ROCKFALL

"Only the most reckless spartans dare to compete on this court."

Richard Myers, the head of Sadida, one of the biggest sponsors of Grifball Sports, about Mount Rockfall:
"Five years ago the UNSC carved out this spectacular court with newest laser technologies. We wanted to give the audience a new exciting experience with Grifball on top of an active volcano. Not the kind of volcano people are used to on planet Earth, though, no.
Mount Rockfall is extraordinary, we found it on Echo 5238, an outer colony. Whenever there is a storm, this mountain sucks up all thunderbolts near it, and erupts stones out of his inner side once it is loaded by the pure energy. The gravity inside of the mountain is enormous, that is why all rocks seem to be pressed to the most perfect form we know, a sphere. This investment cost us 100 Billion Dollars, and today I can proudly tell you, it was worth it."

Bob Grey, person of authority of Rockfall:
"We scan the weather on this planet in order to foresee when there is going to be a huge storm. Then we contact Grifball, so they know when the next match on Rockfall begins. Spartans are getting flown up to 6744 meters above sea level with Pelicans to compete on this court. No walk in the park.
The landing pads and goals are made out of a hard material that we call "Dura". In the last five years we did not have to exchange anything, which speaks for it. "

Russell Shawn, president of the federal universal environmental association:
"Since the beginning I was completely against this court being made! Scandalous! We humans should not destroy mother nature like that. What is next? A whole mountain getting erased, because instead they want to build a football court?! Nature never forgets, mind my words!"

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Seriousness activated again haha

The first step of building this Grifball court was to think about how I could change the structure in an interesting way, so it is not standard like most courts. Secondly it should be something I have never seen before. Well, a court angled at 20 degress with an interactive elment included? That was it, I thought!

This was basically my approach.

In the following I want to describe the course and give some design explanations:

20 degree angle of the court, great ground pound potential

To counter the angle, the ball return points are set onto the wall, so it is not as easy to ground pound into them or score in general.

Ball spawn point is set in line with the return points, so in fact it is not exactly in the middle. That is so, since I want to let the ball carrier start - when he picks up the ball - a little bit lower, so it is not as easy to get to the top right away and therefore get an advantage. It looks better, too.

Court is opened up on the lowest part; you could jump from the cliff and thrust back onto save ground.
Rockfall works with both, single round and multiple round gametypes
On each side there is a red and a blue Pelican to make it obvious, on which side you are on. Blue side also has a darker glacier ground.
The map's ground is not 6 sided, but 5 sided. The lowest part is flat like a line, the highest part has three sides
I did not add any clamberable ledges, since I thought, they would be too overpowered/ground pound heavy. People would expoit them. Furthermore it'd be too easy to get an advantage.

I hope this court is going to be a lot of fun for the
Grifball community! With that I wish you a strong arm!