Section 04
Games
03 entries · Contests with rules.
A contest adds judges, categories and a clock, and those three things turn a local test into a record. The events here are scored on control and direction as often as on distance, which is why a caber is measured by where it lands rather than how far it travels.
Everything filed under Games
Complete for this section- The Highland GamesEntryCaber, hammer and weight over bar — events judged on control and direction rather than distance alone.
- BraemarShort entryThe best-known gathering, and how a local contest became a fixture.
- HarrijasotzaileakEntryBasque stone-lifters working cylinders, cubes and spheres against a clock, in a competition culture with its own record-keeping.