Nexthouseball

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+title: "Nexthouseball"
+date: 2024-01-11T00:13:26-05:00
+draft: true
+description: "Pickleball plus squash plus a MIT dorm hallway"
+type: "post"
+tags: ["sports", "fun", "mit"]
+---
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+Nexthouseball is a sport played in the hallway between the storage room and the west stairwell in the MIT Next House dorm basement that combines the best of pickleball and squash.
+
+## Equipment
+
+- 2 pickleball rackets (you may want to tape the top of the rackets to avoid scratches)
+- 1 pickleball
+- 1 Next House
+
+## Court
+
+Designate a line as the center line. Nexthouseball does not use a net. Then, count ten floor tiles away from the center on both sides for the end lines. This forms the boundaries of the court.
+
+## Gameplay
+
+- You must serve behind the end line. 
+- If the ball does not bounce once on your opponent's side, you lose the point.
+- If the ball bounces twice on your side, you lose the point.
+- The ball is allowed to hit the walls, but you lose the point if it hits the ceiling.
+- You are not allowed to cross the center line.
+- The person who lost the previous point serves.
+- The court is slightly asymmetric, so before the match, one person decides which side they will be on while the other person serves first.