Capture the Cones Cup

🖼️ Visual Guide

🎯 Objectives

• •Stay active and ready even when another player has the ball.
• •Use the main skill of the game under light or full competition.
• •Recognize when to attack quickly, combine, or protect space.

🎒 Equipment Needed

1 ball per player or team depending on the round, cones for boundaries and safe zones, bibs, and small goals or cone gates. Keep extra balls beside the area so restarts stay fast.

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📐 Setup

Create a game area with safe zones, a central challenge area, and enough balls that the game restarts instantly. Keep rules to one main objective so the fun stays high. Keep the task simple so players can repeat the core technique with confidence.

📋 How to Run It

1. 1Set up an 18x24 yard game area with clear boundaries and safe zones.
2. 2Tell the players they are trying protecting team cones and counterattacking quickly.
3. 3Start the round with everyone moving at once so there is no long queue.
4. 4Players score by completing the main mission, then reset to a safe zone and go again.
5. 5Play several short rounds, changing the taggers, targets, or team roles each time.

💡 Coaching Tips

• •Explain the scoring rule clearly before adding extra conditions.
• •Keep rounds short so energy and focus stay high.
• •Coach one tactical idea at a time, then let the game teach the rest.
• •Choose team sizes that keep everyone involved instead of waiting.

🔄 Variations

• •Easier: remove one rule or make the playing area bigger.
• •Harder: require a pass before scoring or add one defender or tagger.
• •Tournament format: winner stays on for one more round while the next team rotates in.