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Notes from the organizer: Event 8 is our first of the aquatics events, with aquatics normally providing more medals than any other sport (49), allowing stupid numbers of medals to be won by people like Michael Phelps.

The first of these is Diving. Diving has changed a lot over the years; it's first Olympic appearance was simply plunging into the water and gliding along for 60 seconds without any more propulsion which sounds pretty hilarious. I particularly enjoyed the line "Generally, being fat was an advantage in the sport." (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plunge_for_distance).

Nowadays it's a much more streamlined sport, diving into deep water (hence the deepdown innit). Scoring is such that your most favourable score from the judges is discounted, so deepdown also covers that well - don't overdo it!

This event is worth a whopping 8 gold medals because swimming has tonnes of similar events and I couldn't think of many interesting ones :)

It's also the first of many where you'll have one week to play against apterous prune, and it's simply highest score wins (maximums as a tiebreak).

Here's the page for diving: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/19s4MNWHNXg5OFoU9sKFvzIcggZZ3--_YjqM1PDVd_DA/edit#gid=53856443

Ran from: 25 June – 1 July 2020. Format: Deepdown Letters Attack. Matches: One-off. Approved.

Fixtures: 36. Completed: 35.

Results and fixtures

Key. Green: winner. Red: loser. Grey: tie. (Stripes: provisional, match in progress.)