- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bo-taoshi - Japanese game with two teams - One team holds up a pole and the other must topple it - Capture the flag with a pole - **Bo-taoshi** ([Japanese](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_language): 棒倒し, [Hepburn](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hepburn_romanization): __bōtaoshi__, "pole toppling"), is a [capture-the-flag](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capture_the_Flag)-like game, played on sports days at schools in Japan. The game, traditionally played by cadets at the [National Defense Academy (NDA) of Japan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Defense_Academy_of_Japan) on its anniversary, is famous for its size, wherein two teams of 150 individuals each vie for control of a single large pole.[^1] Each team is split into two groups of 75 attackers and 75 defenders. The defenders begin in a defensive orientation respective to their own pole, while the attackers assume position some measure away from the other team's pole. A team is victorious if it is able to lower the pole of the opposing team (which begins [perpendicular](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perpendicular) to the ground) to a thirty-degree angle (respective to the ground), before the other team reaches this goal. Until a rule-change in 1973, the angle of victory was only forty-five degrees.[^2] [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4OV-2uTFeg) clip of an example Bo-Taoshi match <iframe height=250 width=500 src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/D4OV-2uTFeg"></iframe> [^1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bo-taoshi#cite_note-1 [^2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bo-taoshi#cite_note-2