No, it’s not the eighth of August, or the eighth of anything or even August at all. That is the magic ESPN8: The Ocho. There is always a place for a full 24-hours of seldom seen sports so Sunday, March 22 on ESPN2 will be just that, a full day of exciting content from Ocho stunts past.
This will be the fourth edition of ESPN8: The Ocho since the initiative began in the summer of 2017, inspired by the 2004 hit movie “Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story” featuring Vince Vaughn, Christine Taylor and Ben Stiller.
The line-up includes:
- Stupid Robot Fighting League: Created in New Zealand by John Espin (Yes, that is his actual name.), Stupid Robot Fighting is a rather unique form of fighting that pits two life-sized hanging puppets controlled by an operator sitting behind each Stupid Robot.
- 2019 Jelle’s Marble Runs: Races in which both participants and spectators are marbles.
- Cherry Pit Spitting: The 46th Annual Cherry Pit-Spitting Competition is held each year in Eau Claire, Mich., with one goal for competitors—to spit the farthest cherry pit.
- Sign Spinning: The 12th Annual World Sign Spinning Championship, held in Las Vegas, brought together AArrow Sign Spinners from more than 50 cities and a dozen countries to asses style, execution, and technical sign spinning ability.
- 2007 World Sport Stacking Championships: Sport stacking can be an individual or team sport where participants stack specially designed cups in predetermined sequences as fast as possible.
- 2019 Death Diving World Championship: An amateur diving sport performed from a 10m platform with separate competitions for Classic and Freestyle.
Here’s the full ESPN8 The Ocho schedule:
Sunday, March 22
Midnight
Johnsonville ACL Cornhole Championships: 2020 Kickoff Battle
2 a.m.
World Axe Throwing League: 2019 World Championship
4 a.m.
U.S. Open Ultimate Championships
6 a.m.
2019 Spikeball College Championship
7 a.m.
2019 Las Vegas Highland Games
7:30 a.m.
Putt Putt Championships
8 a.m.
2019 IDEAL Electricians National Championship
9 a.m.
E:60 as part of The Ocho
9:30 a.m.
51st National Stone Skipping Competition
10:30 a.m.
2007 World Sport Stacking Championships
11:30 a.m.
2019 World Sign Spinning Championship
Noon
2006 Krystal World Hamburger Eating Championship
1 p.m.
2006 Johnsonville Brat Eating World Championship
2 p.m.
European TramDriver Championship
3 p.m.
2019 Stupid Robot Fighting League
3:30 p.m.
46th Annual Cherry Pit Spitting Championship
4 p.m.
Professional Arm Wrestling Championships
4:30 p.m.
2019 Golden Tee World Championship
5 p.m.
2018 Classic Tetris World Championship
5:30 p.m.
E:60 on ESPN8 Presented by Liberty Mutual
6:30 p.m.
America’s Dodgeball Continental Cup: USA vs. Canada
7:30 p.m.
2019 Jelle’s Marble Runs
8 p.m.
Slippery Stairs: College Tour
8:30 p.m.
2019 Death Diving World Championship
9:30 p.m.
Dodge Juggle 3
10:30 p.m.
Moxie Games 3
