Kabaddi World Cup

VP

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Disappointed to see no thread for this sport especially when we have quirky activities like baseball discussed in this forum. For the uninitiated, you can familiarize yourself with the sport here. It's good fun to watch, bit like rugby except there's no wasting time with a stupidly shaped ball. I'm also pretty sure it's the first sport event in history that's a doping free-for-all: everyone is drugged up and no one really cares.

Pool A
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India
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Bangladesh
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England
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Australia
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South Korea
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Argentina

Pool B
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Iran
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United States
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Poland
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Kenya
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Thailand
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Japan

Fixtures here

In today's games, India recovered from a shock loss to the Koreans yesterday by destroying the Australians while Bangladesh smashed England. Yesterday, USA were humiliated by Iran - a result likely to have severe geopolitical ramifications and should feature in tomorrow's debate.
 
VP said:
Disappointed to see no thread for this sport especially when we have quirky activities like baseball discussed in this forum. For the uninitiated, you can familiarize yourself with the sport here. It's good fun to watch, bit like rugby except there's no wasting time with a stupidly shaped ball. I'm also pretty sure it's the first sport event in history that's a doping free-for-all: everyone is drugged up and no one really cares.

Pool A
23px-Flag_of_India.svg.png
India
23px-Flag_of_Bangladesh.svg.png
Bangladesh
23px-Flag_of_England.svg.png
England
23px-Flag_of_Australia.svg.png
Australia
23px-Flag_of_South_Korea.svg.png
South Korea
23px-Flag_of_Argentina.svg.png
Argentina

Pool B
23px-Flag_of_Iran.svg.png
Iran
23px-Flag_of_the_United_States.svg.png
United States
23px-Flag_of_Poland.svg.png
Poland
23px-Flag_of_Kenya.svg.png
Kenya
23px-Flag_of_Thailand.svg.png
Thailand
23px-Flag_of_Japan.svg.png
Japan

Fixtures here

In today's games, India recovered from a shock loss to the Koreans yesterday by destroying the Australians while Bangladesh smashed England. Yesterday, USA were humiliated by Iran - a result likely to have severe geopolitical ramifications and should feature in tomorrow's debate.
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Iranians are meant to have a really good team as well, how are they seeded?
 
VP said:
Disappointed to see no thread for this sport especially when we have quirky activities like baseball discussed in this forum. For the uninitiated, you can familiarize yourself with the sport here. It's good fun to watch, bit like rugby except there's no wasting time with a stupidly shaped ball. I'm also pretty sure it's the first sport event in history that's a doping free-for-all: everyone is drugged up and no one really cares.

Pool A
23px-Flag_of_India.svg.png
India
23px-Flag_of_Bangladesh.svg.png
Bangladesh
23px-Flag_of_England.svg.png
England
23px-Flag_of_Australia.svg.png
Australia
23px-Flag_of_South_Korea.svg.png
South Korea
23px-Flag_of_Argentina.svg.png
Argentina

Pool B
23px-Flag_of_Iran.svg.png
Iran
23px-Flag_of_the_United_States.svg.png
United States
23px-Flag_of_Poland.svg.png
Poland
23px-Flag_of_Kenya.svg.png
Kenya
23px-Flag_of_Thailand.svg.png
Thailand
23px-Flag_of_Japan.svg.png
Japan

Fixtures here

In today's games, India recovered from a shock loss to the Koreans yesterday by destroying the Australians while Bangladesh smashed England. Yesterday, USA were humiliated by Iran - a result likely to have severe geopolitical ramifications and should feature in tomorrow's debate.
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Why are Pakistan not in the WC? Iranians have a solid team btw. Myraj sheikh, osterak, atrachali, all good players who'll be India's biggest threat. Amazed we lost to Bangladesh btw, haven't heard of a single player from there, could be down to my ignorance about kabaddi in Bangladesh mind. :D
 
Varun said:
Why are Pakistan not in the WC? Iranians have a solid team btw. Myraj sheikh, osterak, atrachali, all good players who'll be India's biggest threat. Amazed we lost to Bangladesh btw, haven't heard of a single player from there, could be down to my ignorance about kabaddi in Bangladesh mind. :D
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Do you have to ask?
 
MJJ said:
Yup, got banned by the "international" kabbadi federation. Don't really care tbh as its kabbadi :p
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I love kabaddi, has quickly become my favourite sport to watch after football. Tied with badminton probably. Fast sport, no hold ups, lots of technique and planning required. Great stuff.
 
Is this kabaddi? For some reason I always thought kabaddi was naked fat cnuts wrestling in the sand.
 
RedTiger said:
What do you want to know mate?
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Like, what's the point? It seems a ridiculous concept, put 5 people against 1 and from what I've been able to guage, one side has to take the other down? Why do the team all hold hands, why can't they just run at him and pin him down, who thought 5 v 1 was fair? Why is it 1 vs 5 all holding hands but then a second later down the other end it's only 1 vs 3? How do you win overall?
 
Zarlak said:
Like, what's the point? It seems a ridiculous concept, put 5 people against 1 and from what I've been able to guage, one side has to take the other down? Why do the team all hold hands, why can't they just run at him and pin him down, who thought 5 v 1 was fair? Why is it 1 vs 5 all holding hands but then a second later down the other end it's only 1 vs 3? How do you win overall?
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2 teams face each other like British bulldog, the 1st team will send 1 of their players into the opposition side to tag as many players as possible while holding his breath. To show evidence that he's holding his breath he has to constantly chant some words non-stop (in this case it's probably the word kabbadi over and over again), if the opposition manage to stop the "raider" from returning to his side or he takes a breath then he is taken out of the game.

The loser is the team that has no players left.
 
RedTiger said:
2 teams face each other like British bulldog, the 1st team will send 1 of their players into the opposition side to tag as many players as possible while holding his breath. To show evidence that he's holding his breath he has to constantly chant some words non-stop (in this case it's probably the word kabbadi over and over again), if the opposition manage to stop the "raider" from returning to his side or he takes a breath then he is taken out of the game.

The loser is the team that has no players left.
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How on Earth do you talk and hold breath at the same time? Why does he have to hold his breath?
 
Zarlak said:
How on Earth do you talk and hold breath at the same time? Why does he have to hold his breath?
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Not really hold the breath, more like he's not allowed to take a breath, if you chant the word kabaddi non stop then it's impossible to take a breath. The reason for this is to make the game very difficult (otherwise it's just tag for grown men), the reason for holding hands is to stop the raider from returning to his side, if they were to rush him he'd easily evade them and get back to his side (and probably tag all of them in the process).
 
I tried to watch this after reading the ops post but this is the stupidest most boring sport I've ever tried to watch. I can't believe grown men actually take part in that.
 
Still lot of skepticism I see and, amazingly, some coming from a bloke who thinks video games are a sport. To be expected I guess, the kabaddi revolution will take time.

Meanwhile it looks like we're set for an India vs Iran and S. Korea vs Japan/Thailand semi-finals.
 
VP said:
Still lot of skepticism I see and, amazingly, some coming from a bloke who thinks video games are a sport. To be expected I guess, the kabaddi revolution will take time.

Meanwhile it looks like we're set for an India vs Iran and S. Korea vs Japan/Thailand semi-finals.
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That'll be an epic match.
 
VP said:
Still lot of skepticism I see and, amazingly, some coming from a bloke who thinks video games are a sport. To be expected I guess, the kabaddi revolution will take time.

Meanwhile it looks like we're set for an India vs Iran and S. Korea vs Japan/Thailand semi-finals.
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Heh

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Varun said:
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How the hell can anyone like a sport that kids play in the school play grounds on their breaks (Chain-Tig) and another sport that involves 2 lads belting a miniature umbrella over and back to one another with two rackets like you'd buy in a pound shop?

C'mon man, who do you think you're kidding.
 
The Black Pearl said:
How the hell can anyone like a sport that kids play in the school play grounds on their breaks (Chain-Tig) and another sport that involves 2 lads belting a miniature umbrella over and back to one another with two rackets like you'd buy in a pound shop?

C'mon man, who do you think you're kidding.
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You're Irish aren't you? You lot play bloody Gaelic football. That itself should prevent you from having an opinion about sport - or anything for that matter.
 
The Black Pearl said:
How the hell can anyone like a sport that kids play in the school play grounds on their breaks (Chain-Tig) and another sport that involves 2 lads belting a miniature umbrella over and back to one another with two rackets like you'd buy in a pound shop?

C'mon man, who do you think you're kidding.
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Ah okay. Good thing I don't give a feck about your opinion then, isn't it? Could have saved both of us some time if you'd have made your point clearer like Randall above you.
 
VP said:
You're Irish aren't you? You lot play bloody Gaelic football. That itself should prevent you from having an opinion about sport - or anything for that matter.
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:lol:


To be fair, it's better than tiggy-it.
 
They're not even saying kabaddi ffs

The raiders all have their mouths closed
 
I enjoyed curby far more than tiggy-it, to be honest. And why isn't curby in the Olympics?
 
Snowjoe said:
Curby is the king of sports, I actually played recently on some nostalgia trip.
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We used to play 'rock, paper, scissors' and all but we used to call it 'say-sa-brick' or something. For some inexplicable reason we had a grenade as well and it was utterly useless.
 
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VP said:
You're Irish aren't you? You lot play bloody Gaelic football. That itself should prevent you from having an opinion about sport - or anything for that matter.
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I feel sorry for ye over in that part of the world. I don't know how ye manage not having proper sports to follow. I know I'd be gone of my head if Kabbaddi, Badminton and Cricket is all we had to keep us occupied in these parts.
 
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