Cornhole

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Cornhole

Cornhole , also known as bean bag or blind hole , is a recreational game in which several players take turns throwing small sacks ( bean bags ) filled with corn onto a raised platform with a hole. If a bag remains on the platform, one point is scored; if a bag falls into the hole, three points are scored. The game is especially popular in the United States .

Cornhole game

General rules of the game

Double
A game is held with four players who each form teams of two. They are distributed to the left and right in the so-called pitcher's box , which is located next to the opponent's cornhole platform. Each player now throws four bags onto the opposite cornhole platform. The players have twenty seconds to throw. The two cornhole platforms are 10 meters (33 ft.) Apart from the hole.

The structure of a typical double game.

Singles
A singles game is held with only two players playing against each other. The other rules from the double are adopted.

Team
4 singles and 2 doubles are played.

Points and Procedure In
general, a sack that remains on the cornhole platform after the throw without touching the ground counts for one point, and a sack that falls into the cornhole hole counts for three points. However, points can also be lost if a player pushes a bag with another bag off the platform. In addition, a bag that is on the platform can be pushed into the cornhole with the help of another bag. Bags lying on the platform but touching the floor are invalid and will be removed from the platform immediately. The difference between the points is counted. The first player to score 21 points wins the set. A game consists of three sets.

The board

In the American version, the boards have the dimensions: 120 cm × 60 cm (47.5 × 23.5 inches). The German Cornhole Association DeCoV plays on the small format 90 × 60 cm.

history

It is unknown where the real origin of the game lies, although there are conjectures and stories about the origin of the cornhole. One guess is that the game was first played in Germany in the 14th century and was rediscovered in Ohio in the last century . There are eyewitnesses who say that Native Americans (mostly the Blackhawk tribe ) played a very similar game near Illinois . The game won in the 1990s considerable popularity in Athens , Ohio, and East Lansing , Michigan , to the universities Ohio University and Michigan State University . Since then, it has established itself as an integral part of the tailgating (from English tailgate, 'tailgate'), a social event in the run-up to numerous sporting events, where people grill and drink together in the event parking lot .

In Germany, the game was presented in the program Schlag den Raab from December 2011 as part of the competition and was thus known to a wider audience for the first time. The German Cornhole Association hosted the first official German championship on June 16 and 17, 2012 at the Cornhole in Hanover.

German champion

German champions in cornholes since 2012:

  • 2012 Hanover:
    • Ladies: Maya Göbel (Witten)
    • Gentlemen: Kim Kant (Pinneberg) - Club: CKP - Cornhole District Pinneberg
  • 2013 Lindhorst:
    • Women: Nadine Hattendorf (Lindhorst) - Club: Tus Jahn Lindhorst
    • Gentlemen: Timo Nerge (Beckedorf) - Club: TuS Jahn Lindhorst
    • Ladies doubles: Linda Fornefeld and Veronika Becker (both Witten)
    • Men's doubles: Timo Nerge (Beckedorf) and Mario Schlinke (Lindhorst) - Club: TuS Jahn Lindhorst
  • 2014 Nendingen:
    • Ladies: Annette Timm (Schenefeld) - Club: CKP - Cornhole District Pinneberg
    • Gentlemen: Uwe Thome (Quiigart)
    • Ladies doubles: Nadine Hattendorf (Lindhorst) and Sina Schirmer (Lindhorst) - Club: TuS Jahn Lindhorst
    • Men's doubles: Manfred Ullmann (Nuremberg) and Christian Trampert (Pellingen)
  • 2014 Rust (1st DM in team competition):
    • Quiersche blind hole team (Uwe Thome, Marc Le Roch, Peter Müller, Matthias Puhl)
  • 2015 Pinneberg:
    • Women: Stefanie Vogelbach (Rust) - Club: TopCorn Rust eV
    • Gentlemen: Frank Maurer (Rust) - Club: TopCorn Rust eV
    • Ladies doubles: Astrid Krug (Schenefeld) and Sonja Krug (Hamburg) - Club: CKP - Cornhole District Pinneberg
    • Men's doubles: Frank Maurer (Rust) and Claus Schmieder (Rust) - Club: TopCorn Rust eV
  • 2015 Quiersche (2nd DM in the team competition):
    • TopCorn Rust I (Frank Maurer, Claus Schmieder, Armin Moog, Rainer Baumann, Torsten Schmidt)
  • 2016 Rust
    • Ladies: Annette Timm (Schenefeld) - Club: CKP - Cornhole District Pinneberg
    • Gentlemen: Frank Maurer (Rust) - Club: TopCorn Rust eV
    • Ladies doubles: Sandra Hohenadel (Quiigart) and Bärbel Lauer (Quiigart)
    • Men's doubles: Frank Maurer (Rust) and Claus Schmieder (Rust) - Club: TopCorn Rust eV
  • 2016 Lindhorst (3rd DM in team competition):
    • TopCorn Rust I (Frank Maurer, Armin Moog, Claus Schmieder, Rainer Baumann)
  • 2017 Nuremberg
    • Ladies: Silke Bitz (Ingelheim) - Club: Cornholefreunde Ingelheim / TG ​​1847 Nieder-Ingelheim eV
    • Gentlemen: Günther Reitz (Konz) - Club: TG 1885 Konz eV
    • Ladies doubles: Silke Bitz (Ingelheim) and Isabelle Roos (Ingelheim) - Club: Cornholefreunde Ingelheim / TG ​​1847 Nieder-Ingelheim eV
    • Men's doubles: Uwe Thome (Quiiev) and Achim Huth (Rust) Club: TopCorn Rust eV
  • 2017 Ingelheim (4th DM in team competition):
    • TopCorn Rust I (Armin Moog, Frank Maurer, Claus Schmieder, Rainer Baumann, Matthias Wißmann)
  • 2018 Ingelheim
    • Ladies: Silke Bitz (Ingelheim) - Club: Cornholefreunde Ingelheim / TG ​​1847 Nieder-Ingelheim eV
    • Gentlemen: Stefan Stein (Qui Various)
    • Ladies doubles: Silke Bitz (Ingelheim) and Isabelle Roos (Ingelheim) - Club: Cornholefreunde Ingelheim / TG ​​1847 Nieder-Ingelheim eV
    • Men's doubles: Günther Reitz (Konz) and Stefan Beck (Konz) - Club: TG 1885 Konz eV
  • 2018 Rust (5th DM in team competition)
    • Quiersche blind hole team (Uwe Thome, Peter Müller, Stefan Stein, Stefan Schütz, Max Kreutzer, Patrick Meyer)
  • 2019 quarrel
    • Women: Andrea Degel (Qui Various)
    • Gentlemen: Stefan Stein (Qui Various)
    • Ladies doubles: Silke Bitz (Ingelheim) and Isabelle Roos (Ingelheim) - Club: Cornholefreunde Ingelheim / TG ​​1847 Nieder-Ingelheim eV
    • Men's doubles: Armin Moog (Rust) and Rainer Baumann (Rust) - Club: TopCorn Rust eV
  • 2019 Nuremberg (6th DM in team competition):
    • TB Johannis 1888 Nürnberg eV (René Schindler, Christian Söder, Adrian Kowarz, Scott Nolen)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ OFFICIAL SPORT OF CORNHOLE RULES. (PDF) (No longer available online.) Www.americancornhole.org, January 1, 2008, archived from the original ; accessed on March 11, 2016 (English).
  2. ↑ Regulations Section I: Basics. Deutscher Cornhole Verband eV, accessed on March 11, 2016 .
  3. ^ German championship placements. cornhole.de, accessed on March 9, 2020 .