The Marbles World Championships 2023

The World Championships is the biggest date in the marble game’s calendar and normally in attendance are teams from Germany, the odd American player, and a bunch of British teams, several in fancy dress.
The marbles ring is a concrete circle, six feet in diameter and covered in sand. Players are each armed with a “tolley” or “shooter” marble - This is their playing marble and is slightly bigger than the 49 other marbles in the game. A point is scored for each marble their “shooter” knocks out of the ring.
The first team to reach 25 points wins. In this year's final British team, Black Dog Boozers beat the German side 1st MC Erzgebirge
#marbles #worldchampionship #funny

[@TheTlewis3074]

Glad to see people still shoot marbles. I'm 67 now but growing up in my neighborhood all the young boys shot marbles and I was the best. I literally won "all the marbles" and shut down the game. Moms stopped buying their kids marbles because I always won them all. Nice to see.

[@kobitz9001]

Just go national. It will humble you. This goes for literally everything. "I was the best in my small town at this one thing until I went national" is the plot to many shows and movies.

[@huntercraft7499]

I'm 23 and love it 😅

[@cuk]

Never been so amazed amazing players and sportsmanship 👌🏼👌🏼

[@kobitz9001]

its so wild that I don't see any diff launch techniques. In hawaii, peeps all have their own little tech. Like the standard thumb flick, you also get stuff like the overhand middle finger or other two handed techniques. Playing marbles as a kid was so much fun and being part of innovating made it all that much more fun!

[@ProdCatastrophic]

Idk about their rules but where I grew up playing any shot that wasn’t shot like the way they’re shooting was a foul shot, I’m not sure what the method is called but I know it’s a universal way of shooting a marble..

[@kobitz9001]

@@ProdCatastrophic huh. That makes sense.

[@MawoDuffer]

Can we see a whole match recorded to get a feel for how the game works?

[@blauereisvogel3326]

Really nice this hard sport

[@vasiliszaxaropoulos8726]

😮😮😮😮😮

[@wendyleyn7401]

Have there ever participated people from Russia?

[@ronalddavila5972]

Wannanow??
Swoon
Haw man

[@BestMarblePlayer]

I can beat all of these guys myself 😉

[@nipz8053]

That's a bold statement, but can't argue with the name.🤔

[@itsacircleda]

😂😂​@@nipz8053