The movie follows some of the competitors of the 2004 World Crokinole Championship as they prepare for the event.

Tavistock has hosted the World Crokinole Championship ( WCC ) tournament has been held annually on the first Saturday of June since 1999.

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.

At a summit in Aleppo, Syria, in 1997, the World Council of Churches ( WCC ) proposed a reform in the calculation of Easter which would have replaced the present divergent practices of calculating Easter with modern scientific knowledge taking into account actual astronomical instances of the spring equinox and full moon based on the meridian of Jerusalem, while also following the Council of Nicea position of Easter being on the Sunday following the full moon.

The World Council of Churches ( WCC ) is an inter-church organization founded in 1948.

After the initial successes of the Ecumenical Movement in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, including the Edinburgh Missionary Conference of 1910 ( chaired by future WCC Honorary President John R. Mott ), church leaders agreed in 1937 to establish a World Council of Churches, based on a merger of the Faith and Order Movement and Life and Work Movement organisations.

* the constitutions of World Council of Churches ( WCC ),

In August 1954, Evanston hosted the second assembly of the World Council of Churches, still the only WCC assembly to have been held in the United States.

* Konrad Raiser, Protestant theologian, former General Secretary of the World Council of Churches ( WCC )

In 1967, his sister, Elisabeth married Dr. Konrad Raiser, the former General Secretary of the World Council of Churches ( WCC ).

From 1978 to 1983, Ilia II was Co-President of the World Council of Churches ( WCC ), an ecumenical organization the Georgian Orthodox Church had joined with other Soviet churches in 1962.

: the World Council of Churches ( WCC ) or any of its affiliates, such as the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U. S. A. ( NCC ), the World Evangelical Fellowship ( WEF ) or any of its affiliates, such as the National Association of Evangelicals ( NAE ), the modern Charismatic Movement, or the Ecumenical Movement ...

* Samuel Kobia, General Secretary of the World Council of Churches ( WCC ).

The WCC conducts its mission in cooperation with a network of 54 partner institutes worldwide to provide the government, business and academic community with the following activities: IMD World Competitiveness Yearbook, WCY Online, special country / regional competitiveness reports and workshops on competitiveness.

In response to Sharpeville, the World Council of Churches ( WCC ) sent a delegation to Johannesburg to meet with clerics.

Sulak established a relationship with the World Council of Churches ( WCC ) and believed that there was much work to be done within society by Buddhists and Catholics together.

* The Men's World Curling Championship ( Scotch Cup / Silver Broom ) WCF WCC

* The Women's World Curling Championship WCC

Mediation between the World Council of Churches ( WCC ) and the All Africa Conference of Churches ( AACC ), both of which spent years building up trust with the two combatants, eventually led to the Addis Ababa Agreement of March 1972 ending the conflict.

* World Council of Churches ( WCC )

He served as a member of central committee of the World Council of Churches ( WCC ) and the Faith and Order commission, and attended the Nairobi assembly.

Konrad Raiser ( born 25 January 1938 ) is a former General Secretary of the World Council of Churches ( WCC ).

Flynn also fought mixed martial arts in the WCC ( World Combat Championship ) losing to Fred Floyd in an alternate bout.

There are a number of associated national councils of churches and it is affiliated with the World Council of Churches ( WCC ).

He served as a member of the Faith and Order Commission of the World Council of Churches and as a delegate from the Orthodox Church in America to the Assemblies of WCC in Uppsala, Sweden and Nairobi, Kenya.

Charlton's inevitable selection by Ramsey for the tournament made him the first – and still, to date, only – England player to feature in four World Cup squads.

For example, the rules of tournament bridge are governed by the World Bridge Federation, and by local bodies in various countries such as the American Contract Bridge League in the U. S., and the English Bridge Union in England.

The rules of Poker's variants are largely traditional, but enforced by the World Series of Poker and the World Poker Tour organizations which sponsor tournament play.

West Indies won a second consecutive World Cup tournament, defeating the hosts, England, by 92 runs in the final.

The 1987 tournament, named the Reliance World Cup after their Indian sponsors, was held in India and Pakistan, the first time that the competition was held outside England.

In 2007 the tournament was hosted by the West Indies ; the Cricket World Cup became the first such tournament to be hosted on all six populated continents.

The 2011 World Cup was the tenth edition of the tournament.

The One Day International playing nations automatically enter the final qualification tournament, the World Cup Qualifier, along with other nations who have qualified through separate competitions.

Dino Zoff ( born February 28, 1942 in Mariano del Friuli ) is an Italian former football goalkeeper and is the oldest winner ever of the World Cup, which he earned as captain of the Italian team in the 1982 tournament in Spain, at the age of 40 years, 4 months and 13 days.

However, Zoff's greatest feat came in the 1982 FIFA World Cup, where he captained Italy to victory in the tournament at the age of 40, making him the oldest ever winner of the World Cup.

Under Ron Greenwood they managed to qualify for the 1982 World Cup in Spain ( the first time competitively since 1962 ), but were eliminated from a second qualifying round comprising further group matches without losing a game all tournament.

The team under Bobby Robson fared better as England reached the quarter-finals of the 1986 World Cup, losing 2 – 1 to Argentina in a game made famous by two goals by Maradona for very contrasting reasons, before losing every match at the Euro 88 tournament.

He resigned following investigations into his financial activities and his successor, Glenn Hoddle, similarly left the job for non-footballing reasons after just one international tournament — the 1998 World Cup — in which England were eliminated in the second round again by Argentina and again on penalties ( after a 2 – 2 draw ).

This is generally regarded as a warm-up tournament for the upcoming FIFA World Cup and does not carry the same prestige as the World Cup itself.

The concept of picking players and running a contest based on their year-to-date stats has been around since shortly after World War II, Wilfred Winkenbach devised fantasy golf in the latter part of the 1950s, in which each player selected a team of professional golfers and the person with the lowest combined total of strokes at the end of the tournament would win.

When the Azzuri crashed out to France in the 1986 tournament and Scirea retired, the mantle was passed to Baresi who returned to the side, a responsibility that become more poignant when Scirea was killed in a car accident aged 36, only months before Italy was to host the World Cup.

As of 2010, the Asia Pacific Floorball Championship is also the qualifying tournament for the World Floorball Championships.

The championship has been awarded every four years since the inaugural tournament in 1930, except in 1942 and 1946 when it was not held because of the Second World War.

The current format of the tournament involves 32 teams competing for the title at venues within the host nation ( s ) over a period of about a month ; this phase is often called the World Cup Finals.

Additionally, 30 percent of the players must be Grandmasters who have the absolute right to play in the next World Championship Candidates Tournament, or who have played in such a tournament in the previous ten years.