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{{quote|''In the not too distant future, wars will no longer exist. But there will be Rollerball.''|[[Tagline]] for ''[[Rollerball (Film)|Rollerball]]'' (1975).}}

In [[The Future]], [[Anyone Can Die|life is cheap]]. No better way to show that than with some good old-fashioned violent spectator sports, where fatalities are a very real possibility every single game, [[Crapsack World|if not the major selling point]]. Essentially, a [['''Blood Sport]]''' is a [[Deadly Game]] version of a modern spectator sport.

Usually, the deaths will be of the many young rookie players, but sometimes, a veteran slips up, or a longtime feud will come to a sudden, violent end. Frequently, the players are [[Condemned Contestant|Condemned Contestants]]s and their violent deaths are part of the attraction.

These sports may form the central part of the story, but in many cases, they're just shown or described as a way of letting the audience know just how messed-up this world has become.

A slightly more optimistic variation is where the Blood Sport has come around as an alternative to actual wars. In many cases, it will often be actual fighting, only more ritualized. Of course, if you thought sports was [[Serious Business]] before...

Not to be confused with ''[[Bloodsport (Film)|Bloodsport]]'', the Jean-Claude van Damme film, though the eponymous tournament definitely is one.

* Motorball from ''[[Battle Angel Alita]]'' and spinoff ''Ashen Victor'' may not be intentionally lethal to participants, but some of the players certainly make it so. Also, a prime example of controlling the underclass by giving them a ''[[Blood Sport]]'' to keep them occupied.

* The Gundam Fight from ''[[Mobile Fighter G Gundam (Anime)|Mobile Fighter G Gundam]]'' is described in-show as "A war based on the principles of sportsmanship", with every country in the world being represented by a [[Motion Capture Mecha]] piloted by a trained fighter. Although the battles are (usually) bloodless, the Mobile Trace system that runs the [[Humongous Mecha]] feeds back any damage incurred on them back to the pilot as physical pain. Thus, for example, if your machine has its arm torn off, you will feel as though your ''own'' arm just got torn off. The fact that many such injuries are simply shrugged off as an annoyance is one of the many reasons why just about [[World of Badass|everybody in the show]] is a major [[Badass]].

* ''[[Space Adventure Cobra]]'' has a sort of "no-holds-barred" version of Base-ball called "Rug-ball" where the idea is to reach each base in one piece... Naturally, there are a few deaths involved, and [[Badass|naturally]] , Cobra proves himself to be a spectacular player.

* One episode of ''[[Kino's Journey (Light Novel)|Kino's Journey]]'' features a pair of cities whose constant warfare has been replaced by regular pogroms of the local villages. The cities compete to see who gets the most kills.

** Compare [[Clive Barker]]'s "In the Hills, the Cities."

** And then there was the city where people constantly fought each other in arena for status, and any travellers who entered were automatically forced to participate. The winner would become a first class citizen, and could also make a new law for the city. Kino probably ended up making the place even more bloody than it already was, but also ensured peace in the long term.

* There are two crash race mini arcs in ''[[Future GPX Cyber Formula (Anime)|Future GPX Cyber Formula]]''.

* ''[[Bakusou Kyoudai Let's and Go (Manga)|Bakusou Kyoudai Let's & Go!!]]'' provides a A [[Lighter and Softer]] version as they're toying with toys rather than real people. The show starts up with a typical mini 4WD racing competitions, but later, there's a [[Big Bad]] and his team who introduce battle parts to be used in racing. ''Kids'' are encouraged to make their toys mini weapons to crash and destroy oppornent's cars. Since the plot has more than one of the heroes' machine trashed by these rules, and since they have a believe that [[Sliding Scale of Living Toys|their mini 4WDs have souls.]] They take it a [[Serious Business]].

* The Air Treks of ''[[Air Gear (Manga)|Air Gear]]'' initially began as a worldwide fad that was supposed to be inline skating taken [[Up to Eleven]]. It turned into the [[Blood Sport]] it is today right around the time people discovered you could use the skates to make [[Razor Wind]], [[Whip It Good|Thorn Whips]], [[Shock and Awe|Electrical]] [[Razor Floss|Spider Webs]], [[Make Me Wanna Shout|Sound Barriers]], [[Shockwave Stomp|Shockwave Stomps]]s, [[Time Master|Time Manipulation]], and [[Frickin' Laser Beams]].

* While killing is explicitly forbidden in ''[[DragonballDragon Ball]]'''s World Martial Arts Tournament, considering it's a full-contact fight between serious fighters who often have superhuman powers it's not surprising that severe injury does sometimes occur. It's somewhat telling that there even needs to ''be'' an explicit rule about not killing your opponent.

* ''[[Deadman Wonderland]]'' is a prison where the prisoners are forced to do insanely dangerous "events" like an obstacle race where you can be cut to ribbons, fall to your death or just fall into a pit of spikes. To make matters worse, the audiences watch and believe it is all "special effects". And then there's the Carnival of Corpses; where prisoners with [[Bloody Murder|Branches of Sin powers]] fight each other and sometimes are cheered to kill their defeated opponents. Oh, and the loser (if they live) gets a randomly selected body part (ranging from hair to [[Eye Scream|eyes]] to entire organs or limbs]]) removed while they're awake. If you don't participate and are on "Death Row", then you are killed by poison after 72 hours and can only buy antidote to keep living for another 72 hours with Cast Points; earned by surviving and winning the [[Blood Sport]] games.

** Chessboxing... [http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess_boxing:Chess boxing|you mean this?]] [[Defictionalization]] strikes again.

* Spinball, from the notorious ''Action'' comic. Played only by [[Condemned Contestant|Condemned Contestants]]s. Rollerball on ice with giant pinball pins as targets. Really.

* Supersurf from [[Two Thousand2000 AD (Comic Book)|2000AD]]'s ''[[Judge Dredd]]''. An (initially) illegal [[Sky Surfing]] race through densely-populated streets, weaving between high-speed traffic. Later races included moving obstacles, snipers or dangerously narrow checkpoints.

* Another [[Two Thousand2000 AD (Comic Book)|2000AD]] example would be Aeroball from ''[[Harlem Heroes]]'', which is described as a cross between football, basketball, boxing and Kung Fu. With jetpacks.

* In the 1980s, DC released [[The Outcasts]], a [[Five-Man Band]] mini-series set in a [[Crapsack World|Northeastern megalopolis]] [[Twenty Minutes Into the Future|of tomorrow]]. Two heroes of this were [[Exactly What It Says Onon the Tin|Slaughterbowl]] veterans.

* [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast|The Death Zone]] from ''[[Calvin and Hobbes The Series (Fanfic)|Calvin and Hobbes: The Series]]'' functions like this.

* ''[[Gladiator]]'', and any other film featuring [[Gladiator Games]].

* ''[[Rollerball (Film)|Rollerball]]'' from the William Harrison short story ''The Rollerball Murders'' and its two film adaptations (the 1975, pictured above) version won awards, and is a cult classic. The remake? Not so much.

* ''[[Escape Fromfrom New York]]'': Snake Plissken vs a huge guy. First they fight with baseball bats, then with baseball bats with huge nails.

* The [[Jean -Claude Van Damme]] movie ''[[Bloodsport (Film)|Bloodsport]]''. You know, "Kumite...kumite...kumite!"

* "Rehabilitation" in ''[[Idiocracy]]'' is a judicial sentence as well as a televised event. The convict faces armed "corrections" personnel in a gladiator-style match featuring monster trucks, explosions and plenty of phallic imagery.

* The film version of ''[[The Running Man (Filmfilm)|The Running Man]]'' involves this, set up by a [[Corrupt Corporate Executive]] to deal with condemned criminals. {{spoiler|If the contestants are really "criminals" is another story.}}

* In ''[[Gamer (Film)|Gamer]]'', a technology that allows people to control others remotely is, among other things, used to play live-action death match games by controlling condemned criminals.

* Used a couple of times in the ''[[Star Wars]]'' films: the podrace in ''[[The Phantom Menace]]'' and the gladiator-style arena execution in ''[[Attack of the Clones (Film)|Attack of the Clones]]''.

* The Game Grid in the ''[[Tron (Film)|Tron]]'' films. Errant Programs are sent there to fight until brutally de-rezzed for entertainment. In the first film, [[Fridge Horror|video games played in the analog world]] were really life-and-death combat. This Trope was averted in ''Betrayal'' with the Games being non-lethal sports under Flynn's administration, but as soon as Flynn's back was turned, Clu re-instated the deadly aspect.

* [[Mary Gentle]]'s novel ''[[Grunts (Literature)|Grunts!]]'' features [[Blood Bowl|Orcball]] a game strongly resembling [[American Football]] and / or Rugby and played with the severed head of a fallen enemy. Or sometimes, when you want a game and there's a paucity of fallen enemies...

* [[Stephen King]]'s ''[[The Running Man (Literaturenovel)|The Running Man]]''. In this version, TV is free and is dominated by bloody gameshows where desperate contestants agree to risk life and limb for the chance at cash prizes. The most popular show, "Running Man" offers the biggest reward, but is almost certain suicide. The contestant is set loose into society, and viewers are asked to keep a watch out for him and provide tips for the show's bounty hunters.

* Another [[Stephen King]] as Richard Bachman: ''[[The Long Walk]]''. 100 teenage males are required to walk at no less than [[American Customary Measurements|four miles per hour]], with no breaks. Drop below 4 miles an hour and you draw a warning. Walk for an hour without going below the limit and you lose a warning from your record. You can have up to 3 warnings and continue. Draw a fourth warning, and the army grunts who've been tailing the Walkers the entire time shoot you in the head. Last person left alive wins. The Walk follows the same route every year (the end point varies, naturally), and crowds gather to watch when it passes through their area. News updates when Walkers are eliminated or reach certain significant points on the route are broadcast nationwide, too -- characterstoo—characters mention as a matter of course that the Walk is the national pastime.

* While not a focus, passing mention is given to Brockian Ultra-Cricket in ''[[The HitchhikersHitchhiker's Guide to Thethe Galaxy]]''. It's been noted that rules disagreements end up at times starting wars. Which, all things considered, are considered more healthy.

* Blood sports are (naturally) one of the entertainments on offer in [[China Mieville]]'s ''[[Bas-Lag Cycle (Literature)|Bas-Lag]]'' novels, with one of the protagonists in ''[[Perdido Street Station]]'' being a veteran of the city of New Crobuzon's not-exactly-legal underground arena circuit.

** And in a very literal example in ''[[The Scar (Literature)|The Scar]]'', the scabmettler's ritual dueling system.

* In [[Dune]] by Frank Herbert there are at least two blood sports. Notably, these are sponsored by both in the antagonist and protagonist Houses. One is seen in detail: the Harkonnens have classical gladiatorial matches (with the additions of personal shields (read: force fields)) which the na-baron Feyd-Rautha participates in. Frequently. The second is bull fighting. The Atreides apparently took part in this, though only off camera. They may have stopped in recent years leading up to the book because a bull killed the Old Duke, Duke Leto's father. In the ring. He was fighting it at the time. Actually, at the time he was being gored by it, but you get the point.

* These show up in the [[Riftwar]] cycle, where slaves and prisoners of war are made to fight for entertainment in Kelewan.

* This is common in the [[Time Scout (Literature)|Time Scout]] series. Ancient Rome is a tourist destination. So is Ancient Mongolia. And Late Modern Denver, and Medieval Japan. A lot of these places have dangerous games. Like boxing. And ritual sacrifice, game style.

* Although not technically a combat game, the Scottish boulder-catching sport of Creaothceann from ''[[Quidditch Through the Ages (Literature)|Quidditch Through the Ages]]'' was eventually banned, due to its extremely high player mortality rate.

* ''[[The Hunger Games]]'' in which kids are selected to compete, taken to the city, dolled up for sponsers, trained and set loose in an arena to kill each other. Made worse by the fact the people controlling it can make anything happen from letting loose mutants, to sending out contract killers to creating natural disasters.

* Played for laughs in ''[[The Goodies (TV)|The Goodies]]'' episode "2001 and a Bit", with 'rollerball' and its successor 'rolleregg' (which combines rollerball with an egg-and-spoon race). Finally they attempt to combine the ultraviolence of rollerball with cricket.

* Used in ''[[The Outer Limits (TV)|The Outer Limits]]'' episode "Judgement Day."

* The ''[[Babylon Five|Babylon 5]]'' episode "TKO" introduces the intergalactic sport of "moo-tai," which sounds suspiciously like "muay Thai" but is more a [[Fantasy Counterpart Culture|fantasy counterpart]] to karate. Combatants wear a gi with a colored belt, practice in dojos, and ritually bow to each other. The ancient grand master who presides over the fights is basically a kung fu movie stock character wearing an alien mask.

* In the ''[[Star Trek: theThe Original Series]]'' episode "Bread and Circuses," the [[Power Trio]] ends up in [[Planet of Hats|Rome crossed with the 1960s]], where traditional-style gladiator battles are televised sport events.

* [[Angel (TV)|Angel]] ends up fighting in an arena in the first season of his show.

* ''[[Battle TechBattleTech]]'''s Clans are the latter version of this trope - rules of warfare and codes of honour shared among the clans are carefully designed to minimize interplanetary collateral damage, discourage brawling, and avoid hard feelings - at least the dirty personal conflicts-kind.

** See also the planet of Solaris VII, which is known across the galaxy for commercial mech-fights.

* The ''[[Dungeons and Dragons|Dungeons And& Dragons]]'' setting ''X-Crawl'' takes the traditional D&D dungeon crawl, transplants it into an [[Alternate Universe]] based on the real world, and turns it into an extreme sport, complete with sponsorships and television coverage.

* ''[[Battle Cars]]'' is another game about dueling cars.

* Games Workshop's ''[[Blood Bowl]]'' is a [[Warhammer Fantasy Battle]]-themed version of American football and rugby reimagined as a bloodsport that has replaced warfare in its alternate universe. Orcs, skaven and even undead field teams and are expected to try and maim their opponents to get ahead. Even sneaking a chainsaw onto the field isn't grounds for stopping the game.

* A theme deck from [[Magic: theThe Gathering|Magic The Gathering's]] ''Ravnica'' block was called ''Rakdos Bloodsports''.

* The computer game inspired by the movie ''[[Death Race 2000]]'', ''[[Carmageddon]]'', was even more so - and duly immediately ran afoul of [[Moral Guardians]].

* Speaking of cockfighting accusations, there's ''[[Pokémon (Franchise)|Pokémon]]'', which is (somewhat paradoxially) [[Lighter and Softer]], but with far more powerful animals in question. Don't bother bringing a chicken unless it can kick though a brick wall.

** The aforementioned chicken can jump buildings and control fire. It is considered [[Character Tiers|so-so]] at best, unless it can limber up as it fights. Then it's [[Took a Level Inin Badass|just as awesome as advertised]].

** ''[[Wipeout (Video Game)|Wipeout]]'' adds weapons, and the level of lethality depends on how much of a [[Crapsack World]] the installment is. Most recent titles are considered to have emergency teleportation, and ''Fusion'' had some sort of safety monocoque containing the pilot that would survive when the rest of the ship blew up. On the other hand, in ''Wipeout 64'' pilot deaths were considered to draw more viewers.

* The ''[[Unreal Tournament (Video Game)|Unreal Tournament]]'' series features full-on gladiatorial combat with [[BFG|BFGs]]s.

** Well, until ''[[Unreal Tournament III (Video Game)3|Unreal Tournament III]]'', whose central conceit is that the Respawner technology used in these tournaments has been back-adapted to conventional warfare... with limitations and operation that are inexplicably similar to the contests of more traditional ''[[Unreal Tournament (Video Game)|Unreal Tournament]]'' games. [[Fridge Logic|It doesn't make sense]], but it's [[Rule of Cool|an interesting idea]] and is an excuse to include a plotline ''not'' revolving around the tournaments, so it works anyway.

* On the far end of the spectrum, however, we have ''[[Mutant League Football]]''. Players included [[Fantasy Kitchen Sink|trolls, skeletons, aliens, and robots]], fields were littered with [[Death Course|landmines, pits, and other booby traps]], each team had a number of "audibles" representing tricks and gadgets that could be used once per half (like giving a player a [[Jet Pack]], [[Stuff Blowing Up|hand grenades]], or [[Fartillery|lethal flatulence]], or [[Shmuck Bait|rigging the ball to explode and then fumbling it]]), players would occasionally be killed from taking too much abuse on the field, and you could occasionally bribe the ref to call bogus penalties on your opponent for things like "whining" or "nose-picking". Of course, your opponent could then kill the ref and only take a five-yard penalty. There was also ''Mutant League Hockey'', which was pretty much the same thing with a different sport.

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* ''[[Mad WorldMadWorld]]'' centers around a gory deathmatch game show where the goal is to kill each other senseless to the last man standing. And boy howdy, it certainly puts the "blood" in this trope.

* ''[[Whacked (Video Game)|Whacked]]'' was called a gameshow, but there weren't any questions. It was a hyperviolent bloodsport where you used egg guns, pitchforks, axes, and cacti among other things to slaughter your opponents. The contestants consist of manifestations of the seven deadly sins {{spoiler|and the host, a demon in disguise.}}

* ''[[Quake III Arena (Video Game)|Quake III Arena]]'' is basically an interdimensional game of "Kill everything with guns". Luckily the Vadrigar that own the arena make sure that it's impossible to stay dead.

* ''Dead Ball Zone'' for the [[Play StationPlayStation]]. Just get this weapon and put that damn ball in the net.

* The [[X BoxXbox]] game ''[[Toxic Grind]]'', a game show meant to deal with outlaw offenders who break the "no extreme sports" law by putting them on a BMX, pumping them with a deadly toxin only counteracted by adrenaline and setting them loose on a death course (yes its as silly as it sounds).

* ''[[Last Res 0 rtRes0rt]]'' is based almost wholly around this concept, featuring a number of sporting challenges within the [[Deadly Game]] [[Reality Show]]. That said, only one player's died so far...

* The city of ''[[Templar, Arizona]]'' has a sport that is some kind of illegal street hockey called diesel. it is classified as a misdemeanor assault.

* Mentioned briefly in ''[[Schlock Mercenary (Webcomic)|Schlock Mercenary]]'', although medical technology seems to play a role here as a player is blown to smithrines but will be back for the game next week. [[Rugby Is Slaughter|Rugby on the other hand...]]

* "FLARPing" in ''[[Homestuck (Webcomic)|Homestuck]]'', a roleplaying game on Alternia in which the goal is to lure your opponents into very real death traps, including "trials" that almost always ends in the execution of the "defendant" (and often the "prosecutor") and a "plank" over the mouth of a man-eating [[Giant Spider]].

* In ''[[Manly Guys Doing Manly Things]]'' Jared and his Gyarados Mr. Fish were kicked out of the [[Pokémon (Franchise)|Pokémon]] League because he assumed Pokemon battling was a [[Blood Sport]] and let Mr. Fish ''eat'' his opponents.

* ''[[The Order of the Stick (Webcomic)|Order of the Stick]]'' has an arena for gladiatorial combat. Many contestants end up crushed and/or eaten by a T-rex.

* ''[[Associated Space]]'' has the planet of New Tau Ceti, where a religious cult believes that only humans can sin, so the members put on pelts and pretend to be sheep. Of course, they still sin from time to time, so who to blame? The Shepherd, of course. So passing travelers are abducted, given shepherd's crooks, told they are shepherds...and forced to fight a genetically-engineered super-wolf in an arena. If they fight well enough, they have defeated sin, and may depart in peace. If not, well, they are a blood sacrifice to atone for sin.

* In ''[[Thundercats 2011 (Western Animation)|Thundercats 2011]]'' Thundera's [[Gladiator Games]] in their [[The Thunderdome|Thunderdome]]: A racing [[Chase Fight]] between two [[Catfolk|Cat]] competitors climbing, swinging, jumping and running up a giant tree to to ring a bell at its top, where violent kicking and punching in order to knock a competitor out of the tree are entirely acceptable methods of getting ahead.

* ''[[Samurai Jack]]'' winds up in two of these during the show's run. A [[The Thunderdome|Thunderdome]] after being captured and forced to compete {{spoiler|which he single-handily manages to shut down after the area's warriors prove no match for him.}} and an underground creature fight ring after being turned into a chicken and captured by a greedy Italian man.

* ''[[Bionicle (Franchise)|Bionicle]]: The Legend Reborn'', is very heavy with this. The glatorians fight in the various arenas to solve disputes instead of out and out war. But it ends up being more of an aversion, as matches are heavily regulated to avoid serious injury.

* [[The Other Wiki]] article on the term 'bloodsport' primarily focuses on human-instigated fights between animals, which is much closer to and occasionally even more extreme than fiction's idea of ''human'' bloodsport. Sports and pastimes that are lethal to humans tend to receive their own articles with different terms.

* The [[Forced Prize Fight|gladiator fights]] in [[Older Than Feudalism|ancient Rome]]. However, the number of gladiators who were actually killed in such fights was much, much lower in [[Reality Is Unrealistic|reality than in fiction]]. Though the grand majority of gladiators did die in the ring eventually, they were expected to have fought over a dozen times beforehand, even if they lost every time. There could be months of recuperation periods between the matches, as well.

** Of course there's a difference between Gladiators, who were well trained and expensive slaves who earn more if they live longer, and prisoners. Prisoners were given some form of weapon and then given to wild beasts to fight.

* In the Ancient Greek martial art pankration, a fighter can die from being strangled or having his neck snapped. The only rules prohibited eye gouging and biting, and the implementation of those rules caused Sparta, in a sign of their immense [[Badass|badassnessbadass]]ness, to withdraw their team in protest. Subverted in that, while beating the other dude bloody was approved and applauded, killing your opponent was an instant forfeit, as it showed that they had more fighting spirit than you did, and were willing to continue fighting even unto death. The philosopher [[Plato]] was a two-time champion at pankration. [[Genius Bruiser]] indeed.

* During its early years, [[Useful Notes/Mixed Martial Arts|Mixed Martial Arts]] was compared to "human cockfighting", and the sensationalistic word "bloodsport" is still commonly used in mainstream media to describe it. Old school boxing purists will stand beside their framed pictures of Muhammad Ali looming with fist cocked over an unconscious Sonny Liston and complain about how "brutal" the emerging sport is. Suffice it to say, modern MMA is no more dangerous or brutal than boxing, and arguably less so.

* Boxing. Yes, fights go 'only' to knockout. But repeated concussions are not a good thing: 20% of all professional boxers eventually develop "dementia pugilistica," and some boxers have even [[Casualty in Thethe Ring|gotten seriously hurt or even killed in the ring]]. The American Medical Association calls for a ban on boxing.

* In its early years, [[Useful Notes/American Football|American Football]] (then primarily played at the collegiate level) was an incredibly violent sport. It was a regular occurrence for players to die as a result of injuries sustained on the field. Many of these deaths were the result of mass movement plays, a now-banned type of play in which the whole offensive team started running from 20 yards behind the starting line right before the whistle blew. A lot of skulls got caved in this way. It got to the point that the President of the United States threatened to push for it to be outlawed, leading to the creation of the Intercollegiate Athletic Association (now known as the NCAA) in 1906 to regulate the game. The President in question who made that threat? ''[[Theodore Roosevelt]]''. Yes, football used to be so violent, even the most [[Badass]] President in history thought it went too far.

** And as ''[[Cracked.com]]'' [http://www.cracked.com/article_19280_why-youve-never-heard-greatest-sport-ever-invented.html can't help but point out], that ball could easily [[Groin Attack|crush your nuts]].

** Funny you should [http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_in_the_Water_match:Blood in the Water match|mention polo.]]

* From ''[[Cracked.com]]'': [https://web.archive.org/web/20131102181631/http://www.cracked.com/article/180_6-ancient-sports-too-awesome-modern-world/ 6 Ancient Sports Too Awesome For the Modern World]. Pankration and Aztec court ball are on that list.

* The Irish sport of [http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/:Hurling |Hurling]] ''seems'' like a setup for a blood sport: 15 men on a side, each one wielding a 3-foot-long iron-shod ash hurley (it needs to be iron-shod, otherwise you risk it splitting when you hit the ball), batting a small cork ball at each other at over 90 miles an hour. Face-protecting helmets only became mandatory in 2010. Yet it is fairly civilised.

* Bull riding, a sport that requires trying to stay on a bull for eight seconds, then trying to not get trampled after falling. Injury and death rates are higher than any other modern sport. Helmets were adapted by some riders in the 2000's, but they could sometimes be worse if a hoof got hooked in one of the holes. A purpose-built helmet was finally designed in 2011.

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