The Plague Game is a variation of tag in which one or more players are “infected” and try to spread the plague by tagging others. Once tagged, players join the infected team. It promotes agility, reaction time, evasion, and is excellent for warming up in a fun, competitive environment.
Objectives
- Automate the pot.
- Improve the coordination dynamics.
- To dissociate the look of the ball.
Recommended age
- From 6 years onwards (School and Minibasket: categories pre-benjamin, benjamin, and fry).
Number of players
- From 3 players forward.
Recommended time
- Total duration of the game 7-10 min.
Equipment and facilities
- 1 Basketball player.
- You can make this game in a open space or in a field (whether half or whole). The league will without a ball.
Initial layout and description of the The Plague Game
They are placed all across the pitch. The league starts in from a corner.
The signal of the start of the game. The league must tag by tapping a player (no need to grab).
At that time, the player caught leaves of side the ball and go hand in hand. The two get caught together. As they caught is forming a chain.
There are two ways of finishing the game. The first is when there is only one becomes the winner of the round. The other is capturing all. If a player goes out of bounds, it will be automatically tagged.
Variants
- Dribble with the hand non-dominant.
- Bounce to a specific height (at the height of the knee, hip, shoulder, at the height of the head, above the head, etc…).
- Mini-Plague: instead of having a single person ligand, start multiple ligand. In this way there will be several strings. We continue counting with the two ways of ending the game, The first, when only a survivor. And the other, when there are no more survivors, the largest chain will be the winner.
Cedric Arregui Guivarch
National Coach of Basketball (CES 2014)
