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 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.

Eight hundred and sixty-five Rebels surrendered within their works and a thousand more were captured or surrendered themselves that night and the next day.

Eight field guns were captured in position.

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.

Eight men were tried together in U.S. District Court in Anniston, Ala., on charges of interfering with interstate transportation and conspiracy growing out of a white mob's attack on a Greyhound bus carrying the first of the Freedom Riders.

Eight others were founded in the region during his lifetime, numbering 3, 000 monks.

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

Eight more VHS compilations were released between 1996 and 1999 in the United States, before the final volume, Butt-O-Ween, was issued in October 1999.

Eight poems by Oxford were published in The Paradise of Dainty Devises ( 1576 ).

The airports were codenamed Bluie West One through to Bluie West Eight on the west of the island and Bluie East One to Bluie East Four on the eastern side.

Eight of the eighteen total were female.

The Byrds ' March 1966 single " Eight Miles High " and its B-side " Why " were also influential in originating the musical subgenre.

Eight other conspirators or suspects were tried and convicted, and four were hanged shortly thereafter.

Eight Bremen class light cruisers were constructed between 1902 and 1907, developed from the earlier Gazelle class.

Eight unmanned flights were made, two of which carried live monkeys.

Eight games were released for the NUON:

Eight of the victims were federal law enforcement agents ; 4 from the United States Secret Service, 2 from the United States Customs Service, 1 from the United States Drug Enforcement Administration, and 1 from the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development.

In 1966, The Byrds moved rapidly away from folk rock with their single " Eight Miles High ", which made use of free jazz and Indian ragas, and the lyrics of which were widely taken to refer to drug use.

Eight finishers were taken away on stretchers.

First, the Eight Banners were under the direct control of the emperor and hereditary Manchu and Mongol princes, leaving the ministry only with authority over the Green Standard Army.

These were known as the Territorial Eight Banner Army ().

Eight of these books were illustrated by Clifford Geary in a distinctive white-on-black scratchboard style.

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