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Dodge Frisbee

Dodge Frisbee is a variation of dodgeball using a Frisbee in place of the ball or balls. Like dodgeball, once a player is hit by a Frisbee he or she exits the field of play. However, unlike dodgeball, if a player catches the Frisbee without it touching the ground, either before or after being hit, the player who threw the Frisbee leaves the game instead. The game ends when there is only one player left. The game usually ends with a "shootout" between two players, each with several Frisbees. The final players tend to execute several simultaneous "attacks" until one is hit without catching the opponent's Frisbee.

The movie Tron depicted a fictional variant of dodge frisbee that was used in gladitorial combat between computer programs, in which each combatant had his own personal disc that could be hurled (returning to him automatically afterward) or used as a shield to deflect an opponent's disc. The game was not named in the movie and bears only a superficial resemblance to dodge frisbee since the discs exhibited highly unusual behavior, in one case looping around after being deflected once to strike a target a second time.

Last updated: 10-29-2005 02:13:46