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The Tip
What are elimination games?
Elimination games are activities where players are eliminated from the activity and asked to sit out. A common example is the game knockout. In knockout, every player has a ball and is dribbling in a marked area. Everyone tries to kick everyone else’s ball out without having their own kicked out. This game does a good job of working on shielding and dribbling away from defenders. When someone gets their ball knocked out of the area they are out of the game, they have to go outside the grid and watch. Ask yourself this, this game works on shielding, who’s going to get their ball knocked out first, the players that are good at shielding and or the players that need more work? Because the players that need the most practice get eliminated first in elimination games, they have to either be modified or avoided. I prefer to modify them. Instead of having everyone get eliminated for good when their ball is kicked out, have them do a task once they get kicked out and then go back into the game. The players play to see who can get their ball kicked out the least instead of who is the last person to get their ball kicked out. Another option would be to have two different grids. Once a player gets eliminated from one activity they should get their ball and go into the other grid. Once they get eliminated from that grid have them go to the first one again. The grids can even be made different sizes as to provide different challenges for the players (the smaller grid should be more difficult to stay in because the players have less space to dribble in).
