The List: Finals

[Amb]

Categories

-Arts and Literature
-Entertainment
-Geography
-Science and Nature
-Sports and Leisure
-Wild Card

During the final, each category can only be used once each. If no-one wins outright because of a 3-3 split, a category will be picked by dice roll tags - and the person playing first in that round will also be dice picked.[/dice]

[Amb]

Or random.org since no-one is online to tell me how to work the dice tags, and google UBB Dice tags shows up rubbish.

Dethwing to name.
Scurra to start.

[dethwing]

Let's start with Sports.

[dethwing]

Oh and, good luck Scurra. Let's have a good championship match.

[MatthewV]

[dice]1d6[/dice]
1= number of dice you wish to roll
d= well... dice maybe?
6= number of faces

So this will give a number from 1 to 6.

So in this case, you probably would like
[dice]1d2[/dice]

Dice Roll:

Original Roll String: 1d2 1 2-Sided Dice Results: 1

[Zag]

[Scurra]

[dethwing]

Ha, me too! I came so close to losing several times.

[dethwing*]

Any day now Amb...

[Amb]

SOrry, I was out last night. Will have it up as soon as possible.

[Amb]

Discontinued Sports of the Olympics

Looking for any discontinued events of either Summer or Winter Olympics in the modern games. I have a wiki list reference, but will investigate all posts.

[Cordelia]

Naked Events

[mv*]

You might want to include a year for this one. If a sport is planned to not exist in 2010, does it count?

[Scurra]

Cricket


(no, Cordy, I'm not suggesting Cricket should be played Naked...)
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[dethwing]

Baseball

[Scurra]

Really? I must have missed that. Mind you, I can't see us allowing anyone to play Baseball at the London Olympics

Polo
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[dethwing]

Softball

[Scurra]

Golf
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[Amb]

I am not including games that havent happened yet.

To the person who PMed me and asked about the ancient games, please reread the category.

I am yet to verify the results, but about to go out.

[dethwing]

But they ARE discontinued, which is what the question asked.

Tug of War ?

[Amb]

All correct so far.

Yeah I want to exclude the future ones because thats harder to prove, and I dont want another 100 million dollar baseball situation

Plus my resource doesnt list them.

[Scurra]

Rugby
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[dethwing]

Hmm, running out of ideas...

Lacrosse ?

[Scurra]

Croquet

(and that's pretty much my last one too)
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[dethwing]

Well, I remember seeing this on a list somewhere:

Life Saving ?

[Amb]

Rugby, Lacrosse and Croquet are all correct. Lifesaving does not appear on the wiki page. Am investigating.

[Amb]

It looks as though Lifesaving is recognised by the IOC, but it has never actually been implemented.

[dethwing]

That's about what I figured. No matter, I'll catch up.

What else is there?

[Scurra]

I didn't have Baseball or Softball (or Tug-of-War, although I knew you were right as soon as I saw it.)
The last two on my list were Lacrosse and Pelota which both seemed feasible but they would definitely have been guesses...

If I'm nominating, then I'd like to take Science and Nature.
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[dethwing]

I knew some of the ones you said, my mistake was using my baseball/softball too soon. I thought those were easier since they had just been pulled recently. Turns out I should have saved them!


Pelota I've never heard of though.

[lexprod]

Amb, could you post the list for the spectators? I'm intrigued.
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[Amb*]

Baseball 1992–2008
Basque pelota 1900
Cricket 1900
Croquet 1900
Golf 1900-1904
Jeu de paume 1908
Lacrosse 1904-1908
Polo 1900; 1908; 1920; 1924; 1936
Rackets 1908
Roque 1904
Rugby union 1900; 1908; 1920; 1924
Softball 1996–2008
Tug of war 1900–1920
Water motorsports 1908
Military patrol 1924

Science and nature to follow.

[Amb*]

Figure Skating and Ice Hockey were relocated to the winter games from the summer games. I guess Id have rejected them, but im glad it didnt come up

[dethwing]

I contemplated trying Ice Hockey (I didn't know about the figure skating). But I figured it wouldn't count.

[jbvntx]

What about speed skiing? That used to be in the olympics.
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[Amb]

Im a tad behind on getting this list for you due to some PC problems at home. I will have this up ASAP.

[Amb]

The 30 Most Abundant Isotopes in the Solar System according to Wiki

I am only looking for the atom name. If the most abundant element in the universe was Randomonium-3 then an answer of Randomonium will suffice. If an element appears multiple times on the list (they do) they still can only be answered once.

D: Carbon [Carbon-12]

[dethwing]

Carbon

[Scurra]

Hydrogen
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[dethwing]

Helium