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.
Cue that “palpable hue of anticipation” . . .
ESPN8: The Ocho Full Schedule of Events
| Date | Time (ET) | Program | Network |
| Sun, Mar 22 | Midnight | Johnsonville ACL Cornhole Championships: 2020 Kickoff Battle | ESPN8 |
| 2 a.m. | World Axe Throwing League: 2019 World Championship | ESPN8 | |
| 4 a.m. | U.S. Open Ultimate Championships | ESPN8 | |
| 6 a.m. | 2019 Spikeball College Championship | ESPN8 | |
| 7 a.m. | 2019 Las Vegas Highland Games | ESPN8 | |
| 7:30 a.m. | Putt Putt Championships | ESPN8 | |
| 8 a.m. | 2019 IDEAL Electricians National Championship | ESPN8 | |
| 9 a.m. | E:60 as part of The Ocho | ESPN8 | |
| 9:30 a.m. | 51st National Stone Skipping Competition | ESPN8 | |
| 10:30 a.m. | 2007 World Sport Stacking Championships | ESPN8 | |
| 11:30 a.m. | 2019 World Sign Spinning Championship | ESPN8 | |
| Noon | 2006 Krystal World Hamburger Eating Championship | ESPN8 | |
| 1 p.m. | 2006 Johnsonville Brat Eating World Championship | ESPN8 | |
| 2 p.m. | European TramDriver Championship | ESPN8 | |
| 3 p.m. | 2019 Stupid Robot Fighting League | ESPN8 | |
| 3:30 p.m. | 46th Annual Cherry Pit Spitting Championship | ESPN8 | |
| 4 p.m. | Professional Arm Wrestling Championships | ESPN8 | |
| 4:30 p.m. | 2019 Golden Tee World Championship | ESPN8 | |
| 5 p.m. | 2018 Classic Tetris World Championship | ESPN8 | |
| 5:30 p.m. | E:60 on ESPN8 Presented by Liberty Mutual | ESPN8 | |
| 6:30 p.m. | America’s Dodgeball Continental Cup: USA vs. Canada | ESPN8 | |
| 7:30 p.m. | 2019 Jelle’s Marble Runs | ESPN8 | |
| 8 p.m. | Slippery Stairs: College Tour | ESPN8 | |
| 8:30 p.m. | 2019 Death Diving World Championship | ESPN8 | |
| 9:30 p.m. | Dodge Juggle 3 | ESPN8 | |
| 10:30 p.m. | Moxie Games 3 | ESPN8 |
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