Walk away alive, and you ll have full health and all equipment you brought into the arena restored to you for your next battle. HeadBall begins with each team announcing that they are ready by using a switch placed in the map for each team. Once all teams have checked in, a countdown beings, during which the players may move to wherever they believe will allow them the best starting advantage though they cannot do damage to each other. Use defensive to slow the progress of your opponents, or turn to offense, and go for the killing blow of decapitation. When a head is severed, any player can pick it up and make a run for goals placed around the map.
Some maps have goals that can be used by any player to score, while others have team-specific goals.
Those who set up HeadBall servers can also select whether or not to throw limb scoring into the mix, where each limb tossed into a goal scores one point.