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Series champions from this series onwards are awarded the Richard Whiteley Memorial Trophy. Up until Series 83, champions were also awarded the complete leather-bound set of the Oxford English Dictionary (although the Series 31 champion, David Acton, turned the prize down due to his strict veganism and instead opted to take it in CD-ROM form ...
For the purposes of prizes contestants compete simultaneously in all divisions for which they are eligible, with no more than one cash prize per contestant. The 11 regional divisions include ten U.S. divisions and a "Foreign" division for the rest of the world. [5]
The single day record for shows in daytime television was set in 1984 by Michael Larson, who won $110,237 (equivalent to $323,000 in 2023) [3] on Press Your Luck. Larson achieved this record by memorizing the show's board patterns, repeatedly hitting the board's squares that awarded contestants money and an additional spin, which would, in turn, replace the spin he had just used, effectively ...
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Tournament of Champions is a national high school debate tournament held at the University of Kentucky every year in late April. To qualify, debaters need at least two bids or automatically qualify by placing high enough at last year's Tournament of Champions. [1]
Geoff Keighley announced that The Game Awards will be giving away 100 Steam Deck OLEDS during the show.
The World Checkers/Draughts Championship is the tournament of English draughts (also known as "American checkers" or "straight checkers") which determines the world champion.
The "Spring", "Summer", and "Fall" NABCs are usually scheduled in March, July, and November for about eleven days. They comprise both championship and side contests of different kinds (e.g. matchpoint pairs and knockout teams, one-day and two-day) in many classes of competition (e.g. open/women/senior or defined by masterpoints®).