Eight teams participated in the first tournament: Australia, England, India, New Zealand, Pakistan, and the West Indies ( the six Test nations at the time ), together with Sri Lanka and a composite team from East Africa.

Eight teams from each conference were seeded 1-8 based on their regular season records.

Several teams now benefit from the involvement of Tom Walkinshaw Racing, Triple Eight Race Engineering and Prodrive.

* Triple Eight Race Engineering – from 2013, Red Bull will sponsor one of the top V8 Supercar teams.

The eight original teams and their counterparts in the " Classic Eight " were:

Eight former members of the Islanders have been inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame, seven of whom — Al Arbour, Mike Bossy, Clark Gillies, Denis Potvin, Billy Smith, Bill Torrey and Bryan Trottier — were members of all four Cup winning teams.

Currently, in the NRL, eight teams qualify for the finals ; starting with the 2012 season, the system was changed from the McIntyre Final Eight to the same system used by the AFL.

From the conference's formation until the 2010 – 11 season, the Big 12 was split into two divisions for most major sports: the Texas schools plus Oklahoma and Oklahoma State made up the South Division, and the remaining six former Big Eight Conference teams ( Colorado, Iowa State, Kansas, Kansas State, Missouri, and Nebraska ) constituted the North Division.

They also provided a level of cosmopolitan international competition, which tended not to exist in rugby before the first Rugby World Cup in 1987, especially since was not seen as one of the " Big Eight ", and other than some involvement with, the Commonwealth teams tended to be notoriously clannish.

Eight teams qualify for the Division II ICT, where they compete alongside other D-2 teams in a manner analogous to that of D-1 Undergraduate teams.

By 1975, the game was able to attract Big Eight co-champion Nebraska to play undefeated Arizona State in a matchup of top-five teams.

Eight teams entered the water polo event, with one withdrawing before competition.

Eight teams have won back-to-back championships ; the Springfield Indians of 1960-62 is the only team to have won three straight Calder Cup championships.

Eight matches were played between the two teams in the early 1980s — all awarded Test status.

Eight teams come with the game and six more teams can be created.

1947 — Eight teams were divided into two, four-team, single-elimination playoffs.

Eight teams began the playoffs with the four finalists decided by a best-of-three district format.

Eight national teams contested the finals tournament.

Eight teams were ever-present in the division for the 30 years of its existence.

Eight teams entered ( including two from France ), although Hungary and Bohemia withdrew before the start.

Eight NCAA Division I college baseball teams met after having played their way through a 64-team bracket to play at historic Johnny Rosenblatt Stadium.

There are 151 items in the Wilmington show, including one painting by each member of the `` Eight '', as well as work by Sloan's friends and students.

* 1962 – Eight years after the remaining French India territories were handed to India, the ratifications of the treaty are exchanged to make the transfer official.

Eight left-wing activists are arrested on May 19, 1975 by Japanese authorities.

Eight rasas and associated bhāvas are named and their enjoyment is likened to savoring a meal: rasa is the enjoyment of flavors that arise from the proper preparation of ingredients and the quality of ingredients.

Eight structural isomers with molecular formula C < sub > 5 </ sub > H < sub > 12 </ sub > O and all alcohols are known:

Eight of the nine districts are partly or wholly on Tortola, and encompass nearby neighbouring islands.

Eight of its 14 governors are nominated by the Diocese of Truro or the Parochial Church Council of St. Petroc's, Bodmin.

Eight species are described although many researchers believed these actually represented only three at most while some estimated there could be around twenty in total.

* 1957 – Eight people on the ground in Pacoima, California are killed following the mid-air collision between a Douglas DC-7 airliner and a Northrop F-89 Scorpion fighter jet.

Eight are killed and 80 wounded.

Eight peremptory challenges are allowed for both counsels for all offences in Queensland.

Eight of these are piscivorous and an important prey is the small Barbus tanapelagius, another endemic of the lake ( B. humilis and B. pleurogramma also occur in Lake Tana, but neither is endemic ).

Eight of its proposed constituent divisions ( excluding Kunama, Kuliak, and Songhay ) are found in the modern nation of Sudan, through which the Nile River flows.

Eight civilians are killed and thirteen wounded.

Eight Sri Lankan Air Force planes are destroyed and 10 damaged.

Eight genera and 26 species are currently recognized.

The Eight Precepts are precepts for Buddhist lay men and women who wish to practice Buddhism more strictly than through adherence to the usual five precepts.

The largest fragment produced the main crater with a depth of 22 m. Eight smaller craters with diameters ranging from 12 to 40 m and depths varying from 1 to 4 m are all within 1 kilometer of the main crater.

The Taijitu (" yin and yang ") symbol as well as the Ba gua 八卦 (" Eight Trigrams ") are associated with Taoist symbolism.

Eight of its undergraduate campuses are ranked among the top 100, six among the top 50, and two among the top 25 U. S. universities by U. S. News and World Report.

Eight campuses operate on the quarter system, while Berkeley and Merced are on the semester system.

Eight finalists are sent to a panel of professional sf writers, who determine the top three awards.

Eight of them are later arrested and tortured, and at least four are killed.

* November 17 – Eight British servicemen are killed in Jerusalem by Jewish nationalists.