The 2010 Four Square World Championships event on Feb 27, 2010, was the biggest we have ever seen. It was fully outfitted with 100 players on eight championship courts and crowned a number of new world champions for the year. In the photo above you will see nearly all the competitors attending this event, except for the ones who raced out to their swanky prep trailers to hit their saunas between rounds.
You know I don't want to cheapen the Hall of Pain with so many non-four square related injuries but it's worth mentioning our league member, Amos, and his crushed collar bone. He earned this on his bike this month and as you can see it will likely take him out of the season for a little while. We got together and all autographed a ball for him to keep in the house and fill him with purpose while he heals. He writes us from his percoset-lair:
Christian Housh, a regular contributor to the Hall of Pain, turn in this hip shiner from the Nov 22, 2009, season game. While I certainly didn't see it happen, I can claim to have heard the flesh-on-floor screech that caused it.
It is again that time to cast your vote for the best of four color selections, and of course, talk smack about each other's choices of colors in the comments. If ever there were time for you to weigh in and be counted, now is that time.
Vote (login required):
http://www.squarefour.org/node/935
Recently, our members threw down about the fault rules for the receiver. The big dispute based on this scenario.
While working on a project for Cartoon Network, Laura McNally played a part in setting a Guinness World Record for the greatest amount of simultaneous four square players. Nice work!
It's that time of year, again. Labor Day has put the final deathnail in summer's coffin and you're trying to figure out what you will do to keep sane until the sun come back out in May. Lots of people feel this way so you aren't alone, and we can suggest just the thing to keep you moving this winter.
Four square season is about to begin.
A culture of pick up four square has been forming in a public park in Philadelphia. Just when they were gaining some traction with their hood, the city was forced to clamp down on their ball playing policy. Apparently, there is no ball playing allowed in city parks - including footballs and baseballs and four square balls - and these kids have to find a new home.
Velvetron contacted us over the summer to tell us that they were working on the official soundtrack for the sport of four square and I wanted to be sure that these guys got some love. With the new 2010 winter season coming up on us, now is the time to bring these efforts to light!
