TYPE OF GAME
Striking a ball with a bat

OBJECTIVE
Striking a ball with a bat while trying to hit it as far away as possible.

GAME MATERIALS
A small ball ("rebatta"), a lever ("fioletta") and a bat ("masetta").

HOW TO PLAY
On placing the "fioletta" on the ground, the player places the "rebatta" on one end. Grasping the "masetta" with both hands, touching the point of the "fioletta", the ball is projected in the air (action defined as "levoù") and hit again in mid air to strike it as far as possible. The team championship includes meetings between teams of five pitchers (plus one reserve), each of whom have 20 strikes: the first, called the "dama", can be repeated if the batter is not happy. The score is awarded based on the total metres for each pitch, based on a point every 15 metres; the game cannot end in a draw: in case of a draw at the end of normal pitching, a play-off of five pitches take place.
Some individual competitions are also held: one organised in the summer ("champion d'été"), one in autumn ("champion d'auton") and an individual, Valdostane championship in spring, with an award of a wooden sculpture, called "l'omo" (the man), representing a Rebatta pitcher: the base of the statue hosts the names of all past winners. The winner keeps the trophy for one year and it is then offered again as a prize the following spring.

HOW TO PLAY
The game is mainly played during the spring-summer period, however it is extended up to autumn, with individual and team competitions.

ORGANISATION
The game has around 400 players grouped in fourteen sports clubs, supporting their local municipality.  

TOOLS
"Rebatta": a 30 mm diameter ball made of wood (in this case weighted by an integral casing made of metal nails planted in wood) or metal.

Fioletta": a wooden tool in the shape of a pipe, around 20 cm long, with a lever function. The "Rebatta" on the end in contact with the ground, which is slightly hollowed out; the other end is hit with a "masetta" to project the ball in the air.

"Masetta": a wooden, 100-140 cm bat that terminates with a solid, wooden "head"; the bat is called a "baton", the head called the "maciocca".

THE PLAYING FIELD
An isosceles triangle with a vertex located in the centre of the batting area (called the "place"), a rectangle measuring at least three metres by two. The minimum height of the triangle varies according to the categories: from 180 to 240 metres. Inside, it contains tracks with ropes and lines 15 metres apart, which determine the score to award for each pitch. The width of the field can be 50 metres from the height of the tenth point line (AB). The tracking of the lines encourages strikes in a straight line: a 160 metre strike, for example, gets 10 points if in a straight direction (D), but only 9 if hit sideways (O).