Alternate History Sports » The American Zoneball League

CCLXXXVII · 5/18/2019 11:16 am

What is spoilered below is the entire original post. If you scroll down, however, I do have the current teams as well as a brief history of the sport I have created, zoneball.

CURRENT TEAMS:

A BRIEF HISTORY (under construction)

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NoE38 · 5/18/2019 11:21 am

Looks pretty good! do the areas behind the goal mean anything, like can you play in them, or are they something else?

CCLXXXVII · 5/18/2019 11:23 am

NoE38 wrote:
Looks pretty good! do the areas behind the goal mean anything, like can you play in them, or are they something else?

Those are actually recovery areas for any overs/behinds. When one is scored, the ball is actually not ruled dead; any player can actually go and grab it.

CCLXXXVII · 5/18/2019 4:01 pm

A few more technical notes:

-There are also penalties in the game, and they are in three categories: minor, middle, and major. Instead of a player getting time in a penalty box, points are actually removed from the score of the team that committed the penalty. Minors remove one behind, middles one over, and majors one goal. In addition, if a player manages either six minors, three majors, or two middles, they are ejected from the game. If a penalty were to block an attempted shot, a penalty kick/throw is awarded to the player that was blocked.

-Each roster has 26 potential players that can play in a game, with full rosters capped at 32.

-Each spot on the field generally only has two people that can play on it: a starter and a reserve. Substitutions are unlimited and can happen at any time; however, a subbing player must signal to an official that he is switching.

I think that those are the most important rules of the game. The league will have 8 teams to start. I'm hoping to get the first one up tonight.

CCLXXXVII · 5/18/2019 4:21 pm

Fun fact: apparently I had already done the uniforms and some of the logo of the first team, so I just went ahead and finished it out. So, without further ado, the Toronto Patriots!

The logo is a shield with a maple leaf on the bottom and the flag of England on top (to represent the colonial heritage). The general crest shape is taken from the current flag of Ontario, and the maple leaf from the current Canadian flag. They also have an alternate that's simply a maple leaf.

Their uniform (at first, each team will only have one uniform) is a bit loud, but I think it works. It has the crest on the front with some white stripes on the jersey and shorts.

Thoughts?

EDIT: Reuploaded images at a higher resolution. That should fix the blurring

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NoE38 · 5/18/2019 5:12 pm

I feel like you give a team to Montreal, and make them Quebec/French themed, they'll have a HUGE rivalry with Toronto.

Darknes · 5/18/2019 6:03 pm

Are those the Modern uniforms or the ones in '44?

If so they wouldn't have had the current maple leaf since they were still using the Red Ensign.

CCLXXXVII · 5/18/2019 7:22 pm

NoE38 wrote:
I feel like you give a team to Montreal, and make them Quebec/French themed, they'll have a HUGE rivalry with Toronto.

Interesting idea! I think I will move one of the East Division teams there instead of where I had them originally.

Darknes wrote:
Are those the Modern uniforms or the ones in '44?

If so they wouldn't have had the current maple leaf since they were still using the Red Ensign.

Yeah, I was thinking that too, but my research stated that the maple leaf has been used as a Canadian symbol even before 1944, so I was going for that.

Thanks for the input! I'll try and get the next team up soon.

Zac_Seidemann · 5/19/2019 6:34 pm

Nice stuff so far.

CCLXXXVII · 5/19/2019 7:33 pm

Zac_Seidemann wrote:
Nice stuff so far.

Thanks.

By the way, when it comes to it, would any of you participate in an expansion/relocation committee?

I am planning on getting the next team up tonight (it will also contain the first story elements in the thread).

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