Paragon City Sports Teams?

[dtjunkie]

Is there anything in the lore about Paragon City sports teams?

[CrudeVileTerror]

I have this nagging feeling that there's at least ONE sports team mentioned . . . but for the life of me, I can't place it.

Might be worthwhile popping on to Everlasting and asking there in the General channel during peak hours.  Collectively the roleplayers there might have an answer.

[Darmian]

I am certain I did one mish ages ago where an NPC mentioned a sports team.

[Techwright]

I don't recall anything.  Pretty sure any franchise would wither and die, though.  I mean, a stadium of 30,000 spectators and teammates is a smorgasbord for most of the villain groups who have mass kill capability.  I'd not be surprised if multiple villain groups attacked in a single game.  We've got the hero combat arenas, which in this town make more sense: smaller spectator groups, and tons of heroes around.  To attack that place would be akin anywhere else to robbing a donut shop on the cops' morning coffee break. 

 

That said, I vote for calling the hockey team the "Dead Ducks". 😉

[Darmian]

Well, the only thing even resembling an actual field is the partially built arena in Kallisti.  There are plenty of basketball courts and tennis courts around though.

[CrudeVileTerror]

Which reminds me . . . I once upon a time believed there were more gazebos in the game than there were basketball courts.

I was wrong.

Very wrong.

[Placta]

From one of the Lore AMAs:

 

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Q) There never seemed to be any mention of professional team sports in CoH. Was there ever a thought to expand missions, contacts, or costume sets (besides boxing) in that direction? I referenced American football in one character bio (http://cit.cohtitan.com/character/2089) but rarely heard of or saw mention of anything else even in other players’ character bios. (@Blondeshell)

A) Matt Miller (Positron) Not a lot of thought went into sports in a super-powered world. I am sure that they are around, but how do you know that the guy who hit 90 home-runs last season wasn’t a telekinetic?

If we ever put an arena or colosseum into CoH, we would have had to come up with some sports team. But alas, we never did.

 

 

[KC4800]

Well, we have the Freakolympics, at least.

 

Edited January 23, 2021 by KC4800

[MoisesG]

BRING BACK REPELBALL

*sigh* 🙂

[Max Firepower]

I had wondered about the high schools for each zone, and their mascots.  I started from the name, like Kings Row, so it could be the tie in, or tried a reference to iconic statues like the Minotaur in Talos Island. I didn’t want ‘the Heroes’ as that seemed ubiquitous.  

 

Kings Row - Knights

Atlas Park - Titans

Galaxy City - Astros

Talos Island - Bulls

I will see if I still have my list of others somewhere.

[The_Warpact]

I would figure with the Arena being in different zones that would constitute probably enough of a competitive sport franchise.

Some headlines would be "Max Speed has challenged Synapse to a race" or "Back Alley Brawler arm wrestling vs Mister Muscle".

Or even sparring matches "The Guardian vs Master Lotus".

 

Villain side Im guessing would be more gladiatorial especially with captured Longbow, Legacy,  and heroes. 

"Bloodfeast vs Longbow Nullifier" or watch what happens when we drop "Legacy sorcerer vs CoT Death Mage".

I've suspected that the cages in RWZ and Nerva that have various entities are used for such purposes amongst other things.

 

I know I'd pay to go see a squad of Longbow get eaten by Rularuu or Zombies....😏

[TemporalVileTerror]

That reminds me!
We -do- have some sports teams, they're just not in Paragon City.

 

Red Monkeys, Blue Monkeys, and Green Monkeys.

[Player2]

Hellion League Golf is still a thing.  Put on your best KB enhancers and see if you can get a hole in one in Atlas Park.

 

[Techwright]

16 hours ago, Max Firepower said:

I had wondered about the high schools for each zone, and their mascots.  I started from the name, like Kings Row, so it could be the tie in, or tried a reference to iconic statues like the Minotaur in Talos Island. I didn’t want ‘the Heroes’ as that seemed ubiquitous.  

 

Kings Row - Knights

Atlas Park - Titans

Galaxy City - Astros

Talos Island - Bulls

I will see if I still have my list of others somewhere.

Independence Point - Stevedores?

Brickstown - Bricklayers?  Guardsmen?

Steel Canyon - Giants?

Peregrine Island - Falcons? Explorers?

Founders Falls - gondoliers? Fall guys? 😁

[dtjunkie]

Thanks all! I have a Martial Arts / Super Reflexes Scrapper named Punter. I was hoping to match his costume color scheme to a Paragon City professional sports team color scheme and hoping to reference having played for the Paragon City Whatevers.

 

[Dreamboat]

I decided a while back that the Steel Canyon university campus has a basketball team called the Seahorses, so if everyone wants to get on board with that, that'd be great!

[Techwright]

1 hour ago, dtjunkie said:

Thanks all! I have a Martial Arts / Super Reflexes Scrapper named Punter. I was hoping to match his costume color scheme to a Paragon City professional sports team color scheme and hoping to reference having played for the Paragon City Whatevers.

 

You might consider "The Phalanx" with a Greek motif.  After all, it was the Freedom Phalanx that put the city to rights after the rise of mobster rule in the Prohibition Era, and has backed the good of the city ever since.

[Clave Dark 5]

Back on live I created a brute who used a baseball bat for a club, and had something like a traditional old timey baseball uniform and a big orange pumpkin head, who was the character mascot for a Croatoa minor league baseball team.  But I can't recall his name!  "Croatoan Something" I think... never did level him, he was more a concept than a real toon.

[Ephemeris]

On live, our supergroup had a 5v5  pvp league.  Each team consisted of 2 tanks, 2 scrappers and 1 blaster.  Every player was level 12 and set up with do's.

 

The manager of each team named theirs after a city zone and selected the colors.  Our uniforms looked like football uniforms.

 

We had:

Talos Island Minotaurs (red/black)

Skyway City Towers (green/white)

Brickstown Sentinels (black/orange)

Kings Row Monarchs (purple/gold)

Independence Port Authority (blue/gold)

 

My team was the Brickstown Sentinels.  We had a Roman Soldier mascot named Ziggy.

[Shadowsleuth]

 

On 1/23/2021 at 12:24 PM, TemporalVileTerror said:

We -do- have some sports teams, they're just not in Paragon City.

It keeps Ernie Lardner busy.

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Ernie "Doc" Lardner was a Sports Columnist for The Paragon Times.

https://archive.paragonwiki.com/wiki/Paragon_Times#Paragon_Times_Journalists

 

 

 

On 1/23/2021 at 6:32 AM, KC4800 said:

Well, we have the Freakolympics, at least.

 

And the Tsoo Fox Hunt.

https://archive.paragonwiki.com/wiki/Fox_Hunt

 

And it's nice to see that the Rikti sports are pod racing.

https://archive.paragonwiki.com/wiki/Ingame_References#The_Red_and_the_Black

[Techwright]

On 1/25/2021 at 10:26 AM, Ephemeris said:

Each team consisted of 2 tanks, 2 scrappers and 1 blaster.

Interesting roster decision.  Do you recall why that set was picked instead of, say, one each of tank, defender, scrapper, blaster, and controller?  Was it the removal of archetypes that could team heal that mattered?

[Ephemeris]

On 1/30/2021 at 3:31 PM, Techwright said:

Interesting roster decision.  Do you recall why that set was picked instead of, say, one each of tank, defender, scrapper, blaster, and controller?  Was it the removal of archetypes that could team heal that mattered?

I think...  It was set up so that there were no buffers, debuffers, healers or mezzers.  I think dark melee and some power pools were also off limits.  The blasters were like the quarterback in football, the scrappers like runningbacks and the tankers like linemen.  The scrappers and tankers who were on the same team could not choose the same sets.  It was fun because it was damage vs damage with some minor secondary effects.

[American Valor]

just read this the  Paragon University Open RP thread on live the football team and stadium were the Statesmen and the Collisum was the home of the Statesmen. Their mascot was called Statey a slightly hokey nod to Statesman and Imperious, as a oversized outfit since the original poster asked

 

Edited July 27, 2022 by American Valor
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[biostem]

I wonder how stringent sports teams/leagues would be about checking for superpowers or other enhancements, within the CoH world.  Heck, just about any job, particularly those that involve manual labor, would love a superhumanly strong worker, or someone who can start fires or freeze things on a whim...

[Techwright]

7 hours ago, biostem said:

I wonder how stringent sports teams/leagues would be about checking for superpowers or other enhancements, within the CoH world.  Heck, just about any job, particularly those that involve manual labor, would love a superhumanly strong worker, or someone who can start fires or freeze things on a whim...

I suppose it would depend on how that superpower affected the position the person was playing.  Someone with superspeed should not be a halfback in American football, nor should one with super strength/invulnerability or mental control be anywhere on the team.  (Actually, I'm not sure mental control should be anywhere within range of the field, even in the stands.)  Someone who wields fire, though, might be able to play without threat of cheating, at least, not without being obvious.

 

This is actually a common discussion in superhero media.  Dash Parr, the speedster in The Incredibles, for example, is initially not allowed to race in the track meet, but then allowed as long as he lets a non-powered kid win first.

 

I think the sports most likely to be allowed in Paragon City, besides those that play to the supers' abilities, like the Arena games, would be those in which no one has a natural advantage, like auto racing.  I'd not be surprised to see a NASCAR, Indy, or Monaco-styled racing event added to the city if things stabilize a bit.  Though I admit that perhaps speedsters should be banned from being pit crew members. 😉