of the goal behind the court’s end lines. Individuals interested in forming teams to compete in “Saipan’s Own Sport” need a maximum of five and a minimum of four players to register: Teams that register for the sand-roc games will need at least one current Rocball club member on their roster to waiver a twenty-five dollar entrance fee. If you are an individual who likes a volleyball skills type of sport and is not familiar with Rocball’s rules of play, you can “Google” Rocball and read up on the latest rules and regulations of the sport on the Rocball homepage with graphics, news releases of past games, and the synopsis on “Fools Fire”. | |
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Nov 30, 09 at 11:47am ^
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In “Saipan’s Own Sport” there are more thrills to skills incorporated in play than any other variation of the Meso-American Aztec sport that gave birth to volleyball, any where else in the world. Saipan’s Own Sport is the leader of innovations and it’s called Rocball.
In volleyball the equation of profit per play is limited to one point executions off any possible athletic skill, at any level of difficulty, from any area on court. When Rocball implemented offensive and defensive scoring and multiple point scoring techniques in this type of team net sports, one of its primary purposes was to identify the different degrees of difficulty inherent but inhibited in the competitive and athletic skills of the game and its players under the old side-out system of volleyball and further constrained under the rally point system of volleyball. The points of proof comes from the Rocball players ability to score two point aces, two point backcourt plays, and three point goals in addition to one point court plays. And, in Rocball, with one exception, the net value of the sport comes from the serve. A ball has to be served over the net to initiate competition and a team cannot win a set or game without the serve. This year Ben Lisua and Myron Laniyo, good examples of Rocball’s current and past “Master Blasters”, exemplify the artful ability of competing in the sport that preceded rally point anemic by a dozen years. Ben Lisua of team Soul Rebels is this years first and only master of scoring. Ben has scored at least once in each of the five different scoring categories of Rocball. Ben has scored aces, xunks, kees, goals, and the jam. A “jam” has proven to be the most difficult of plays to complete. The jam is a defensive play made by a player at the net that can spike down a served ball. Myron Laniyo of No-Mercy is this year’s leading scorer by heavy hitting in games with a total of eleven aces, ten xunks, thirty two kees, and four goals for total of one hundred and twenty two points, averaging about twenty five points a game in aces, xunks, kees, and goals in addition to Myron’s one point court scoring. In Rocball games completed last week, No-Mercy came from behind in the fourth set of their game with the Projects to win and juice-out in four sets. The Projects had the lead going into the fourth set 44 to 36 and only had to win the final set to win their fifth consecutive game. But, No-Mercy, lead by veterans Myron Laniyo, David Tisa, and Ichnis Kapwich lead the drive to win the fourth set 16 to 6, a ten point margin, which gave No-Mercy a game point total of 52 to the Projects ending fourth quarter game point score of 50, and caused the Projects their first loss in Rocball. In the game between the Soul Rebels and CPC, the Soul Rebels with “Master Blaster” Ben Lisua defeated CPC in four sets 69 to 38. The Soul Rebels won the game in a shut-out by winning all four sets 16 to 11, 18 to 6, 16 to 6 and 19 to 15. The heavy hitter of the game was John Nekaifes of the Soul Rebels with 3 aces and 6 kees for 18 points. No-Mercy and the Projects are tied for first place with four wins and one loss each. The Fanians are in second place with three wins and no losses but need more games to play to hold their league position , and the team One-Way is in third place with four wins and four losses with one game left to play in the season. | |
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Dec 18, 09 at 9:06pm ^
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What is Rocball?
Rocball, like volleyball, is a variation of a sport with its roots of play founded in the Pre-Columbian, Meso-American sport of Tlachtli: A team sport once played by Aztec warriors. The actual game of Tlachtli involved passing a ball from side to side over a low wall without it touching the ground. If the ball fell to the ground, a team would win a point and vice versa. If you struck the ball with an incorrect part of the body, you could lose points for your team. After the creation of volleyball in 1895 and prior to 1980, athletes who played this kind of team net sport played under two different general restrictions. In volleyball, players were not allowed to hit the ball with any part of the body below the waist. In the Asian sport of sepak takrau players were not allowed to use their arms or hands to touch or hit a ball. In the Micronesian sport of Rocball, players are allowed to hit the ball with any part of the body as long as a player doesn’t carry or hold the ball. And, as in Tlachtli, there is a situation in which a team can lose a point and both sports have scoring areas other than the court floor: The sport of Tlachtli had vertical loops 8 or 10 feet high on a wall above either side of the court, and Rocball has vertical areas for scoring with six by twelve foot goals located ten feet behind each court. Fundamentals: A quarter/set game of Rocball with 25 points a set, takes a little less or a little more than one hour to complete. In Rocball, when a player serves a ball over the net, the receiving team, the defensive team, has two hits to return a served ball. When a served ball is successfully returned over the net, the offensive team has the first five hit play on the ball, and each team is allowed up to five hits to score point/s.
a. It allows a team to recover from a missed played ball after the third hit. b. It allows a team more opportunity to set up for a multiple point, backcourt score. c.It allows a team more flexibility to move the ball from one side of the court to the other. d. It allows a team more choices of when to spike off a set ball. e. It allows more different types of strategic plays. f. It allows a team to break the predictable bump, set, spike routine. g. It defines the difference between which team is playing offense and defense. h. It forces the three hit, defensive team to adjust more as a reactionary force. i. It creates longer volley and rally plays. j. It breaks up the mind-set and monotony of the three hit count for players and spectators. 2. The team with service is the offensive team and points scored by a team with the serve are defined as volley points: Volley = discharge and attack 3. The team receiving the serve is the defensive team and points scored by the defensive team are defined as rally points: Rally = mobilize and recover. 4. By identifying a team’s points as either volley or rally points, the game incorporates different perspectives and fosters more diverse innovative relationships between the sport, its players, and teams. | |
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Dec 20, 09 at 10:10am ^
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News release: I wrote a statement that rally point scoring scoring is for sissys and posted it for a volleyball forum on the internet. The original statement read as follows:
Is Volleyball’s rally point scoring for Sissys? Give the serving team in volleyball closure and eliminate the two-point margin win rule. Volleyball had a balance of challenges when the serving team had set and game closure. It doesn't make any sense to allow a set or game to be won if a team cannot serve a ball over a net. That kind of rule may be okay for tennis or ping-pong where rackets and paddles are used, but volleyball shouldn't have to be subjected to this kind of inactive and default system of closure. Volleyball used to be a game where a team had to have the courage to serve a ball over the net and challenge their opponents for the score. In fact, volleyball used to be a game where a team couldn't score a point if a ball wasn't served over the net. And, a volleyball game couldn't be won unless the service team scored a point off a ball served over the net. The existing rules of closure for rally-point scoring, has sissified the sport. In response to the above statement, one or more rally point advocates posted their arguments supporting volleyball's rally point method of play and I responded. Forum: Rally point scoring makes for better, more precise and consistent players. Forum: If each player is accountable for their actions and plays by earning or losing a point they will become better ball players. Feger: Players on the team in service, have the responsibility of securing the scoring advantages for their team. Players on the receiving team try to win service for their team for the scoring advantages of the serve and have no less an important objective. When teams understand that a set or game cannot be won without service, the importance of their individual skills and teamwork takes on more difficult and different tactical purposes. Forum: Serving is a basic skill and I can understand an error if trying for placement or an advanced serves, but getting it over the net should not be an issue. Feger: The serve is the catalyst of this sport. It is the one competitive feature of this team net sport that separates it from other team net sports. In table tennis, the serve involves two bounces for a game to get started and at least one bounce thereafter to maintain competition. In tennis, the serve involves one bounce for the game to get started and one or two bounces to maintain competition. Volleyball doesn’t need a bounce serve or any feature associated with a sport that has a bounce serve. The rally-point scoring system and the let serve's origins of play are imbedded in the two-bounce game. Lets take out the ping-pong plays and put the courage back into volleyball. A team must serve the ball over the net and challenge their opponents for set or game point. If you are on the service team, this is when you want your best server in action. If you are on the receiving team, this is when you want your best ball handlers in position. Forum: To many coaches overlook the value of the serve. Rally scoring lets the outstanding servers earn their place on the court. Feger: I agree with the concept of incorporating offensive and defensive scoring, either team can score off the serve or during volley, but every serve need not be a point. With specific rules and under certain conditions, a penalty would be awarded for a bad serve. I’m not a person to defend the side-out rules of play, But the side-out server had an immense responsibility to his teammates and their effort for winning a game. If a team in a game of side-out volleyball lost the serve, they give up the scoring advantage and the possibility of winning a set or game. And, there is absolutely no reason why the service team of either system of play should not have set or game closure. Once again, remarks that rally-point scoring makes better volleyball players, sound like a rote response. It isn’t a logical conclusion based on facts and its something that seems to have been memorized as a “learned knee jerk” reaction to avoid producing empirical evidence and clarification. It is a well known fact, that the Federation International de Volleyball (FIVB), the world governing body of volleyball, did not develope or introduce offensive and defensive scoring in volleyball. In Canada, officials and coaches are arguing for service team closure under rally point scoring. And, in Arizona, a women's league is experimenting with two point backcourt scoring. It sounds and feels like Rocball is in the making to me. Jim Feger | |
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Dec 29, 09 at 9:41pm ^
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Fanians top regular season
Veteran team Fanians topped the regular season of the 2009-2010 World Organized Rocball Community League with a 6-1 win-loss record. Rookie team Kagman Projects gave a good account of itself in its maiden year in Rocball, coming in at second place after the eliminations with a 5-2 record. Third place was a two-way tie between One Way and No Mercy as they both finished with identical 4-3 cards. Ghasias Brothers, Soul Rebels, and Islanders, meanwhile, crowd themselves in fourth place with their 3-4 slates. Rocball creator James Feger said only Fanians and Kagman Projects have slotted themselves for the playoffs with One Way and No Mercy needing a play-in game to determine third place. The loser will then take on Ghasias Brothers with the winner playing the victor of the Soul Brothers-Islanders encounter for the fourth and final playoff spot, In the Final Four, Fanians will be the top seed and will duke it out with the fourth place team, while Kagman Projects is the second seed and will square off against the third place team. The winner of the semifinals will then play in the best-of-five championship for the 2009-2010 World Organized Rocball Community League diadem. Playoffs will start in January after the outdoor version of Rocball at the Pacific Islands Club set from Jan. 1 to 3, 2010. In other Rocball news, three players earned Master Blaster status for the season-Ben Lisua and John Nekaifes of Soul Brothers and Myron Laniyo of No Mercy. Feger said the trio distinguished themselves after registering all five of Rocball's heavy hitting, multiple-scoring techniques. Laniyo went on to average 22 points in heavy hits per game. Ben Pelisamen of Ghasias Brothers, for his part, scored a whopping eight goals for the season, which translated to an average of a goal a game. Feger said the 2009-2010 season is also memorable because of how well Kagman Projects players have adopted to Rocball rules. Kagman Projects are made up of volleyball players that helped Kagman High School win the inter-scholastic volleyball championship. “The first-year Rocball players have learned well the rules of Saipan's indigenous sport and in the process stunned players and teams with their amazing come-from-behind victories and overtime wins,” he said The Rocball SandBlaster Tournament will usher in the sport in 2010 and Feger is inviting Rocball and volleyball players alike for the competition. There will be no entrance fee in the SandBlaster Tournament for teams that have at least one registered Rocball player. But those who don't have a Rocball player need to pony up $25. (Saipan Tribune) | |
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Jan 04, 10 at 5:21am ^
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The Sandroc Opener
Rocball opened up the 2010 sporting events for the CNMI on the beach of the Pacific Islands Club. On January 1st, Rocball restarted its beach version of “Saipan’s Own Sport” on the main beach volleyball court of the Pacific Islands Club. Four teams came to start off the CNMI’s sport’s year; the Fanians, No-Mercy, Ballseye, and the Projects. The rules for beach Rocball had to be modified to fit the playing conditions of a sand court. Sandroc (Rocball in the sand) rules of play have four players, and the server is also the goalie; no other player is allowed to play in the area between the goal and the court end lines except the server, and the server is allowed to play anywhere on the court. The receiving team has two hits off a served ball, the goalie is the only player allowed to set off a served ball, and each team is allowed five hits after the receiving team is successful in returning a served ball back over the net in two hits: Any time a server scores on court, it is two points. Other than that, any player can score a three point goal or a volleyball court point, and the net player for the receiving team can “jam”, spike down, a served ball. Sandroc is a four set game played under the quarter/set system of play. A team can “juice-out”, win a game after four sets of play, if after fours sets they outscore their opponents in game points and win the fourth set; game points are calculated by adding up the sets scores: A team cannot win a game in a losing set and when either team fails to juice-out, the game goes into overtime. The team that couldn’t juice-out but had scored the most game points would need to win one overtime set, and the team that won the fourth set with the least amount of game points scored, would need to win two overtime sets: An overtime set is won by a team which scores ten points or a goal, whichever comes first. And, if no goals are scored, as in regular play, only the team in service has closure. Because there were only four teams, the Sandroc games were organized under the quarter/set rules of play with 25 points per set. And, because there wasn’t a need to modify games into any timed scheduled or three set games, players were challenged with games that took from 45 minutes to an hour to complete, not counting any overtime sets. The Fanians came out on top and left the court as this decade’s first Sandroc champions. The Fanians won all four of there games. No-Mercy came in second place losing to the Fanians in the championship game played late Sunday afternoon in four sets 76 to 50. The heavy hitters of the Sandroc games prior to the playoff games were Myron Laniyo of No-Mercy with 9 aces, 3 xunks, 11 keys, and 2 goals for 52 points and Dior Jones of the Fanians, a former Rocball player now residing in Guam, who came to Saipan for the Rocball Sandblaster’s tournament, scored 9 aces, 2 xunks, 5 kees, and 1 goal for 35 points. But, in the Championship game between the Fanians and No-Mercy, it was Dior Jones who broke away from the pack in Rocball’s heavy hitting scoring techniques. Dior, who played on Guam’s Junior National Volleyball team and now works at the Pacific Islands Club on Guam, scored 10 aces, 3 xunks, 8 kees, and 2 goals for 51 points. Dior’s former Rocball team, when he used to be a student at MHS, was the Black Magic. | |
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Jan 31, 10 at 8:39am ^
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The Year of the Fanians
In Rocball "time-ology", it is the year of the Fanians. The Fanians who started out three years ago as the Try-Outs and changed their label to the Fanians have come in second place for their first two years playing Rocball. This year, they started out in excellent form by winning a ten year hiatus of beach Rocball, nd then defeated the Soul Rebels Saturday night, to become champions at the end of the first decade of the 21st century. The Fanians made up of brothers Larry and Youme Sharry, and Julius and Tpyhoon Saito, and Jazz Rosokow, all from the island nation of Chuuk, are the current number one beach and indoor World Rocball Champions. In the thirty year history since Rocball was first put into print, players and teams representing every major island culture and community in Micronesia have played Rocball. Rocball is as unique to the diversity of Micronesia as it is in introducing multiple-point offensive and defensive scoring, with unrestricted hitting and kicking, and vertical areas of play with goals at the end of each court in a volleyball-type sport. The Fanians defeated the Soul Rebels in the first two games of the best two out of three games championship series. The Fanians juiced out in each game, defeating the Soul Rebels by outscoring them in game points and winning the fourth set of each game. In the first game, the Fanians won sets one, three, and four 27 – 14, 26 – 25, 25 – 24. The Soul Rebels won the second set 27 – 24. The Soul Rebels had numerous opportunities to stop the Fanians from winning the first game in the fourth set, but shanked their chances in forcing overtime play with penalty serves that prevented them from winning the fourth set. The Fanians juiced the Soul Rebels in the first game, 102 to 84. In the second and final game of the night, and after a four set hour long game, both teams took a small break to rest, get something to drink, and regroup. In the second game, it took the Fnainas another hour to complete the quarter/set rules of play for Rocball to finalize their dominance over the obstinate and unrelenting Soul Rebels. The Farinas won the second game by winnings every set, 26 – 22, 27 – 18, 27 – 13, and 26 – 14. The Fanians outscored the Soul Rebels in heavy hitting with aces 28 – 17, xunks 4 – 3, kee 30 – 13, and goals 1 – 0. Ben Lisua of the Soul Rebels scored the only jam of the series. The heavy hitters of the games were Jazz Rosokow of the Fanians with 4 aces, 1 xunk, 3 kees, and a goal in the first game and Larry Sharry of the Faninas who scored 2 aces, 3 xunks, and 5 kees in the second game. | |
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