Why swap equipment every two minutes? 

"So a hot puck's bad?" 5:20 Well, personally, I think a hot Puck makes A Midsummer Night's Dream even better.

Chessboxing mentioned! For those curious, the chess rounds last 4 minutes and the boxing rounds last 3 minutes in WCBO sanctioned matches. It's one of the greatest sports to watch!

Baseballs are changed rather frequently. As soon as it hits dirt, the next play will have a new ball.

World Indecisiveness Championship. Flights to attend are always expensive because they only manage to pick a venue two days before the event.

Well done to the thumbnail maker for throwing us off with a ping-pong image.

First thought - chess boxing. Can't wait to see how wrong - or right - I am!

I was immediately thinking of chess boxing too

Dang, I knew the answer, but got completely thrown by the question.

This lineup is one of my favorites on this channel. They immediately start tackling the problem with really actionable questions, but they still make it fun

I'm surprised badminton wasn't mentioned. They're made of real goose feathers and have exceeded 500 mph. Seeing one hit in slow motion shows a ton of deformation and damage to the feathers happens regularly.

I was wrong - right general concept but I was thinking more tennis or table tennis where the ball might be changed out frequently. The question they didn't ask, which I wanted to know, was whether it was changed out a) precisely every 2 minutes, b) on average about 2 minutes between swaps, or c) as soon as possible after 2 minutes. Because if it was 'a' then you'd know the sport had some kind of play clock that ensured play stopped each 2 minutes to allow the swap. If it was 'b' then that might have supported tennis if (not sure) they swapped the ball every serve or two -- some serves are an ace and play lasts a second or so; some generate rallies that might last several minutes. But it was actually 'c'.

Calvinball! The best sport ever. (Thanks to Bill Watterson.)

0:43 to 0:47 was such a delightful rollercoaster of emotions.

WAAAAAHH, I DID NOT KNOW THIS. I LOVE THIS SHOW.

My first thought was it could be something where either the entire round takes 2 minutes or one single turn takes 2 minutes. Curling came to mind for the latter, I don't think it would quite take two minutes per turn but the stone of focus changes each turn and it would take quite a while with the sweeping and the waiting for the stones to all sit and the judging the angle to throw and whatnot. In a similar vein something like diving the only focus is the person, and the person would indeed change after their 3 dives which probably takes over 2 minutes but still that kind of ballpark.

I was really hoping it was so they could sell massive loads of souvenir pucks, each of which was officially used in a real match.

About a third of the way through I though it would be something like archery, where each competitor has a certain amount of time to shoot all the targets and then they'd change the targets out.

I assumed it was pointy (American) football. They do change balls something like that often, and in addition to that, there are two varieties, regular play balls and separate set for kicking plays.

Say it with me: if you answer it right off the bat, you get mystery bisquits. I was half expecting Tom to fight an instinctive reaction to mention them

Very relevant question considering the World Championship in question started the day after this video came out

Holy cow, I haven't thought of Calvinball in years.

Waited for the Calvinball mention; was not disappointed!

I was confident it was something like Ping Pong balls, and surprised the guests didn't immediately think of a ball/object that gets beat on by the players.

Extremely Crazy golf- new holes every two minutes

Ah I misunderstood the question. When it said "main object of play" I thought of objective rather than a physical object. See also baseballs being changed after being hit, getting dirty, and of course cricket and tennis balls being changed after x amount of time / gameplay.

I misinterpreted this as "the main objective of play" (another sense of the word "object") and started thinking in terms of Counter-Strike, where a two-minute round has distinct phases of attack and then defend. But it's far more physical than that.

I was sure it was polo until the ice stuff started coming up. But chukkas are seven minutes long, not two. Are the replaced pucks put back in the freezer to be reused later, or are they permanently retired?

As a Canadian, the second half of this was painful to watch. 😅

Hey, one of the few I knew the answer to (not that I was certain because there isn’t always a stoppage in play every two minutes, but it was my guess nonetheless).

Disappointed I didn't need to refer to my subscription of "Obscure Sports Quarterly" to answer this one...

My first guess was chase tag with them changing who's the chaser

First time I have the right answer imediately

Initial Guess: curling

Ok. So the way the question was pronounced it was "the main objective" not "the main object of". Also, the puck definitely doesn't get replaced every 2 minutes on a schedule

"Main object of play" is pretty vague term. I interpreted that prase as "the goal that players are trying to achieve". In that way, chess boxing is an excellent answer!

The chess boxing guess was really good

"Ooooo! OOOOOO!... Oh." Pretty much my thoughts for most of these to be honest.

Good timing on this youtube post, the 2024 ice hockey world championships begin tomorrow!

First time I instantly knew the answer! The temperature matters.

Calvinball was my first guess too

first thought: darts. second thought: car tires in racing. both thoughts indicate mostly that i don't know anything about sports.

Honestly, people are citing lots of examples, but at a professional level, this is almost every ball sport to some extent. Pros get very picky about the characteristics of the equipment in play, and play almost always causes that equipment to deteriorate to a degree they'll notice within a few minutes. Hence: soccer/association football changes the ball essentially every time it goes out of play, American football changes the ball out every play *and* requires each team to supply game balls their team will use while on offense, Baseball uses a brand new ball every at-bat or more, Hockey was already covered by the video, tennis players will carry pockets full of balls and choose the one with the best bounce for every serve, golf pros will change out balls for putting, and on, and on and on....

I was thinking darts because the holes created in the target might affect how the darts stick to it

I was going to complain about the thumbnail spoiling it but it was a red herring which I love. My guess was the ball in ping pong.

It can't be Calvinball. Calvinball's rules get made up while playing it, which basically means it has no rules. If there was a 2 minute time frame for it it would have a rule.

Edit: I am incorrect it seems. See the replies for the IIHF sport regulations (not rules) and an example of the procedure in the NHL. As a hockey fan this is a bit of a misleading answer. While it's true that they have a supply of pucks in a freezer in the scorekeepers area at the penalty box, they don't really swap the pucks every two minutes or at every stop in play. They'll only really change it if it goes out of play into the crowd, or if a player scores their first career goal or a milestone (100th g, 500th pt, etc) and they pick up the puck to keep. They will also probably take a new one for each of three periods (nice to have a game used puck to get someone to sign and sell it) but in general only about a dozen pucks are used per game. Much less than one every two minutes. Baseball may have been a better answer here as in that sport every time the ball touches the ground or even just if the pitcher feels like it they use a new ball. They use about 100 balls a game.

my first thought before clicking on the video and hearing the actual question is that it would be something to do with short radioactive half lives. now i want to see nuclear hockey

Bob is a certified yapper

Wonder they don't make the puck from something less bouncy than rubber, I guess steel is too heavy.

Funny.. I immediately thought of American Football where they basically swap the football after almost every snap. But that might actually be quite a bit less than two minutes of play on average.. 🤔

In drag racing the teams race for 4 seconds and then spend an hour changing equipment (rebuilding the whole engine)

"2 minutes" was misleading.

I was so confident with Tag when the question was read. I was very wrong

So when there's 10+ minutes of continuous play in the NHL, do the puck's characteristics change noticeably?

I had to read the subtitle, because it kept sounding like Tom was saying "objective play" instead of "object of play"... Do Brits just say "object" with the accent on the second syllable instead of the first or is it just something about that phrase?

I misunderstood the question, and I think the candidates did too. I heard the objective of play changes every 2 minutes.

I read it as objective like others and so i giddily said "Flux" which isn't even a sport and probably doesn't have a world championship lol

is this chessboxing?

This is the first one in a long time where I knew the answer immediately. Always funny watching non-sports people struggle so mightily with sports questions lol

Why don't they just make pucks that behave as intended at the expected temperatures?

Sometimes, it feels like tennis players change their racquets and balls every two minutes 🤣

I was thinking about Cricket until I remembered that it's the opposite way. The ball getting worn down is part of the game, so it's important that they keep the same ball in play the whole time.

As a hockey fan... I'm shocked 😅

Puck's a good dog. 😀

I was going just the opposite, that it was getting too cold...

Lol, This made me think of another sport, the question would be a bit different though: In which sport is the main target changed every 20 seconds of game time? Can you guess it?

Curling.

I thought 'Shot put' at first, then clay pigeon shooting or javelin throwing. Nope. none of those.

A relay race of silly walks where they only get 2 minutes per section to really strut their stuff

My guess was the balls in tennis.

Spoiler for the answer How much does the Temperature of the Hockey puck change?

Calvinball

CalvinBall.

Find me a group of people who know less about sports: mission impossible.

surely it's expected that during a hot puck there is, indeed, an amount of bouncing up and down?

why is there a table tennis player if you talk about something completely different... that's completely wrong advertisement!

Every two minutes? That seems ridiculous to me. Couldnt the bouncyness be solved by material science? Someone get a horde of undergrads doing the research. Scrub that just make someone do a PHD on hockeypug bounciness. That knowledge is mildly infuriating to me

Again, really crap thumbnail ruining the video.