Catching eggs is a game for the ages. World Egg Championship

2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55

Catch eggs - a game that introduced Soviet children to the art of video entertainment, not without the help of the wolf from "Just you wait!" and the miracle of computer technology "Electronics IM-02". Who would have thought that the strange occupation of the wolf - catch falling chicken eggs in baskets - may have an analogue in real life! Yes, not just an analogue, but a whole international sport, with its own rules and, of course, a world championship. Maybe this is the wackiest sport in the world?

Lovers catch eggs gather from all over the world to the English town of Swaton. The surroundings of this place will soon shudder from the rumble of eggshells and will be flooded with streams of yolk. Competitors are already dressing up in combat "armor" that can withstand an egg hit (and there is no laughing matter: a flying egg can knock down even heavy-weight politicians). The most desperate berserkers even hit sports equipment on their heads. Needless to say - these guys have eggs!

Actually throw and catch eggs - the game is much more difficult than throwing mobile phones: after all, if you swing properly, the projectile is very easy to crush. Perhaps the most technically difficult competition in the championship is hand-to-hand throwing of eggs between two participants. The participants gradually drift apart, so that the task becomes more difficult, and eventually the egg breaks. Not much inferior to this game in complexity is egg football between two teams of 11 people.

The element of risk and drive in the competition is introduced by the "Russian Roulette" competition. Participants receive a tray in which there is one raw egg for every 5 really tough eggs. The risky guys beat one egg after another on their foreheads; whoever breaks the raw first is the one who loses.

But the most spectacular competition is probably the trebuchet egg throwing. The archaic competition reminds of the ancient history of the festival. It features monks who distributed eggs to parishioners in the hope of increasing temple attendance. When an overflowing river blocked the path of the parishioners, the clergy found nothing better than to throw eggs across the river with a trebuchet. What prompted them to do this - you can't figure it out without scrambled eggs, but we can state: the science of catching eggs does not stand still.