I had a feeling this one would come up. Hydrodunk, in essence, is a slam-dunk contest, much like the ones done by the NBA players during the all-star weekend, except hydrodunk takes place in or around a pool. Players use a basketball (or two) and attempt to make it enter a basketball hoop in the most entertaining way possible, whether it be through performing exciting body maneuvers (flips, spins, etc), executing thrilling ball tricks (under-the-leg, behind-the-back, alley-oops, etc), and/or just slamming the ball through the hoop really hard.

This is a question that frequently comes up when people are first introduced to the sport. While hydrodunk is fairly easy at the start, it becomes much harder down the road in mastering the many nuances of the sport. A novice can pull off an under-the-leg slam with little difficulty and still have it look pretty good. However, experienced hydrodunkers see past the simple under-the-leg and look for the quality of the subtleties of the dunk (clean mechanics, powerful slam, witty name, etc) which separate the good dunks from the great dunks. For this reason, hydrodunkers of different skill levels should never dunk together. While a novice is able to appreciate the magnitude of a pros dunk, it is for reasons that he/she is not able to understand or comprehend. However, professional hydrodunkers cannot contrive the same naïve satisfaction that novices get from each others dunks, as the professionals have risen to a higher level of dunking standards. Competition between hydrodunkers of novice skill allows them to mature together, learning the nuances of the sport through experience rather than being told by a professional and not understanding.

This question is hazy for viewers of hydrodunk and experienced hydrodunkers alike. Hydrodunk doesnt use a point system or any other way to distinguish victory. We don't necessarily determine winners at the end of a dunking session.

Seeing as Webster defines a sport as "a source of diversion, physical activity engaged in for pleasure, a particular activity so engaged in," hydrodunk is, by all means, considered a sport. For determining winners, establishing a point system into the sport of hydrodunk would be difficult and demeaning to the sport itself. The only point system that could possibly work would be one based on judges similar to the one of Olympic figure skating, and we all know controversial those judges turn out to be. Quite simply, at the end of every hydrodunk session, no winner is determined. Granted, there is usually a general feeling amoung the players as to who performed the very best that evening and would be deserving of the victory. However, I think I speak for all the players when I say that adding a judgement system to hydrodunk would be detrimental to the integrity and honor of partaking in this great sport.