Games

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]

Fencing

Fencing Ireland

Fencing Ireland organises a number of tournaments per year.

FI Medal Winners (Major Tournaments) (Seasons): 2018-19

FI Rankings Men’s Epee (End-of-Season): 2019-20

FI Medal Winners Men’s Epee (Seasons): 2018-19

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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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Irish Taekwon-Do Association Logo

Taekwon-Do

Irish Taekwon-Do Association

Irish Taekwon-Do Association

ITA Irish Cup & National Championships (Years): 2016

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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]

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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

Speleological Union of Ireland Logo [Reference: 1]

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

Caving Clubs List 2020

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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

Coin Rugby

Coin Rugby

Coin Rugby (AKA Push-Penny)

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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.

International Maths Olympiad Logo

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

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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:

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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 ]

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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:

Quidditch Ireland Logo
Quidditch Ireland Logo

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]

Quidditch

QI

Quidditch Ireland

Irish Quidditch Cup (Schedules): 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:

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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:

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Jugger Turniere

JT

Jugger Turniere Season 2019

3. jugger.cz Open 2019

Jugger Turniere Season 2018

World Club Championship 2018

Jugger Turniere Season 2017

Jugger.cz Open 2017

Jarnsvenskan 2017

Jugger Turniere Season 2016

Irish International 2016

International Tournament of Spain 2016

Metallsvenskan Jugger Turnering 2016

Jugger Turniere Season 2015

Mile High International 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:

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Paintball & Woodsball

IPL. IWL

Paintball

Millennium European Paintball Series (Seasons):

2015

Irish Paintball League (Overviews):

Irish Paintball League 2008-2010

Irish Paintball League (Seasons):

2010 2009 2008

Woodsball

Irish Woodsball League (Seasons):

2012 2011 2010

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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:

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Quasar Stats

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Quasar Stats

Quasar Stats End of Year Team Rankings (Years):

2017

Quasar Stats UK & Ireland Tournaments

QS UK & Ireland: Whitstable 17 March 2018

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Capture the Flag

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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

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[1] CTF Time (2017) CTF Time Logo [Internet] Available from: https://ctftime.org/static/images/CTFTIME-flat-logo-true.png [Accessed 28 November 2017]

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CTF Time

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Capture the Flag CTF Time 2014-2019

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