Triskelion

Triskelion - a new, three-team sport designed by Steve Kramer.

The simplified rules follow:

1 Triskelion is a field sport played with three teams of four players each. The field is in the shape of a triangle, with goals at each corner and a touch zone on each side, opposite each goal. There is also a perimeter in front of each goal.

2 Matches are three periods long. Each period is twenty minutes.

3 One of the teams starts on offense in their own touch zone, opposite their goal. Only the offense may score a goal. Having possession or control of the ball has nothing to do with whether or not you are the offense or the defense.

4 The offense may play the ball however they wish. The defensive teams must not use their hands, arms, or shoulders -- the same as in soccer -- except when claiming (picking up the ball in their own touch zone).

5 Either defensive team may become the offensive team by taking the ball to their own touch zone and claiming it.

6 The defense may down (stop) the play of the offense by touching the offensive player in possession of the ball with both hands. The offense must then scrimmage the ball with a hand-pass (punching the ball) or a kick.

7 If any team plays the ball out-of-bounds, or commits a foul while in possession of the ball, the other two teams hold a faceoff for the ball. The team out of the faceoff must not touch the ball for five seconds afterwards.

8 A defensive team may not have more than one player inside the perimeter around the offense's goal, unless the ball is inside the perimeter.

9 If a team commits six fouls in a period, and again for every three fouls after that, the other teams receive one point. Individual players may be charged with a major penalty, for which the player must sit out for three minutes, or a match penalty, for which they are ejected from the match.

10 Goals are worth one point from inside the perimeter, two points from outside the perimeter, and three points if they were kicked or hand-passed in from outside the perimeter.