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Yes, "World Series". This is a politically loaded map. Only Americans can call their regional contest "World Series". Wikipedia:quote:The World Series is the annual championship series of North American-based Major League Baseball (MLB)
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That should be three for Canada! The Expos would have won in 1994-95!  I miss them.   
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Mar 24, 2014 23:09
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This is the saddest map. It feels like the US is playing only with itself, with Canada occasionally coming over because of pity 
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Mar 24, 2014 23:11
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Is India still dominating Cricket? Is there a similar map for the Cricket "world championship/series/cup/etc."?
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Mar 24, 2014 23:15
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Torrannor posted:Is India still dominating Cricket? Is there a similar map for the Cricket "world championship/series/cup/etc."? One-Day International World Cup  The West Indies have as many victories as India. Huh. Twenty20 World One for each of IND, PAK, ENG and West Indies And then there's a Champions's trophy I know not how it works, and a Cricket World League without top teams. Test cricket is the top flight for national teams, and it works more on a continuous basis rather than a World Cup. Is there anything about this sport that isn't complicated as all hell? ecureuilmatrix fucked around with this message at 23:32 on Mar 24, 2014 |
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Mar 24, 2014 23:21
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Emanuel Collective posted:If the WBC didn't use pro players, you'd have the same problem that olympic baseball had: most nations outside of the Americas and East Asia could barely field a team. The WBC is already pretty hilarious in that just about every European team relies on American players with Italian or Spanish heritage. The Israeli team is just made up of American jews. So its pretty much like International Cricket outside of like the top 12-13 nations then?  This is a map of members of the International Cricket Council. The "full members" are the major nations; they play in all the big competitions and are allowed to play test matches, which is the most prestigious type. The Associates and Affiliates (the former apparently have a bigger grass-roots than the latter; they pretty much mean the same thing) are everyone else, and they ar pretty much powerless. Outside of the next few (Ireland, Afghanistan, Nepal, Scotland, and to some extent the Netherlands) most nations field expats from England, Australia and the Indian subcontinent with maybe one local player at most. The map is now a little out of date (the Full Members haven't changed; Afghanistan is now an Associate) but it shows how most "international" sports are sometimes a bit patchy under the surface... I could rant all day about how awful the ICC and the Indian cricket board is though, but here's not really the place!
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Mar 24, 2014 23:31
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My favorite part of international cricket is that the first official international match in history, played in 1844 (some 33 years before the first Test match), was a US-Canada matchup.
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Mar 24, 2014 23:52
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Basil Hayden posted:My favorite part of international cricket is that the first official international match in history, played in 1844 (some 33 years before the first Test match), was a US-Canada matchup. They've started to play each other annually in a 2/3 day game commemorating that game; which is really nice to see because most teams at that level don't play any multi-day cricket so its nice to see the best form of the game being played outside of test nations!
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Mar 24, 2014 23:57
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I should make one that's Rugby Olympic Gold Medals USA - 1 Everyone Else - 0
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Mar 24, 2014 23:59
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poo poo Kazakhstan, get it together.
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Mar 25, 2014 00:08
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I see Alaska's seceded.
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Mar 25, 2014 00:17
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Map of  Green: Countries that have won the Ice Hockey World Championships 1 time Blue: Countries that have won the Ice Hockey World Championships 2 times or more Yellow: Countries that have won the Ice Hockey World Championships 5 times or more  Red: Countries that have won the Ice Hockey World Championships 10 times or more Purple: Countries that have won the Ice Hockey World Championships 20 times or more   Source
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Mar 25, 2014 00:19
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Mr. Belpit posted:I see Alaska's seceded. Hawaii missing entirely.
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Mar 25, 2014 00:22
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Yes, it's like a lava lamp.
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Try and find a pattern from this sporting event map:
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Mar 25, 2014 00:29
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Nations with at least one vowel in their name have a color; otherwise, they can still have a color or not. 
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Mar 25, 2014 00:31
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 What do you suppose was the question mark on the coast of Somalia? My guess is aliens.
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Mar 25, 2014 00:56
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DrSunshine posted:
I guess the same as the 3 question marks around Malaysia/Indonesia.
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Mar 25, 2014 01:29
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DrSunshine posted:
Alexander "The Great" Like the mapmaker's trying to say he wasn't so special. Alexander the Mediocre, huh folks?
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Mar 25, 2014 01:33
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Ammat The Ankh posted:Alexander "The Great" Greatest general in history, smashed the Persians, built an empire from Albania to Pakistan at a speed that would make Paradox blush, the Battle of loving Gaugamela, nothing special about that guy. Alexander the So-So. Alexander the Pretty Good. Alexander the Adequate.
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Mar 25, 2014 02:39
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euclidian88 posted:I guess the same as the 3 question marks around Malaysia/Indonesia. Might be: we know there were people here, but we don't know who they were.
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Mar 25, 2014 02:42
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Mister Adequate posted:Greatest general in history, smashed the Persians, built an empire from Albania to Pakistan at a speed that would make Paradox blush, the Battle of loving Gaugamela, nothing special about that guy. Alexander the So-So. Alexander the Pretty Good. Alexander the Adequate. Well, he was also something of a madman who thought he was a god. So the quotes might be justified.
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Mar 25, 2014 03:02
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Genghis Khan built an empire even bigger than Alex's and it didn't even fall apart after his death. Why doesn't he get "The Great" too?
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Mar 25, 2014 03:14
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DrSunshine posted:Genghis Khan built an empire even bigger than Alex's and it didn't even fall apart after his death. Why doesn't he get "The Great" too? Because Alexander the Great never lost a battle.
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Mar 25, 2014 03:16
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computer parts posted:Because Alexander the Great never lost a battle. Frederick the Great lost more than a few battles. I don't think that's the main requirement. Also didn't they call Genghis the Khan of Khans? On wikipedia they call him the Great Khan. So I guess he has "Great" in his name too.
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Mar 25, 2014 03:24
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DrSunshine posted:Genghis Khan built an empire even bigger than Alex's and it didn't even fall apart after his death. Why doesn't he get "The Great" too? Mongolia has a national holiday for him every year, does that count?
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Mar 25, 2014 03:25
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"Genghis Khan" is a pretty self aggrandizing title too, I thought? His real name was Temujin.
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Mar 25, 2014 03:26
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Koramei posted:"Genghis Khan" is a pretty self aggrandizing title too, I thought? His real name was Temujin. Well yeah but so's Joseph "Directed by Zach Snyder" Stalin.
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Mar 25, 2014 03:27
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computer parts posted:Well yeah but so's Joseph "Directed by Zach Snyder" Stalin. Stalin's not a title, its a pseudonym. Genghis Khan is a title awarded to Temujin upon his unification of all the people living in modern Mongolia, the two aren't remotely comparable. Also I'm going to be controversial and say Alexander didn't build an empire, he just destroyed one. Like don't get me wrong hijacking the Persian state was a mighty accomplishment but he and his successors broke a lot more than they fixed.  edit: Achaemenid Empire at its height aproximately 494 BC Squalid fucked around with this message at 03:56 on Mar 25, 2014 |
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Mar 25, 2014 03:52
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Koramei posted:"Genghis Khan" is a pretty self aggrandizing title too, I thought? His real name was Temujin. Genghis Khan was Mongolian for "Universal Ruler." I don't think any of his successors even tried to lay claim to the title, since I've only heard to them referred to as "Name Khan", like Ogodei Khan, Khubilai Khan, etc. There's no objective for standard for being called "The Great" except what people call you after you're dead. Gnaeus Pompey demanded everyone call him "The Great" after he purged the mediterranean of pirates, but it didn't last past his death. For my money, "The Great" isn't so enormous an honor as having your name itself being associated with excellence. Names like Napoleon, Caesar, or Hannibal can't ever be used without invoking the reputation of their most famous bearer.
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Mar 25, 2014 03:57
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Mr. Belpit posted:I see Alaska's seceded. If you think about it, Alaska (and Hawaii) has never participated in the Super Bowl.
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Mar 25, 2014 04:31
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Mu Cow posted:If you think about it, Alaska (and Hawaii) has never participated in the Super Bowl. Most Pro Bowl appearances, though.
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Mar 25, 2014 04:38
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DrSunshine posted:Genghis Khan built an empire even bigger than Alex's and it didn't even fall apart after his death. Why doesn't he get "The Great" too? Because when your impact on history is a road of dead from the Yellow Sea to the Don and from Siberia to the Persian gulf, great is just too constraining of a title.
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Mar 25, 2014 04:39
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TheBalor posted:Genghis Khan was Mongolian for "Universal Ruler." I don't think any of his successors even tried to lay claim to the title, since I've only heard to them referred to as "Name Khan", like Ogodei Khan, Khubilai Khan, etc. I wouldn't say it didn't last, Pompey is still commonly called Pompey Magnus. He really lucked out on the cognomen front, considering others were walking around with hereditary nicknames like "the Stupid" (Brutus)
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Mar 25, 2014 05:03
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esquilax posted:I wouldn't say it didn't last, Pompey is still commonly called Pompey Magnus. He really lucked out on the cognomen front, considering others were walking around with hereditary nicknames like "the Stupid" (Brutus) One day Nimrod Hyman will conquer us all and then who'll be laughing?
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Mar 25, 2014 07:30
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Squalid posted:Stalin's not a title, its a pseudonym. Genghis Khan is a title awarded to Temujin upon his unification of all the people living in modern Mongolia, the two aren't remotely comparable.
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Mar 25, 2014 08:02
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TheBalor posted:Genghis Khan was Mongolian for "Universal Ruler." Way more boss then "Great". chairface posted:One day Nimrod Hyman will conquer us all and then who'll be laughing? Hyman, probably.
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Mar 25, 2014 13:45
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TheBalor posted:Genghis Khan was Mongolian for "Universal Ruler." Was it really? Wikipedia disagrees, and the name could mean "iron", and mean that he was a blacksmith or that he was named after a famous warrior who had "Iron" as a nickname. Edit: Iron Ruler is pretty boss name, but I think that the best ruler name is The First Emperor. Hogge Wild fucked around with this message at 14:26 on Mar 25, 2014 |
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Mar 25, 2014 14:21
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We should probably just append "the Butcher" to every military ruler, and most non military rulers so that their virtues always come second to their crimes.
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a pipe smoking dog posted:Try and find a pattern from this sporting event map: Rugby Union edit: says it on the map, didn't notice that, thought it was an actual question
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