Theatresports
You've probably all heard of theatresports, what with school competitions, Auckland champs and guys making fools of themselves in assembly. But do you really know what it is and how it works? I have been doing theatresports at school since the beginning of my third form year. I'm going to talk to you about types of games, how some of my favourite games are played and finally how a theatresports competition is organised.There are tons of different games in theatresports, There are Warm up games which aren't really proper games they are exercises to get the actors warmed up such as Space jump, freeze tag and action justification. Blind round games are very simple games like Paper, Alphabet and Poem. Challenge games are basically the main part of a competition and are the common theatresports games these are Replay, Stunt double, Arms, Rollercoaster and tons more. The longest games in theatresports are the epic or finale games these are Ballet, Sermon/sonnet/song, and Opera. OK so now you've heard all these names of games and are wondering how they work. Paper is a game where before
A theatresports competition is divided up into five rounds of 2 games each. After the warm ups The first round is the blind round where the teams will draw one of the seven blind round games out of a hat and play that game. The second round is called the MC's challenge round this is where the MC challenges both the teams to a game. It can be a game involving an audience member or the musician or a particular subject like A game involving death. The next two rounds are similar to this only it is the teams that do the challenging. Each team will challenge the other team and then they will answer their own challenge so each team plays to their own challenge and then to the other teams challenge. The final round is the finale round where each team will play a finale game. These are usually the most fun because by now the players are all fully warmed up and having fun and these are the last games in the competition. Each game gets judged out of five on Style, Entertainment and Storyline, and the points are added up so each game gets a score out of fifteen. At the end of the competition the team with the m
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