The first game they found was called Ruinball.
Nobody explained the rules properly. A man at the entrance handed them each a dense sphere of compressed energy and pointed at a massive rotating arena of floating stone pillars, some moving fast and some slow, all of them rigged to explode when hit hard enough. The objective, as far as anyone could tell, was to destroy more pillars than the opposing team before the whole structure collapsed into the pit below.
Simple enough.
Gopu hurled his first sphere before the starting bell finished ringing and took out three pillars at once, the chain reaction blasting a shockwave that knocked two players on the opposite team clean off their platforms. The crowd behind the barrier glass went absolutely berserk.
After that it stopped being a game and started being something closer to a controlled disaster.
