World Games 2025

[Olympian1010 8,297]

6 hours ago, heywoodu said:

twg2025.swisstiming.com/hide

 

That works...for two seconds, then it changes to a notifcation saying you have no permission

 

Anyone else who gets the same? I'm trying to get a page with just the results system, so there's no part of the screen used up by the World Games website itself.

Yeah, I tried the same thing and got the same result. I'll probably just use the results system "as is" on the IWGA's website.

[JoshMartini007 2,860]

With the World Games about to start, here's my tier lists of the sports/disciplines most deserving to be included at the Olympics. This was constructed using the following criteria: Number of active nations participating, cost to host, and uniqueness. There is no order within tiers.

 

S Tier	Karate
A Tier	Billiards Dancesport Orienteering Roller sports (Road speed skating) Squash
B Tier	Archery (Compound) Boules (Petanque) Gymnastics (Acrobatic) Gymnastics (Aerobic) Gymnastics (Trampoline) Lifesaving Roller sports (Track speed skating) Sport Climbing (Speed Lane) Triathlon (Duathlon) Waterskiing (Wakeboarding)
C Tier	Air Sports (Drone Racing) Archery (Field) Boules (Lyonnaise) Floorball Flying disc (Disc golf) Flying disc (Ultimate) Gymnastics (Parkour) Handball (Beach) Ju-jitsu Kickboxing Korfball (Indoor) Muaythai Powerboating Racquetball Roller sports (Freestyle inline skating) Roller sports (Inline hockey) Sambo Softball Tug of War Underwater sports Wushu
D Tier	American Football (Flag football) Canoeing (Canoe marathon) Canoeing (Canoe polo) Canoeing (Dragon boat) Cheerleading Fistball Korfball (Beach) Lacrosse (Sixes) Powerlifting (Classic) Powerlifting (Equipped)

 

- Karate was easily the top tier sport, it is widely practiced with an excellent world distribution and can be held at a generic indoor venue. It did lose a bit in uniqueness as it competes with the already included combat sports.

- Dancesport checked enough boxes to be considered A tier. I know people are still having nightmares about Breaking, but if Latin and Standard were also included the sport may have stuck around.

- I was surprised to see Billiards rank so high, but it would be a very relatively cheap, unique sport to host. It currently has enough nations competing, but would probably like more.

- Disciplines of sports which are included in the Olympics obviously took a uniqueness penalty which have cost most of them a tier

- Softball in C Tier may surprise some people, but the sport being very expensive to host and the men's world distribution being a lot lower than men's baseball pushed it down.

[De_Gambassi 1,369]

3 minutes ago, JoshMartini007 said:

With the World Games about to start, here's my tier lists of the sports/disciplines most deserving to be included at the Olympics. This was constructed using the following criteria: Number of active nations participating, cost to host, and uniqueness. There is no order within tiers.

 

S Tier	Karate
A Tier	Billiards Dancesport Orienteering Roller sports (Road speed skating) Squash
B Tier	Archery (Compound) Boules (Petanque) Gymnastics (Acrobatic) Gymnastics (Aerobic) Gymnastics (Trampoline) Lifesaving Roller sports (Track speed skating) Sport Climbing (Speed Lane) Triathlon (Duathlon) Waterskiing (Wakeboarding)
C Tier	Air Sports (Drone Racing) Archery (Field) Boules (Lyonnaise) Floorball Flying disc (Disc golf) Flying disc (Ultimate) Gymnastics (Parkour) Handball (Beach) Ju-jitsu Kickboxing Korfball (Indoor) Muaythai Powerboating Racquetball Roller sports (Freestyle inline skating) Roller sports (Inline hockey) Sambo Softball Tug of War Underwater sports Wushu
D Tier	American Football (Flag football) Canoeing (Canoe marathon) Canoeing (Canoe polo) Canoeing (Dragon boat) Cheerleading Fistball Korfball (Beach) Lacrosse (Sixes) Powerlifting (Classic) Powerlifting (Equipped)

 

- Karate was easily the top tier sport, it is widely practiced with an excellent world distribution and can be held at a generic indoor venue. It did lose a bit in uniqueness as it competes with the already included combat sports.

- Dancesport checked enough boxes to be considered A tier. I know people are still having nightmares about Breaking, but if Latin and Standard were also included the sport may have stuck around.

- I was surprised to see Billiards rank so high, but it would be a very relatively cheap, unique sport to host. It currently has enough nations competing, but would probably like more.

- Disciplines of sports which are included in the Olympics obviously took a uniqueness penalty which have cost most of them a tier

- Softball in C Tier may surprise some people, but the sport being very expensive to host and the men's world distribution being a lot lower than men's baseball pushed it down.

With temporary venues, the cost of hosting a specific sport shouldn't rank too high (and in an ideal world souldn't matter at all). I think the 'sportability' of each discipline should count also.
 

Except for the obious Squash and Karate, it's hard to see any of these sports making the permanent jump to the Olympics tbh.

[JoshMartini007 2,860]

9 minutes ago, De_Gambassi said:

With temporary venues, the cost of hosting a specific sport shouldn't rank too high (and in an ideal world souldn't matter at all).

Too be fair, most of the sports at the World Games don't cost much to host. The only sports which scored low were track speed skating and softball. The only other costly venues were swimming pools which would use existing Olympic venues.

[De_Gambassi 1,369]

47 minutes ago, JoshMartini007 said:

Too be fair, most of the sports at the World Games don't cost much to host. The only sports which scored low were track speed skating and softball. The only other costly venues were swimming pools which would use existing Olympic venues.

 

If you factor the overall cost of the olympics, it's really nothing. No one is going anymore to build a permanent 20,000 seaters softball stadium when there is not a single softball team in the country. 

[Olympian1010 8,297]

Some info for the Opening Ceremony: https://www.theworldgames2025.com/en/activity/news/newsDetail?id=20671&lang=en&cid=focus&locale=en

[Grassmarket 4,274]

And a user-friendly day-to-day timetabling system, incorporating Chinese times translated into your local time and direct links to streaming events!

 

The World Games 2025 Schedule, Live Sports Times & Streaming

Edited August 5, 2025 by Grassmarket

[Gianlu33 5,999]

1 minute ago, Grassmarket said:

And a user-friendly day-to-day system, incorporating Chinese times translated into your local time and direct links to streaming events!

 

The World Games 2025 Schedule, Live Sports Times & Streaming

I'm pretty sure it's not complete and only includes events that are visible via streaming.

[heywoodu 16,459]

3 hours ago, Gianlu33 said:

I'm pretty sure it's not complete and only includes events that are visible via streaming.

That would be a tremendous help though, that takes away the annoying part of seeing an event in the timetable, thinking "cool, gonna watch that", only to realize that one isn't being streamed anywhere.

[Grassmarket 4,274]

1 hour ago, heywoodu said:

That would be a tremendous help though, that takes away the annoying part of seeing an event in the timetable, thinking "cool, gonna watch that", only to realize that one isn't being streamed anywhere.

And what events aren't being streamed?  Looks like a pretty big list to me.  Things like archery prelims which have never been shown on TV in the entire history of mankind?  

 

Only way they can mess it up is if they replace the current graphics with "Sweden 5 Norway 4 on Golden Point" after the match takes place.......  

Edited August 5, 2025 by Grassmarket