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* The Varsity Olympic team disciplines are as follows: Doubles Tennis (2), Doubles Badminton (2), Doubles Ping-Pong (2), Beach Volleyball (2), Curling (4), Field Polo (4, centaurs only), Freestyle Relay Swimming 4x 50/100/200m (4), Track Relay 4x 100/400m (4), Track Relay Hurdles 4x 100/400m (4), Basketball (5 7), Indoor Volleyball (6), Water Polo (6 7), Ice Hockey (6 11), Tug of War (8), Baseball (9 9), Cricket (11 3), Soccer (11 4), Field Hockey (11 5), American Football (11 88), Artistic Swimming (12), Rugby League (13 4), Rugby Union (15 8), Australian Football (18 4), and Dragon Boat Rowing (21) - for a total of 28 disciplines.

* The Varsity Olympic individual disciplines are follows: Freestyle Swimming 50/100/200/400/800/1500m (4), Butterfly Swimming 50/100/200m (4), Golf (4), Track 100/200/400/800/1500/5k/10k meters (4), and Track Hurdles 100/400/3000m (4) - for a total of 2x20 disciplines.

* A player-team may consist of only one consciousness. Use of identical siblings is tolerated in reasonable emergencies at the officials' discretion, and a player-team is required to declare the sibling(s) prior to the match. Siblings must wear an alternative uniform clearly marking them as such. While the use of siblings is not considered in the spirit of the game, they are, once again, tolerated on exceptional occasions, and it is considered that their use is enough of a handicap to make such a practice unattractive to any serious player-team.

* Each player-team must have enough bodies to play the given sport at a basic level before counting substitutes, and may not have more substitutes than what is prescribed by the sport's rules. For example: a basketball player-team must have at least 7, but no more than 13 registered bodies. This rule is applicable within one match; a player-team is allowed to freely swap bodies between matches.

* Individual disciplines are disputed in two variants: Best Run, and Cumulative. Both variants are played simultaneously. In Best Run, only the best time/performance by one body of the player-team is noted for scoring. In Cumulative, all time/performances by all bodies are added together. Thus, each competition rewards both performance and consistency. Hence, while there are 20 disciplines, it is possible to earn 20 Cumulative discipline medals and 60 Best Run medals.

* A player may earn multiple medals in a Best Run individual discipline. A full podium consisting of the bodies of only one player plus a gold medal in the matching Cumulative category is referred to as a Grand Slam, and has been accomplished only 4 times in Varsity Olympics history.

* The theoretical maximum number of medals that can be earned is 68 gold, 20 silver, and 20 bronze, for a total of 108 medals.

* One player may form a team for as many disciplines as they wish, but may not have more than one player-team in each discipline. Due to the tight schedule of the Varsity Olympics, care must be exercised by the player, so that they do not mistakenly register for simultaneous events that would cause them to run out of bodies. Doing so results in disqualifications from all disciplines registered by the player on that day.

* Accommodations are provided only for the maximum number of bodies required in a discipline. A player may bring extra bodies, but it is their responsibility to provide accommodations for them.

* A player-team may not talk or gesture during a match, when play is ongoing.

* One body may be used in multiple disciplines.

* The bodies of a player-team may be trained in different manners in order to obtain variants with specialized vocations.

* With the exception of Field Polo, all the bodies of a player-team must have only one head, two arms, and two legs. Centaur bodies in Field Polo may only have one head, two arms, and four legs. Use of a lower body other than that of an equine is disallowed.

* Two player-teams may file in a request for an exhibition match in which the above rule does not apply. Nonetheless, all the bodies of each participating player-team must be configured in an identical manner in the interest of fair-play.

* The uniform must fit properly on all the bodies of a player-team. Any and all wardrobe malfunctions in the course of a match results in instant disqualification.

* A fraction of the venue is reserved to each player-team involved in the match: 5% per player-team for team disciplines, and 2% for individual disciplines. If the venue is not full, remaining seats are on a free-for-all basis, but must be immediately surrendered to non-playing spectators when requested.

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For quick reference and to speed up registration, the following information is provided to players:

The minimum recommended number of bodies to participate in all disciplines at a basic level is 211.
The minimum recommended number of bodies to participate in all disciplines, with substitutes, is 361
The minimum recommended number of bodies to participate in all disciplines simultaneously, with a full roster, and with a set of unique specialized bodies for each discipline, is 437.

The current all-time champion of the Varsity Olympics is Lucy Gonzalez, a Mexian-born hermaphrodite with 621 bodies from El Camino College in California, who, in 1997, took home 31 gold, 15 silver, and 16 bronze medals, for a total of 62 medals.

The current leader in gold medals is James Newtown, an American-born male with 359 bodies from Florida State University, who, in 2003, won 39 gold medals. He also earned 11 silver, and 2 bronze medals, for a total of 52 medals.

The current record for highest body count is held by Océanne Levy, a Canadian-born female from the University of Waterloo. At the time of her registration in 1984, she had 4871 bodies. She earned 1 gold, 5 silver, and 1 bronze medal, for a total of 7.

The current record for lowest body count is held by Zoey Landale, from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. At the time of her registration in 2017, she had 15 bodies. She participated in Doubles Badminton, 400m Track, 5Km Track, and 10Km track, taking home 1 silver and 1 bronze medal.

Winners of a Grand Slam are:
1999 - Jenny Kaila Anderson, female, 149 bodies, 100m Track (Boston University)
2006 - Maxime Duchesneau, male, 321 bodies, Golf (Polytechnique de Montreal)
1981 - Alexandra Nguyen, hermaphrodite, 95 bodies, 400m Freestyle Swimming (University of Waterloo)
1981 - Mohammed al Amine, hermaphrodite, 818 bodies, 5Km Track (University of Great Falls)