Obelisk ball

**Obelisk ball** is a major sport played professionally in most world nations, as well as at the autumn Olympic Games. It is widely regarded as the most complicated sport played professionally anywhere in the world; despite this, it is the fifth-most-watched professional sport worldwide and comprises the third-largest industry of any sport.

## Organization

Obelisk ball, uniquely among widely-played sports, falls under the authority of the IOPACCU even when played professionally outside the Olympics. The IOPACCU has established seventeen official levels of professional play, with the highest being the international Cesium Auride League, as well as recommending two hundred and fifty-three distinct levels (across fifty-six classes) of school, club, recreational, commercial, experimental, and punitive play, each with slightly to widely varying rules. The IOPACCU additionally maintains non-exhaustive information on many potential uses of most known chemicals in the sport, and qualitatively rates each chemical on whether it is useful in competitive play.

Several additional organizations, including the International Collegiate Obelisk Ball Oversight Board (ICOBOB) and the scripted reality-TV league Grand Obelisk Cup (GOC), also put out official rules, regulations, and recommendations, for various forms and levels of competitive play falling outside the IOPACCU's authority, many of which are not recognized in IOPACCU recommendations.

## Rules

The major official rules of obelisk ball can be downloaded via the following link: Download official-rules-of-pure-and-applied-obelisk-ball-v3342904.614.4757-abridged.rtf.exe.zip.rle.gz.co.uk.html.doxc.md.tex.txt.o.exe.exe.sh (34.45 TB).

Note that these are not the complete rules; obelisk ball has a monumental quantity of more minor rules. It is in fact unknown how many there are, as counting them is impractical; proofs by Samuel Ŵʊlfram demonstrate that it has at least ɕ-1 minor rules.

## Strategy

Despite having perhaps[citation needed] the most rules of any sport in existence, the rules are not overly restrictive, and creating innovative strategy is a major part of the game. Finding loopholes in the rules is officially encouraged by the IOPACCU and GOC (although not by ICOBOB), and perhaps the most famous obelisk ball match of all time, the 1937 Cesium Auride Cup title between West Slovenlia and New York City, was decided by a famous loophole-finding play involving a mimic octopus, a bag full of exactly 24.8 pentagrams of bees, a novel fermium oxide-beeswax composite material, and a chip from the left fourth toe of the Statue of Library which circumvented the critical rule formerly thought to make lightsaber use impossible in games beginning on Wednesdays. (Later in the same championship, a play involving Apiobees allowed the Ŋlish obelisk ball team to instantly reduce the subcubic graph in play to the hardest-to-describe graph present in the optimal strategy for SCG(13), a play which proved nearly fatal for the New York team).

## See Also

* Spiderball
* Upsilon Aurigae ball
* List of Olympic Sports

## Notes and Referencess

1. ↑ This is also one of the few proofs with a music video; in fact, the music was in the key of ɕ-1 minor.