Push to convert the yard into a global game

“Ready for advocate?” calls the host.

A few moments later and moments, two dry men – without a protective tool – the full speed before running, the soundless sound and a sound of snow.

The crowd explodes in a roaring roar, some encouraged, otherwise flashing.

It’s a moment that has been waiting. Dr. League League organizers to help bring what they call the “New World Collection”.

It is a version of the Australian and New Zealand courtyards and its origins in New Zealand.

A person who carries the ball must be “executed” to the defender, it is also being sprinted for them: they are not placed on the duck, obstacle or sidestep.

The videos of the game has just made viral, and the creators of the League League creators have capitalized the rise of interest. They said they have achieved millions of views online, thousands of fans won, attracted renowned sponsors and attracted great competitions of opponents.

They have done just Melbourne and Auckland, and another Saturday will be in a Dubai Arena, the winner was removed from $ 200,000 money (£ 98,000). Next to the agenda is the expansion of UK and US.

But the main support for league is increasingly through critical voices. Medical experts and sports figures are concerned about the physical and mental health of the game, which also becomes social media craze, accused of claiming a life.

“It’s like shaking the baby,” says Peter Satterthwaite, died of adolescence after copying the game at a party.

The goal of the game is simple: Be a person who has a “dominant” person, with a panel of three judges.

Two of the seven founders of the league, Brandon Taua’a and Stephen Hancock, said BBC loves memories that play as a teenager in Melbourne.

I run the “Brandon’s” straight “all the time,” I said Hancock, the couple would usually try to play each other straight.

There will be no one this weekend, when eight finalists compete for this giant cash reward in the United Arab Emirates.

Hancock stressed “the game of skill” – “(it’s) is all about”, but it is not denied violent nature.

Fast scrolls to the Social Social Networks of the League show dozens of videos quickly, all the two men who collide with the explosion action.

In other videos that circulate from events, many competitors are considered and need immediate medical care.

Taua’a has acknowledged that sport comes with risks, but he said the league has security protocols.

Competitors are screened, making medical evaluations, such as blood tests and physical examinations, and also they also need to send a video about himself playing sports. Medical staff are also on the banks of the events.

“It is also in danger with surfing, boxing and many other sports,” he argued.

Champ Betham – earned $ 200,000 earlier this month in Auckland’s competition and Dubai is titable on Saturday – the element of the risk is a secondary consideration.

“This is a mass blessing to try with our whole integrity and win an hour or win everything,” said Radio New Zealand at the time.

“Pay some debt and refrigerators and cabinets, food, especially food for our little ones here, here in New Zealand. There is nothing cheap these days.”

The money involved, for a league that has been alone for six months, is impressive. Along with the award fund, competitors are paying for travel and accommodation costs. 1,600-seat pitch reserved. The league has a Social Media Account, a PR representative and a bunch of promoters. Including antipodo sports stars.

Initial financial sponsors “have been described as a set of local investors who believe in the product, the league will announce that it was an important sponsor to ensure that it is prohibited in the online game platform, Australia and the key markets like the United Kingdom.

There are also ongoing talks with potential US investors.

They will need large backs to comply with the competition intentions, which is only an elusive tendency to argue that they argue.

“It really could be in a sport that could sit with MMA and boxing,” says Hancock.

But Taua’a and Hancock are based on the future ambitions of the competition, they are wondering more and more voices.

“They can also cause smoking as a legitimate sport,” says neuroscientist Alan Pearce.

By talking to New Zealand city BBC, Peter Satterthwaite is not imbalance.

“It’s not a sport,” he noted. “Dangerous activity” is “designed” to hurt the guy in front of you.

His 19-year-old nephew Ryan 21. He was celebrating a birthday with friends in a local park, when they decided to test the game in their social network feeds.

Ryan confronted two. It is not the same or his friend to fall or explode the heads. But as he left, his friends did not feel well, he tells his uncle.

“(Ryan) was a bit consistent, then he lay down and threw his eyes back on his head.”

Friends fell to the hospital, the doctors “had to get the grilled out of the brain to relieve the pressure caused by brain inflammation, saying Satterthwaite.

“I broke it in the fan, he was breathing up and down his chest, and” get up! Open your eyes. “

On Monday afternoon, one day he was playing with his friends, in a hospital filled with loved Ryan’s life support.

“Quarter was innocent,” Ryan’s uncle, “and your life is brittle and show you how fragile your brain.”

Run the contacts of contact sports that he understands and takes security seriously. After the death of Ryan’s death, League published a video game “is not a backyard for the street.”

“Don’t try this home,” they said.

But Satter also has doubts that warning will have a great influence.

“I don’t think people don’t have people in the world at the beach or the park or park.”

It is not only physical influences that Shenei Pania worry.

As the Australian Samoera is growing, he often saw schools playing playing in the game. But mental health workers are afraid to strengthen the version of the masculinity in place of strength, and violence is proof of pride. “

“It sends a dangerous message to young people based on how much pain they can take. If you’re not that, you are not.”

And the league attempts to turn the winter athletes to tour the sport of the Pacific Island community values, Sorry says.

“We are looking for each other … and to make decisions that serve more than ourselves.”

Their worries echoed by an expert concritional and sports figure package.

It has been more than a decade, the world of influential sports has introduced security measures when brain injuries are investigated.

New Zealand Australia, including New Zealand rugby, weighs the prime minister of New Zealand, saying that “a dumb thing”.

The Pearce Neuroscientist argues that “the most violent aspects of our established sport” to reduce risk while the safety protocols do little. Blood tests and physical exams cannot predict any brain injury, and catastrophic damage can occur without direct blows in mind, he says.

“I can’t see a 25 km of hours running out of running probably without being stationary,” said BBC. “That’s as simple as that.”

There is a risk of exchanging immediate exchange, Dr. Pearce, Ryan Satterthweite delayed chronic traumatic (CTE). Cognitive care can cause motion disorders, dementia, depression.

“(There) basically, using a collision like entertainment value, which is to market any obstacles,” it concluded.

A league spokesman, but what argue “is not about masculinity” but “strength and skill” – said the organizers do not intend to slow down, and they are not too worried about their critics.

Taua’a says what happens in his competitions “isn’t too much” when you see tv rugby matches, and – is much more safer than their protocols – a lot of games played in the courtyard around the world.

“It’s pretty new for the audience and it takes some time to get used to see what we put together.”