Step Zero
This is not a team game. Bola Chop is all about the individual: it’s a dog-eat-dog kind of game. There’s no need to divide players into groups.

Like all games, the more the merrier. In this case, 30 to 50 people — a whole crowd — is ideal.


Step One
You will need a tennis ball, that staple of many a schoolyard game. Actually, any sort of ball or projectile will do, but tennis balls, with the combination of hardness and softness, work best. Bricks, no matter how exciting they make the game, are highly discouraged (figure 1.0). You wouldn’t want to get jail-time, would you?

Step Two
There are only two objectives to the game:


1. Throw the tennis ball at someone, really hard, with the intention of inflicting pain (see figure 2.1).


2. Avoid having the ball thrown at you, because it will be painful (see figure 2.2).


Step Three
To start the game, the person who provided the tennis ball for this session of play throws it high up, into the air. Everyone tries to catch the ball as it descends, as in figure 3.0.


Step Four
Once a person manages to obtain the tennis ball, everyone else is prey: these run away as far as possible, to avoid being hit (figure 4.0). The player with the ball must stand in place, and throw the ball — as hard as humanly possible! — at another player (figure 5.0).


Of course, since we are not complete barbarians, it is forbidden to aim the ball at a player’s head or crotch (figure 6.0).


Step Five
When the ball has been thrown at someone, that someone (regardless of whether he/she has been grievously hurt) can then pick it up and throw it at someone else (figure 7.0). Other players may also attempt the steal the ball for their own use, but approaching the ball brings about the risk of someone throwing it at you.


Step Six
If everyone else is too far away for the ball-toting player to pick a viable target, the game returns to Step Three: the ball-bearing individual tosses said ball into the air, to end the deadlock (figure 8.0).


Step Seven
The game is played for as long as the players can bear the pain, or until recess ends. New players can join the game at any time, and current players may choose to leave at any time.

Additional Notes:
Players must play with the intention of possessing the ball and hurting other people. Bola Chop would be pointless, otherwise.