Mindball: Are You Britain's Most Relaxed Mind?
What’s the opposite of a professional gamers’ crack-fueled fragfest? The Mindball Championship, which sounds equal parts cerebral and filthy (I’ve always suspected there was a mind-ball connection, but all the testes I’ve interviewed have kept quiet on the subject), but is in fact merely cerebral.
In Mindball, two players strive to move a “ball” with their “mind.” They do so not by exertion or button mashing or even thinking really hard…they move the ball by relaxing. It’s a mind-over-matter thing. Wired to EEG machines that record the electrical activity in the brain, Mindball players must produce theta and alpha waves (how Star Trek is that?) typically associated with states of drowsiness and relaxation, respectively.
The higher-frequency gamma waves associated with higher mental function and problem solving will do you no good, no good at all.
Should you have any interest in using your underactive brain to win something – specifically, the title of Britain’s Most Relaxed Mind – simply show up at the Science Museum in London, England, on the 28th of December.
That’s a mere five days from now, so it should give everyone plenty of time to buy their tickets, arrange for accommodations, and spend the three or four remaining days practicing not thinking.
Well, at least the last part’s easy.
The Mindball Challenge [NewScientist]
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Posted to Video Games on 23 December 2006
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Oh my goodness, a competition where marijuana would actually enhance your performance!
Do you think finalist are forced to conduct in a mandatory drug screening to ensure they’re not on sedatives or morphine derivatives? I mean, the entire competition could be a fix!
I played that last month when I went to the Science Museum….it doesn’t really work, since I gave up halfway through and started thinking as hard as I could. I still won.
I lose already. My mind never stops, but for bad reasons… :(