Volleyball / Soccer

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Ghasias Brothers take first 'Gorilla Games'


By Roselyn Monroyo
Reporter
Ghasias Brothers picked up where they left off drawing first blood in the ?Gorilla Games? in the World Organized Rocball Community League Saturday at the Marianas High School Gymnasium.

?Gorilla Games? is a side event for the Rocball league, which concluded early this month with Ghasias Brothers topping the Fanians in the best-of-three title series, 2-0.

After their finals win, Ghasias Brothers earned the right to play in the first match in the 'Gorilla Games.?

The first challenger were the Okies, who pushed Ghasias Brothers to the limits before the latter pulled off a 108-84 double overtime win and take the $50 pot money.

Ghasias Brothers behind Freddie Pelisamen won the first two sets, 25-10, 26-22, while Okies swept the last two, 27-25, 25-22.

After four regular sets, Ghasias Brothers still led, 98-84, but they could not take the outright win. Rocball rules only allow a leading team to win the match if it also prevails in the fourth set.

If the leading team lost the fourth set, the game will go in overtime with the trailing squad needing to win twice to steal the match. The leading team needs only one victory to wrap up the game.

An overtime set can be won by the first team to score 10 points or a goal. The Okies took the second option, scoring their lone goal of the night en route to a 4-0 victory in the first set overtime.

The win allowed Okies to force a second overtime set, which Ghasias finally won, 10-6, to end the match and send the Okies packing for a long vacation.

In Gorilla Games rules, rocball creator James Feger said losing teams need to take a month-long break before being eligible to challenge the current winner of the tournament.

Feger added that 'Gorilla Games? will be played every two weeks on Saturday night between 6pm to 7pm at the MHS Gymnasium.

Freddie and brother Ben emerged as the heavy hitters of the first ?Gorilla Games? firing 23 points apiece. Freddie had two aces, seven kees, one xunk, and a goal, while Ben made fives kees, three goals, two aces, and a xunk.

[Feger]

Rocball Gorilla Games News Release:??..1/25/09

Evenflow took the ?Gorilla? out of the Ghasias Brothers Saturday night in a sudden death overtime set. The game point between teams after four quarters of play was tied 99 ? 99. Evenflow snatched the victory off a serve from Mariano Lisua that was deflected into the Brothers? goal: Overtime sets are won by a team that scores 10 points or a goal whichever comes first.

In the first set, Evenflow shot out to 26 to 16 win giving them a ten-point margin of comfort going into the second set. The Ghasias Brothers took the second set 26 to 25 and chipped the game point lead down to 9.
In the third set, the Ghasias Brothers came from behind and won the set with a four-point margin 29 to 25. And, with their third set win, the Brothers cut a little deeper into Evenflow?s lead ending the third set 76 to 71.

Under the quarter/set rules of Rocball play, a team not only has to outscore their opponents in game points, they must also win the fourth set ?juice-out? to win the game. The Ghasias Brothers needed to win the fourth set by six points for closure and Evenflow only had to win the fourth set to win the game.

The Ghaisias Brothers did mange to win the fourth set, but only by 5 points. The Ghasias Brothers won set four 28 to 23 and forced the game into overtime. Even though the Ghasias Brothers won 3 out of the four sets of regular play, this ain?t volleyball and it?s not rally point scoring, its Rocball and Rocball lives off it?s own rules of play.

Because teams were tied at the end of the fourth, only one set of overtime was needed to determine the winner. Evenflow had the lead 7 to 2 in overtime when Mariano brought the game to completion with a goal and Evenflow took home the $50. The next game will be in two weeks with Evenflow as host Gorilla.

[Feger]

Islanders oust Evenflow in 'Gorilla Games'


By Roselyn Monroyo
Reporter

The Islanders cut short Evenflow's reign in Gorilla Games in the World Organized Rocball Community League with a 98-81 juiced out win Saturday at the Marianas High School Gymnasium.

Evenflow ruled Gorilla Games two weeks ago, booting out Ghasias Brothers in overtime, 109-101. Ghasias topped the inaugural Gorilla Games early last month, outlasting the Okies in double overtime, 108-84, before the former bowed to Evenflow.

Evenflow suffered the same fate of failing to keep its hold on to the top spot winning only once against the Islanders in their four-set game.

A 27-21 win in the opening set boosted Evenflow's chances to remain king of Gorilla Games. But the Islanders quickly recovered with a big 25-10 victory in the second set to take the lead at halftime, 46-37.

The opening part of the third set was a neck-and-neck battle with Evenflow scoring back-to-back two-pointers and Islanders answering with a goal.

The third set was tied last at 11-all before the Islanders pulled away en route to a 25-19 win.

Behind by 15 at the end of the third set, 56-71, Evenflow needed to prevail in the fourth set to send the game in overtime or win the fourth set by 16 points to take the outright victory.

With the bragging rights and $50 cash at stake in the game, it seemed neither team wanted to give up in the fourth set, which was in a deadlock for the last time at 25-all.

Evenflow had the chance to break the tie when it served for the set, but the Islanders held their ground, receiving the ball and scoring a two-pointer from the backline for a 27-25 win.

Ben Lisua was the game's heavy hitter firing 18 points on three aces, two goals, two kees, and a xunk.

Ten aces, 18 kees, five goals, and five xunks were scored in Saturday's match.

Gorilla Games is a side event in Rocball league with the biweekly champion facing new challenger every other Saturday. The losing team has to take a break for a month before returning to action and challenging the reigning titlist.

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Eddie Vedder will not be amused!

[Feger]

Islanders juice out Soul Rebels


By Roselyn Monroyo
Reporter

The Islanders became the first team to win two in a row in ?Gorilla Games? in the World Organized Rocball Community League after crushing the Soul Rebels in four sets, 100-65, Saturday at the Marianas High School Gymnasium.

The Islanders notched their first win in ?Gorilla Games, two weeks ago, dislodging Jan. 25 winner Evenflow from the top with a 98-91 juiced out win.

?Gorilla Games? started the first week of January with 2008-2009 Rocball league champion Ghasias Brothers pulling off a 108-84 victory over first challenger Okies in double overtime.

When Brothers attempted to defend the bragging rights in ?Gorilla Games, Evenflow entered the picture, stunning the league champions with a 109-101 overtime win.

But Evenflow's reign in ?Gorilla Games? did not last long, as the Islanders came out smoking with a 17-point juiced-out win early this month.

When ?Gorilla Games? resumed Saturday, the Islanders' guns were still blazing.

The Islanders prevailed in the opening set, 25-23, before the Soul Rebels recovered in the second set in similar scores.

In third set, the Islanders pushed all the right buttons en route to a dominating win, 26-4.

Entering the fourth set, the Islanders were ahead, 74-50, putting pressure to Soul Rebels to win the last regular set to send the game into overtime.

The Islanders took an early lead in the fourth set, 10-4, before the Soul Rebels rallied and moved within one, 10-11.

The Soul Rebels kept the Islanders within striking distance in the ensuing plays, before the latter pulled away, limiting the former to four points in the closing phase of the match en route to a 26-15 win.

Former Ghasias Brothers mainstay Freddie Pelisamen suited up for the Islanders in Saturday's game and was the match's heavy hitter, scoring 23 points. He had nine kees, one ace, and one goal.

Fifteen aces and 25 kees were scored in the game.

The Islanders will face a new challenger next month, as ?Gorilla Games? allow losing teams to rest for a month before returning to play.

Besides the right to defend its biweekly title, the winning team in ?Gorilla Games? takes home $50 cash.

[Feger]

Rocball Gorilla Games News Release

The Islanders are proving to be the dominators of ?Gorilla?. The Islanders defeated their third challengers in a juice-out, four set game 93 to 71 Saturday night at the MHS Gym. On Saturday night, a relatively new Rocball team, the Sevens Kings made an attempt to dethrone the two time Gorillas of Rocball but failed.

The Islanders, lead by their heavy hitter, Freddy Pelisamen, won every set 26 ? 14, 27 ? 21, 25 ? 15, and 25 ? 21. There were 18 aces, 7 xunks, 1 jam, 16 kees, and 1 goal scored in the game.

Freddy Pelisamen of the Islanders was the games heavy hitter with 5 kees, 1 xunk, and 1 ace for 14 points. The Islanders walked off with the Gorilla money for the third time in a roll and planning for a fourth cash out game in two weeks.

Rocball?s Gorilla Games got started as a lunch time activity at MHS about five years ago. At that time, games were fast and unpredictable. A game was ten points or a goal, whichever came first. It was set up to get a lot of players in as many games as possible during a lunch period.

And, an invitation to all team net sport players of this kind of game, if your tired of the rally point scoring method of play, come on up and join the rough point action of Saipan?s Own Sport, Rocball.

[Feger]

The Islanders Rule the Gorilla Games with 4th win.

No-Mercy went to court to judge the Islanders and came up short on
conviction.
No-Mercy dominated the first two sets 26 to 20 and 25 to 16. And, No-Mercy
had a 15 point lead after two sets but got hammered 26 to 6 in the third
set and lost their game point lead.

The Islanders played near flawlessly in the third set. The Islanders mixed
up their attacks and hits with dinks, spikes and backcourt kills to throw
No-Mercy off balance and showed No-Mercy no mercy by winning the third set
with enough points to take the game point lead at 62 to 57.

In the fourth set, No-Mercy regrouped and kept the Islanders under control
until both teams were at about 12 points each. Then the Islanders went on
another scoring spree and opened up the fourth set with a point spread of
24 to 14. But, on game point, an Islander shanked the serve that cost his
team one point which dropped the Islanders back to 23 points in the fourth
set.

No-Mercy was able to score another point before the Islanders won the
serve off a court point. The Islanders regained set point and this time,
converted their service into the game winning play.

There were 11 aces, 4 xunks, 9 kees, and one goal scored in this game.
Mike Olaitiman of the Islanders was his team?s heavy hitter with 3 xunks
and 2 kees for 10 points. Typhoon Saito of No-Mercy was his team?s heavy
hitter with 4 aces and 1 xunk for 10 points.

[Feger]

Wanted: Challenger for Islanders


By Roselyn Monroyo
Reporter

With the Islanders still reigning supreme in ?Gorilla Games? in the World Organized Rocball Community League, organizer of the event is looking for the next worthy challenger.

The Islanders ruled the biweekly ?Gorilla Games? for the fifth straight time after clobbering Mariano's Boyz, 105-67, Saturday at the Marianas High School Gymnasium.

The Islanders took only four regular sets to include Mariano's Boyz on their victims list. The first four were Evenflow, Soul Rebels, Seven King, and No-Mercy.

Among the five challengers, it was No-Mercy which gave the Islanders a run for their money.

No Mercy defeated the Islanders in the first two sets, 26-20, 26-16, before collapsing in the last two sets, 6-26, 10-25, allowing the latter to escape with a 87-72 juiced-out victory.

In each win, Islanders took home the $50 prize, bringing their total winnings to $250 after two and a half months of being undefeated in ?Gorilla Games.?

The total earnings of the Islanders will be the same amount that can be won by the team that will beat the reigning king of ?Gorilla Games.?

?Rocball Gorilla Games is offering $250 prize to any team that can defeat the Islanders, whether it is on the hard court or on the beach,? Saipan Rocball creator James Feger said in a media release.

If more than one team show up for the next tournament, these teams have to play in the elimination round with the winning team earning the right to face the Islanders.

There is no entrance fee but courage is required to play.

[Feger]

Islanders "Rex Regis"

The Islanders are the Rex Regis (kings) and rulers of Rocball?s court of action. The Islanders and Fanians met on Saturday night to determine which team would walk off with the World Title, prize money, and bragging rights as Rocball?s best team of 2009. But, the Fanians forced the Islanders into a situation where no team has even come close to this year. The Fanians forced the Islanders into double overtime before losing the game.
In the first set of the regular game, the Fanians took an early lead and trounced the Islanders with a hard lesson of reality, and drew first blood with a 25 to 14 win. The Islanders came back in the second set and put up a good mixture of backcourt spikes, net kills and dinks to outscore the Fanians in set two 28 to 24
At half time the Fanians had the lead in game points 49 to 42 and started off the third set with serve. In the third set, teams switched the lead numerously, both teams were mixing up their plays and making good defensive saves and hard hits. The Fanians had the momentum in the last series of plays. The Fanians were trailing 19 to 20 when Julius Saito scored a three point goal that gave Fanians the morale boosting energy to finish the Islanders off in the third set at 26 to 20.
The Fanians went into the fourth set leading in game points 75 to 62. The Islanders were at a disadvantage because in order to win the game, they needed to win the fourth set by 14 points. If the Islanders won the fourth set with anything less than 14 points, they could force the Fanians into overtime, because a team cannot juice out, win a Rocball game in a losing set under the quarter/set rules of play. However, the Islanders would still be at a disadvantage because winning the fourth set as the team with the lowest game points after four sets of play, meant they would have to win two overtime sets to win the game.
The Fanians only needed to win the fourth set to win the game and knock the Islanders out of their undefeated winning streak of the bi-weekly Gorilal Games. But, as it happened fate was not with the Fanians. The Islanders were desperate and dangerous. They played their best under pressure and won the fourth set 25 to 16.
In overtime, the Islanders were ruthless. They took the lead and put a series of plays together that shocked the Fanians with a 12 to 1 first O.T. win; in Rocball an O.T. set is won at ten points or a goal, whichever is scored first, when no goal is scored, a team as in regular sets of play, cannot win set or game without the serve.
In the final set of the game, teams traded the lead twice with hard spikes to the each other?s goals. And, both teams scored defensively, but it was offensive scoring that made the difference, and the Islanders had a few more different moves than the Fanians. In the last O.T. the Fanians did better but lost 10 to 6. At the end of the second O.T. the final score was Islanders 110 and Fanians 108.
The game lasted an hour and 30 minutes. There were seven aces, 12 kees, and 2 goals scored. The game?s heavy hitter was Jazz Rosokow with one ace and four kees: Next on the agenda for the Rocball players is to issue a challenge to the beach masters with a Rocball version of playing in a sand box. Who do we contact?
James W. Feger

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Beefed-Up or Watered Down

Is it beefed up or watered down volleyball? There was a proposal within the Asian International Confederation Coaches Commission (AICCC) and the Federation International de Volleyball (FIVA) to redesign volleyball in the areas of defensive scoring, left and right side court service, and to include kicking as a legitimate hit. And, there were more renovations under considerations in their attempt to remodel volleyball into a more balanced and complete sport.

However, the commissioners and officers of those different federations had already received the fundamental rules of play for Rocball. Rocball, the sport derivative of volleyball but as different from volleyball as baseball is from cricket, was the innovative force behind offensive and defensive scoring, kicking, multiple point scoring, changing service areas, and more. Rocball rules of play have been in print, registered with the Library of Congress, International Copyrighted, in play, and presented to the FIVB, AICCC and many other national and international sport organizations since 1979, fifteen years before rally point was adopted and one year after Rocball made international media exposure on the CNN World Report Program in 1993 & 1994.

Volleyball had been around for about a hundred years before rally point or any other significant rules changes were adopted in 1995. Rocball is the pioneering game of innovative rules for a team net sport of this kind. Rocball news reports openly criticized volleyball as outdated service/side-out game where a team often as not outscored its opponents and lost a game in sets. Now, volleyball is a sport with rally point scoring that is actually a water-downed version of Rocball?s offensive and defensive scoring system.

And, where Rocball holds to the premise that competition is best represented, in this kind of team net sport, with the scoring advantage and set/game closure as a reflection of the side-out version of play, volleyball adopted the anemic method of rally scoring where a set/game can be won off a bad serve by the receiving (defensive) team without having to touch the ball to win a set/game.

The Libero is definitely rally point flavored. Rocball is based more on the all-around player for this kind of sport. In Rocball, certain positions have scoring advantages and all players no matter what position can execute a three point play. The adaptation or development of the Libero feels like it should belong to rally point.

In conclusion, players, coaches, commissioners and officers of various teams and sport associations don?t have to wait for the Federation International de Volleyball to experience more revelations or mystical esoteric insights on any further developments for this kind of team net sport, they can write or e-mail the Library of Congress, Washington D.C. and request Rocball Literature.

(Revised Article 1994)

[Feger]

What is Rocball?

Rocball is a game derivative of volleyball with its roots of play founded the in the Meso-American sport of Tlachtli. The actual game of Tlachtli involved passing a ball from side to side over a low wall without it touching the ground. If the ball fell to the ground, a team would win a point and vice versa. If you struck the ball with an incorrect part of the body, you could lose points for your team.

However, the real purpose of the game was to get the ball through the hoop on a wall above either side of the court. The team that did this won, irrespective of the current score of the game. As a game, Tlachtli has often been described as a combination between volleyball and soccer.

After the creation of volleyball in 1895 and prior to 1980, athletes who played this kind of team net sport played under two different restrictions. In volleyball, players were not allowed to hit the ball with any part of the body below the waist. In the Asian sport of sepak takrau players were not allowed to use their arms or hands to touch or hit a ball.

In the Micronesian sport of Rocball, players are allowed to hit the ball with any part of the body as long as a player doesn?t carry or hold the ball. And, as in Tlachtli, there is a situation in which a team can lose a point and both sports have scoring areas other than the court floor: The sport of Tlachtli had vertical loops 8 or 10 feet high on a wall above either side of the court, and Rocball has vertical areas for scoring with six by twelve foot goals located ten feet behind each court.

The serve is the catalyst by which this kind of sport operates. The beginning of the game starts from a serve and the beginning to the end of the game starts with the serve. When a player from a team in offense, serves a ball over the net, the receiving team, the defensive team, has two hits to return a served ball. When a served ball is successfully returned over the net, the offensive team has the first five hit play on the ball. And, thereafter, each team is allowed up to five hits to score point/s.

*** Variation: After two hits off a served ball, subsequent plays are five
hits for the offensive team and three hits for the defensive team until
point/s is scored. This system of play gives the serving/offensive team more of the benefits of the side-out system of play, where the team with the serve had scoring advantage and the receiving team worked against the score for the advantages of the serve.

1. The team with service is the offensive team and points scored by a team with the serve are defined as volley points: Volley = discharge and
attack

2. The team receiving the serve is the defensive team and points scored by the defensive team are defined as rally points: Rally = mobilize and
recover.

*** By identifying a team?s points as either volley or rally points, the game incorporates a different perspective and fosters diverse innovative relationships between the sport, its players, and teams.

3. Only the team with service, the offensive team, scoring volley points
has closure. A team playing defense, the receiving team, scoring rally
points cannot win a set/game. Whichever team scores a point/s serves the ball to start the next play; another remnant of the side-out system of play where there was a balance of challenges between teams.

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Rocball’s Prominence & Dominance

In the sport of Rocball, a team has to completely dominate their opponents in quarter-sets of play in order to win a game.

In what has been described as a variation of volleyball or a volleyball/hybrid sport, Rocball’s deviant and rogue rules of play are based on a balance of challenges that clearly defines teams in either the offensive or defensive situation of competition.

Rocball “Saipan’s Own Sport” is the first game in the world to implement offensive and defensive scoring in this kind of team net sport, and it is now the only sport of this kind which maintains that the serve is the catalyst by which competition is best served: A team cannot win a set or game without the serve.

Whereas, volleyball was designed as a soft impact sport for middle age men back in 1895 and adopted the rally point system for softer competition in 1995; Rocball’s development was based on the Maya/Aztec warrior’s sport of Talachtli with the unimpaired, hard-drive components of the pre and post puberty syndromes of young athletes, fueled by natural human growth hormones.

Whereas, volleyball’s equation of profit per play is limited to one point executions off any possible athletic skill, at any level of difficulty, from any area on court by simply grounding the ball on an opponent’s court, Rocball implemented multiple point scoring techniques that identify the different degrees of difficulty of grounding a ball on an opponent’s court, and a Rocball court includes three dimensional vertical areas of play, goals, at either end of the court.

Whereas, volleyball is bogged down in a monotonous bump, set, spike three hit numb-lock repetitious mind set, Rocball play includes five hit plays to allow more diversity in game strategies, more spontaneous active and reactive scenarios in both offensive and defensive scoring, and has implemented more unpredictable dramatic activity in this kind of team net sport than volleyball.

What is Rocball? You can read and/or down-load the rules, regulations, and graphics of how Rocball is played on the internet. The Rocball homepage has been recently revised and you can connect to it by using Google, Yahoo, MSN etc. or find more materials in news releases on forums of volleyballforums.com in general discussion under “Wooden Stakes, Silver Bullets, and Hemlock, or about.com volleyball in general discussion under Rocball, or volleyball.com.au in general discussion under volleyball/soccer all by Feger

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Phew, was wondering what happened in the exciting world of Rocball.

[Feger]

Sand-Roc Tournament

In 2010 Rocball will temporarily move its court of activity from the MHS gym floor back to a sand court. On January 1st thru the 3rd, Rocball is going back outdoors. The first Rocball sand tournament since the late 1990s and the early part of this century will take place on the sand court of the Pacific Islands Club.

The rules for the ?sand-roc? games will basically be the same as the rules for indoor Rocball except, teams will have four players and not five on court, the person serving will also be the goalie, the goalie/server will be allowed to charge the net, and only the goalie/server will be allowed to play-off court in the service area and in front of the goal behind the court?s end lines.

Individuals interested in forming teams to compete in ?Saipan?s Own Sport? need a maximum of five and a minimum of four players to register: Teams that register for the sand-roc games will need at least one current Rocball club member on their roster to waiver a twenty-five dollar entrance fee.

If you are an individual who likes a volleyball skills type of sport and is not familiar with Rocball?s rules of play, you can ?Google? Rocball and read up on the latest rules and regulations of the sport on the Rocball homepage with graphics, news releases of past games, and the synopsis on ?Fools Fire?.

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Can you throw a handful of sand in your opponents face to temporarily blind them?