Sports In Rapture

* See also Entertainment_In_Rapture
* See also Rapture_Society
* See also Gambling
Competition and Business and Betting ...
NOTE - My frequent Reference to Team isn't dealing with Sports (though .......)
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Various Activities Whether Participation or Audience
Types of Competition :
File:Races.jpg|They couldn't practically have race horses in Rapture, but they coulda had something like this ??
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Boxing
We had in the MultiPlayerThis is a Reference to BioShock 2 DLC DLC McDonagh's Tavern a Fighting Ring 
It is usually a Sport that can be done on a small budget and by Individuals.
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Baseball : Take Me Out To The Ball Park :
Potential MMORPG Mini-Game activity ( Player and their 'Team' NPCs and some 'ringers' ( to fill out the required 9 positions ) to play Baseball against other Players/NPC teams ???? 
The Rapture League, The Pennant ... 
Amateur play as a routine recreation ( exercise and swinging a bat was good practice for 'blunt instrument' weapons ).
A fairly genteel game ( except for the runner spiking the baseman ... or beaning the batter ). 
Beer, Hotdogs, Peanuts and Crackerjacks ... ( and those giant foam hand-finger things hadn't been invented yet ).
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Football is in the BioShock Game ( BS1 - a NPC Splicer made up to be in the oldie football equipment, with lots of banter relating to his playing Football ).
Rapture Football Teams ( How do you have Playoffs with only 4 Teams ? ) :
* Stingers 
* Sea Bulls
* Ryan's Raiders
* Atlas Astros. ( I doubt it was THAT 'Atlas' )
Of course there would also be some amateur teams ( though Baseball would be bigger, have more numerous players)
Rapture University Team(s) ...
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"The Rapture Raptors" - Another Sports Team Name :
There were many sports leagues in Rapture ( competition being a founding virtue ), even with its relatively small 20-40 K population. Small professional leagues existed with the 'rich' people sponsoring them for the prestige. ADAM kind of ruined it, and the 'civil war' made such activities irrelevant.
Of course at that early time, "Raptors" is a name for 'birds of prey' ....
Probably not appropriate for a Curling League team ...
Maybe somewhere in Rapture, in those heady days of ADAM research, someone fed some ADAM to a lizard ...
JURASSIC RAPTURE !!!! ( Be careful you never know what you might run into out in 'the Wilds' ... )
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Rapture - "Raptor" - Seems Natural :
A Baseball Team called the Rapture Raptors would then have an 'Eagle' as their mascot.
Most people before the "Jurassic" movie ( where they changed the real-Paleontological large-chicken-sized dinosaur into those large menacing genius lizards ) never heard of them, and 'raptor' referred to 'Birds Of Prey' ( like Eagles/Hawks/etc... and largely a somewhat obscure term ) SEE even big movie producers/writers LIE FRAUDULENTLY when the Facts don't match their Plot Storyboards.
What would later be named "Velociraptors" were discovered in 1923 ( but never much known to the public ).
"Jurassic" also was the earliest of the Three ages of Dinosaurs ( Jurassic/Triassic/Cretaceous ) - AND WAS TOO EARLY for Velociraptors. ( SEE, EVEN BIG TIME MOVIE PRODUCERS AND WRITERS CAN BE SELLOUTS HAVE IDIOTIC PSEUDO-SCIENCE-USING "HACKS" )
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Golf Course :
* The Rapture 18-hole golf course and Private Club was located in a series of caverns inside Mt Ryan - Its stable monolithic rock structure made large caverns possible ( Note - 'large' means 30 foot ceilings in Lava Tubes https://volcano.oregonstate.edu/lava-tubes ).
* The Club Membership Fees were fairly exorbitant because of the cost of constructing and maintaining the facility.
* Ryan was a frequently seen here in the early days.
* The Course has many interesting 'hazards' and a Par rating of 72.
* "The 19th Hole" (Golf Club Bar) made the Kashmir's decor look 'shoddy' by comparison ( with prices to match ).
* Electric Golf Carts provided ( wonder if any Splicers ever got ahold of some of these ... )
* Several other golf Putting Greens and Mini-Links (Miniature Golf) were located in small parks in various places around Rapture.
* The Green (grass) requires air circulation from 'CO2' generating sections of Rapture.
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Miniature Golf was "Garden Golf" 'way back when' ... :
You would think that Ryan would have a real putting green in/adjacent to his office. ( It is more challenging with real grass ). Elsewhere in Rapture, there might be a 9 hole Golf Course -- made by some entrepreneur who figured out he could do that AND sell the oxygen generated by the Grass ( an extra game 'hazard' might be the not-overly-high ceiling in much of it ).
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Tennis : 
We see poster for that Sport- A "Rapture Open", and that ball machine in the medical office we learn to use Telekenisis against its Tennis balls. 
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Have Rapture Olympics ( or Maybe Not ... ) :
Physical Achievement/Excellence ( There were other sports like Football, Tennis, Golf ... ) Note : Tonic type physiological adjustments would be earlier than DNA 'mod' Plasmids.
'Plasmid Olympics' possibly put on to get publicity/advertise for new Plasmid/Tonic products. Just because you have the strength to do X doesn't mean you have skill to do it well ( you might notice than most events require more than just brute strength or speed ).
SO when would these "Olympics" possibly take place ? Many of the more powerful Plasmid versions may NOT have existed until Fontaine sprung them on Rapture Security at the 'shootout' in Neptune's Bounty Sep 1958. ( Earlier Plasmids/Tonics were MORE constructive/useful ). I suppose that AFTER the Kashmir Massacre, Ryan would try to assist/rebuild City morale by holding a 'Rapture Olympics' ( except for quite a while wasn't there supposed to be an ADAM shortage ?? ... So that's out. )) And as you get closer to the time of BS1 ( post Kashmir terrorist attack ), things are getting more and more strange in Rapture (NOT Normalcy). THAT really doesn't seem to be a good environment for an organized "Olympics" either.
ADAM Flavored Events :
* Fire throwing at targets (like archery)
* Strength ( Brute weight lifting and shotput, etc ... )
* Speed Running 
* Telekinesis ( it is really physical throwing ) but for distance or target accuracy
* Archery (dexterity, strength)
* Swimming ( speed and breathholding )
* Obstacle Course/Climbing ??
And you can still have Shooting Events ( added accuracy ? )
* Tennis
* Golf ( ??? or that has its own Tournaments )
* Football ( no difference between pro and amateur - and there just aren't enough competitors )
* Baseball
* Basketball
Many Sports have Teams - so Companies or Clubs ... with 'districts' competing ?
The Sport Competition has to keep away from the ones that are actually based on 'smoke and mirrors' Psi effects - or there would be Plasmid Cheating ( There might be other Contests for that kind of thing ).
Earlier more mature ADAM products were of the Medical/Therapy types ( merely enhancing natural abilities ), and THOSE because they existed earlier may have allowed Sports Competitions using them years earlier ... 1954-58
List of Real constructive uses of Plasmids ( Many real Olympic events were combat/war related ) :
* Weight Lifting stuff ( brute strength for construction )
* Climbing ( limb strength, agility )
* Dueling ( coordination, dexterity )
* Personal Defense ( Beat the crap out of THEM before THEY beat the crap out of YOU ... )
* Throwing rebar Spear as a weapon or chunks of concrete ( a later Splicer passtime ) at vermin/enemies
* Hunting vermin ( ie- spraying fire into a mouse hole as long as there's nothing behind there flammable ?? )
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Was there something in Persephone called "Insanity Olympics" ??? But it was something just stupid and strange ... Something to keep the inmates occupied ?
* The Electroshock event ...
* The Waterboarding Event
* Wall Hitting (head)
* Screaming in 'The Can' (the isolation chambers)
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Non-Human - Races :
Splicer Roach Races were common at least until someone got too hungry ...
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THINKING : That Rapture should have its own version of that Great American Sport - Roller Derby : 
Perhaps it could be more like RollerBall (the Movie) ... Or not.
Rollerskates probably were available for kids in Rapture. The Roller Derby would be somebody's "Good Idea" for something new (in Rapture). One advantage was that the 'Rink' venue was well suited to TV coverage.
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"Bigtime Wrestling" in Rapture :
Perhaps a bit less fake than the type of choreographed wrestling which became popular in the 1950s in the US ?
Rapture has kindof a limited population for such a sport to become big enough, but once Brute Tonics came into existence ? Steroids on steroids ??
Entertainment 'Sander vs Goliath' ?? Have it as a TV Show to try to fill the limited TV content in Rapture ...
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Swimming Competition
I have the Bathysphere Transfer Tunnels to connect hubs and some of them are fairly long.
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IDEA - Team NPCs of a Player may be able to take part in Sports activities (including groups) - Yet another AI/Scripting/Animation project type which might be Player developed. The same animations/scripting could be used for NPC activities the Player can witness. And of course with that you can have Betting. 
Sports Skill Ramps ??
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Bicylce Polo ???
Motorcycle Grand Prix racing through Streets ???
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