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  2. Caber toss - Wikipedia

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    Each caber was more than 5m (16ft) long and weighed more than 40kg (88lbs), and they had to be flipped over end to end. The Braemar Caber is the worlds most famous Caber being 19ft 6 inches long and 132lbs in weight and has been won the most times by Alistair Gunn of Halkirk who has won it 8 times, the 8th time in 2007.

  3. World of Warcraft Classic - Wikipedia

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    World of Warcraft Classic is a 2019 massively multiplayer online role-playing game developed and published by Blizzard Entertainment. Running alongside the main version of the game , Classic recreates World of Warcraft in the vanilla state it was in before the release of its first expansion , The Burning Crusade .

  4. 1981 World's Strongest Man - Wikipedia

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    The 1981 World's Strongest Man was the fifth edition of World's Strongest Man and was won by Bill Kazmaier from the United States. It was his second consecutive title. Geoff Capes from the United Kingdom finished second after finishing third the previous year, and Dave Waddington from the United States finished third.

  5. Charlie Allan (farmer) - Wikipedia

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    Allan was active in many sports, including football, rugby, cricket and athletics at university and notably as a competitor in the Highland Games circuit, becoming world caber tossing champion in 1972. [5] [2] He performed and recorded as a singer, particularly of bothy ballads. [5] [1] Allan died on 13 December 2023, at the age of 84. [4] [7]

  6. Comparison of top chess players throughout history - Wikipedia

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    In 2021, Hikaru Nakamura published a Youtube video entitled "Hikaru's Hot Takes on the Ten Best Chess Players of All Time" [47] in which he reviewed a chess.com article on "The 10 Best Chess Players Of All Time." [48] In this video he suggested that it was unfair to exclude Paul Morphy and Viswanathan Anand from the 10 greatest players of all ...

  7. Boxing pound for pound rankings - Wikipedia

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    The following tables show the professional boxers listed in the latest top-10 pound for pound world rankings published by each of: The Ring magazine; Boxing Writers Association of America (BWAA — men only) Transnational Boxing Rankings Board (TBRB — men only) ESPN; BoxRec

  8. Highlander Challenge World Championships - Wikipedia

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    Sean Betz won both the hammer and 28-lb weight for distance. Zijlstra won the Famous Grouse Challenge Caber and Arsjo beat Rider in the pole push. The 56-lb weight for height saw no-one reach 17' and was a three-way tie for first place between Arsjo, Wenta and Zijlstra.

  9. Elo rating system - Wikipedia

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    World of Warcraft also previously used the Glicko-2 system to team up and compare Arena players, but now uses a system similar to Microsoft's TrueSkill. [65] The game Puzzle Pirates uses the Elo rating system to determine the standings in the various puzzles. This system is also used in FIFA Mobile for the Division Rivals modes.