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Posted: 9/10/2023 9:42:15 PM EDT

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Any golf major is much more difficult than any team sport championship. I would argue the same for tennis as well.

Posted: 9/10/2023 9:43:44 PM EDT

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Stanley Cup is by far the most coveted and hardest earned trophy in sports. There is no question.

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Why?

Posted: 9/10/2023 9:48:39 PM EDT

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F1.

It has 20 drivers. That's it. So yeah, you have a 1 in 20 chance of being the champion. Except you don't.

First, you have to get a seat. Good luck. 20 spots. Total. What, one or two open up each year, if that, and you better be the F2 champ or have a billionaire father or you ain't in line to get it.

Say you get your seat. You probably aren't the team's #1 driver. So you are not going to get the support the first driver gets. The car won't be set up for you, changes will not favor you. You're handicapped by your own team.

Next, your seat has to be at Red Bull or Mercedes to have a realistic chance. So you have to be one of two drivers in the world. Nobody at Haas or Alfa or any other team is competing for anything but P5.

Oh yeah, then you have to do the driving to actually win.

Posted: 9/10/2023 9:49:47 PM EDT

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America’s Cup.

Posted: 9/10/2023 9:50:28 PM EDT

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Indianapolis 500

Posted: 9/10/2023 9:52:29 PM EDT

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CFB National Championship

Since they don’t have a traditional playoff, votes and opinions of others have a say whether or not you even have a chance at it.

Plus, most years, if you lose one game throughout the season, you’re done.

Posted: 9/10/2023 9:53:45 PM EDT

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There’s only been one BASEketball champion, ever!

Posted: 9/10/2023 9:54:40 PM EDT

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Probably the special olympics. We do have several competitors here in GD.

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Posted: 9/10/2023 10:01:10 PM EDT

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Why?

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Because it involves the most grit, determination, and sheer will to push through. Professionals will push through broken sternums, ribs, ankles and much more to win. Other sports cower when they have a hang nail.

Posted: 9/10/2023 10:02:32 PM EDT

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PGA Major Tournament, specifically The U.S. Open.

Posted: 9/10/2023 10:07:52 PM EDT

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People that say sportsball definitely got picked last in gym class.

Posted: 9/10/2023 10:08:37 PM EDT

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Triple crown.

Year after year, no one wins it because it's so hard. Plus, the horses are too fast for you.

Posted: 9/10/2023 10:12:06 PM EDT

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OK, I'll nominate a second:

Rainsford leaned across the table, absorbed in what his host was saying.

"It came to me as an inspiration what I must do," the general went on.

"And that was?"

The general smiled the quiet smile of one who has faced an obstacle and surmounted it with success. "I had to invent a new animal to hunt," he said.

Posted: 9/10/2023 10:13:24 PM EDT

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That freestyle canoe championship, but you have to do it Lady in Red.

Posted: 9/10/2023 10:13:32 PM EDT

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Stanley Cup and it’s not even close

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Posted: 9/10/2023 10:18:35 PM EDT

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Cola War championship.

Posted: 9/10/2023 10:20:17 PM EDT

[#17]

NCAA Division 1 wrestling. No question.

Posted: 9/10/2023 10:20:48 PM EDT

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...sportsball

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Hold on there. Hockey is a sport, the rest are just games where grown men handle balls.

Posted: 9/10/2023 10:36:51 PM EDT

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That freestyle canoe championship, but you have to do it Lady in Red.

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I've seen that video.

Posted: 9/10/2023 10:41:23 PM EDT

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NASCAR.

Like the Non-Athletic Sport Centered Around Rednecks or not, the relatively new playoff format has made what Richard Perry, Dale Earnhardt and Jimmie Johnson did (7 cup championships) virtually impossible to repeat.

Under the new format, the championship is completely up for grabs until almost the very end. The championship isn’t determined until the last race of the season and it typically requires winning the race, unlike the old format where it was straight points accumulated throughout the entire season and the championship won several races before the last race.

Posted: 9/10/2023 10:42:20 PM EDT

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Super bowl
World Series
CFB/CBaseball/CBasketball Natty
Tennis major
Golf major
NBA champ
Stanley cup

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Bass Master Classic.

Posted: 9/10/2023 10:43:55 PM EDT

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Olympic decathalon? 10 parts and it only happens every 4 years. You could easily be out of your prime from one to the next and it truly is the world's best athletes.

Posted: 9/10/2023 10:50:35 PM EDT

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Bassmaster classic

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Agreed. It’s either your day or it isn’t.

Posted: 9/10/2023 10:53:46 PM EDT

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CFB National Championship

Since they don’t have a traditional playoff, votes and opinions of others have a say whether or not you even have a chance at it.

Plus, most years, if you lose one game throughout the season, you’re done.

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The CFB system isn’t perfect but it’s hard to argue the results.

Posted: 9/10/2023 10:54:45 PM EDT

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MotoGP.

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MotoGP.

Either this...

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F1.

or this

And personally, I'd give the edge to F1. The G forces those guys put on their bodies is as much as, if not more than, those of a fighter pilot. And they do it every weekend, and sometimes throughout the week in test/practice, for a number of months. And seeing as how there are only 20 F1 drivers, it's a very small class of athletes.

Posted: 9/10/2023 10:59:09 PM EDT

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Cola War championship.

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Until RustedAce dies it will be.

Posted: 9/10/2023 11:01:51 PM EDT

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Supercross

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Posted: 9/10/2023 11:23:26 PM EDT

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Stanley Cup is by far the most coveted and hardest earned trophy in sports. There is no question.

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nevermind

Posted: 9/11/2023 12:13:41 AM EDT

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Men's tennis major championship without a doubt.

Two week grind with the potential to play four to five hour five set matches each time you step on the court.

I don't think anything else comes close.

Posted: 9/11/2023 7:03:53 AM EDT

[#30]

Moto GP seems to be pretty grueling and intolerant of mistakes.

Posted: 9/11/2023 7:05:05 AM EDT

[#31]

The women's championship is reasonably easy to win if you are a man.

Posted: 9/11/2023 7:34:50 AM EDT

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The Gold Jacket at the Tour Championship.

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Good jacket, green jacket, who gives a shit...

Posted: 9/11/2023 7:37:49 AM EDT

[#33]

Outdoor MX

Posted: 9/11/2023 7:43:42 AM EDT

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And yet every year a team wins it. They run the gauntlet of playoff brackets to have a “Cinderella season”. Probabilities. How do they work?

Someone has to do it.

A really hard championship would be one where there is no winner in some seasons. “Sorry, no one met the requirements. There is always next year!”

Posted: 9/11/2023 7:51:59 AM EDT

[#35]

World chess championship.

Those others have 10-50 people win every year

Posted: 9/11/2023 7:53:33 AM EDT

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Super bowl
World Series
CFB/CBaseball/CBasketball Natty
Tennis major
Golf major
NBA champ
Stanley cup

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Chess … unless maybe you’re Bobby Fischer.

Posted: 9/11/2023 7:54:34 AM EDT

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Probably the special olympics. We do have several competitors here in GD.

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Posted: 9/11/2023 7:55:11 AM EDT

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They are all difficult yet someone wins one every year.

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Posted: 9/11/2023 7:55:18 AM EDT

[#39]

Supercross
MotoGP
WSBK
F1

sportsball

Posted: 9/11/2023 7:55:58 AM EDT

[#40]

Team sport I'm going to go with Stanley Cup.

Individual - a golf major.

Posted: 9/11/2023 7:59:01 AM EDT

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And yet every year a team wins it. They run the gauntlet of playoff brackets to have a “Cinderella season”. Probabilities. How do they work?

Someone has to do it.

A really hard championship would be one where there is no winner in some seasons. “Sorry, no one met the requirements. There is always next year!”

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This guy gets it.

Posted: 9/11/2023 8:00:07 AM EDT

[#42]

Tour de France

Posted: 9/11/2023 8:01:49 AM EDT

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NCAA Division 1 wrestling. No question.

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Anyone who disagrees is lacking the proper insight.

Posted: 9/11/2023 8:08:32 AM EDT

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Stanley Cup is by far the most coveted and hardest earned trophy in sports. There is no question.

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I wouldn't say most coveted. It may be up there with hockey being one of the physically toughest sports but at the end of the day, no one gives a fuck about Canadian ice soccer. It's almost as exciting as watching actual soccer.

Posted: 9/11/2023 8:11:10 AM EDT

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This guy gets it.

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No he doesn't.

No shit there's always going to be a winner.

That doesn't mean it's anywhere close to being easy.

Posted: 9/11/2023 8:15:10 AM EDT

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Men's tennis major championship without a doubt.

Two week grind with the potential to play four to five hour five set matches each time you step on the court.

I don't think anything else comes close.

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I would lean toward this. Or some other individual sport. You, all alone, have to win every match. You don't have a team to help pick up the slack if you're not feeling great or you're having a bad day. You have to overcome those things or you will lose.

Posted: 9/11/2023 8:15:34 AM EDT

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CFB National Championship

And lol at all the sportsball references. Sorry you sucked at anything athletic when you were young.

Posted: 9/11/2023 8:27:03 AM EDT

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Hockey fans are blindly biased. Hockey and baseball are the easiest sports to win a championship. The NBA and NFL have the least amount of parity; of those few teams listed multiples of them are accounted for by single players (LeBron, Shaq, Brady, Manning, etc). If you don’t have a top 5 QB or 2-3 of the top 10 basketball players on your team you essentially have no shot in the NFL or NBA. Whereas in the NHL or MLB you can build an actual team and win. The SF Giants won 3 WS titles without ever having the best pitcher or hitter in baseball. That’s impossible in the NBA and nearly impossible in the NFL unless you have a historically great defense and get lucky.

Since 2000……

13 of 30 teams have won a Stanley Cup

10 of 30 teams have won a NBA title

15 of 30 teams have won a World Series

13 of 32 teams have won a Super Bowl

College sports are mathematically harder because there’s over 130 Div 1 schools but 90% of them have 0% chance of ever winning. There’s a handful of blue bloods that are always at the top and win the majority (UNC, Duke, Kansas, Alabama, LSU, etc) and another 20-30 schools that will have runs where they are on top (UConn, Villanova, USC, Texas, etc). Outside of that other schools have zero shot.

But even harder than that are individual sports; golf, tennis, racing, etc.

If I had to pick one I’d probably go with a Golf Major. It’s simple math.