Excellent!
https://www.skysports.com/watch/video/sports/12438061/peru-win-the-balloon-world-cup

We shouldn’t have picked Alan Rough.
Not after the last time.

I guess the losing finalist was deflated.

That looks aces fun. Apart from one armchair topple it all seemed a bit lacking in commitment though.

Nice article on how it came about
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2021/oct/21/how-the-balloon-world-cup-blew-up-to-become-your-new-favourite-sport

Not what I was expecting I must confess. I thought it would be something to do with a 150 foot tall Planters peanut wearing a monocle!

And looks like the BBC can’t even get the broadcasting rights for that!

Love the moment where he doesn’t think to look UP for a balloon that’s being hit in the air! 😀
😀
Thanks for that I wanted something jolly after some of the miserable bastid threads I’ve seen on here today

I think my favourite bit is that they don’t look like they know what they’re doing. It’d lose its charm if they were all super athletic balloon-bouncing ninjas

Excellent! Going to organise that at Scouts.

Excellent! Going to organise that at Scouts

With your car in the middle?

But that is wonderful.

with the amount of balloon’s on here, STW should be able to field a pretty decent team 🙂