are there any 3+ player/team sports?

[wit>trope]

Sports with 3+ players/teams should be more exciting than those with just 2. Think of a soccer field shaped like in a triangle or triangular curve with three goals or basketball in a triangulish court with 3 baskets, etc. Or dodgeball with 3 teams. Or tennis with a court that accomdates three nets. Games like tennis would work best because then 2 teams couldn't team up against the winning team (because in tennis the 2 teams would be confined to their respective sections of the court)

 

[Dell19]

Leagues allow loads of teams to compete against each other.

Basically you don't get team sports with teams competing against each other at the same time as there is no way to organise it fairly. Team B and C may block team A from winning by playing their best players against team A. If the players rotate around then you may as well play a league.

 

[sysyphus]

What about relay races?

 

[Dell19]

Yeah although its individuals competing against each other for each section of the race and its only the overall result that matters so its a team sport but in the same sense as football.

 

[Stapel]

In cycling it occasionally happens that a group of 3 men reaches the finish first. That's always a tricky situation.

 

[Dell19]

Under the original question you would need 9 riders at the finish line with 3 riders for each team.

 

[pboily]

chinese checkers

 

[Stapel]

Under the original question you would need 9 riders at the finish line with 3 riders for each team.

Cierdan refers to both options: players and teams .

 

[tcjsavannah]

Cartoon freeze tag.

 

[Dell19]

chinese checkers

The original post stated it had to be teams of 3 of more. With Checkers it would have to be 2 teams of 3 at most. You could play board games in teams and organise it so that everyone plays each other but I don't think it really meets the requirement as its just lots of individual games, isn't an official game and wouldn't be used at tournaments since two teams could gang up on the other.

 

[wit>trope]

To clear confusion, I meant sports with 3 or more sides. It doesn't matter how many players are on each side.

So a 3-way tennis "singles" would qualify as would a 3-way tennis "doubles" etc. The 3-way tennis would have to be on a special court -- like shaped similar to a triangle -- and with maybe a triangle shaped net or whatever works.

An real example of this would be poker with 3+ players playing at the same table. Poker is a lot more exciting with 3+ players. Other sports should be the same way. I think it would help with both fast paced sports like ice hockey (three goal nets and three times on the ice at the same time) and slow paced sports like tennis. To preventing the two losing sides from teaming up against the winning side (a la Risk) you could tweak the scoring incentives.