Chamball received its publc debut at the Come Out and Play festival in New York. "Outdoor Cham Ball," according to the description, "is a fast-paced physical game that blends tetherball, dodgeball, and martial arts." If you are of a Junkyardish mood, you can try to imagine exactly how such a game would be played. If not so much, see this.

Outdoor Cham Ball is a fast-paced physical game that blends tetherball, dodgeball, and martial arts.

It's played by two opposing players or teams in a 30 foot circle with a soccer ball fixed to the ground by a 10 foot bungee cord.

Players hit the ball with their forearms, fists, shins, and feet in an attempt to hit the other player in any other area of their body. All the while, both players avoid touching the bungee cord.

Both players begin with twenty points and lose a point every time they are touched by the bungee cord or the ball anywhere other than their forearms/fists and shins/feet.

The player to reduce their opponent's points to zero is the winner.

It was designed by Charles Amis, Che-Wei Wang, and Adam Nash. Amis first conceived of it as part of a thesis in Interactive Telecommunications at NYU.

Here's an article about the game from the Huffington Post.

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