Hippoludum

Hippoludum is a sport, in which players race seven laps around a track on horses. The objective is to complete the seventh lap as fast as possible.

During the race, players may equip a wooden sword enchanted with knockback 2, a bow and two arrows of slowness and sixten loafs of bread. No other weapons, items or armor may be equipped at the start. Players are allowed to attack eachother with the sword and bow, but this may not be done in an attempt to kill the player or his horse, doing this with intent results in being disqualified by the referee. Additionally, referees may throw items into the race, like potions and arrows in races with items.

The rules, leaderboards and tournaments are organized by the IHlF (International Hippoludum Federation). It was founded by Mr_Zimbel, who also has served as the first president of the organization ever since. The official banner of the IHlF is to be a yellow globe on a red background.

According to the official IHlF rules, Hippoludum is to be played on an oval racetrack, that is 85 blocks long and 25 blocks wide with a 67 block long and 7 block wide oval shaped divider in the center to split the track into a stretched "O" shape. The diameter of the distance between the divider and the most outer block of the track is to be 9 blocks.

The rules also dictate, that four players take part in one race. In tournaments, the winners of each group of four move on to the next round, creating another group of four. This is done until the last race, where the last players play for the top four positions.

The leaderboards and tournaments are split into two categories: Classic and Items In the gamemode "Classic", players only use their knockback sword, bow and bread. The main difference in "Items" is, that referees are allowed to drop items onto the racetrack once every lap. Items may include splash potions of slowness, arrows of slowness, water buckets, cobwebs and more. A list of banned items will be included in the future.

There are to be world cups held at the Hippodrome of Terroja every month, with classic and items tournaments taking turns. This means, that there will be a world cup in each discipline every two months. The world cups take place in three rounds, alternatively two, if there aren't enough players. The tournaments will start once the Hippodrome of Terroja is finished.