One of the more unusual of Pokelympic games is the sport of Electrode Bowling. It is played by rolling an Electrode down a long alley into an ever-increasing triangular arrangement of metal pins, ranging from one in the first frame to fifty-five in the tenth. Electrode are difficult to grip and have trouble accelerating on a flat surface, and regulation pins are designed to be quite sturdy, so typically they do not arrive at the pins with enough force to knock them over. The players, however, also carry remote-controlled detonators, which when pressed at the right time will either send the pins flying or incinerate them. So long as they are no longer standing, it counts as a point, and the player with the most points at game's end wins.
The Electrode, for its part, is knocked unconscious: the typical Electrode explosion is more akin to a star going nova than a bomb exploding. Nonetheless, ten must be obtained by each player for a single game, which has combined with the expense of maintaining and replacing pins to heavily blunt the game's popularity outside of major urban centers.