Combat juggling also known as Gladiator also known as What the Hell is a sport and martial art played by two or more players juggling three

juggling club Juggling clubs are a prop used by jugglers. Juggling clubs are often simply called clubs by jugglers and sometimes are referred to as pins or batons by non-jugglers. Clubs are one of the three most popular props used by jugglers; the others ...

s each. Combat can be played individually against a single opponent (one-on-one-combat), between teams of two or more players each, or in a group where everyone plays against everyone. The object of the game is to maintain their own juggling pattern while attempting to make the opponent drop one or more clubs.

Rules and gameplay

Basic rules

The players start juggling three clubs at the same time. Players are allowed to interfere with other players' patterns in an attempt to make them drop. They should only attack their opponents' clubs, not their opponents' bodies. Anyone who is no longer juggling at least three clubs (because they dropped, collected, or had a club stolen by an opponent) is out of the game. The last person left juggling wins.

One-on-one-combat

The player who drops will not gain a point, while the player who maintains the juggling longer than the opponent and finishes its pattern cleanly, i.e. catches all three clubs without dropping, will.

Group combat

In its most typical form, a number of players compete in an open group combat, each attempting to interfere with other players' juggling, with the winner being the last to remain juggling three clubs.

Competition

Competitive combat juggling is moderately popular in Europe and the United States. The most important international competition is the

European Juggling Convention The European Juggling Convention (EJC), is the largest juggling convention in the world, regularly attracting several thousand participants. It is held every year in a different European country. It is organised by changing local organisation commi ...

Fight Night. The

World Juggling Federation The World Juggling Federation (WJF) is the world's only organization devoted to the promotion and advancement of juggling as a sport ( competitive juggling). History In 2003, the WJF was created by long-time International Jugglers' Association memb ...

organizes the Major League Combat, a team version of Combat Juggling.

Ranking

There is an unofficial world ranking that ranks all players who participated in Fight Nights:
Fight Night Combat Ranking
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