NUASCE

Every Fall and Spring NUASCE organizes a bocce tournament for students and faculty.  A month-long event, everyone gets involved and has a great time.  Winners get to carry around the bocce trophy for a week and have bragging rights until the next tournament where they’ll have to defend their title.  Look for announcements on the front page of the website as well as in the weekly lectures.

The Rundown

Basically it works like this: You sign up with a friend and give yourselves an awesome team name (that part is important). After signups are done, the Bocce Czar will make the bracket and will post it in front of Professor Tillman’s door as well as online. You do a little research, find out who you are playing against and contact that team directly to set up a date and time to play.

The bocce sets are in the NUASCE office, which is locked. So to get the equipment you can either be proactive and contact any of the officers beforehand (via the contact page) so you can meet there to get the goods, or you can hope someone in the civil lab is an officer / bought the door code on the black market and is willing to share. If all else fails, ask Professors Sheahan or Tillman.

Once you’ve played your match, let the Bocce Czar know who won so the bracket can be updated.

The Rules

Start of the Match

The match shall begin with the flip of a coin betweens the captains from each team. The winner of the coin flip may have the first toss of the pallino or choose the color of the balls.

Playing the Game

The player who originally tosses the pallino throws the first bocce ball. Their ball is now the closest to the pallino, so the other team throws their bocce balls until they’re closest to the pallino. Teams alternate in this manner until all bocce balls are played. A team rotation is decided before the match and is followed throughout the match.
A pallino knocked out of play will be returned to the playing area closest to the point that it went out of play. Any bocce balls out of play are considered dead balls and cannot count in the scoring.

Scoring

The team with the bocce ball closest to the pallino scores one point for every ball that is closer to the pallino than their opponent. Teams then play another frame from the opposite end until reaching game point. The team who scored last throws the pallino to begin the next frame. Games are played to twelve points.