On this page:
- Rules
- History
- Discuss the game with the Outping Forum
- Mission Statement
Outping Rules
League Rules
• Keep the ball bouncing until you hit the game board.
• A game is won when you get 7 points.
• The point is scored when the ball stops bouncing on the ground; the point goes to the team who did not have possession at that time.
• A team has possession of the ball until they hit the game board.
• The game board can be hit on either of the two large faces during a serve.
• If you miss the board face on the serve then the other team gets a serve.
• After the serve the ball can hit the six side edges of the board face and this counts.
• If the ball comes to a dead stop then the point goes to the other team.
• The ball may keep rolling when it is above the ground (such as a shelf), you are allowed to blow on the ball at this point, But you cannot touch it while it is rolling.
• Whichever team does not have possession at that time cannot touch the ball while it is in-play by the other team. – If the other team touches the ball then the team in-play can call ‘interference’, which will result in a reserve.
• When serving, the serving team calls out the score with their own score first. If the anyone has 6 points then the score is read as ‘game point’, is both teams have 6 points the score is read as ‘game point – game point’.
• You cannot lose via missing the board while serving when game point is at stake.
• Anything in the room can be used as a paddle, you may change paddles, you may an object in each hand if you wish.
• If you break the ping pong ball you lose a point.
• If the ball is lost then the team who last had possession loses a point.
Bar Rules
Same as the above but the time is limited to 10 minutes. if no one gets 7 points winner goes to the highest score. If the score is tied the winner is the team who does not have possession when the time clock runs out.
Special Rules
Same as league rules except anytime the score comes to 4:2 then the game is paused for 5 minutes and the score is reset to 0:0. This can only be done 4 times.
History of the game
The most fun game you’ve never heard of was created in Reno sometime around 2004 and has been the source of many great times. Make your own memories of great times by coming in for a game.
Outping Discussion Board – An in-progress forum. While initially intended for outping there is a bigger goal. We would like for the webforum to allow voting in a variety of ways on the things other put forth, and that after time the best answer will rise to the front. To do this we plan to allow the user to vote on both the entire comment as well as specific sections. (E.g. A user has a good point and a bad point) The ‘votes’ come in many flavors, there is a general agree/disagree button as well as ones for truthful/dishonest; well written/ bad writing; on topic orcontributes to overall discussion/detracts from point at hand or changing the subject. Voting is optional in the sense that if you decide to vote you can vote on just one aspect or all of them. For every category except agree/disagree you are allowed to post a rebuttal or source, and other people can then vote or comment on those. So that two people can post a disagreement with sources and the audience can read the arguments, vote on their aspects, read the sources to backup or not the opinions and vote on those and so forth. An ‘end root’ button which will take you to the most current comment by that user which is in response to a comment (in the same chain) by the same user.
The users will have to sign in to vote, once signed in they are presented with a dashboard which shows them all the data we have or are able to collect on them, for their own purposes. From this ‘master users’ dashboard they can see their own interactions in the past, as well as see their interactions with other users (if tracking interactions is enabled?). They can also create ‘sub users’ which are basically new usernames to others on the website, except the master user is able to track their interactions (really to see their own behavior as a mirror to how they choose to act online, maybe some won’t like it).
Discussion can in theory be about anything and can be broken into categories that can be cross category referenced and users can vote on the veracity of the connections so that the category that is most accurate will be the highest ranked in theory. You can start a discussion about the morality to creating a very similar discussion system as a basis for a voting and community discussion system where users are tied to a voter registration ID so that everyone anywhere can vote on any single subject so that we don’t have to earmark bills by corrupt central ‘representatives’ and even go so far as to suggest that adding a knowledge test to a vote and giving greater weigh to the votes of people who understand the subject, or adding a knowledge cutoff where people who are at some level uninformed on the basic facts of that particular subject don’t get to vote for it until they learn more.
The users can create their main user name tied to their voter registration and activated via a code mailed to that address. People can create alternative accounts or hide the activity of their users. The votes a single registered user can inflict are much higher than a non registered user, but limited to single users and their own alts. E.g. you can’t use an alt to boost a score.
Then we can use this engine to create a ‘consensus’ platform. One where a plan can be laid out that can be accepted by everyone. In this case people will be able to highlight portions of the text that they agree with or not and there can be things to add such as ‘no way/dealbreaker’, ‘required to confirm’, ‘more of this’, and other comments that can then be also voted on but also modified. As the feedback process ongoes we can find what decisions will have the most backing, see if there are specific reasons or clauses that some people won’t tolerate or need, try and set those groups up and extrapolate outward. It pretty much has to be a ‘data mining’ platform in order to do what we want, which it gather data; however users Need to have ultimate control over this data, be able to erase it from future counts or study, see All of it themselves so they can do their own analysis (or download a cool and fun analysis addon/extension)
Mission Statement
Outping is a game that aims to bring us together in friendship and, except when playing-to-win, to engage in friendly communication and sport. Through the resources of the Outbuilding we wish to bring helpfulness to others.