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KAN JAM
Rules
Kan Jam is a 4-player game with teammates at opposite ends
Kan’s are set up 50’ apart and players must throw from behind the Kan.
Teams alternate throwing their disc towards their Kan. On each throw the teammate on the receiving end can deflect the disc.
The team that scores the most point in the previous round throws first in the next round
The first team to reach 21 exactly or get an instant win, wins the game
Should a team bust the total points scored will be deducted from the teams score at the start of the round.
Teams can score in three different ways. The frisbee can be deflected by your teammate to hit the Kan for 1 point, a direct hit on the Kan is worth 2 points, a deflection with the frisbee going inside the Kan is worth 3 points.
If the thrower throws the disc directly int the slot it’s an instant win.
Each team gets the same number of throws in the game. If both teams reach 21 in the same round the game goes into a sudden death overtime where whoever has the most at the end of the overtime round wins. Overtime rounds continues until there is a winner.
History
As with all great things Can Jam was born out of people playing with garbage cans. In the 1970’s four friends, Rob Mogensen, Joe Raymond, John Kopasz, and Jim Heron, were playing around throwing a frisbee at a garbage can creating the game they would call Garbage Can Frisbee.
In the 1980’s Charles Sciandra and Paul Swisher, from Buffalo New York, played Garbage Can Frisbee and by the 1990’s decided the game could be more. They created KanJam and in 2005 filed a patent on the game.
Kan Jam in its infancy was mostly a game of the northeast but has now taken the nation by storm. It can be found in retail shops all over the country and has become one of the most well known and popular games. There are now tournaments all over the nation and the game is expanding to other countries.
The PDFA (Professional Discflect Association) was formed in 2021 to take the game to the next level and to create an official sport. Tournaments and the world championship is now played under this name.
