I haven't the time to read all the posts in this topic so if I repeat something that has already been said then I apologise.
Gridion and baseball are both played here in Australia. Gridion is almost non-existant but I have heard that there is a league played somewhere here in Sydney. I think it's mainly made up of US ex-pats and their kids. I think that it never really took off here is because (to be perfectly honest) most of us find it incredibly boring, weak (no offence to any gridion players out there) and we can't always understand your thoughts behind the rules of the game.
We find it boring because, somehow, American football manages to spread an hour-long game into almost three hours. But more importantly, we find it weak because every player wears a massive suit of armour, the players only have to play for 15 minutes before they get a break, every phase of the game has an entirely dedicated team to it (i.e. When attacking there is one set of blokes on and when defending there is an entirely different set of blokes on) and after every single play, even if it only last a few seconds, the players have a huddle that seems to take an eternity to be done with. And probably not entirely accurate but we pressume that a lot of the players are jacked up on riods.
We don't always get the rules because your team gets 4 goes to make it a mere 10 yards, then the count starts all over again, and the passing forward rule is very alien to a nation were both Union and League are massive.
Overall, I don't think there is much respect for gridion down here.
Besides, we've had Rugby Union and Australian Rules around since the 1850's and then Rugby League came about in the early 1900's. It's unlikely that gridion will ever get a real run down here.
But I do have to admit that when I was in high school, some mates and myself would play gridion every now and then. However, we played full-contact, 3-on-3 or 4-on-4, with no armour, on a "field" that was 3 metres wide and 30 metres long, with a brick building on one side and a 2 metre drop on the otherside. Oh, and we didn't play on grass, our "field" was made up mainly of rocks and dirt. There was also concrete down one end and metel grates down the other. Needless to say, there were many injuries.
Now if American football were played similar to that, then it might get a go down here.
Baseball, although also relatively small, is much bigger than gridion - and getting bigger. I myself play baseball and have since I was 5 years old. I love it. There are many leagues in NSW as I'm sure there are all around the country. Our national team isn't too bad either (I think we got bronze in the last Olympics?). There are quite a few Aussies playing over in the states at various levels. Unfortunately, baseball down here doesn't stand a chance when pitted against cricket in terms of popularity.
Gridion and baseball are both played here in Australia. Gridion is almost non-existant but I have heard that there is a league played somewhere here in Sydney. I think it's mainly made up of US ex-pats and their kids. I think that it never really took off here is because (to be perfectly honest) most of us find it incredibly boring, weak (no offence to any gridion players out there) and we can't always understand your thoughts behind the rules of the game.
We find it boring because, somehow, American football manages to spread an hour-long game into almost three hours. But more importantly, we find it weak because every player wears a massive suit of armour, the players only have to play for 15 minutes before they get a break, every phase of the game has an entirely dedicated team to it (i.e. When attacking there is one set of blokes on and when defending there is an entirely different set of blokes on) and after every single play, even if it only last a few seconds, the players have a huddle that seems to take an eternity to be done with. And probably not entirely accurate but we pressume that a lot of the players are jacked up on riods.
We don't always get the rules because your team gets 4 goes to make it a mere 10 yards, then the count starts all over again, and the passing forward rule is very alien to a nation were both Union and League are massive.
Overall, I don't think there is much respect for gridion down here.
Besides, we've had Rugby Union and Australian Rules around since the 1850's and then Rugby League came about in the early 1900's. It's unlikely that gridion will ever get a real run down here.
But I do have to admit that when I was in high school, some mates and myself would play gridion every now and then. However, we played full-contact, 3-on-3 or 4-on-4, with no armour, on a "field" that was 3 metres wide and 30 metres long, with a brick building on one side and a 2 metre drop on the otherside. Oh, and we didn't play on grass, our "field" was made up mainly of rocks and dirt. There was also concrete down one end and metel grates down the other. Needless to say, there were many injuries.
Now if American football were played similar to that, then it might get a go down here.
Baseball, although also relatively small, is much bigger than gridion - and getting bigger. I myself play baseball and have since I was 5 years old. I love it. There are many leagues in NSW as I'm sure there are all around the country. Our national team isn't too bad either (I think we got bronze in the last Olympics?). There are quite a few Aussies playing over in the states at various levels. Unfortunately, baseball down here doesn't stand a chance when pitted against cricket in terms of popularity.