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Sounds like you have a lot of time on your hands...

Anyways I noticed one thing wrong with your presentation. By your own definition races are a subcategory of a game. Maybe the part where you compete alongside someone threw you off, i don't know, but it basically works the same way. Since your performance does not directly interfere with your competitors' (in most cases, excluding when you can move lanes and therefore block their progress), it's independent competition. Instead of getting points like in other games, you get a time. Like you said, your time is independent of whether or not someone is racing with you, and like games, it simply is a matter of whose time/points are BEST.

That's the flaw I wanted to point out. Oh, and that you should somehow include that in many competitions include a defined point system, so that it is not completely left up to opinion.

Like I said...I came up with this years ago and just posted the outline of the thought process. I could probably write a book on it if I actually had as much free time on my hands as you claim. :P

Good point on some races fitting in the games category. When I initially made that category, it was meant to catch the stuff that didn't fit in the other categories. Golf, for example, isn't a race...you're not judged, but you're not really playing against anyone. I used to always list Games last...now I remember why. It's basically for any athletic performances that don't fall in the other categories.

Of course, that brings up the question of if there should be two subcategories for races; races where your opponents can hinder you (NASCAR) and races where they can't (100m dash).

As for rollerderby, I don't know the rules. Was that with the weird women on ESPN classic years ago...wasn't that fake? It's either a race or a sport, if it's what I'm thinking of, depending on how the winner is determined (is it who completes a certain amount of laps or is it some sort of point system to determine a winner?)...not gonna take the time to look up the rules of rollerderby, though.

As for rollerderby, I don't know the rules. Was that with the weird women on ESPN classic years ago...wasn't that fake? It's either a race or a sport, if it's what I'm thinking of, depending on how the winner is determined (is it who completes a certain amount of laps or is it some sort of point system to determine a winner?)...not gonna take the time to look up the rules of rollerderby, though.

Basically, its a race around the skating surface, but each team has blockers that try to stop you/hammer their opponents (hence there is a defense involved).

Steve

Well, based on that, I would call it a race. NASCAR has defense and teams, to an extent. Cycling does, too.

Alright...I just looked up the wikipedia article on it, to get an idea of the rules, and it's definately a sport by my guidelines.
From what I read, you get points based on your lead "jammer" lapping everyone, and those points determine the winner. Because there's not a defined distance or a time limit in which you see how far you can get, it wouldn't be a race. You're not, for example, seeing which team can get a player around the track 40 times, or something.

So, I hope that makes sense as to why it would be classified as a sport and not a race. Luckily I have free time this week. Not looking forward to getting back to the grind next week.

same here.

So how come these BB's are wasting all this time on a basketball game when they could be coding a Roller Derby simulation?

Steve

:-)

So a game where people fall over and complain if they are so much as breathed on is more respectable/manly than a sport where men beat each other with metal polls and throw a small rubber ball upwards of 100 mph at people? What is the world coming to?

As mentioned previously it is tough to use your own country's methods of playing a sport as a proxy if that is not the original or true method of playing it.

Hey there everyone, add another newbie to the ranks.