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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 have 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.
With AATBL season 2026 now dominating the interwebs, the sporting world asks itself:
- Will Barney’s game improve now that he has bought a hefty 4WD vehicle and spends most of his waking hours channelling Russell Coight?
- With the price of diesel now in the stratosphere, will he catch a bus when it’s time to hit the road to future fixtures?
- Why has President Cannonball failed to have any highland cows at our fixtures this year? Where are his priorities?
Did Motherchucker really secure naming rights for the almost-finished ATB stadium?- With Soft not having won a game after two rounds, are Brad and Banker simply trying to live up to their team’s name?
- Is it true that Soft has come up with a catchy new slogan to try to lift their stocks: “Winning – It’s not hard”?
- Is it true that Brad is so annoyed with the lack of home-ground advantage at Brenda Morton Reserve that he plans to move house?
- How happy is Big Pineapple now that he has shed the Handy Andy epithet?
- Which team is best at singing its team song?
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