The Intergalactic Cup

Description

On Paniathon, the National Boffball Council is looking to bolster the national squad and raise interest in the forthcoming Intergalactic Cup it is hosting. The Council members’ attention turns to Earth. As other galaxies fill their teams with the meanest, most devious and violent inhabitants, a human boy’s grossly mistaken teleportation is observed by scornful but amused antennae.

Billy is like any other fourteen year-old boy, with a few exceptions—he’s isolated on an alien planet inhabited by two-meter tall, green bugs and being used as a marketing gimmick to boost ticket sales for the most spectacular sporting showcase in the galaxy. Then there are the grueling training sessions against the training bots and boffball cannons. That’s before he even steps into the tank.

During the tournament, Billy and his team mates must overcome a variety of outlandish, alien teams—horned, clawed and winged—that are trying to roll, burrow, splurge, morph, regurgitate, and bludgeon their way to victory.

For Billy and the Paniathons, hard work isn’t enough—tactical changes, sacrifice, a revival of ancient, lost abilities, and some human qualities are all used as the tournament progresses. This doesn’t go unnoticed by Korak and the Drakarts, who view Paniathon, and more specifically, Billy, as an increasing threat to their own plans to win the trophy.

In the tank, Billy has to face fierce alien boffball teams, whilst out of it, he and his team mates have to deal with sabotage, assassination attempts, and betrayal as they strive to become champions of The Intergalactic Cup.