@Background Pony #52AE
I disagree. The point of any sport is (supposed to be) friendly competition and a showcase of talent. Being flexible with the roles is fine, and local variants of sports often pop up.
This just seems stupid. Wasn’t the whole point the sport was even created was to have a team of a unicorn, an Earth Pony, and a Pegasus work as a team.
The briefest recap to get here: Celestia wants to start a inter-school buckball league. Stuff with RD happens. We get to the first game between Twilight’s school and Celestia’s school, but because Celestia’s school is pretty much unicorns only, they agree to use magic suprression for the “earth pony” role, and later the same magic wing spell Rarity used for the “pegasus” role.