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 teams are in the Premier Division, and contest for the Currie Cup trophy.

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

On September 9, 1980, Berrigan, his brother Daniel, and six others ( the " Plowshares Eight ") began the Plowshares Movement when they entered the General Electric Nuclear Missile Re-entry Division in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania where nose cones for the Mark 12A warheads were made.

His 1987-88 Owls team entered the NCAA tournament ranked # 1 in the country, and he reached the Elite Eight on five different occasions.

Eight factory-backed Valiants entered the 1960 NASCAR compact car race at Daytona Beach, and humbled the competition ; the Valiants came in first through eighth.

Eight high profile cabinet ministers entered the race, but by the time the convention began on April 3 the charismatic Trudeau had emerged as the front runner.

This tactic was first made public on 7 May 1957 at Eglin AFB, when a B – 47 entered its bombing run at low altitude, pulled up sharply ( 3. 5 g ) into a half loop, releasing its bomb under automatic control at a predetermined point in its climb, then executed a half roll, completing a maneuver similar to an Immelmann turn or Half Cuban Eight.

Eight days after Iraqi tanks entered Kuwait, a seven-man DCS station was deployed to HQ, Central Command in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

Eight years later, she entered Kansas State Agricultural College ( present-day Kansas State University ) in Manhattan, and was able to skip her freshman year, having taken college-level courses in high school, but was forced to drop out six weeks short of graduation due to illness.

After the Boxer Uprising, in 1900 when Eight Nation Alliance entered Peking, Sheng and Ronglu initiated East South Mutual Protection ( Chinese: 东南互保 ), resisting the Empress Dowager's Imperial Decree of declaration of war against foreign powers.

Eight locomotives were built by local Australian builders for the New South Wales Government Railways, Australia – to the LB & SCR's general arrangement and drawings – and entered traffic at about the same time as the A1X class in England.

SSC also entered the field of automobile production in 1913 with the Standard Eight, which in 1919 had 83 horsepower ( 62 kW ).

His 1987-88 Owls team entered the NCAA tournament ranked # 1 in the country, and he has reached the Elite Eight on five different occasions.

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.

Eight graduates from Dalhousie have also served as Lieutenant Governors across Canada, including John Crosbie, Myra Freeman, Clarence Gosse, John Keiller MacKay, Henry Poole MacKeen, John Robert Nicholson, Fabian O ' Dea, and Albert Walsh.

Eight countries took part including India, China, Japan, Malaysia, Sri Lanka, Pakistan and Bangladesh.

His debut was in You're in the Navy Now ( 1951 ), and in 1952 he appeared in several films, including Don Siegel's Duel at Silver Creek, Hangman's Knot, and the war drama Eight Iron Men.

* 1955 – Cold War: Eight communist bloc countries, including the Soviet Union, sign a mutual defense treaty called the Warsaw Pact.

Eight of the top party leaders, including Tim Buck, were arrested and convicted under Section 98 in 1931.

* May 14 – Eight Communist Bloc countries, including the Soviet Union, sign a mutual defence treaty in Warsaw, Poland, that is called the Warsaw Pact.

Williams appeared in West End revues including Share My Lettuce with Maggie Smith, written by Bamber Gascoigne, and Pieces of Eight with Fenella Fielding.

Texas has an ' Eight Hour Rule ' which states that no competitive part of a marching band can spend more than 8 hours per week, including full band rehearsals, sectionals, and time before competitions, rehearsing.

Some artists in Henri's circle, including John Sloan, became members of “ The Eight ”, also known as the Ashcan School of American Art.

During the Qing Dynasty ( 1644 – 1911 ), Shanxi extended northwards beyond the Great Wall to include parts of Inner Mongolia, including what is now the city of Hohhot, and overlapped with the jurisdiction of the Eight Banners and the Guihua Tümed banner in that area.

In his youth he appeared in over 100 television commercials and on 50 television shows, including Mork & Mindy, Eight is Enough, One Day at a Time.

Eight crew members of the Investigator, including two officers, were the first Europeans to drown in the dangerous waters at the southern end of Jusseau Peninsula, whilst in search of fresh water.

Eight died in Ringgold including an entire family of four and at least thirty others were injured.

: Eight Italian Americans, including a woman, had gone into space as astronauts: Dominic Antonelli, Charles Camarda, Michael Massimino, Richard Mastracchio, Ronald Parise, Mario Runco, Albert Sacco and Nicole Marie Passonno Stott.

Children's Theater Festival organized in 1978 offers " lively arts " for children including: " Eight to ten different performances, encompassing theater, music, storytelling, mime, dance, puppetry, and more are brought to Tryon on a Saturday in late March.

Eight large paintings were placed in gilded frames above the stone pediments and busts, including three of the Stuart and French Royal family, one executed by Sir Godfrey Kneller of Lord Burlington and his sisters, and popular mythological scenes such as " Daphne and Apollo " and " The Judgment of Paris " Twelve antique busts of Roman and Greek figures, such as Emperors, poets, politicians and generals were also positioned on gilded brackets designed by Lord Burlington ..

Eight members of Haughey's old cabinet, including such long-standing figures as Ray Burke, Mary O ' Rourke and Gerry Collins, were instantly dismissed.

Eight other bridges span the lake, including two pedestrian-only bridges.

Dressler followed these successes with more hits in 1933, including the comedy Dinner at Eight, in which she played an aging but vivacious former stage actress.

Eight people, including six Catholics and two Protestants were killed and nineteen wounded in what became known as the Greysteel massacre.

According to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for Korea, the name Donghae ( 동해, literally East Sea ) has been used in Korea for over 2, 000 years, including in History of the Three Kingdoms ( 三國史記, 1145 ), the monument of King Gwanggaeto, and " Map of Eight Provinces of Korea " ( 八道總圖, 1530 ).

The best known story of the Mixtec Codices is that of Lord Eight Deer, named after the day in which he was born, whose personal name is Jaguar Claw, and whose epic history is related in several codices, including the Codex Bodley and Codex Zouche-Nuttall.

Their inaugural season had many highlights including winning the Dad Vail Regatta in the Women's Novice Heavy Eight.

Eight of the games are first – class including three Tests versus Australia.