Ring Ball

Ring Ball is a game that is played in Gametron in the EMPATH: The Luckiest Smurf story "Inside The Game". It is played similar to the human game of jai-alai, in which the players swing a ball back and forth toward each other using scoops called cestas, reflecting it off an overhead surface toward the other player. The player must catch the ball with his cesta or else it will strike one of the player's platform rings, causing it to disappear and making moving around on the platform more difficult. The object of the game is to cause the other player to lose enough platform rings so that the player will fall off the platform and thus win the match.

In the story, Hefty played this game with Mezon, a rather low-skilled Game Warrior who tied with his opponent as far as ring losses go, until Hefty served a shot which Mezon failed to catch as he jumped toward the center ring and ended up dangling onto it for dear life. Hefty refused to continue the match until his opponent could get himself back onto the platform, even when Razor commanded Hefty to finish the game or else be killed. So Razor ended up causing the center ring of the platform to vanish, sending Mezon to his death, and was about to do the same to Hefty when Sarkamel warned him that he wanted Hefty to play in the games until he dies playing, and thus instead signaled for the guards to take Hefty to the Beamcycle arena.