Play Full Contact Spoons

Step 4: Rules

The basic rule is "get the ball through the goal".

• You can tackle, you can trip, you can grab, you can push.

• You cannot punch or kick or bite or anything like that. (However, there are no fouls, no time outs, no penalties)

• You cannot throw the ball into the goal. You must be actually holding the ball to win.

• The ball must go through the goal. If you are holding the ball on the ground, and you manage to edge one foot over the goal line, you have not won yet.  On the other hand, if you are tackled right near the goal line and you reach the hand with the ball just barely past, even though your body is not past the goal line, you win.

• You must be in clear possession of the ball to win.  If one person is holding the ball in their hand and someone else is touching it, the person holding it gets the point.  However, if two people are both holding the ball about equally, it gets thrown back down-field.

• You have to go through the goal in the correct direction (as in, if you run around behind the goal, and then try to come through, no win).

• If one person has the ball, and someone else carries them through, the person doing the carrying gets the point. If you get picked up near the goal, the best thing to do is to throw it down field.

• If one person is much heavier/faster/better than everyone else, you may wish to institute the goalie rule:  If any one person scores 2 (or more) goals in a row, that person must play goalie for the next 2 games, and cannot win.  Their only role is to try to stop anyone from getting through the goal, and to take the ball and throw it back downfield.  Enlarge the goal area by an extra 2-4 feet if you have a goalie.

• And finally - if this is your first time at fight club Full Contact Spoons, you have to play. 
  FC Spoons in not a spectator sport. Any one who shows up to watch can expect to get tackled just on principal.