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.

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 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.

Bulgaria failed to qualify for the World Cup in Germany after a run of poor results, finishing third in Group Eight, behind Sweden and Croatia with 15 points.

Despite a first up win against Namibia, Uganda lost their remaining four Group A matches and failed to make the Super Eight stage, thus ending their chance to qualify for the 2011 Cricket World Cup.

Eight teams were to qualify ( 12 for the men ) for Seoul with the Aussies gaining one of the valuable 8 positions.

Eight years ago while we were going through the mud-sweat-and-tears construction period, we were each solaced by the vision of early morning dips and evening home-comings to a cool family collected around the pool with a buffet table laid out nearby for the lord and master's delectation.

The highest price ever paid for a Warhol painting is US $ 100 million for a 1963 canvas titled Eight Elvises.

Eight minutes before departing the lunar surface, capsule communicator ( CAPCOM ) James Irwin notified Young and Duke from mission control that they were go for liftoff.

Canada has the tenth largest economy in the world ( measured in US dollars at market exchange rates ), is one of the world's wealthiest nations, and is a member of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development ( OECD ) and Group of Eight ( G8 ).

The Qing dynasty set up the " Eight Banners " system that provided the basic framework for the Qing military organization.

* ( Hanukkah ) is also the Hebrew acronym for — " Eight candles, and the halakha is like the House of Hillel ".

Eight game-theorists have won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, and John Maynard Smith was awarded the Crafoord Prize for his application of game theory to biology.

Eight states and the District of Columbia ban open carry outright or restrict it to the point that it is infeasible for everyday practice ( 2 states restrict open carry to rural areas, while 6 others and Washington DC allow it only for outdoor sport such as hunting, or ban it completely ).

The largest of those airports, Bluie West Eight, now renamed Kangerlussuaq Airport, remains the international hub for travel to Greenland, as it is the only airport that has a large enough runway to service jumbo jets.

He officially joined Nagoya Grampus Eight after playing his final game for Spurs on 2 May 1992, when he scored the consolation goal in a 3 – 1 defeat by Manchester United on the last day of the season.

When Selznick moved to MGM in 1933 Cukor followed and directed Dinner at Eight ( 1933 ) and David Copperfield ( 1935 ) for Selznick and Romeo and Juliet ( 1936 ) and Camille ( 1936 ) for Irving Thalberg.

It is one of the Eight Great Traditions of Chinese cuisine and is well known for its hot spicy flavour, fresh aroma and deep colour.

** Eight players from the 1950 team played for Head Coach John Longfellow as the United States ' Gold Medal Basketball team at the inaugural 1951 Pan-American Games.

* The Saint Joseph's Pumas, led by current coach Richard Davis, returned to the NCAA Elite Eight for the fourth time in 2010.

Indeed, the term " raga rock " was coined by The Byrds ' publicist in the press releases for the single and was first used in print by journalist Sally Kempton in her review of " Eight Miles High " for The Village Voice.

Eight years earlier he was released from a TBS-clinic after being treated for child molestation.

Eight grandmasters, all considered contenders for the world championship: Karpov, Anand, Salov, Ivanchuk, Kamsky, Shirov, Ljubojevic and Polgár.

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

* 1996: Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series-The Larry Sanders Show: " Eight "

Eight expansion packs and nine stuff packs have been released for the sequel.