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I originally thought it would be cool to hold track cycling events inside a completely dark velodrome, illuminated only by the cyclists' LED bicycle lights, but after a little thought I concluded that all sports would be improved by being played in the dark.
For ball sports like football, expensive
floodlights would no longer be needed; The players would wear head mounted lights and the ball would be modified to emit light. Subtle differences in tactics would emerge between games played at different phases of the moon.
Beep Baseball
http://www.mysports...ve/beepbaseball.htm
[JesusHChrist, Jan 22 2014]
Goalball
http://www.mysports...aptive/goalball.htm
[JesusHChrist, Jan 22 2014]
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Archery, with invisible targets! Boxing or fencing would be fun! Golf played at night by naughty boys sneaking onto the courses is wkte. |
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Goalball and Beep Baseball (links) are played in the
blind
community and both have methods of audifying the
ball. |
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One of the most surreal games I've ever played is table football under a strobe light (~5hz). You can see where the ball is, but your brain just can't work out where it's going. I suppose this could improve many other sports. |
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You're right - stadium floodlights should have a 'strobe' mode. |
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Football would turn into rugby. But rugby might turn into disco! |
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Well that would be another way to make sport more interesting - hang giant disco balls in front of the floodlights. |
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I think trying to play any team sport in pitch blackness,
even with beacon lights on the players, would quickly
devolve into organized clavicle fracturing. Nevertheless, I
love the idea of this idea, so here's a bun. |
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My friends & I tried ice hockey in the dark one time when a power outage hit the arena, but all that happened was the guys kept running into the each other, so no difference there. |
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When it was over, they claimed the final score was something like 104-97, but I said that was impossible. You see, I was a goalie and I had earned a shutout by turning the net around and pushing it up against the boards! |
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Glow in the dark skeletons on the strips. |
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Here's an alternative to mounting head lights on players'
helmets and making the ball self illuminating. |
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Place electronic positional broadcasting devices on each
player's helmet and within the ball. |
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Each player, and the ball, would be lit up by several
narrow beam spotlights, evenly spaced around the
stadium, which would automatically track the locators. |
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The ball would be lit up from all directions, each player
would be lit from behind and from his sides. In
particular, as a player turns his head, the lights shining
on him from the direction his head is facing temporarily
shut themselves off (or at least reduce their
brightness), so that their light doesn't blind him. |
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To avoid putting too much light in one area when all the
players stand close together, a computer which tracks
the locations of all the players would tell specific
spotlights to reduce their brightness on those
occasions. |
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Although these lights are obviously more high-tech than
the floodlights that they replace, but since so much less
light is needed, they'll eventually pay for themselves in
energy savings... and possibly through increased ticket
sales. |
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Mitxela's suggestion, a strobe light for the ball, would
be easy to implement. Unlike table football with a
strobe, only the particular lights aimed at ball would
need to flash; the players could be illuminated normally. |
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