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==== Tasso ====
A Taiwo ballgame of much age and history, Tasso from the 2300s experienced nationwide popularity as it began to be played all over the nation by Taiwo emigrants. It is the most popular sport in the Vamu now. The game is played between teams of five, on a narrow rectangular court. The court is divided into two by a central line, or ''rayat,'' and each team is on either side of it. The ball weighs 1kg on standard, and only the hip and forearm can be used to hit the ball. The object of the game is to keep the ball in play and in-bounds. The ball is played either high or low. A team scores a point when a player of the opposing team hits the ball out of turn, misses the ball, knocks the ball out of bounds, touches the ball with any part of the body aside from the hip or forearm, accidentally touches a teammate, or even if they fail to announce the score after they have scored a point. As such, tasso requires precision, flexibility, team cohesion and the ability to add on the go. The most major competition in the sport now is the national-level Etaruzo Cup, held in the city of Etaruzo every two years.
==== Koro ====
Koro is a Awai contact team sport. Played between two teams of seven players, but playable with smaller teams, the objective of the game is for a single player on offence, referred to as a "raider", to run into the opposing team's half of a court, tag out as many of their defenders as possible, and return to their own half of the court, all without being tackled by the defenders, in 30 seconds. The raider must constantly keep chanting 'koro' during their raid, and breaking the chant can disqualify the player and make the team lose a point. Points are scored for each player tagged by the raider, while the opposing team earns a point for stopping the raider. Players are taken out of the game if they are tagged or tackled, but are brought back in for each point scored by their team from a tag or tackle, brought back in in the order they were taken out. A complete elimination of a team causes a 'pota', which gives the opposing team 4 points, on top of the points gained from the raid. Matches last 30 minutes, in three rounds of 10 minutes.
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