Talk:Mecha-soccer
Where's the "Primus League Cup" from? --ItsWalky 15:16, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
I suspect the reason Derik used "football" as the European name is because Blaster (IIRC) was once asked if they had football teams on Cybertron, and he gave a brief listing of some teams (the only one I ever remember is Throttlebot Wanderers, portrayed as perpetual underdogs/failures [and quite possibly intended as a knock on Wolverhampton, and that one involved the Combaticons) - this is probably also where the Primus League Cup comes from.
Also, if you ask me, it's funnier if the European name IS just "football", since that emphasizes that of all the sentient races in the universe, it's only the US that has a different name for it. -LV 18:14, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
- So, does that mean there's no real reason to think that Mecha-soccer and Football are the same sport? I guess I can see the humor in the European name being just "football", but your exaplnation of the joke doesn't quite fit -- on Cybertron apparently it's called neither football nor soccer, making it not just the US that sticks out. --Steve-o 22:00, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
What's the source for this? Is it from the UK comic? A cartoon?--G.B. Blackrock 22:14, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
- Krok was a mecha-soccer player. The backstory on the professional leagues being essentially disbanded come the Great War comes from his MtMtE profile. (This jibes witht he strictly amateur championships midway detailed later.)
- Cybertron's football teams, the Primus Cub, the main league- the fact Cybertron football is organized enough to even have relegation- comes from the UK Latters Pages. Football is discussed 3-4 times, dy different letyters-page hosts. Who have favorite teams and grudges. They take it seriously.
- And while the Throttlebots were no-hopers one year, they were in the running for the Primus Cup in a subsequent (or previous, i might have the order inverted) year until Goldbug suffered an injury on foul from Brawl.
- ...do people want me to post my complete list of teams and details?-Derik 22:26, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
