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You are here – the website of the Australian All-Terrain Bocce League, the spiritual home of the world’s greatest game.
Based on the action comic book of the same name, the AATBL was initially a TV show in black and white. Nowadays it has all the colour of the inside of a travel sickness bag and it brings together the world’s finest exponents of a game that requires the wisdom of Solomon, the cunning of a fox, the hide of a rhinoceros, the eye of a newt, the legs of a chair and balls of steel.
There are some who will tell you that the AATBL is merely a vehicle by which a select group of men can get together to drink beer wearing baggy shorts and shirts so tatty they can’t ordinarily be worn in public. Others will lie to you.
Based in Perth, Western Australia, the AATBL plays the ancient game on Sunday afternoons in a “home-and-away” season from February to September, about once a month.
Being a reasonably egalitarian competition, we do not discriminate against any player regardless of how distasteful he may be. We even had a member who once worked in the Department of Sport and Recreation.
Everyone will make a prediction. Some poor souls may wear self-aggrandising T-shirts. Only one will take home Glory, and that’s only because it is a soccer team what don’t got no self respect. None at all. Play a man’s game for God’s sake.
For the last few seasons, the teams have been re-cast using “the blender” at the end of each season. Players’ names are put into the blender, to randomise the teams for the following season. For more details of the current teams, see News and Teams.
After eight years of playing as a teams-based league, the AATBL changed to a hybrid format in 2021 and now plays with a mix of teams and solo players.
Although it has been suggested that playing as a singleton offers an advantage because those in teams don’t have the advantage of warming up, that hypothesis isn’t supported by the results. Also, a team need only have one player turn up to a fixture, but if a singleton misses a fixture, he forfeits it.
The 2026 season of the world’s premier sporting league is reaching its crescendo with dizzying speed. With the finals almost upon us, the world asks itself:
Who will take home the Muscles Digger Motherchucker Trophy?- Brad has been in a team that took home the Asti in the last two seasons. With Soft entering the finals in last place, can he make it three in a row?
- Why has it taken so long for BoB to reveal the secret of his Knee Lift manoeuvre?
- Finally, the Road Trip Subcommittee has announced a return to Bolganup. Will RE insist on playing that bloody stupid dictionary game?
- What’s all this talk about a snake?
- Have we finally heard the last of people taunting BoB about the flat tyre incident?
- When will the AGM be?
- Who will take on the weighty responsibility of being president?
Countdown to next match: