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The following 10 sports and games are our picks for the 10 best in all of nerd-dom. Please note that fictional sports from videogames aren't being considered -- since we could easily pick 10 interesting videogame sports alone, and we didn't really want to deal with it.
10) BASEketball
Created in the movie of the same name, BASEketball is basketball with baseball rules. According to the movie, the ideal behind its creation was to make a game that the average person could play. The most awesome part of the game is clearly its use of "psyche-outs" - distracting your opponent with ridiculous insults is allowed and encouraged.
9) Pyramid, Battlestar Galactica
A shocking number of the games on this list have been adapted for the real world by fans, including Battlestar Galactica's Pyramid. Check out said fans in the video above. Popular throughout the Colonies, Pyramid is a team-based ball game played on a triangular court in which players can only take three steps at a time and tasks them with throwing the ball through a hole at the top of a pyramid. Sensing a trend? Like all truly awesome games, Pyramid is a full contact sport, and you can check out a shockingly detailed wiki about it right here.
8) Rollerball
Like many sports, the goal is to throw a ball into a goal. But unlike most other sports, Rollerball it made extra awesome by the fact that it's on wheels, full contact and also features dudes on motorcycles driving around the track and messing fools up. It's roller derby taken to the extreme - and we love all things extreme, whether we're talking about sports or Doritos flavors.
7) Death Race
The clip above sets up the rules of Death Race pretty clearly, then devolves into a bunch of clips strangely dubbed in German. So, in other words, it's awesome. And you really don't need to understand the dialog to get the point of Death Race -- the world's best drivers compete in a cross-country race, earning points by killing pedestrians as they drive. The drivers are so popular that many fans consider it an honor to be crushed under their wheels. Hey, if NASCAR is a sport, so is this.
6) Blernsball, Futurama
In the future, baseball gets "jazzed up" and Blernsball is born. At first, Blernsball seems basically the same as baseball with the addition of an elastic tether attached to the ball, but every time it's appeared on Futurama, new rules seem to be discovered. The best? Hitting enough balls into a hole in the field triggers "multiball," which floods the field with blernsballs - and gives the batter a Tron-style light cycle to navigate the exploding bases.
Tags: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Battlestar Galactica, Comic Strips, Death Race, Futurama, Harry Potter, Sports, Tron
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