Topic: Pillow Fight League (Read 315 times)

Anyone who spent time in children's camps as a child probably remembers what a pleasure it was to have pillow fights with your peers. I think this sport was invented by someone who has nostalgia for childhood.
But seriously speaking, the number of certain sports that have been given professional status is very surprising. The only good thing is that such sports will somehow distract people from gadgets, but there are also fears that all new sports will cross the line of normality.

Pillow fight is harmless, but I don't think there's a way to judge the winner except the judges count how many times both of the fighters swing their follow to each other.

I only know one sport that is safe, it's chess

You don't have to stare at cell phone or PC all the time, sit for a long time and need to have a quick reflection like e-sport.

You don't have to train your body, taking a risk, etc like sport in general.

Compared to Slap Fight pillow fighting is safer but less entertaining.  It will take so long time for the winner to emerge except there are rules that make it difficult or the pillow has much weight. Contestants in this sport should have the strength and stamina to withstand the force and weight of the pillow. The rules also look very simple meaning that anyone can play the game. Contestants have to stand six feet apart and try to hit their heads.

But people with martial arts and jujitsu skills will have an added advantage in the sports. Due to its nonviolent nature virtually anyone including children can attend the fight. But I don't think the sport will become popular because it looks inserious which might make it get fewer sponsors.

There's no challenge on this, these encounters are done at parties so it's a fun game but I don't think it deserves to get in, on Sportsbook, I could not imagine myself betting on a pillow fight, not all events can be included in the sportsbook, sports that deserve to be on sportsbook are those who offer challenges and excellence in performance, you cannot expect that on pillow fights.
If Sportsbook will include this, then Trip to Jerusalem could be the to be included in Sportsbook.

There are yet to be discovered weird leagues and championships that we have yet to discover. It would be a shame for grown ass men to participate in this type of league. This should be a women and children only competition. I am thinking about the health consequences of the impact of multiple pillow impacts on the head. I would like to know if there are bookies that lists this as one of the sports that bettors can place a wager on.

Pillow fight?What great memories you bought back with this,back in high school many years ago we used to play this game any time we had some excursion outside of the country in the hotel rooms.

Getting back now to if will this ever make it to any sports book I highly doubt it will as there is no real interest to bet on such sport en mass.May be some people including me would love to see such fight and bet a few cents just to entertain myself but for this to become mainstream in betting I see it as almost impossible.

I have not seen it but how do they determine a winner, since I suppose it is practically impossible to KO your opponent or even injure them with just a regular pillow, then I am curious about how the winner is selected, does style counts similar to what we see with ice skating and other similar sports? Because that is the only way I could see an event like this to work, even if I do not really think anyone that is relatively busy will use their scarce free time to watch a competition like this one.

Two tough guys fighting with pillows? Nah, I'm not interested.
I would be interested in pillow fighting only when I see two hot girls fighting with pillows naked. This might sound sexist, but what the heck.
The bookies might include such sport in their platforms, if there's enough interest among the sports fans. If the sports fans like the sport, they will start placing bets on it for sure. The rules of this sport have to be really weird. How heavy are those pillows actually? Can you knockout somebody on the ground with a pillow? I don't think so.

Try looking for the video on YouTube and laughing watching a sport like that, interestingly a match like that has been played in my country during Independence Day celebrations and is the most exciting thing to watch but it's not done in an arena but the players sit on a piece of wood facing each other and hit with pillows and falling into the water is a loser.
I don't know whether a sport like this will survive because of course the interest of the audience will determine the sustainability of new sports, but this is still safer than slap fighting where athletes can suffer serious injury or even death, like boxing. Should we watch a match like that? why not, especially if it's quite entertaining but usually local television won't broadcast the match like this so only those with a television subscription might watch it.

Pillow fight is there any video about it  I think this is much safer than the Slapfight championship i saw video on the internet and looking at the slap is look legit and hurtful in the same time. The video is all over the place if the safer option like a pillow fight with a big salary I am going all in as an athlete. 

I don't think so. This isn't a sport, it's more like a child's play. I think it's ridiculous for adults to engage in such games for competitive reasons, especially tough guys, because it doesn't reach to any conclusions. Pillows are made of feathers and foam, so their impact on each other is null. Slap tournaments make more sense, because it measures the strength and endurance of each competitor. It's possible to define a winner there and the best competitors will stand out as professional stars. Now think about pillow fights: how are you going to define a professional master on that game?

I don't see it landing in the sports book it's not as competitive as real combat sports like Boxing and MMA there's a lack of excitement compared to combat sports but if there is a big demand coming from bettors they might consider it, it's unlikely for me, between pillow fight and boxing, majority of bettors will easily pick boxing, pillow fights don't have the excitement, and the thrill of boxing.

There's no strategy whatsoever they just hit each other with a pillow anyone can do this compared to boxing and other combat sports where you need to be in tip-top shapes and train hard to beat the other guy, this pillow fight can be considered a fun fight, it was made for fun.

I found SlapFight fun, it seemed to be much less aggressive than any other combat sport we had until then, but after I started seeing reports of people who had a completely deformed face, dislocated jaw, broken teeth and even cases of people who were left deaf because the eardrum burst, I was shocked.

Now, pillow fight? It seems harmless, until we have the first report that someone had a broken neck because of a vicious blow from an opponent
Honestly, I don't think any sport is safe, so today my opinion would be: Stop inventing new and completely crazy "sports". I don't even expect to see them prospering, much less do I expect bookmakers to list championships like this, that's ridiculous.

Despite being an international sport, not all international channel would show such games. They show what their audience, would love to watch. Not every viewer find joy watching such an unpopular game for their subscription. I saw the slap competition did get some attention, because of how much people love physical fights. It's somehow related to hand wrestling. Game developers also integrated slapping games for mobile games. A proof of the fame such fight brought to the gaming world. As for pillow games, it'll have to take more time to be famous and shown across top channels. If they'll be organizing the slapping game to a minimal and friendly manner for the health of participants. Pillow fight is a nice substitute. Slapping fight, will have bad impacts on people's eardrum. Which pain is very critical to the comfort and balance of the participant. Down to the gambling world. Gamblers need to study the game; players, statistics and profits. Before venturing into such a new league. No one love staking money on a game they do not understand. Once the slapping league starts popping out good odds and provides good participants, with high probability of winning in the league. Gamblers may be curious to see or play in favor of their favorite pillow fighter. This sounds funny, but expect the unexpected. New games as these would make it to becoming an internationally legalized games. And sports associations would sponsor and push them to get known and famous in the community. Unlike old games like football, it'll be difficult to see slapping or pillow fighting games easily on the streets. That's why they're not famous yet, and needs years to go viral to such an extent.

As it is in the world currently, any sort of sport that is yet to exist, you know that nobody has thought about it for it to become a reality.

I wouldn't but feel surprised about the pillow fight league. This is my first time hearing a pillow fight league.

I am simply trying to imagine how it will look like when being watched. What will be the fighter's rules and regulations, and how the points and rounds will be done before someone declares the winner? This is what someone should be aware of before taking part in it or betting for fun on it.

First heard it as a sport, never seen any fights on cam of it as well, surprisingly there's a league already. As i didnt see any fight yet on how the winner is recognize i can't give any opinions but would love to see it really there is.

Edit: Searched some vids about this, and yeah it looks like fun, but didnt see any KO, maybe just the more you hit the more your score is since it looks like fighters not getting hurt of the pillow punch lol so getting KO is impossible.

I would have to see this to even be able to form a legitimate opinion on if it was anything more than a gimmick. The fact you say there are large men doing it and not a group of sorority girls makes me think maybe there is some legitimate fighting skill involved, which might make it fun to watch and thus fun to place a bet on.

For this Pillow fight I think not many people heard of it, but slap sport really? You didn’t come across some videos or articles talking about it, that’s weird because it did a very good buzz everywhere. I will try to add a good picture for the topic but what are you talking about if my story is legit hun? It is real and both are already considered sports. You should be the one who search more about such things and I didn’t base my information to an article to mention a specific source.
Brutal for using pillow? Or you really thought they fill the pillows with rocks hehe. Yes slap fights are brutal and many fighters already suffered dangerous injuries, maybe it will be stopped soon if more cases appears which i believe they will in next Leagues they organize. 

Kind of boring if I imagine it, might be different if I watch it though (also pillows with rocks, damn that's savage). Honestly, the slapfight competition was enjoyable. It was thrilling in itself since you know when the slap would be done and the reaction doesn't even have to be exaggerated, just their natural reactions is more than enough to show how much power each slap has, which is why it was good. Pillow fighting though? Hmm unless they put some twist into it I don't think it's that good.

Also who determines whether an activity is a sport or not? Just the creation of an association around it? I'd much rather consider it as a small scale tournament than an official sport immediately tbf.

I think there should really be a modification on this considering it will not create some audiences who want some good fun to watch. If they want to go upgrade I think they should consider to be more unique than the usual pillow fight we're so accustomed. Rocks? I think just a little hard material would do that could knock out opponents after several slaps of that pillow.

New sports everyday, the various sports that currently exist must be boring already to some people.

It is far from being included in sportsbook because sportsbook mostly include sports that have high interest from gamblers, because that is where the business is. So unless  "pillow fight" somehow becomes very popular, most sportsbook will never consider it.

These are kind of games that can be played between friends and family to have some fun time. These games into sports betting isn't gonna make it more interesting. When it comes to sports betting, a game close to pillow fight could be added. It is an one to one game where both need to sit on a narrow log of wood placed over the water. Sitting over it both keeps beating same as what we see with the slapping tournament on consecutive order. One who miss the balance and falls into the water will be loser. Even this is fun to watch, but it isn't good enough to place bets.

Interesting enough to discuss but not interesting enough to watch the fight. and I just heard that there is a sport "pillow fighting" which is contested at the international level. Because usually at my place sports competitions like this are only held on certain days and are held in the pool, not in the ring. but in my opinion, even though this type of sport is of international class, it will not be in sportsbooks because it seems like this sport is not interesting to watch. And at my place this sport is special because it is only held once a year and it is held over a pool so when a player falls it becomes a source of laughter because he gets soaked. And I was more interested in watching MMA than watching this pillow fight, even though the news spread that some of them were former MMA fighters who took part in this game.

A championship for the pillow fight.

But after some digging, it's not actually the Pillow fight you did in your childhood, it's an actual MMA fight under the brand of PFC but it seems UFC is already bringing their lawsuit against the PFC organizers for the resemblance of the world-famous UFC logo and colors used.

UFC launch legal action against the Pillow Fight Championship

Yeah a lot of things are becoming sport this days most especially those activities that does not give physical injuries to it participants and pillow fight is one of such games that doesn't pose any physical threat to the gamers,  although we have to find modalities around it to be able to know for sure what exactly the mindset and approach of those getting into this games are and what have been the resultant effects of past events in this games how many athletes are on the injury.

The game is like wrestling so at that there may be some form of physical threat and injuries here and there that we may need to look into properly to be able to understand what comes along with this game.

Lol they can turn anything into a sport.  Do I think there will be lines on this?  Possibly.  The problem with putting lines on things like this is the ease at which it can be manipulated once big money comes in.  But on a small scale I've seen wielder "sports" that lines were against.

Want to watch directly? So here's some link on how it looks like.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBbBOgQnp9M
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FG4HO_jv7Q

So watching out the video did really make me chuckle. What the heck this sports which using up a boxing ring and having those typical MMA movements but
handling out a pillow aiming for the head but are those things do actually make someone that to be knocked down?

On thing i had observed too that seeing on the crowd on which there are really lots of people who do watch this one which means
that demand and recognition about this sport is real. hahaha

Pillow Fight League isn't that bad to watch and bet on as I've never tried that before, it could be really interesting and I'd like to see how it goes. Maybe in the future, I'll consider betting on and watching pillow fights. It could be a lot of fun to watch.

I've seen some videos on YouTube, and it's really cool and entertaining. To be honest it's the first time I've come across something like this and I thought that there's not tournaments like this.

We know that we do live on this world on which human beings could really make out some announcement or making some things official and doesnt matter if it might look dumb to be called a sport then it is what it is.
Now that pillow fighting is something that cant really hurt out a certain person then people would be making out those kind of reactions or words telling and puzzling out their minds on how someone could knock
down a person on just using a pillow? Now its not really shocking that people would really be always having to say and its not really that shocking anymore. Scoring through hits or making points is a common sense
thing if we do speak about on how to win the game or sport. I havent seen this one though but since you had mentioned it out then i might be making some search first and sees on how the game
though having some mechanics and on just hearing out then i must admit that it is really that a pretty boring game or something not that interesting. Frankly speaking, i would really be better to
get entertained on watching those slapping big dudes rather than on a girly pillow fight.  

Quite a fun sport but I doubt it would be listed in mainstream gambling sites as well as in web 3.0 atleast for now, unless this sport gains enough popularity to people. Such kind of game will sound odd to most of us. But to think that there are other local sports which are not being listed with gambling sites, should be enough to tell that not all sports would be. Same with e-sports wherein there are other arcade games, perhaps, but only Teklen and Streetfighter are being talked about and gambled of. Pillow fight as a sport might have people be amazed of it and curious at first but in the long run eventually we’d bore out. Its popularity and size of community would matter ‘coz it is where such kind of game will be determined to whether be put and considered with online platforms or not. For sure there’ll be more to arise even if they are long existing already in this industry.

I guess pillow fight seems to be more befitting for fighters compared to slap fight and it's also waired to see that some of the activities that we deem as unnoticed are being in the championship league which make them as an international sporting activity although we have to look out for some of its limitations and how far Its popularity has gone into the society and how people see the game.

Moreover,  we need to visit the various videos and make an analysis of some of the other features of this game and to see if all its aspect and participation follows a guideline to make Pillow Fight an international champion game.

There was a thread in this forum about a pillow fight, but for the lack of interest, people forgot it. Such game is just for fun. If they make it a sport it's just up to them. Would you even bet if the bookies are going to list this on their sports?

I did search this on youtube years ago and somehow enjoyed laughing. I'm sure this is one of the sports the women would want to participate in. However they may classify this sport is, is for them to figure out.

To be honest, I kind of laugh after reading this one, thinking how a pillow fight is a sport somewhere in the world lol. I have not heard such a sport to gamble, who would have lose to a pillow fight when all you need to do is swing your arm with a soft stuff. After watching a single fight of it, I'm not sure how can you win with that but I definitely knew that it was not an ordinary pillow they are holding to fight, there's something inside that isn't so soft to keep your enemy dodging your swings.

I guess it's a foul when you try to knock your enemy using your other hand   it is so fun to watch actually

This is not the same as slap flight which is very brutal and I can not consider that as a sport but something else. You can go to YouTube to watch some of the videos about pillow fight and see how easy it seems.

Here are examples: https://youtu.be/xBbBOgQnp9M?si=coU_n_vJlgLw9N9g

To be honest this is the first time I heard of big league for pillow fighting and I don't really believe that they already have an international pillow fighting sports association because pillow fighting like this is usually only done at certain events or small events and only.
Just tried looking at pillow fights on YouTube and couldn't find any big events such as national or even international leagues and what was presented was only children competitions held in the middle of rice fields.

Provide little clarity on where the league is and there is at least little source link here that we can visit to see the league.
But if you think about pillow fighting it actually won't harm the players because all the equipment has been provided by the organizers and it impossible for stones to be deliberately inserted into the pillow.

This will also provide new interest and can be participated in by all groups and it will be safer than the sport of slapping which has been popular for some time.

I have not heard such sports. Op edit your post and add some images of you are saying and the link which you made the research so that the story will look legit. As it is we don't know they are using the pillow to fight even the slap fight I have not heard of it. So I will advise to link the stories. I am curiously to see the images and the link to read more. And I don't think it is an international fight and if it was an international sport, international sport channels and international news stations would have broadcast it.

I believed it is a regional game. Pillow fight and slap fight, I will not even light to watch it because it would not be interested and it will be too brutal.

I had no idea this was a thing omg. Also they fight in the octagon like the UFC :O
I guess when slapfighting can be a "serious" sport, why cant pillowfighting lmao. Some of the moves they try to pull there are pretty wild hahaha. Plenty of videos on YT and its also on ESPN oh wow

I have not heard of pillow fight league before until today as I read this topic, I looked at some videos about it and I can see two people fighting in somewhere similar to boxing or wrestling stage with pillows. It is fun and if people can use it to gamble on bookies, I think it is good.

pillow fight league, hmm, its a bit interesting to hear, but TBH, I have heard of this match, but in my city, this game is only used to commemorate certain days but not for betting.
btw, I am worried about this being in a sportsbook because this pillow fight is sketchy to me and could be manipulation or the same as a WWE match.

If this pillow fight will be in a sportsbook, there will definitely be many bookies who get rich quick and get bigger profits in the game.

After we saw the SlapFight Championship which had a lot of buzz on social media and also raised concerns about the safety of fighters or in a better term: slappers, it was a known topic of discussion between both supporters and others against it. Today, while I was surfing and watching some videos I came across a video of pillow fighting between two tough guys in a ring the thing that made me search for more information. Surprisingly, I found out that they also have a championship and there's already the first professional international pillow fighting sports association which means it’s officially a sport.
I don't see it as bad as slapping but it might be a bit boring for us to watch because it seems nearly impossible to knock your opponent out or for judges to determine a winner unless they decide to put rocks inside the pillows (just kidding).

What are your thoughts on this new sport, Do you think we might see it in sportsbooks anytime soon?