Basketfall

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### Description

Score points by getting balls into the opposing team's basket - work together to get the win!

### How to play

Score points by getting balls into the opposing team's basket - work together to get the win! Use Grab to pick up balls!

### Added in

Season 4 (Legacy)
(22 March 2021)

## Rules

### Participants

10 - 16
(Non-final, even numbers only)
2 - 8
(Final, even numbers only)

### Duration

01:30

**Basketfall** is one of the rounds in *Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout*. This round is a Team round and was first introduced in Season 4 (Legacy).

## Course Description

**Arena Layout:** Basketfall takes place in a symmetrical arena roughly shaped like a barge (in that it gets narrower towards each end. The center portion is the round's lowest point, but it contains a raised platform reachable from any direction as it is surrounded by a slope. It contains a Speed Bump at its center and it is where the basketballs spawn and respawn at. The players start the match around this platform.
From the elevated platform, towards each team's baskets, are rainbow bridges (one on each side) that can be walked under, connecting the platform to an elevated area, also accessible from the center portion of the map via a slope. Each elevated area contains two elevated Spinning Plates connected to a small ramp and a team-colored low Gravity Zone, where the team's baskets are located. There are three of them and they rotate slowly.

### Standard version

Basketfall is a two-way team game.

Various Basketballs are spawned, which can be carried by players. The goal of the game is to carry the balls into the other team's basket. Both baskets slowly rotate, and are surrounded by a low-gravity zone. The team with the most points after 2:00 (1:30 in Squads modes) moves on to the next round. Occasionally a gold basketball worth 3 points will spawn.

#### Overtime

If both teams are tied when the timer expires, 15 extra seconds will be added. If after 15 seconds there is still a tie, 15 more seconds are added and this repeats until one team has the outright lowest score. Strangely, overtime functions differently in Squads modes; the timer is removed, likely meaning that the first squad to score a goal wins.

For Squads modes, in an extremely contrived scenario, if both squads remain tied after 9 minutes **with a "0-0" score only**, the round times out and both teams will be awarded the win. If both squads remain tied after 9 minutes **with a score different than "0-0"**, the round times out and only one team (randomly chosen by the server) will be awarded the win.

### Alternate Versions

As of 13 May 2021, the following variants may occur:

* The speed bump at the center of the arena may be replaced by a spinning plate.
* The center speed bump may also be replaced by a blizzard fan.
* The spinning plates just before the gravity zones may be replaced by blizzard fans.
* Four punching gloves (two per side) may be present right next to the gravity zones.

As of Season 2, the following variants may occur:

* Multiple respawning hexagon tiles may appear in the air.
* A series of rotating baskets, 1 for each team, will rotate in the air.
* Several upwards-facing Thrusters will be located around the arena.

## Course Strategy

### Dunking

Dunking is the easiest and most optimal method of scoring points in Basketfall. This involves simply jumping into a basket while holding a basketball. Doing so will respawn you at the center of the map, allowing you to quickly pick up the next basketball that spawns.

### Defending

Alternatively, you can try to prevent the other team from scoring points. Grabbing a player holding a basketball will make them drop it, giving you a chance to steal it for yourself. For best results, try to throw the ball away from your team's basket by diving while holding the ball.

### Shooting

If there are defenders on your tail, dunking may become more difficult. In this scenario, it may be better to shoot the ball into the basket from afar by jumping and diving while holding the ball. Keep in mind that this technique is advanced and will take some practice to effectively employ.

When shooting, you should aim to position yourself with an opponent team's basket in front of you, around the middle of the slope underneath the rainbow bridge on the opposing team's side, and then jump, dive, and release the ball from there.

Note that this strategy is horribly curtailed should the hexagon tile variant be present; you will more likely than not shoot a ball and watch it bounce back towards the ground off a tile in the sky.

### Miscellaneous

* If you dunk a basketball, pay careful attention to the orientation you are facing in when you respawn. Chances are you will be facing your own team's side instead of the opponent team's side. Make sure you're not spacing out and accidentally scoring in your own team's baskets.
	+ In fact, this is a key tip in general. Unlike Egg Scramble and Egg Siege, you score points by getting basketballs **into the other team's baskets**, not your own.

## Course Changes

* From 13 May 2021 and onward, the low-gravity zones correspond to the team's colour.

## Medal thresholds

Medals are determined by raw goals scored by your team.

* Gold - Scored 20 or more goals and qualified
* Silver - Scored 10-19 goals and qualified
* Bronze - Scored 3-9 goals and qualified
* Pink - Scored 1-2 goals and qualified
* No medal - Eliminated

These medals inexplicably do not apply in the Slam Dunk playlist, as every medal is pink regardless of score.

## Gallery

* Concept art
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## Trivia

* Before the Season 4.5 Dave update, the Gravity Zone over the yellow team's baskets used to be blue like all other low gravity zones in the game. It was changed to yellow, while retaining the same functionality as before to avoid confusion.
	+ Because of this, the yellow team's Gravity zone in this map is the only one of these zones to be a different colour.
* This is one of only three maps to be based on a real life sport, the others being Fall Ball and Volleyfall.
* Level designer Joseph Juson originally pitched a basketball mode sometime before Season 1 (Legacy); however, it was initially rejected due to being "awful".

## See also

* Fall Ball, a similar team game, but based on football/soccer.
* Volleyfall, a similar Hunt/Team game, based on Volleyball.

1. ↑ https://clips.twitch.tv/VainHungryDolphinPeteZaroll-lO2wLYRBwUIviugL
2. ↑ https://youtu.be/gID34BkfeR0?t=205