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3	A 1998 American MadeForTVMovie sports/sci-fi Thriller directed by Creator/ErnestDickerson that deals with game that is life or death in the year 2025.
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5	The movie stars Creator/DeanCain, Music/VanessaWilliams, Creator/WesleySnipes, Creator/BillSmitrovich, Creator/ValerieChow, and Creator/EmanuelleChriqui.
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7	It aired on October 1, 1998 on Creator/{{ABC}}.
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11	!Tropes for the film:
12	* BloodSport: The titular game is the world's most popular sport after the NBA was destroyed by scandal (TakeThat, soccer fans!), and was originally used as a replacement for gang wars. It is, needless to say, extremely violent and very SeriousBusiness; the movie centers around a game that serves as a proxy war between global superpowers, with territorial rights to Hawaii hanging in the balance.
13	* DickDastardlyStopsToCheat: The BigBad (a pro-consortium terrorist leader) is willing to commit murder and kidnapping to fix the game on his faction's benefit and a number of consortium players try to play the climactic game with "street rules" (read: beat up their opponents). It leads to the terrorist leader getting captured by the heroes and the hostile players getting their teeth knocked out (and their side losing regardless).
14	* DuelsDecideEverything: Tre Ramzey (a pro-player of the sport) decides to solve a dispute between two global powers by staking the fate of some disputed territory on a game. Despite being a rather campy cyberpunk movie, it manages to deconstruct the trope, with characters agreeing it's an insane idea, but ultimately it works out because of the propaganda coup from winning (and the fact that the villain's sabotage attempts lead to their leader being captured.
15	* HoverBoard: The title sport is played on hoverboards.
16	* InternationalShowdownByProxy: The film has two teams of a hover board Roller ball rip-off (one representing the US of A, one representing a consortium of Asiatic nations) battling over sovereignty of Hawaii. Of course, the consortium of players were not above kidnapping and assassination to get an edge...
17	* MakeGamesNotWar: The movie uses the titular sport as an alternative to gang warfare, with the hero (Tre) offering it as an alternative to a world war that is about to start for ownership of the Hawaiian Islands. Of course, some countries decide to cheat.
18	* MockBuster: The movie takes many of its concepts directly from ''Film/{{Rollerball}}''.
19	* UnnecessaryRoughness: Future Sport is a rough game. "Street rules" Future Sport is rougher (talking "splatter your opponent's teeth all over the place" rougher). Obike Fixx is okay with showing the consortium the difference.

Context Film / Futuresport