In 1969, Karpov became the first Soviet player since Spassky ( 1955 ) to win the World Junior Chess Championship, scoring an undefeated 10 / 11 in the finals at Stockholm.

Fan posing with 2001 Arizona Diamondbacks World Series Championship Trophy

In Major League Baseball, the National League Championship Series ( NLCS ) is a round in the postseason that determines who wins the National League pennant and advances to Major League Baseball's championship, the World Series, facing the winner of the American League Championship Series.

The winner of the series advances to play the winner of the National League Championship Series in baseball's championship, the World Series.

Between 1957 and 1980 Granaglia won a record 13 World Championships, 12 European Championship titles, and 46 Italian National Championships.

However, they then went into one of the longest championship droughts in baseball history, called by some the " Curse of the Bambino " after its alleged beginning with the Red Sox's sale of Babe Ruth to the rival Yankees two years after their world championship in 1918, an 86-year wait before the team's sixth World Championship in.

After sweeping Minnesota in the American League Championship Series, Baltimore was shocked by losing to the New York Mets in a five-game World Series.

The IIHF World U20 Championship typically begins on 26 December, while the Spengler Cup also begins on 26 December in Davos, Switzerland ; the Spengler Cup competition includes HC Davos, Team Canada, and other top European Hockey teams.

Jack Brabham won his third title in 1966, becoming the only driver to win the Formula One World Championship in a car carrying his own name ( cf Surtees, Hill and Fittipaldi Automotive ).

In addition to the World Championship, there are the Women's World Championship, the Junior World Championship, the World Senior Championship, the Correspondence Chess World Championship, the World Computer Chess Championship, and Blitz and Rapid World Championships.

Lexington boasts of being " The Barbecue Capital of the World " and it has more than one BBQ restaurant per 1, 000 residents.

* Often referred to as " The World Series of Barbecue ", The American Royal Barbecue Contest is held each October in Kansas City, Missouri.

There are four main events, the Beale Street Music Festival, International Week, the World Championship Barbecue Cooking Contest, and the Sunset Symphony.

The World Championship Barbecue Cooking Contest is the largest pork barbecue cooking contest in the world.

It was established in 1854 and was recognised in 1988 by the Guinness Book of World Records as " The World's Largest Outdoor Barbecue ".

In addition to the Rich ’ s brand, the company sells products under a number of other brands it has acquired, such as: Mother ’ s Kitchen ; Allen ; Rolling Pin Donuts ; World Catch ; Battistoni ; SeaPak ; Farm Rich ; Casa Di Bertacchi ; Byron ’ s Barbecue ; Tiki Bay Beverages ; and Jon Donaire.

After many albums with roots label Cooking Vinyl, and a live performance album for Real World Records / WOMAD, White currently records for ALT Recordings through UK label Floating World in Europe, and independently elsewhere.

After signing to Cooking Vinyl they released a mini-album, A World Without Dave, and started their longest ever UK tour.

" Whats4Eats | International Recipes and Cooking Around the World.

* Marks, Gil, The World of Jewish Cooking: More than 500 Traditional Recipes from Alsace to Yemen, New York, Simon & Schuster, 1996, ISBN 0-684-83559-2

* Classic French Cooking ( 1978 ) Time-Life Foods of the World ISBN 0809400472

McGee has also written for Nature, Health, The New York Times, the World Book Encyclopedia, The Art of Eating, Food & Wine, Fine Cooking, and Physics Today and lectured on kitchen chemistry at cooking schools, universities, The Oxford Symposia on Food, the Denver Natural History Museum and the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory.

* Sara Lawrence, who represented Jamaica in the 2006 Miss World Contest

The cover of The Homestar Runner Enters the Strongest Man in the World Contest.

Intending to parody this, they wrote the original story The Homestar Runner Enters the Strongest Man in the World Contest.

1929 ), an entrepreneur named Donald F. Duncan recognized the potential of this new fad and purchased the Flores Yo-yo Corporation and all its assets, including the Flores name, which was transferred to the new company in 1932-the same year that the name " Yo-yo " was first registered as a trademark and Harvey Lowe won the first World Yo-Yo Contest in London, England.

The World Yo-Yo Contest is held every year in Orlando, Florida and is hosted by YoYoGuy. com during early August or late July.

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Weiser bills itself as the " Fiddling Capital of the World " and the National Oldtime Fiddlers ' Contest has been held each year since 1953.

Every fourth year the World Music Contest, a competition for amateur, professional, and military bands, is held in Kerkrade.

Events include a Kraut Car Cruise, 5K Kraut Run, tractor ride, kiddie parade, grand parade, Minnesota State Arm Wrestling Championships, car show, Miss Henderson Coronation, Sauerkraut Idol, and the World Champion Sauerkraut Eating Contest.

Greenfield is home to the Yankee Siege, considered the most powerful ( current ) trebuchet in the world, which has participated in the annual World Championship Punkin ' Chunkin ' Contest in Sussex County, Delaware since 2004.

The annual Corel World Design Contest ran from 1990 through 1998 and was considered to be one of the most prestigious graphic design contests, worldwide.

Two finalists for each of the eight categories were awarded a trip to Ottawa, Canada to participate in the Corel World Design Contest gala and awards ceremony.

The band won the National Brass Band Contest in 1946 at the Royal Albert Hall and in 1968 they won the first Brass Band World Championship.

Miss World started as the Festival Bikini Contest, in honour of the recently introduced swimwear of the time, but was called " Miss World " by the media.

Annual world championships ( full name: " The Annual Air Guitar World Championship Contest ") were first held in 1996 as part of the Oulu Music Video Festival in Oulu, Finland.

Dion had first gained international recognition in the 1980s by winning both the 1982 Yamaha World Popular Song Festival and the 1988 Eurovision Song Contest.

Scandinavium has been selected as a championship arena at least fifty times, hosting events such as World Championships in handball and ice hockey, European championships, Davis Cup finals, and in 1985 the Eurovision Song Contest.