Bringing bocce ball to your next social event, team building day or festival can pump up the fun levels and add an extra dimension that brings people together and unites them in the joy of sport.

Packaworld’s high-quality inflatable Packabocce courts come in three sizes – Competition, Recreation and Mini – making it easy for event organisers and venue hosts to bring the game.

This month we explore five ways you can incorporate bocce ball into your events to make them as memorable as possible.

Read on to gain some inspiration for bringing bocce ball to your next event.

The first-ever Special Olympics Caribbean Regional Bocce Tournament took place on 23-25 May, with athletes from across the archipelago throwing and rolling for glory on six portable courts provided by Packaworld.

The ground-breaking tournament was held at the Lions Centre in George Town, Cayman Islands’ capital, and welcomed teams from 16  surrounding Caribbean nations plus a US bocce squad representing Special Olympics North Carolina.

Competition Manager and Head Coach for Special Olympics Cayman Islands Nicole Thompson said the highlight of the tournament was bringing together athletes from so many neighbouring countries, making it a truly Caribbean competition.

Bocce has been experiencing a boom in popularity in the south of the Golden State, aided by Special Olympics community programs, passionate volunteers and new portable bocce courts that allow the game to be brought anywhere.

Nowhere was this more evident than at Special Olympics Southern California’s recent Ventura County Bocce Competition and Santa Clarita Valley Bocce Competition, where an impressive 29 teams  competed for glory.

Special Olympics Southern California Director of Sports and Programs Wendy Ellet said the recent purchase of 13 high-quality inflatable courts from Packaworld made it easier than ever to provide a memorable experience for the athletes taking part.

The growing sport of bocce took centre stage at the Pan-Cypriot Special Olympics 2024 earlier this month with 80 athletes from Cyprus, Malta and Greece competing in bocce singles action.

This year's event saw more than 650 athletes descend on venues in Nicosia, Limassol and Larnaca to compete in 10 different sports from 7-22 April.

Bocce is one of the fastest growing sports in Cyprus and three high-quality portable Packabocce courts were brought in to help ensure the Games’ bocce competition in Limassol on 12 April was a success.

Special Olympics Cyprus Office Director Costas Constantinou said more than one in 10 athletes at the Games competed in bocce this year.

A new aquatic sport is making a splash in Europe, supported by first-of-their-kind portable goals and fields from Packaworld to make bringing the game to new venues easy.

Water Skyball is a Hungarian invention, played in waist-deep water between teams of two.

Teams score points by throwing a ball into a goal that is divided into three sections – each worth a different number of points.

Water Skyball Federation President Zsolt Gyuris said the sport was created by the Fontanus Scientific Methodological Research and Educational Centre in 2013 and was growing in popularity thanks to its unique mix of strategy, movement and throwing accuracy.

Rugby training indoors usually means forgoing posts and sticking to drills that don’t include kicking drop goals or conversions. But that could all be about to change, thanks to a full-sized portable rugby posts innovation from the home of the All Blacks – New Zealand – that makes it to possible to play the game ‘for real’ on any surface and in any setting.

Developed by sports solutions company Packaworld International, the Rugby Packaposts feature a regulation height crossbar supported by inflatable uprights that are fully rigid once pumped up.

They have already trialled at tournaments and events in the USA but 18 February marked another milestone – their indoor debut at a special rugby training clinic for under-18 girls organised by Rugby UC.