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 '''Jekker''': <i>Jekker</i> is the planet's most popular organized team sport; it has been compared to Terran 'keep-away.' The game developed from sailors trying to keep control of a wineskin while at sea, tossing it from friend to friend while moving around a ship.<br>
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-The modern game is played instead on sand. Poles with beams sticking out replace the masts, and provide places for players to swing out of reach of their opponents, and gain height before passing the wineskin, or ''vatvang,'' to their teammates. They can gain points for some maneuvers on the masts, such as if they can get up enough momentum to flip from one mast to another. The ''vatvang'' is now constructed of a more resilient polymer than its original leather, but it is still kept exactly half-full of liquid, in order to make its trajectory more difficult to control.<br>
+The modern game is played instead on sand. Poles with crossbeams sticking out replace the masts; they provide perches for players to swing out of reach of their opponents, and gain height before passing the wineskin, or ''vatvang,'' to their teammates. They can gain points for some maneuvers on the masts, such as if they can get up enough momentum to flip from one mast to another. The ''vatvang'' is now constructed of a more resilient polymer than its original leather, but it is still kept exactly half-full of liquid, in order to make its trajectory more difficult to control.<br>
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 Much of the broadcast content on the planet's sports channels is related to ''jekker,'' and successful players, such as Ribo Bantiker, are at least as famous on Cendo Prae as any Federation Parrises Squares champion, although nearly unknown off the planet.<br>