Kickabout League

Kickabout League

Genre	Sport
Release	July 1, 2009
Multi-player	Yes

See Kickabout League/Strategies for strategies.

Kickabout League is a multiplayer five-a-side soccer (English: football) game. Players begin with four controllable team members, some intended for defence, some for midfield, and some for scoring. As they play rated (and unrated) games, the players will become more and more experienced. One can sell or trade the characters for money, and, put together with your earnings, you can buy upgrades, new characters, and even new fields to play on. In ways other than just rating, you can rise through the ranks and become the League Champion. Finally, quite a bit of Orb Coins (310 to be precise) may also be needed for those who wish to conquer Kickabout League entirely.

Players are Invited to Join the Kickabout League Discord Channel: Link: https://discord.gg/a3wyess

Gameplay

At any one time you control one player. Movement of the players is with the arrow keys or with the keys WASD. Ctrl or Space allows you to sprint. Mouse controls vary according to whether your player has the ball or not. Arrow keys may also be used to turn while sprinting (Slalom trinket) and turning while tackling when tackling with a tank.

Keys & Buttons	Primary Effect (have ball)	Secondary Effect (don't have ball)
Arrow or WASD	Move
Ctrl or Space	Sprint if ranger or elite with ranger clone	Sprint
Left Mouse Button	Low pass / shot - hold button for power	Tackle or, in the right circumstances which the ball is being passed overhead which is a header
Right Mouse Button	High pass / shot - hold button for power (AKA Lob or Lobbing)	Move your mouse to the player who you want to switch to.

Four players in each team are controlled by humans, and the goalkeeper is controlled by the computer. In general goalkeepers are good at blocking the first shot but then take a while to recover. But sometimes there is a lag so the goalie isn't that effective as before. Goalkeepers are also prone to allowing shots in at the goal corners, as well as slide tackles and headers.

Rated games are always 2-player, with each player controlling an entire team's outfielders. Unrated games can have up to 8 players, in which case each player controls one outfielder. A game with more than two players is a team game. In teams with fewer than four players, each player chooses outfielders from his squad to fill slots in the team, but is not restricted to controlling his own outfielders. If facebook is on the game can only be a 2-player game.

Tournaments

Tournament mode is a new feature added with an update on 2 June 2010. A tournament can only be started with more than four players.

Tournaments are single elimination. That means that as soon as you lose, you're out for the rest of the tournament. If the player you should be playing leaves before you play them, you get a bye (a free win) and you go on to the next round. You do not get any rewards (money, xp, or league points) from a bye.

Players

Characters

When you play, you use at least one character from your team to play. Each character is from one of four classes of player, and each class has a special ability. A player's class will never change.

Type	Primary skill	Class ability
Hotshot	Power	Fast shot and harder shot
Ranger	Speed	Can sprint with the ball faster
Tank	Tackling	Turning mid-tackle and powerful tackles
Elite	Balanced in all three	Can "inherit" skills from other classes using diamond trinkets

Skills

The skills are power (POW), speed (SPD), and tackling (TCK).

Power affects how hard, how fast, and how far the ball is hit. If a ball is hit hard, it goes faster, meaning it can get through the goalposts before the goalie can reach it. Hotshots are especially made for Power, if you've got a Hotshot with high Power, you can shoot real quick, real hard. Speed affects how fast a player runs and how often a player can sprint.. While a few percent difference in running speed is barely noticeable, if you're chasing a player who isn't passing the ball, you can catch them up and tackle them with even a tiny difference in speed. Rangers are made for Speed, Rangers can sprint with the ball. If you're member, you can buy Slalom for a Trinket Slot, with Slalom, you can move while sprinting. Tackling affects how far you tackle and how fast you move while you tackle. A character with high TCK stat tackles a larger area. Tanks are made for Tackle, If your Tank has high Tackle, it can tackle really far. Tanks can also change direction during the tackle. If you're member, you can buy Knock Out for a Trinket Slot, with Knock Out, the player you have tackled, will lie on the ground for a longer time, giving you the advantage of having more time passing to your other players.

Trinkets

Trinkets are members-only items with a variety of effects, from simple stat boosts, to new abilities. Every player has between 1 and 3 trinket slots. Circle, square and triangle trinket slots can appear on any class of player. The circle slot offers the most basic and the cheapest trinkets, while the square slot and the triangle slot have more powerful trinkets which needs more cash to spend on.

Diamond trinkets can only be equipped on the elite class. Clone diamond trinkets (Hotshot, Tank, Ranger) are highly recommended for the elite class.

Exp trinkets increase the exp for the player that is wielding it at the end of a rated match. Money trinkets increase the money gained at the end of a rated match only the more people wielding money trinkets in your team the more money you will earn.

Select a tab to view the trinkets of that slot. (Note: if no links appear after this paragraph and you have JavaScript enabled, just be patient).

• Circle
• Square
• Triangle
• Diamond

Cheats

Cheat can be purchased by a trinket that holds the cheat, cheats can be activated (or deactivated) by typing the name of the cheat trinket on your keyboard without using the tab button to talk.

Name	Trinket Slot	Effect
Tramline	Circle	Make the ball turn into a tennis ball
Whereami	Square & Triangle	Makes your player invisible.
Mushroom	Square & Triangle	Anyone on your team will be flashing rainbow colors when you activate it
Atomball	Square	Make the ball turn into an atom
Moonball	Square	Make the ball turn into the moon
Moonwalk	Triangle	Anyone on your team will run backwards when moving
Airplane	Triangle	Anyone on your team will make the "airplane" pose
Torquing	Triangle	Make the ball turn into the hamster from Torquing
Asteroid	Triangle	Make the ball turn into an asteroid
Pumpkins*	Square & Triangle	Makes the ball turn into a pumpkin

*Requires the Hallowe'en achievement.

Kits

Each player can customise their players with their own kits. There are 21 kits, and their colours can be any 2 of 32 selectable colours. 11 of these kits are purchasable on Orb Downloads, while a further 7 are unlocked by achievements. The player starts with only three designs.

In a team game the team plays with the captain's kit.

The 32 selectable colours to design your kits with.

Kit	Requirement
	None
	None
	None
	10 Orb Coins
	10 Orb Coins
	10 Orb Coins
	10 Orb Coins
	10 Orb Coins
	10 Orb Coins
	10 Orb Coins
	10 Orb Coins
	10 Orb Coins
	10 Orb Coins
	10 Orb Coins
	"All Four One" achievement
	"Goldenballs" achievement
	"Pinpoint Accuracy" achievement
	"Pass and Move" achievement"
	"The Head of God" achievement
	"Route-One" achievement
	"Blink and You'll Miss It" achievement
The kit images show black as the primary colour and white as the secondary colour. Colours of the kit when equipped in-game will vary according to what is chosen by the player.

Pitches

Each player can choose their own pitch. This will be the pitch used in all single-player games, and all multiplayer games in which the player is captain of the home team. There are 3 sections of pitches, each with 4 subsections. To buy a pitch, one must first buy all the previous pitches in that subsection e.g. to buy Amphitheatre, one must first buy Roadside, Car Park and Court. In order to obtain all pitches, you will need 200 Orb Coins and £43,500 of cash. After buying the final pitch, the player is awarded with the World in Motion Achievement.

Image	Pitch	Cost	Notes
Park
	Field	None (starting pitch)	The ball is normal on these pitches except when you have an achievement ball
	Park	£500
	Gardens	£4000
	Stadium	£10000
Beach
	Sandpit	100 Orb Coins	The ball bounces less on sand than on grass and will also move slower.
	Beach	£500
	Resort	£4000
	Arena	£10000
Street
	Roadside	100 Orb Coins	The ball bounces more on the street than on grass and will also move faster.
	Car Park	£500
	Court	£4000
	Amphitheatre	£10000

Leagues

Apart from the Rating system used in all multiplayer games (except Dungeon Assault), Kickabout League also has a second ranking system: the Leagues system. Each player has a certain amount of league points, starting from 0. Although the instructions do not mention any league points being awarded or removed upon a draw, there are some, equivalent to a total loss. They are awarded as follows at the end of each Rated game:

Win Rated: +30 points
Draw Rated: +10 points
Lose Rated: -10 points
Win Unrated: +3 points
Draw Unrated: +1 point
Lose Unrated: 0 points

After a certain number of points are gained, the player is promoted to the next league, and cannot drop back down to the previous league. It takes approx. 467 games played total to get to the diamond division, assuming every match is won.

Icon	League	Point Threshold
	Amateur Teams	0 (Your player starts in this league)
	Pebble Playoffs	10
	Cobalt Conference	180
	Sandstone Series	560
	Quartz Qualifiers	1700
	Crystal Circuit	7000
	Diamond Division	14000

Money Earned

The amount of money you earn at the end of a match depends on your current league, the number of players, the length of the game, and whether you won, lost, or tied. Money is not awarded to matches which are drawn using the draw option but you will still get money and experience if the match is played to the end wheather if it is a win, lose or draw. The displays shown below does not include players who have money trinkets to increase the money gain of a match.

• You will be awarded less money and experience if you play the same opponent.
• You will receive the standard win/lose amount if you resign after 2 minutes have elapsed in a 12 minute game, 1 minute 20 seconds for a 8 minute game, and 40 seconds for a 4 minute game.

Money Award for Rated Matches

The award is displayed as win/tie/lose

Icon	League	4 minutes	8 minutes	12 minutes
	Amateur Teams	30/15/10	60/30/15	90/60/30
	Pebble Playoffs	105/70/35	210/140/70	315/210/105
	Cobalt Conference	240/160/80	480/320/160	720/480/240
	Sandstone Series	375/250/125	750/500/250	1125/750/375
	Quartz Qualifiers	570/380/190	1140/760/380	1710/1140/570
	Crystal Circuit	805/520/260	1610/1040/520	2415/1560/780
	Diamond Division	1350/900/450	2700/1800/900	4050/2700/1350

Money Award for Unrated Matches

The award is displayed as win/tie/lose

Icon	League	4 minutes	8 minutes	12 minutes
	Amateur Teams	3/2/1	6/3/2	9/6/3
	Pebble Playoffs	11/7/4	21/14/7	32/21/11
	Cobalt Conference	24/16/8	48/32/16	72/48/24
	Sandstone Series	38/25/13	75/50/25	113/75/38
	Quartz Qualifiers	57/38/19	114/76/38	171/114/57
	Crystal Circuit	81/52/26	161/104/52	242/156/78
	Diamond Division	135/90/45	270/180/90	405/270/135

Achievements

Achievements are not awarded in exhibition mode.

Total Achievements: 73
Total Orb Coins: 255
Total Orb Points: 25500
[Secret Achievements] | [Hidden Achievements] [Halloween Achievements]

No.	Image	Name	Requirement	Orb Points	Orb Coins	Members?	Sorter
AA		Grass Roots	Get into the Pebble Playoffs	100	1	No	AA
AB		Muddying Your Knees	Get into the Cobalt Conference	100	1	No	AB
AC		In the Big Leagues	Get into the Sandstone Series	100	1	No	AC
AE		Rising Star	Get into the Crystal Circuit	400	4	No	AE
AF		League of Their Own	Get into the Diamond Division	1000	10	No	AF
AG		We are the Champions	Win the Diamond Division	100	1	No	AG
AH		A Decent Margin	Win by at least 3 goals (Rated only)	300	3	No	AH
AI		Cinq Without a Trace	Win 5 - 0 (Rated only)	300	3	No	AI
AJ		Comeback Kid	From being behind by 3 goals or more, go on to win the match (Rated only)	300	3	No	AJ
AK		All Kitted Out	Own all of the kits	300	3	No	AK
AL		World in Motion	Own all of the pitches	300	3	No	AL
AM		Globetrotter	Win at least one match on each pitch	300	3	No	AM
AN		Coach's Playbook	Win a match using every formation	300	3	No	AN
AO		Route-One	Score a goal with one pass from your goalie to the goalscorer (Rated only)	400	4	No	AO
AQ		The Head of God	Score from a header	400	4	No	AQ
AR		They Think It's All Over	Win the game by scoring a goal within the last 5 seconds (Rated only)	400	4	No	AR
AT		Goldenballs	Score a hat-trick with one of your players (Rated only)	300	3	No	AT
AW		The Ultimate	Max out one player's stats	1000	10	No	AW
AY		Beat Your Maker	Beat a developer or someone else with this Achievement	500	5	No	AY
AZ		The Untouchables	Win a match having never lost the ball to a tackle (Rated only)	300	3	No	AZ
BA		Team Player	Be on the winning team 50 times (Team Games only)	300	3	No	BA
BB		All Four One	Win an 8-player match (Team Games only)	100	1	No	BB
BC		Save the Day	Save the game by scoring to draw in the last 5 seconds (Team Games only)	400	4	No	BC
BD		A-Team	In one match, play with a Tank, Ranger, Hotshot, and Elite, score with all four AND win (Rated only)	400	4	No	BD
BE		Pinpoint Accuracy	Win a match without your opponent's keeper ever touching the ball (Rated only)	300	3	No	BE
BF		Don't Stop Me Now	While winning, dribble to all four corners of the pitch, without passing or being tackled (Rated only)	500	5	No	BF
AS		Blink and You'll Miss It	Score in under 10 seconds (Rated only)	300	3	No	AS
AV		Notching Up the Goals	Score 250 goals	400	4	No	AV
AX		Aggregate Win	Beat the player who last beat you	500	5	No	AX
AD		Hot on the Heels	Get into the Quartz Cup	200	2	No	AD
BG		Longshot	Score a goal from outside of the larger box	200	2	No	BG
BH		One for the Cabinet	Win a tournament with 8 or more starting players	200	2	No	BH
BI		There can be Only One	Win a 16 player tournament	500	5	No	BI
BJ		Undisputed	Win 10 tournaments with at least 8 players in each tournament	500	5	No	BJ
BK		I Got a Touch!	Have a posession average of at least 50% at the end of a game	100	1	No	BK
BL		Owned	Have a posession average of at least 60% at the end of a game	200	2	No	BL
BM		Pwned	Have a posession average of at least 70% at the end of a game	300	3	No	BM
BN		Slipping Away	Have an overall posession average of at least 50% at the end of a tournament with at least 8 people	200	2	No	BN
BO		Holding On	Have an overall posession average of at least 60% at the end of a tournament with at least 8 people	300	3	No	BO
BP		Never Gonna Give You Up	Have an overall posession average of at least 70% at the end of a tournament with at least 8 people	500	5	No	BP
BQ		Impenetrable	Win a tournament with 8 or more starting players, scoring a goal in each game and never conceeding a goal	500	5	No	BQ
BR		Mod Off!	Knock a moderator out of a tournament	200	2	No	BR
BT		Trapped	In a single game, average at least a 50% tackle success rate, performing at least 10 tackles	100	1	No	BT
BU		Trampled	In a single game, average at least a 75% tackle success rate, performing at least 10 tackles	200	2	No	BU
BV		Stomped	In a single game, average at least a 90% tackle success rate, performing at least 10 tackles	300	3	No	BV
BW		Grounded	At the end of a tournament with at least 8 people, average at least a 50% tackle success rate, performing at least 10 tackles	200	2	No	BW
BX		Flattened	At the end of a tournament with at least 8 people, average at least a 75% tackle success rate, performing at least 10 tackles	300	3	No	BX
BY		Splatted	At the end of a tournament with at least 8 people, average at least a 90% tackle success rate, performing at least 10 tackles	500	5	No	BY
CA		Hot Potato	Pass the ball the most in a tournament with at least 8 people (Min 10 passes)	300	3	No	CA
CB		Brutal Contender	Make the most successful tackles in a tournament with at least 8 people (Min 10 tackles)	300	3	No	CB
CC		Blitzkrieg!	Win a game only using Tanks (Rated only)	300	3	No	CC
CD		Queen's Park	Win a game only using Rangers (Rated only)	300	3	No	CD
CE		Topper Harley	Win a game only using Hotshots (Rated only)	300	3	No	CE
CF		Pacifist	Win a game using no Tanks or Tank Clones (Rated only)	200	2	No	CF
CG		Slow Coach	Win a game using no Rangers or Ranger Clones (Rated only)	200	2	No	CG
CH		Tactically Superior	Win a game using no Hotshots or Hotshot Clones (Rated only)	200	2	No	CH
CI		Frontier	Defeat a team of Elites, using no Elites yourself (Rated only)	500	5	No	CI
CJ		The Wall	Stay in defence for the whole of an 8 player game and never conceed a goal (8 player team game only)	300	3	No	CJ
CK		By the Skin of Their Teeth	Win a tournament with 8 or more starting players, winning each game by ONLY one goal	500	5	No	CK
CL		It's a Funny Old Game	In a single game, have the lowest average posession, but score the most goals	300	3	No	CL
CM		Flair for Finishing	At the end of a tournament with at least 8 people, have the lowest average posession, but score the most goals	500	5	No	CM
CN		Slip 'n' Slide	Score from a slide tackle	200	2	No	CN
CO		Keepy-uppy	Head the ball twice before it touches the floor	200	2	No	CO
CQ		Man of the Match	In an 8 Player team game, score ALL your team's goals and win (8 player team game only)	500	5	No	CQ
CR		Up, Under, and In	Score from a header, a slide tackle and a kick ONLY in under 90 seconds	300	3	No	CR
CS		Pass and Move	Perform 10 or more passes in a row and score (Rated only)	500	5	No	CS
CT		Team Goldenballs	Score a hat-trick with every player in your team (Rated only)	1000	10	No	CT
BS		Slow and Steady Wins the Race	Win a game never sprinting (Rated only)	300	3	No	BS
CP		Wonder Goal	Score a goal from a huge distance	300	3	No	CP
CU		Diamonds aren't forever	Beat the current leader in the Diamond Division (Rated only)	500	5	No	CU
CV		The Veterans	Knock 100 people out in tournaments	1000	10	No	CV
CW		Hallowe'en	Score 100 goals in Horror Costume between October 28th and November 11th. (Rated only)	300	3	Yes	CW
BZ		On a Roll	Score the most goals in a tournament with at least 8 people (Min 5 goals)	300	3	No	BZ

All information for these achievements is stored on their respective pages, along with walkthroughs and tips for many of them. So, if you notice a mistake, or have a good strategy, go there!

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Trivia

• Kickabout League is currently the #4 most played game on FunOrb.
• This was the first FunOrb game to have a beta version released of it before the actual game. The beta was only available to members and player/forum moderators.
• Kickabout League Beta ran from June 9 to June 17, 2009
• This is third game with custom cursor.
• Kickabout League is the only game to have achievements worth 400 Orb Points, apart from Torquing!, which has one 400-point achievement, Ghostlit, a Halloween event achievement.
• Player Moderators and Forum Moderators were the first to be able to play this game (during the beta). Forum Mods temporarily became Player Mods (forum mods were kicked out from the beta). This was to stress test the servers before they allowed all members into them.
• The names of the players are created from a random initial and surname. However, some of the surnames are real world references (See: Kickabout League/Names).
• Each of the player characters have a surname that represents their type. E.g.: Hotshots have surnames of objects that can kill, such as A. Assassin or D. Mamba. Rangers have fast moving objects, such as R. Whizz or I. Rocket. Tanks have heavy objects, such as A. Boulder or N. Rockslab. Elites are named after real life players, such as Beckham and Maradona.
• There was a glitch that allowed you to control your own goalie in any game except the sandbox.
• Typing "zeph" or "iain" reveals an easter egg. Mod Zeph and Mod Iain are the developers of Kickabout League.
• For almost a full week since Kickabout Leagues release, players were able to play 12 minute matches and draw 30 seconds in for full rewards, this has now been fixed and drawing before 2 minutes have passed yields no rewards.
• Many of the cheat trinkets that change the ball re-use images from Torquing!
• The looks of the Elites make some players think that they are the coaches.
• On Halloween, the goalies were dressed up in black with white masks to celebrate the theme.
• The achievement Hallowe'en leaked new version of picture for locked members-only achievement.

  

• On June 2, 2010 the game was updated with 40 new achievements.
• Free players can experience a glitch making them temporary a FunOrb member. They have a purple orb near their names and can buy trinkets, it probably lasts until logout. It was noticed after getting an achievement, probably Muddying your knees, Frontier or A Decent Margin.
• If shot and done in the right place, a lob can go past the goalkeeper and into the goal. It is unknown if it is a glitch or not, but the goalkeeper will seem to be underestimating the lob. This have surprised many unprepared players.
• Sometimes, the goalkeeper will become "tired", after multiple blocks. Eventually, he will be unable to block simple shots from rangers and tanks. Mod Zeph confirmed that this is not a glitch. This was implemented so that everyone can eventually score a goal.