Fighting For Globe

Fighting For Globe (Chinese: 火爆球王, lit. Fiery Ball King) is a 2000 Pili produced puppet drama. Unlike most Pili produced shows and movies that are set in a fantasy wuxia setting, Fighting For Globe is the company's first sci-fi series set in a more modern era. The show ran for 10 episodes with 60 minute run times, premiering on November 8, 2000.

Fighting For Globe was originally considered for overseas distribution, having shown up in a product guide for the International Television Programme Market, MIPTV, in 2003. The program guide listed a part 1 with 10 episodes and a part 2 with 7, indicating more than 10 episodes were originally planned.

Synopsis
In order to find a pure land that can replace the earth, the Earth expedition embarked on the path of space exploration. In 2013, the planet "Paradise Blue" was discovered, but it was blocked by the Kasai people who also wanted to move to Paradise Blue. The two planets ignited. Fight for war. A year later, after several negotiations in 2014, the two sides finally agreed to replace the large-scale war with a small ball game. The three wins of the three battles determined the ownership of Paradise Blue... Five selected prisoners were implanted with monitoring chips by the military. The death row inmates do their best to obtain the right to self and the right to freedom. The helplessness and love and hate behind the death row, led to a series of stories...

Trivia

 * The outfits of characters in the main Pili series help to hide the inner mechanisms of the glove puppet, providing a unique challenge for Fighting For Globe, which has characters in suits and other outfits that clearly show the character's legs.
 * Unlike the main Pili series at the time, Fighting For Globe features characters voiced by multiple voice talents instead of all of them (regardless of character gender) being voiced by Pili's mainstay Minnan voice actor Huei-Fung Huang. This was also the case for another Pili production produced around the same time, an adaptation of the manhua Legend of Emperors.
 * For the baseball sequences, characters are depicted in full CGI. Full CGI is also used for spaceship combat sequences.