The Ocho is back Sunday, 3/22

[Prepuce of Doom 21052]

Good news, everyone! 

https://espnpressroom.com/us/press-releases/2020/03/when-you-needed-it-most-espn8-the-ocho-returns-on-espn2-sunday-march-22/amp/? 

 

 

ESPN Press Room U.S.

When you Needed it Most. . .ESPN8: The Ocho Returns on ESPN2, Sunday, March 22

 Kimberly Elchlepp

1 day ago

No, it’s not the eighth of August, or the eighth of anything or even August at all. That is the magic ESPN8: The Ocho. There is always a place for a full 24-hours of seldom seen sports so Sunday, March 22 on ESPN2 will be just that, a full day of exciting content from Ocho stunts past.

This will be the fourth edition of ESPN8: The Ocho since the initiative began in the summer of 2017, inspired by the 2004 hit movie “Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story” featuring Vince Vaughn, Christine Taylor and Ben Stiller.

The line-up includes:

• Stupid Robot Fighting League: Created in New Zealand by John Espin (Yes, that is his actual name.), Stupid Robot Fighting is a rather unique form of fighting that pits two life-sized hanging puppets controlled by an operator sitting behind each Stupid Robot.
• 2019 Jelle’s Marble Runs: Races in which both participants and spectators are marbles.
• Cherry Pit Spitting: The 46th Annual Cherry Pit-Spitting Competition is held each year in Eau Claire, Mich., with one goal for competitors—to spit the farthest cherry pit.
• Sign Spinning: The 12th Annual World Sign Spinning Championship, held in Las Vegas, brought together AArrow Sign Spinners from more than 50 cities and a dozen countries to asses style, execution, and technical sign spinning ability.
• 2007 World Sport Stacking Championships: Sport stacking can be an individual or team sport where participants stack specially designed cups in predetermined sequences as fast as possible.
• 2019 Death Diving World Championship: An amateur diving sport performed from a 10m platform with separate competitions for Classic and Freestyle.

Cue that “palpable hue of anticipation” . . .

ESPN8: The Ocho Full Schedule of Events

Date	Time (ET)	Program	Network
Sun, Mar 22	Midnight	Johnsonville ACL Cornhole Championships: 2020 Kickoff Battle	ESPN8
	2 a.m.	World Axe Throwing League: 2019 World Championship	ESPN8
	4 a.m.	U.S. Open Ultimate Championships	ESPN8
	6 a.m.	2019 Spikeball College Championship	ESPN8
	7 a.m.	2019 Las Vegas Highland Games	ESPN8
	7:30 a.m.	Putt Putt Championships	ESPN8
	8 a.m.	2019 IDEAL Electricians National Championship	ESPN8
	9 a.m.	E:60 as part of The Ocho	ESPN8
	9:30 a.m.	51st National Stone Skipping Competition	ESPN8
	10:30 a.m.	2007 World Sport Stacking Championships	ESPN8
	11:30 a.m.	2019 World Sign Spinning Championship	ESPN8
	Noon	2006 Krystal World Hamburger Eating Championship	ESPN8
	1 p.m.	2006 Johnsonville Brat Eating World Championship	ESPN8
	2 p.m.	European TramDriver Championship	ESPN8
	3 p.m.	2019 Stupid Robot Fighting League	ESPN8
	3:30 p.m.	46th Annual Cherry Pit Spitting Championship	ESPN8
	4 p.m.	Professional Arm Wrestling Championships	ESPN8
	4:30 p.m.	2019 Golden Tee World Championship	ESPN8
	5 p.m.	2018 Classic Tetris World Championship	ESPN8
	5:30 p.m.	E:60 on ESPN8 Presented by Liberty Mutual	ESPN8
	6:30 p.m.	America’s Dodgeball Continental Cup: USA vs. Canada	ESPN8
	7:30 p.m.	2019 Jelle’s Marble Runs	ESPN8
	8 p.m.	Slippery Stairs: College Tour	ESPN8
	8:30 p.m.	2019 Death Diving World Championship	ESPN8
	9:30 p.m.	Dodge Juggle 3	ESPN8
	10:30 p.m.	Moxie Games 3	ESPN8

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[Prepuce of Doom 21052]

Bump. 

[clapclapclap 9000]

This is pretty awesome.  Marbles olympics on now.

#TeamBallsOfChaos

Edited March 22, 2020 by clapclapclap

[TheStoicPaisano 9922]

I would fucking HATE that slippery stair game.

[Mach 1 1677]

I watched a cherry pit spitting contest from Michigan today.  One of the contestants said he practiced in the "off season" by spitting fishing weights and chewing gum.

I also watched Kobayashi destroy the competition in the Wisconsin Brat eating contest.  Prior to the start, the announcers noted that one of the contestants had broken a finger, but removed his cast because he wanted to "play through the pain."

The announcers taking this shit seriously are almost as entertaining as the ATHLETES.  Yes, I said it.

[Prepuce of Doom 21052]

This "fling yourself off the high dive like a corpse" thing is pretty entertaining in a stupid way. 

[clapclapclap 9000]

Some more if you click on the full thread.

Edited March 23, 2020 by clapclapclap

[Jshep34 2308]

I watched the tetris world championship earlier. I miss sports

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Edited May 16, 2020 by TonyTexas