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Message: [QUOTE="UcMiami, post: 3995432, member: 199"] Beach Volleyball is at least a demonstration sport at the Olympics as well as having a big pro circuit. Basketball is a very popular international sport and is well suited to a 3x3 format that can create a single long weekend multiple team tournament with teams playing 2+ games per day. Games are intense but short and recovery from ten minutes is fast enough for a quick turnaround. And it doesn't require an expensive venue so promoters can ship in a whole set-up in a truck, play a tournament in a parking lot, and move on to the next venue a week later. People are always trying to find new versions of classic games as well as creating new sports (e.g. x-games.) The successful ones spread internationally. Ones that reduce the overhead, time, and/or participants of classic games are high on the list because the skills and rules are already understood and the games can spread quickly and increase participation at all levels. (Cricket classically takes up to five days to complete a single match, limited overs (50) one day cricket was created and spread quickly, followed by 20/20 which is even shorter - same venue and same number of players in all versions and mostly the same rules and skills, but much shorter times.) [/QUOTE]