Olympic Sports Olympic Sports include Athletics (Track & Field), Swimming, Winter Sports, X-Games, Gymnastics, Weightlifting, Fitness and Strength. Variations on these Sports such as Sea Swimming (Liffey Swim), and Hill Running are also covered here. For other Olympic Sports such as Golf and Soccer please see the Sections dedicated to these sports in Navigation Bars.
Combat Sports Boxing Variations on Boxing include Olympic / Professional Boxing, UFC (Ultimate Fighting Championship), Boxing-UFC Compromise Rules and Kickboxing. Wrestling including Greco-Roman Wrestling, WWE, Lucha Libre and Sumo. Fencing and Sword-Figthing, including Fencing, Medieval Armored Combat. Martial Arts, Karate, Tae-kwon Do, Judo, MMA.
Adventure Sports Orienteering, Mountaineering (Climbing and Fell Running), Caving, Hot Air Ballooning.
Traditional Games Games covered in Eirball include Card Games, Board Games, Children’s Games, Table Games (Table Football, RPGs and LARPS), Computer Games (Capture the Flag, Robot Football, Console Sports, Fantasy Sports and Simulated Sports), and Party Games
Computer Sports include Capture the Flag (an Ethical Hacking Computer Sport), Robot Football (teams of motorized robots shunt a ball around an Arena towards goals at either end). Console Games (X-Box and Playstation Sports games such as Madden NFL and FIFA Soccer). Fantasy Sports (where players draft real players in a League, and score points based on how well they perform in real matches). Simulation games (where the information for players is inputted into a computer and then a Computer User v Computer User Simulation takes place).
Contests include Quizzes and Mind-Games such as the Maths Olympiad and Spelling Bees; Musical Sports and Games such as The Eurovision Song Contest; Fiddle Contests, Duelling Banjos, Battle of the Bands, Rap Contests; Dance & Cheer Sports such as Ballroom Dancing, Breakdancing and Cheer Sport; TV Sports such as American Ninja; Gladiators; The Crystal Maze; Debating Contests; Talent Contests such as The Rose of Tralee, X-Factor and Ireland’s Got Talent and Body-Building and Beauty Contests.
Alternative Sports and Games include Ultimate and other Flying Disc Sports, Dodgeball, Roller Derby, Quidditch, Jugger, Paintball / Airsoft, Laser Tag (Quasar) and Capture the Flag.
Track & Field
Track & Field
Athletics has a long and distinguished presence in Ireland, with numerous Summer Olympics Medal winners. It is also known as Track & Field. Other disciplines include Mountain Running
National Track & Field League:
Athletics Ireland | National Track & Field League | Premier Men 2007-2009
Athletics Ireland | National Track & Field League | Final Premier Men 2014-2018
Athletics Ireland | National Track & Field League | Premier Women Final 2007-2009
Athletics Ireland | National Track & Field League | Premier Women Final 2014-2017
Athletics Ireland National Combined Events (Years): 2020
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[3] Athletics Ireland (2020) Mountain_Running [Internet] Available from: https://www.athleticsireland.ie/downloads/events/Mountain_Running.jpg [Accessed 15 October 2020]
Mountain Running
Irish Mountain Running Association
Irish Mountain Running Association
IMRA Irish Championship (Years): 2020
Picture Credit: [3] Athletics Ireland (2020) Mountain_Running [Internet] Available from: https://www.athleticsireland.ie/downloads/events/Mountain_Running.jpg [Accessed 15 October 2020]
Swim Ireland
Olympic Games; Irish Open Swimming Championships.
The Olympic Games is the pinnacle of an Athletes career and Irish Swimmers have been winning Medals at the Olympic Games since 1924. The Irish Open Swimming Championships are one of the highlights of the Irish Swimming Calendar.
Swim Ireland Swimming Past Olympians
Swim Ireland Swimming Past Olympians 1924-Present
Irish Open Swimming Championships:
IOSC Men 400m LC Freestyle Relay 2015-2017
IOSC Women 400m LC Freestyle Relay 2015-2017
IOSC Men 800m LC Freestyle Relay 2015-2017
IOSC Women 800m LC Freestyle Relay 2015-2016
IOSC Women 400 LC M Medley Relay 2015-2017
IOSC Men 400 LC M Medley Relay 2015-2017
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Open Sea Swimming
Leinster Open Sea.
The Dublin City Liffey Swim was first raced in 1920 and was the first of its kind in the World.
Leinster Open Sea:
Leinster Open Sea Dublin City Liffey Swim Men’s Winners 1920-Present
Leinster Open Sea Dublin City Liffey Swim Women’s Winners 1979-Present
Leinster Open Sea Dun Laoghaire Harbour Race Men’s Winners 1931-Present
Leinster Open Sea Dun Laoghaire Harbour Race Women’s Winners 1967-Present
Picture Credit: [3] Leinster Open Sea (2020) cropped-369_0330 [Internet] Available from: http://www.leinsteropensea.ie/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/cropped-369_0330.jpg [Accessed 23 November 2020]
Skiing
Ski Club of Ireland
There is a small amount of Winter Sports in Ireland. Apart from the Ice Hockey & Inline Hockey Leagues and Curling there is also an artificial Ski Slope at Kilternan in Dublin, and Irish Teams have entered Ice Skating and Bobsleigh competitions abroad.
Ski Club of Ireland
SCI Giant Slalom League Race (Seasons): 2015-16
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Surfing
European Surfing Championships, Irish Surfing Association
European Surfing Championships
Ireland Hosted the first European Surfing Championships in 1972.
European Surfing Championships (Seasons): Lahinch, Ireland 1972
European Surfing Championships Juniors (Seasons): Lahinch, Ireland 1972
Irish Surfing Roll of Honour:
Irish Surfing Association Intercounties Champions 1968-Present
Irish Surfing Association Men’s Champions 1967-Present
Irish Surfing Association Women’s Champions 1981-Present
ISA Intercounty Championships (Seasons): 1968
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Gymnastics
Gymnastics Ireland
Gymastics Ireland is the National Governing Body for the Olympic Sport in Ireland. It is a member of the Federation of International Gymnastics.
GI Womens Artistic Natonal Series Team Results (Years): 2019
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Fitness
Cross-Fit Games
Fitness is the sport where contestants engage in a series of timed exercises, performance and tasks.
The Cross-Fit Games are the World Championships of the sport, sponsored by Reebok.
Cross-Fit Games Women (Years): 2020
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The Irish Strength Association runs Strongman and Strongwoman competitions in Ireland, as well as sending representatives to the Ultimate Strength World Championships and other Strength Competitions Worldwide.
Ultimate Strength
Irish Strength Association
World Ultimate Strength Tour
Ultimate Strength Uzbekistan Event (Years): 2017
Picture Credit: [3] Irish Strength Association (2017) 23828876_10213984711348883_1980036981_o-624×416 [Internet] Available from: https://web.archive.org/web/20190928083056im_/http://irishstrongman.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/23828876_10213984711348883_1980036981_o-624×416.jpg [Accessed 15 October 2020]
Combat Sports
Variations on Boxing include Olympic / Professional Boxing, Bare-Knuckle Boxing (currently not sanctioned), UFC (Ultimate Fighting Championship) and Kickboxing
Boxing
Irish Athletic Boxing Association
Ireland’s most successful Olympic Sport.
Irish Athletic Boxing Association
Irish Athletic Boxing Association Irish Olympic Medal Winners 1952-Present
Strandja Multi-Nations Sofia Bulgaria (Years): 2020
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Wrestling (Greco-Roman)
Irish Amateur Wrestling Association
Olympic Wrestling is the version which dates back to Ancient Greece and Rome and the original Olympic Games. It is the version in the Modern Olympics also.
Competitive Wresling dates back to at least the Original Olympic Games in Athens, Ancient Greece. Another Ancient versions of Wrestling is Sumo (Japan). Modern versions include Olympic (Greco-Roman), WWE (American), Lucha Libre (Mexico), and indeed also Mud Wrestling (England) and Jelly Wrestling (Ireland). This page focuses on the Greco-Roman Wrestling, for other versions see Irish Combat Sports, British Combat Sports, American Combat Sports and World Combat Sports.
Irish Amateur Wrestling Association Events:
Irish Open (Years): 2019
Dublin Freestyle Open (Years): 2019
Picture Credit: [2] Irish Amateur Wrestling Association (2019) about_us [Internet] Available from: https://www.irishwrestling.ie/img/about_us.jpg [Accessed 23 November 2020]
Karate
Irish Kenpo Karate Union; International Japan Karate Association Ireland
International Japan Karate Association Ireland
IJKAI Irish National Championships (Years): 2000
Irish Kenpo Karate Union
IKKU Open (Years): 2019
IKKU Invitational (Years): 2015
I-Karate Global
I-Karate Global World Cup (Editions): 2018
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Taekwon-Do
Irish Taekwon-Do Association
Irish Taekwon-Do Association
ITA Irish Cup & National Championships (Years): 2016
Picture Credit: [1] Irish Taekwon-Do Association (2016) ITA+Logo [Internet] Available from: https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5de5132908114a27bbdd5250/t/5de51d89b93cc92d39dc8c9c/1618517334164/?format=1500w [Accessed 28 April 2021]
WWE
WWE World Wrestling Entertainment
World Wrestling Entertainment is the Modern American made-for-TV version of wrestling.
WWE World Wrestling Entertainment Irish Wrestlers 2001-Present
Picture credit: [3] Becky Lynch WWE Facebook (2020) Photo, January 21, 2020 [Internet] Available from: https://scontent-dub4-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/p960x960/83001548_2496579183941929_2963653989746343936_o.jpg?_nc_cat=111&_nc_ohc=W6fCHcHC8QQAX-8Ppo8&_nc_ht=scontent-dub4-1.xx&_nc_tp=6&oh=bcae12c1ab5debedd9ee7a1af08ac971&oe=5EC9334D [Accessed 1 February 2020]
UFC (America)
Ultimate Fighting Championship
Ultimate Fighting Championship
UFC Ultimate Fighting Championship Irish Fighters
Images
[1] Conor McGregor Facebook (2016) Profile Picture, March 26, 2016 [Internet] Available from: https://scontent-dub4-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/12472457_1241042205964076_2034147305309584757_n.jpg?_nc_cat=1&_nc_ohc=4wQ13WTaWjEAX-ggUS4&_nc_ht=scontent-dub4-1.xx&oh=edec85652a3d5ab0f03ef43caa44ab94&oe=5E953CD5 [Accessed 1 February 2020]
Gladiating
ITV Gladiators
Gladiating is a fun version of the ancient Roman military combat as was seen on US and British TV Programs from the 1990s onwards.
Various types of combat or adventure-like tasks are engaged in by teams of players.
Irish Gladiator Contestants:
Audrey Garland Irish-born Gladiators Contestant 1997
There are a couple of venues in Ireland where people can engage in Gladiator Weekends:
Adventure Park (Watergrasshill, Co. Cork): https://www.adventurepark.ie/
Team Building Ireland (Kippure, Blessington, Co. Wicklow): https://teambuildingireland.com/corporate-family-fun-day/
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Boxing-UFC Compromise Rules
Boxing-UFC Compromise Rules.
Irish Combat Sports include Boxing-UFC Compromise Rules; Bare-Knuckle Boxing (no longer sanctioned in Ireland but still sanctioned in 3 American States); and Jelly Wrestling (Not Sanctioned).
Modified Rules Boxing – Floyd Mayweather Jr versus Conor McGregor
Picture Credit: [1] Conor McGregor Facebook (2016) Profile Picture, March 26, 2016 [Internet] Available from: https://scontent-dub4-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/12472457_1241042205964076_2034147305309584757_n.jpg?_nc_cat=1&_nc_ohc=4wQ13WTaWjEAX-ggUS4&_nc_ht=scontent-dub4-1.xx&oh=edec85652a3d5ab0f03ef43caa44ab94&oe=5E953CD5 [Accessed 1 February 2020]
Medieval Armoured Combat
Medieval Armoured Combat Ireland
Medieval Armoured Combat involves Knights, dressed up in Armour for the occasion, fighting each other using lances and swords and other weapons.
MACI Claregalway Castle Group Fights (Internationals)(Years):2017
Kickboxing (Thailand)
Kickboxing Ireland
Kickboxing originated in Thailand. Kicks as wel as punches are allowed, as are a variety of weapons.
Galway International Kickboxing Challenge (Years): 1998
Kickboxing Ireland Award Winners (Years): 2019
Picture credit: [3] Kickboxing Ireland (2014) light_slide [Internet] Available from: https://www.kickboxingireland.ie/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/light_slide.png [Accessed 15 October 2020]
Sumo (Japan)
Sumo World Championships
John Gunning was the first Irishman to compete in the Sumo World Championships for Ireland.
Irish International Sumo Wrestlers
John Gunning Irish Sumo Wrestler
Sumo Reference
I have it on the authority of John Gunning that this Referece website is one of the best ever. The German who compiled it went through over 100 years of Japanese Newspapers. It cnntains the results of every Japanese Sumo bout ever recorded back to early 1900s or before.
Sumo Reference: http://sumodb.sumogames.de/
[5] Irish Independent (2019) John Gunning [Internet] Available from: https://cdn-02.independent.ie/life/d5719/38510314.ece/AUTOCROP/w620/2019-09-21_lif_53264469_I3.JPG [Accessed 1 February 2020]
Lucha Libre (Mexico)
AAA
Mexican version of WWE Wrestling
Triplemania (Bouts): XXIV 2018
Picture Credit: [4] Lucha Libre AAA (2020) Triplemanía-XXIV-15 [Internet] Available from: http://www.luchalibreaaa.com/en/psycho-clown-gran-ganador-triplemania-xxiv/ [Accessed 5 October 2020]
Adventure Sports
Orienteering Ireland
Leinster League; Munster League; South East League; Dublin by Night League; Kingdom League (Kerry); Greenway Series
Orienteering Ireland organises Leagues in Leinster, Munster, the South East, Dublin and Kerry.
Orienteering combines running with the discipline of Map Reading, whereby teams of players must find pre-set stations around a course, usually in an Outdoors Area, and return home in the quickest time. Penalties occur when a station is not reached in the correct order.
Dublin by Night Long (Level 1) (Seasons): 2018
Greenway Series (Seasons): 2020
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Mountaineering
There are two main types of Competitive Mountaineering in Ireland: Hill Running and Bouldering.
Mountaineering
Irish Bouldering League
The Irish Bouldering League is under Mountaineering Ireland and is run over 5 Competitions each year, with 30 problems to be solved in each competition. Points are scored from 10 Points to 1 depending on which attempt a climber solves a problem (10 Pts for 1st Attempt, 7 Pts for 2nd Attempt etc) [See Articles for References]
Irish Bouldering League
IBL Senior Female (Seasons): 2020-21
Irish Mountain Running Association
IMRA Championship (Seasons): 2020
Images
PIcture Credit: [3] Athletics Ireland (2020) Mountain_Running [Internet] Available from: https://www.athleticsireland.ie/downloads/events/Mountain_Running.jpg [Accessed 15 October 2020]
Caving
Speleological Union of Ireland
The Speleological Union of Ireland governs Caving in Ireland, which its’ website says is diverse and welcoming. There are 10 active Caving Clubs in Ireland, including 5 Student Clubs. There are caves in almost every part of Ireland with some as long as the 16km passage in Pollnagollum, Co. Clare, with the largest concentration in Co. Clare (Munster) and Co. Fermanagh and Co. Cavan (Ulster). There are new caves discovered all the time and caves yet to be discovered.
Speleological Union of Ireland
Picture Credit: [4] Speleological Union of Ireland (2020) suicro-2012-photocompetition-10 [Internet] Available from: https://www.caving.ie/wp-content/gallery/photocompetition2012/suicro-2012-photocompetition-10.jpg [Last Accessed 31 October 2020]
Hot Air Ballooning
Irish Ballooning Association
Irish Ballooning Association
The Irish Ballooning Association sanctions Hot Air Balloon flights and competitions in Ireland
Irish Ballooning Association: https://irishballooningassociation.com/ (Hot Air Ballooning)
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Traditional Games
Traditional Games Games covered in Eirball include Card Games, Board Games, Children’s Games, Table Games (Table Football, RPGs and LARPS), Computer Games (Capture the Flag, Robot Football, Console Sports, Fantasy Sports and Simulated Sports), and Party Games
Computer Sports include Capture the Flag (an Ethical Hacking Computer Sport), Robot Football (teams of motorized robots shunt a ball around an Arena towards goals at either end). Console Games (X-Box and Playstation Sports games such as Madden NFL and FIFA Soccer). Fantasy Sports (where players draft real players in a League, and score points based on how well they perform in real matches). Simulation games (where the information for players is inputted into a computer and then a Computer User v Computer User Simulation takes place).
Card Games
Federation of Irish Bridge
Card Games played competitively include Poker and Bridge.
Bridge is a Card Game popular with older people.
Donegal Bridge Congress Mixed Pairs (Years): 2017
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Board Games
Irish Chess Union
Board Games include Chess, Draughts, Mancala.
The Irish Chess Union governs the game in Ireland.
Irish Chess Union
Irish Chess Union Irish Champions 2009-Present
Community Games Chess & Draughts
Connaught Community Games Chess & Draughts (Seasons): 2019
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Children’s Games
Pass the Parcel
Pass the Parcel
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Table Football
Northern Ireland Table Football Association
Northern Ireland Table Football Association (Overviews):
Northern Ireland Table Football Association National Championships 1979-1990
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Computer Games
Computer Games include Capture the Flag; Console Sports; Fantasy Sports and Robot Football
Capture the Flag
CTF Time
Capture the Flag is Information Security Competitions, a kind of Sport for Computer Combat.
There are three common types of CTF Competitions: Jeopardy, Attack-Defense, and Mixed.
Jeopardy Competitions have a number of Tasks (questions) such as Web, Forensic, Crypto or Binary. Teams gain points for completed tasks, the harder the task, the more points.
Attack-Defense is another scenario, whereby teams have their own network (or only one host) with vulnerable services. Teams have a time limit for developing services and developing exploits. Then the organisers connect the competitors and the Wargame starts. Points are gained for Defense (protecting own services) and Attack (hacking opponents services).
Mixed employ both Jeopardy and Attack-Defense scenarios.
Capture the Flag games touch on a number of different aspects of information security, such as Cryptography, Stego, Binary Analysis, Reverse Engineering and Mobile Security.
CTF Time:
Capture the Flag CTF Time 2014-2019
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Robot Football
United Soccer League eCup Rocket League
The USL eCup Rocket League combines Soccer with rocket-propelled cars. Teams use computer-controlled rocket-propelled cars to try to score more goals than their opponents.
United Soccer League eCup Rocket League Edition 2020
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Console Sports
NBA 2K, American Football Ireland Madden PS4 & X-Box
National Basketball Association 2K League
National Basketball League 2K League 2018-Present
American Football Ireland
American Football Ireland Madden Championship Series 2020
World American Football Madden NFL
Relocation Football League (Madden NFL) 2016-Present
Relocation Football League Season 5 2033 (Real Time 2020)
MUTHEAD Madden Ultimate Team MHL Season 7 2019
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Fantasy Sports
Fantasy Leagues started in Baseball in USA. They were popularised in Britain & Ireland by David Baddiel & David Skinner in their Channel 4 Comedy Programme, Fantasy Football, during the European Championships of 1996, which England hosted.
They all follow a format whereby players pick a squad from real-life players and are awarded points for how those players do in real life matches (i.e. points are awarded for Goals & Assists in Soccer, as well as points deducted for the defensive players letting in goals.)
As well as numerous online Fantasy Leagues run by the Major League sporting organisations and Big English Sports Leagues, Newspapers run their own Fantasy Competitions ranging from Football to Golf.
Below you will find links to the Results of various Fantasy Leagues in Ireland:
Fantasy American Football (Decade Overviews):
Irish Fantasy League of American Football 1997-2005
Irish Fantasy League of American Football 2006-2015
First Down Fantasy Football
First Down Fantasy Gridiron Ireland 1994-1996
Fantasy NFL
NFL Fantasy Football NFL-Ireland 2015-2018
NFL Fantasy Football AFL Ireland 2020
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Simulated Sports
Irish American Football Association Madden NFL
Irish American Football Association Simulation:
Madden NFL | Irish American Football League | Shamrock Bowl XXII Simulation
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Contests
Contests include Quizzes and Mind-Games such as the Maths Olympiad and Spelling Bees; Musical Sports and Games such as The Eurovision Song Contest; Fiddle Contests, Duelling Banjos, Battle of the Bands, Rap Contests; Dance & Cheer Sports such as Ballroom Dancing, Breakdancing and Cheer Sport; TV Sports & Games such as American Ninja; Gladiators; The Crystal Maze; Debating Contests; Talent Contests such as The Rose of Tralee, X-Factor and Ireland’s Got Talent and Body-Building and Beauty Contests.
Maths Olympiad
International Maths Olympiad
International Maths Olympiad – Ireland’s Rankings 1988-2020
Picture Credit: [1] International Maths Olympiad (2021) IMOLogo [Internet] Available from: http://www.imo-official.org/IMOLogo.gif [Accessed 9 June 2021]
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Cheer Sport
International Cheer Union
International Cheer Union
World Cheerleading Championship
ICU WCC All Girl Elite (Editions): 2015
ICU WCC Coed Elite (Editions): 2015
American Football Ireland Cheerleaders
Cork Admirals Irish American Football Team Cheerleaders 2010
Irish-Born US College Football Cheerleaders
Conal Fagan Irish-Born College American Football Cheerleader 2018-2020
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Gladiating
ITV Gladiators
Gladiating is a fun version of the ancient Roman military combat as was seen on US and British TV Programs from the 1990s onwards.
Various types of combat or adventure-like tasks are engaged in by teams of players.
Irish Gladiator Contestants:
Audrey Garland Irish-born Gladiators Contestant 1997
There are a couple of venues in Ireland where people can engage in Gladiator Weekends:
Adventure Park (Watergrasshill, Co. Cork): https://www.adventurepark.ie/
Team Building Ireland (Kippure, Blessington, Co. Wicklow): https://teambuildingireland.com/corporate-family-fun-day/
Picture Credit: ITV Gladiators
Body Building & Beauty Contests
Body Building, Beauty Contests, Child Beauty Pageants, Bonnie Baby Competitions, Gurning, Swimsuit and Wet Tee-Shirt Competitions
Body Building and Beauty Contests such as Bonnie Baby Competitions, Child Beauty Pageants, Beauty Pageants, Swimsuit and Wet Tee-Shirt Competitions and Gurning (Pulling funny or ugly faces) are Contests which have little or no sporting value in that they are based on how good a person looks (or bad in the case of gurning) and are therefore subjective. Competitions of these nature shall not be covered in this Archive and are only noted here to note their existence.
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Alternative Sports and Games
This is the Eirball.world Archive of Irish Alternative Sports. It is an Ongoing Project and is part of the Eirball.ie – Irish, North American and World Sports Archives
Flying Disc Sports
There are two main Frisbee or Flying Disc sports played in Ireland – Ultimate: a team game whereby the objective is to pass the disc into an endzone in your opponents half and catch it without it touching the ground. The second is Disc Golf: similar to Golf but the player must get the disc into a basket in as few throws as possible, with a course in Co. Wicklow.
below you will find links to the Results and Tables of various Flying Disc sports in Ireland:
Flying Disc Sports
World Flying Disc Federation:
World Flying Disc Federation Dublin Golden Cup 2014-2018
European Ultimate Federation:
European Ultimate Federation | European Ultimate Championship Finals 2016
EUF European Ultimate Championship (Seasons): 2016
Irish Flying Disc Association – Irish Ultimate Leagues & Championships:
IFDA Irish Ultimate League (Seasons): 2017
IFDA All-Ireland Indoor Ultimate Championships (Seasons): 2018
Irish Flying Disc Association: Dublin Ultimate Leagues:
IFDA Dublin Winter Indoor Women’s Ultimate League (Seasons): 2017
IFDA Dublin Winter Indoor Mixed Ultimate League (Seasons): 2017
Irish Flying Disc Association | Schools:
Irish Flying Disc Association Schools All-Ireland Ultimate Championships 2008-2015
Irish Ultimate Teams [Roster & Match Reports]
Ireland Junior Women [ WUC 2016 ]
Ireland Senior Open [ CC 2016 ]
Ireland Women [ CC 2016 ]
Image References
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Quidditch
Quidditch is a team sport based on the sport portrayed in the Harry Potter books & films, whereby players on Broomsticks attempt to score through a vertical hoop at either end of the pitch.
Below you will find links to the results & tables of various competitions in Ireland:
Picture Credit: [2] Quidditch Ireland | Facebook (2019) Profile Picture [Internet] Available from: https://scontent-dub4-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-1/p200x200/17342921_1127670014028720_5549116649228817524_n.png?_nc_cat=109&_nc_ht=scontent-dub4-1.xx&oh=76a817909414acd9b270013ca8b4c378&oe=5D004D03 [Accessed 18 January 2019]
Roller Derby
Roller Derby, usually only played by Women, is a sport played on Roller Skates, where two teams (called Leagues in Roller Derby), race around an oval track. The object is to score points by overtaking opposition skaters and blocking them also.
Irish Leagues (teams) in Dublin, Limerick and Belfast have been members of the Women’s Flat Track Derby Association over the past four years. The WFTDA is a Worldwide Governing Body for the sport and organises tournaments worldwide, with Weighed Rankings kept, and the top Leagues competing in end-of-year tournaments.
Below you will find links to various WFTDA Rankings and Tournaments:
Roller Derby
WFDA
Women’s Flat Track Derby Association:
Women’s Flat Track Derby Association Irish Ranked Teams 2015-2018
Jugger
Jugger is like a cross between American Football and Medieval Combat. It is a team Sport where the objective is to get a skull from the middle of the field into a zone at the opposing teams end. There are five players on each team, four of whom are paired off fightning each other with padded weapons such as swords.
When a player is ‘killed’ in these fights he has to kneel down and is out of the game for that particular round. The Fifth person is the Qwick. His job is to get the skull from the middle of the field past the opposing Qwick into a zone at their opponents endzone. He can only advance the skull once the other teams fighters are all dead. The team which scores the most skull touchdowns is the winner.
Below you will find links to Tournaments involving Irish Teams:
Jugger Turniere
JT
Jugger Turniere Season 2019
Jugger Turniere Season 2018
Jugger Turniere Season 2017
Jugger Turniere Season 2016
International Tournament of Spain 2016
Metallsvenskan Jugger Turnering 2016
Jugger Turniere Season 2015
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Paintball / Airsoft
Paintball and Airsoft are Team Combat sports where pellet guns are used to ‘kill’ an opponent.
There are usually a number of objectives to be met i each game, which can score points for the team completing the objective. The sport is usually played in a number of scenarios such as World War II Village, Desert Town, Woodlands, Wild West etc.
The main difference in the guns used are paint guns for Paintball and Woodsball, and hard pellets for Airsoft.
Paintball was invented in New England, USA and Airsoft in Japan.
Below you will find links to various tournaments and leagues in these sports:
Paintball & Woodsball
IPL. IWL
Paintball
Millennium European Paintball Series (Seasons):
Irish Paintball League (Overviews):
Irish Paintball League 2008-2010
Irish Paintball League (Seasons):
Woodsball
Irish Woodsball League (Seasons):
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Laser Tag (Quasar)
Laser Tag games were invented in Texas, USA, and the most recognizable to Irish readers would be Quasar. The sport is one where two teams engage each other in combat in an indoor arena using Laser Guns. Points are scored for ‘killing’ an opponent and meeting objectives such as capturing bases.
Below you will find links to various Tournaments held in Ireland, or involving Irish Teams and Players:
Quasar Stats
QS
Quasar Stats
Quasar Stats End of Year Team Rankings (Years):
Quasar Stats UK & Ireland Tournaments
QS UK & Ireland: Whitstable 17 March 2018
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Capture the Flag
CTF Time Logo [Ref: 1]
About Capture the Flag
Capture the Flag is Information Security Competitions, a kind of Sport for Computer Combat.
There are three common types of CTF Competitions: Jeopardy, Attack-Defense, and Mixed.
Jeopardy Competitions have a number of Tasks (questions) such as Web, Forensic, Crypto or Binary. Teams gain points for completed tasks, the harder the task, the more points.
Attack-Defense is another scenario, whereby teams have their own network (or only one host) with vulnerable services. Teams have a time limit for developing services and developing exploits. Then the organisers connect the competitors and the Wargame starts. Points are gained for Defense (protecting own services) and Attack (hacking opponents services).
Mixed employ both Jeopardy and Attack-Defense scenarios.
Capture the Flag games touch on a number of different aspects of information security, such as Cryptography, Stego, Binary Analysis, Reverse Engineering and Mobile Security.
References
Images
[1] CTF Time (2017) CTF Time Logo [Internet] Available from: https://ctftime.org/static/images/CTFTIME-flat-logo-true.png [Accessed 28 November 2017]
CTF Time
CTF Time
CTF Time:
Capture the Flag CTF Time 2014-2019
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