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Firewatch
Firewatch (video game), Campo Santo's 2016 debut, a first-person walking simulator set in 1989 Shoshone National Forest, where fire lookout Henry talks with supervisor Delilah by handheld radio.
Firewire Surfboards
Firewire Surfboards is a surfboard manufacturer founded in 2006 on Australia's Gold Coast, known for epoxy boards with EPS cores, parabolic rails, and designs by Rob Machado.
Firmin Flamand
Firmin Flamand, Belgian archer at the 1920 Antwerp Olympics; won gold in small and large birds team pole archery and bronze in large birds individual, three medals total.
First Attack
First Attack is an impartial abstract board game credited to Frank Harary: players alternately drop neutral stones on a square board (say 8x8) so no stone shares a row, column, or diagonal with another; the last player to move wins. Also known as a queens placement game.
First generation of video game consoles
First generation of video game consoles (1972–1977): Magnavox Odyssey, Home Pong, Coleco Telstar and other dedicated, non-programmable TV game units built without microprocessors, ending with the cartridge-based Fairchild Channel F.
First Peak
First Peak is the name of a wave-reflection surf break at Sebastian Inlet, Florida, 20-100 m from the north jetty, and of summits on Mount Seymour (Pump Peak), the Adirondack Tongue Range, and in Grayson County, Virginia.
First Professional Football League (Първа професионална футболна лига) (Bulgaria)
First Professional Football League (Първа професионална футболна лига, efbet Liga), Bulgaria's top football division, run by the BPFL: 14-16 clubs, 30-round regular season plus Championship, European and Relegation groups; Ludogorets won 14 straight titles before Levski Sofia in 2025/26.
First Test at Marrara Oval
First Test at Marrara Oval: Australia v Bangladesh, Test #1650, Darwin, 18-20 July 2003, Australia won by an innings and 132 runs; the 89th Test venue, later hosting Sri Lanka in 2004 and Bangladesh again in 2026.
First-class cricket
First-class cricket is the official ICC classification for the highest standard of two-innings, three-or-more-day cricket, including Test matches and domestic competitions like the County Championship, Sheffield Shield, and Ranji Trophy.
First-class cricketers for Australian state teams
A reference list of first-class cricketers for Australia's six state teams, where players are numbered by cap and debut season, with Victoria's register beginning in 1850-51, decades before the Sheffield Shield.
First-class cricketers for Indian state teams
First-class cricketers for Indian state teams are players who have represented state sides such as Mumbai, Delhi, Karnataka, and Tamil Nadu, chiefly in the Ranji Trophy.
First-move advantage in chess
First-move advantage in chess: the edge held by White, who moves first. Engine analysis of 73,444 games puts it near 0.17 pawns, larger for grandmasters (54-56% of decisive games) than amateurs; the White-moves-first rule dates from the 1800s.
First-person shooter
First-person shooter (FPS), a video game genre played from a character's viewpoint with shooting as the main action; defined by 3D navigation and online multiplayer, popularized by Wolfenstein 3D and Doom, and a leading esports category.
FirstBank Stadium
FirstBank Stadium, formerly Dudley Field and Vanderbilt Stadium, is Vanderbilt University's on-campus football stadium in Nashville, opened October 14, 1922 as the South's first football-only stadium, rebuilt in 1981, and renamed in 2022.
FIS Alpine Ski Europa Cup
FIS Alpine Ski Europa Cup (Coppa Europa), FIS's European continental alpine skiing cup below the World Cup; one of five Continental Cups; 100-to-1 points scale, quota-based entry, November-to-March season feeding World Cup qualification.
FIS Alpine Ski World Cup
The FIS Alpine Ski World Cup is an annual alpine ski racing series organized by FIS, first contested in 1967, with racers scoring points toward Crystal Globe titles.
FIS Alpine Ski World Cup men's seasons, 1980–1999
The FIS Alpine Ski World Cup men's seasons from 1980 to 1999 were dominated by repeat overall champions Pirmin Zurbriggen, Marc Girardelli, Lasse Kjus, and Hermann Maier.
FIS Alpine Ski World Cup men's seasons, 2000–2009
The FIS Alpine Ski World Cup men's seasons, 2000–2009, cover the overall titles won by Benjamin Raich, Aksel Lund Svindal, and Bode Miller from 2005–06 onward.
FIS Alpine Ski World Cup records and statistics
The FIS Alpine Ski World Cup records and statistics cover overall crystal globe title holders, season points records, and discipline marks since the circuit began in 1966/67.
FIS Alpine World Ski Championships
FIS Alpine World Ski Championships: biennial alpine skiing world championship first held 1931 in Mürren, Switzerland; held every two years, most recently Saalbach 2025, next Crans-Montana 2027 and Val Gardena 2031.
FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 1931–1939 (pre-war era)
The FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 1931–1939 were the first nine editions of the alpine skiing world championship, run annually in Europe from Mürren in 1931 to Zakopane in 1939.
FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 1950
FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 1950, held at Aspen, Colorado, 13–18 February 1950; 11th edition, first outside Europe, giant slalom debuted; overall winners Zeno Colo and Dagmar Rom.
FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 1954
FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 1954, 13th edition, held in Åre, Sweden, 28 February to 7 March 1954; 134 competitors from 20 countries; Stein Eriksen of Norway won three golds.
FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 1958
FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 1958, 15th edition, Bad Gastein, Austria, 2–9 February 1958; Toni Sailer won downhill, giant slalom, and combined gold plus slalom silver; Josl Rieder won the slalom; first live-televised major sports event in Austria.
FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 1962
FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 1962, held in Chamonix, France, 11–18 February; 18th edition with eight races in downhill, slalom, giant slalom, and combined for men and women.
FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 1966
FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 1966, held at Portillo, Chile, August 4–14, 1966; 19th edition, the only alpine worlds in the Southern Hemisphere; 160 athletes from 22 countries; France won 16 of 24 medals, Killy and Goitschel starred.
FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 1968–1982 (odd-year classic era)
The FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 1968–1982 were editions whose Olympic-year races doubled as the Winter Olympics alpine events, with standalone championships at St. Moritz 1974 and Garmisch 1978.
FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 1985–1999 (super-G era)
The FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 1985–1999 comprise eight editions from Bormio 1985 to Vail 1999, an era defined by the super-G's 1987 debut and an odd-year calendar.
FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 2001–2009
The FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 2001–2009 were five biennial world championships in alpine skiing, held at St. Anton, St. Moritz, Bormio, Åre, and Val d'Isère.
FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 2011–2019
Held across five editions from Garmisch-Partenkirchen 2011 to Åre 2019, the FIS Alpine World Ski Championships saw Marcel Hirscher achieve seven gold medals, tying the men's record.