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August 2018
Amberley and Gilly are in Belgium to race bathtubs down a river in an event that's part parade, part race, part crazy! It's the Belgium Regatta of Bathtubs but is it the wackiest event ever?
Amberley and Gilly are in Egremont, England where people gather annually to race to the top of a massive pole! Is this contest weird enough to be named the world's wackiest sport?
Amberley & Gilly are in South Korea to dance their way into history at the Korean Taekwondo Dance Competition. It's dancing but not as you know it...
It looks like someone left the bath running but this is actually a race of epic frothy proportions! Amberley and Gilly are about to get their soapy sprint on in Taiwan, home of the TAICHUNG CITY FOAM RACE!
July 2018
Amberley and Gilly are in Japan on their way to compete in the Nagasaki Speed Eating competition where competitors chow down on curry and soup in record time. Will it be weird enough to be named the world's wackiest sport?
Amberley and Gilly are in England on their way to compete in the Worthing Birdman Rally an annual event that sees dozens of batty birdpeople hurl themselves off a ten metre high platform into the ocean below.
Amberley and Gilly are in Wales, UK, to compete in the World Bog Snorkelling Championships, an annual event in Llanwrtyd Wells that attracts hundreds of competitors from all over the world. It promises to be cold and muddy.
November 2017
After an extraordinary season travelling the Globe & entering all manner of wacky competitions Amberley & Gilly scrub up to host the prestigious Wacky World Beater Awards - 'The Wackies'.
Amberley & Gilly are in Scotland to compete in the World Haggis Eating Championships where competitors chow down on the famous Scottish pudding full of cow or sheep hearts lungs & livers all wrapped up in the animal's stomach
Every year in Ramsbottom, England people gather in the street to chuck a breakfast sausage called black pudding at a stack of pastries on a tower. It's called the World Black Pudding Throwing Championships!
Amberley and Gilly are in Cumbria, Northern England and things are about to get ugly! It's THE WORLD GURNING CHAMPIONSHIPS - an ugly face contest and quite possibly on of the world's wackiest events ever.
What do you get when you cross the Tour De France with a fashion parade? The DAPU CREATIVE BIKE RACE of course...its part procession, part performance, part party!
July 2017
Amberley & Gilly are in England about to chow down and get their chomp on for the UK ONION EATING CHAMPIONSHIPS! This competition is furiously fast with a bitter aftertaste but will it all end in tears?
Amberley and Gilly are in Japan to get funky with fur and wild with style in a competition so fierce it attracts some of the world's proudest pet lovers... its Tokyo's Extreme Dog Grooming Championships!
June 2017
Amberley and Gilly are in Finland for a competition that is COMPLETELY OFF THE CHARTS CRAZY. It's the Air Guitar World Championships where they're going to take to the stage to mime like Glam rock stars.
Amberley and Gilly are in South Korea where a one legged hopping game invented in the playground has become a championship sport. It's fun, it's fierce but is it one of the world's wackiest sports?
Amberley and Gilly are in Scotland where they'll be competing in the Birnam Highland Games. This wacky event has an array of quirky Scottish sports, from the Mad Kiltie Dash to hurling a log into the sky in the Cabre Toss.
Amberley and Gilly are in England where busting wrestling moves is a fun thing to do - IN A POOL OF COLD GRAVY! It's the World Gravy Wrestling Championships and it looks like it could be their messiest and meanest match yet!
Amberley and Gilly are in Thailand competing in the Sport Stacking Asian Open. They deliberate whether the Sport Stacking Asian Open deserves the 'Mouldy Cheese trophy' or the 'Golden Farty Marty'.
Amberley and Gilly are in Germany competing in the Ludwigsburg Pumpkin Regatta, where crazy competitors race around a fountain in GIANT PUMPKINS!! It looks like something out of a fairy tale but is it the wackiest event ever?
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