ESPN will kick off its annual “ESPN8: The Ocho” day of programming Thursday night time on ESPN2.
Impressed by the fictional channel that broadcasts the finals within the basic 2004 film “Dodgeball,” on Thursday night time, Friday and Saturday morning ESPN2 can be rebranded as “The Ocho,” with programming together with a number of the most obscure sports activities to be present in aggressive play.
Listed below are explanations for eight of the wackiest, most unknown and outright random occasions set to be proven:
Mullet championships
Maybe the strangest “sport” broadcasted on The Ocho — no straightforward feat given the competitors — are the mullet championships. Occupying the 1:30 a.m. slot, the occasion includes a showcase of a number of the most brash and classic hairstyles within the land. The winner is topped Mullet Champ and is awarded a gilded trophy.
Teqball
Image a fusion of soccer and desk tennis. That, in essence, is teqball. That includes a specifically curved desk, the game might be performed each one-on-one or 2-on-2, and includes gamers rallying a soccer ball backwards and forwards over a web utilizing any a part of their our bodies however their arms and arms. One of many sports activities ambassadors? None aside from one of the vital skillful soccer gamers of all time in Ronaldinho.
Onewheel
The outline of this sport is within the title. Onewheel racing is akin to your conventional BMX race, besides as a substitute of using bikes, contestants experience onewheels. Consider a skateboard however with … effectively, one wheel. Riders navigate troublesome terrain, ramps and extra as they appear to finish the course within the quickest time.
Excel world championship
For each spreadsheet wizard within the workplace on the market, that is the game for you. That includes a knockout-style bracket, the excel championships pit the very best of the very best on Microsoft’s staple work program towards one another, every vying to be the quickest to finish a wide range of Excel-related duties.
Slippery stairs
What occurs if you put 5 rivals in slicked bodysuits on the backside of a lubricated set of stairs? The game of slippery stairs. Originating from a Japanese sport present of the identical title, slippery stairs exams athletes talents to take care of their stability in a remarkably unforgiving setting. Tumbles are aplenty, and the primary to ring the bell on the prime of the steps is topped champion.
Omegaball
Becoming a member of teqball within the class of “sport derived in some extent from soccer,” omegaball is performed with three targets and three groups. Performed on a round pitch, the sport play is broadly akin to soccer, albeit with some minor tweaks. Notably, each ball out of play turns into a nook kick, play resumes instantly after targets (no center-pitch kickoffs) and there is no offsides. Actually, omegaball’s official guidelines explicitly endorse cherry-picking as “inspired.”
Chase tag
An expert spinoff on a longtime playground basic, world chase tag takes the schoolyard sport up a notch. Performed indoors on an obstacle-laden enclosure, chase tag requires gamers to be not simply quick but additionally adept climbers. “Taggers” have 20 seconds to get to the “runner” to be able to safe victory of their 1v1 rep.
Steinholding
A German sport that, in recent times, has made its approach to America, steinholding is the ultimate — and maybe most evident — submission to the “title actually explains the occasion” class. Steinholders are every given a full one-liter beer stein, and have to carry it out with a straight arm. The longest steinholder to take care of their type with out dropping their arm (or the stein) is said the champion. The present United States males’s file? Twenty-one minutes and 17 seconds, held by Michael Tyler since 2018.
