2015 Moscow Victory Day Parade, Preparation
During such practice drill runs in Moscow several variants of the new Russian armored vehicle platform Armata were seen with turrets covered, together with the Bumerang APC and the Kurgarnets-25 IFV's turrets, which got the same treatment as well till the turret covers were removed for the 3 – 4 May practice runs. During the 7 May general practice run one of the T-14 Armata tanks stopped in the middle of the square because of driver's mistake, right in front of the people in attendance. There was also one incident with a T-15 APC which could drive on the platform only after the second attempt.


2015 Moscow Victory Day Parade, Preparation
All the 145 aircraft taking part in the flypast took their practice run on 5 May that drew a great reception from the crowds in Red Square, Manege Square and Tver Street that watched the dry run.


2015 Moscow Victory Day Parade, Full order of the 2015 Victory Day Parade
Bold indicates first appearance, italic indicates multiple appearances, Bold and italic indicate returning appearance, all indicated unless otherwise noted.


2015 Moscow Victory Day Parade, Gallery
Chinese President Xi Jinping and his wife with Russian President Vladimir Putin


2015 Moscow Victory Day Parade, Gallery
Kyrgyz President Almazbek Atambayev with Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev


2015 Moscow Victory Day Parade, Gallery
North Korean Chairman of the Supreme People's Assembly Kim Yong-nam during the parade


2015 Moscow Victory Day Parade, Gallery
Former Soviet cosmonaut and first space walker Alexei Leonov with his wife during the parade


2015 Moscow Victory Day Parade, Gallery
Georgy Shirokov, 91-year-old Russian veteran of World War II and former sailor of the Baltic Fleet walks with his great grandchildren


2015 Moscow Victory Day Parade, Gallery
Honour guard marching with the Victory Banner and the Russian flag


2015 Moscow Victory Day Parade, Gallery
Kurganets-25 APC (front) and IFV (rear) variants during the parade


2015 Moscow Victory Day Parade, Gallery
RS-24s escorted by GAZ Tigrs and Bumerang APCs behind them


2015 Moscow ePrix
The 2015 Moscow ePrix, formally known as the 2015 Formula E Moscow ePrix, was a Formula E motor race that took place on 6 June 2015 on Moscow Street Circuit in Moscow, Russia. It was the ninth round of the 2014–15 Formula E season.


2015 Moscow ePrix, Background
On 3 February 2015, it was announced that the newly founded Formula E, a class of auto racing for one-make, single-seater, electrically powered racing cars, was set to race in Moscow on a street circuit near the Kremlin, on the north bank of the Moskva River.


2015 Moscow ePrix, Background
Coming into the race from Berlin a fortnight earlier, Nelson Piquet, Jr. was leading the championship on 103, with Sébastien Buemi second 2 points behind. They had both jumped Lucas di Grassi, who was disqualified from the Berlin race for having an illegal front wing. Di Grassi sits third on 93 points. The win was inherited by Jérôme d'Ambrosio, who sits in fifth on 77 points, one point behind Nicolas Prost.


2015 Moscow ePrix, Report, Fan Boost
Nelson Piquet Jr., Sébastien Buemi and Lucas di Grassi won the Fan Boost. It was Piquet's fourth boost in a row, second in a row for Buemi, and second overall for di Grassi. It was the first for di Grassi since the season opener, and the first time the top 3 in the championship took the Fan Boost advantage.


2015 Moscow ePrix, Standings after the race
Drivers or teams listed in bold were still able to take the respective title.


2015 Moselle Open
The 2015 Moselle Open was a men's tennis tournament held in Metz, France and played on indoor hard courts. It was the 13th edition of the Moselle Open, and part of the ATP World Tour 250 series of the 2015 ATP World Tour. It was held at the Arènes de Metz from 21 to 27 September 2015. Third-seeded Jo-Wilfried Tsonga won the singles title.


2015 Moselle Open, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following players received wild cards into the singles main draw:


2015 Moselle Open, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following players received entry from the singles qualifying draw:


2015 Moselle Open, Doubles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:


2015 Moselle Open – Doubles
Mariusz Fyrstenberg and Marcin Matkowski were the defending champions but chose not to participate this year. Łukasz Kubot and Édouard Roger-Vasselin won the title, defeating Pierre-Hugues Herbert and Nicolas Mahut in the final, 2–6, 6–3, [10–7].


2015 Moselle Open – Singles
David Goffin was the defending champion but chose not to participate this year.


2015 Moselle Open – Singles
Jo-Wilfried Tsonga won the title, defeating Gilles Simon in the final, 7–6(7–5), 1–6, 6–2.


2015 Moselle Open – Singles, Seeds
The top four seeds receive a bye into the second round.


2015 Moto2 World Championship
The 2015 FIM Moto2 World Championship was a part of the 67th F.I.M. Road Racing World Championship season. Marc VDS Racing Team rider Esteve Rabat started the season as the defending riders' champion, having won his first championship title in 2014.


2015 Moto2 World Championship
Rabat had been trailing by 78 points going to the Japanese Grand Prix. However, he had to withdraw from the event with a fractured left radius. Therefore, Johann Zarco became World Champion – the ninth different world champion in the intermediate class in as many years. Ajo Motorsport rider Zarco won eight races during the season – to become the most successful French rider in Grand Prix racing – and with a tally of 352 points, set a record points total for the intermediate class; surpassing Rabat's 346 from 2014.


2015 Moto2 World Championship
With Rabat missing three races due to injury, rookie Álex Rins (Pons Racing) moved ahead in the standings, and despite Rabat winning the final race in Valencia, Rins finished second to seal the runner-up spot by three points. Rins won two races at Indianapolis, and Phillip Island, while Rabat added his Valencia success to wins at Mugello and Motorland Aragón.


2015 Moto2 World Championship
On one of the few non-Kalex motorcycles on the grid, Sam Lowes finished fourth in the championship for Speed Up, taking a race win at Circuit of the Americas, holding off Derendinger Racing Interwetten's Thomas Lüthi, who won at Le Mans. The season's only other race winners were Jonas Folger, who won at Losail and Jerez for the AGR Team, and Xavier Siméon, who took his first win for Gresini Racing at the Sachsenring. Kalex comfortably won the manufacturers' championship; they won 17 of the season's 18 races, with only Lowes' success at Circuit of the Americas stopping a clean sweep of victories. Speed Up finished second in the championship, with 209 points to Kalex's 445.


2015 Moto2 World Championship
The 2015 season was the last year that Eni was the sole fuel supplier for Moto2, as Total became the championship's fuel supplier in 2016.


2015 Moto2 World Championship, Grands Prix
The Fédération Internationale de Motocyclisme released an 18-race official calendar on 26 September 2014.


2015 Moto2 World Championship, Teams and riders
A provisional entry list was released by the Fédération Internationale de Motocyclisme on 23 October 2014. An updated entry list was released on 2 February 2015. All Moto2 competitors raced with an identical CBR600RR inline-four engine developed by Honda. Teams competed with tyres supplied by Dunlop.


2015 Moto3 World Championship
The 2015 FIM Moto3 World Championship was a part of the 67th F.I.M. Road Racing World Championship season. Álex Márquez was the reigning series champion but he did not defend his title as he joined the series' intermediate class, Moto2. Danny Kent became Great Britain's first Grand Prix motorcycle world champion since Barry Sheene in 1977, by winning the championship at the final race of the season in Valencia.


2015 Moto3 World Championship
Leopard Racing rider Kent started the season with wins at three of the first four races and his lowest finish in the first half of the season was fourth, leading the championship by 66 points at the mid-season break. He only visited the podium once in the second half of the season – a victory at Silverstone – as Enea Bastianini (Gresini Racing) and latterly, Miguel Oliveira (Ajo Motorsport) started to cut into his advantage.


2015 Moto3 World Championship
Oliveira trailed Kent by 110 points with 6 races remaining, but finished with 4 wins and 2 seconds in those races, and took the championship race to the final event as he became the closest challenger to Kent. Ultimately, Kent's ninth-place finish in Valencia gave him the championship by six points over Oliveira; both riders finished with six wins each, as Oliveira became Portugal's first motorcycle Grand Prix race-winner. Bastianini finished third in the championship, fifty-three points behind Kent; he won one race during the season, at Misano.


2015 Moto3 World Championship
Romano Fenati was the race-winner at Le Mans for Sky Racing Team VR46, and Niccolò Antonelli won two races for Ongetta–Rivacold at Brno, and Motegi. The duo battled for fourth in the championship, which was settled in Fenati's favour after Antonelli took Fenati, Efrén Vázquez and himself out of the final race at Valencia. The season's other winners were Alexis Masbou, who won the season-opening race in Qatar for SaxoPrint–RTG, and Livio Loi, who won by nearly 40 seconds at Indianapolis in a wet-to-dry race for RW Racing GP.


2015 Moto3 World Championship
The top rookie rider was Jorge Navarro for Estrella Galicia 0,0 in seventh place in the final championship standings; he finished with four podium finishes in the final five races. The manufacturers' standings were headed by Honda for the first time in the lightweight class since 2001, with at least one motorcycle from the company finishing on the podium – including eleven wins – at every race during the season. Honda finished 70 points clear of KTM, who won the remaining 7 races.


2015 Moto3 World Championship
2015 was the last season that Eni was the sole fuel supplier for Moto3, as Total became the new fuel supplier for 2016.


2015 Moto3 World Championship, Grands Prix
The Fédération Internationale de Motocyclisme released an 18-race official calendar on 26 September 2014.


2015 Moto3 World Championship, Teams and riders
Starting in 2015, the rolling chassis must be homologated and supplied by the engine manufacturers participating in the Moto3 class. Each manufacturer was permitted to homologate only one version of its own chassis and one version of any third-party supplied chassis they made available. Each component designated as a performance part – relating to the chassis, swingarm, fuel tank, seat, bodywork and suspensions – could be updated a maximum of once per season and had to be available to all customers of that manufacturer at the same time.


2015 Moto3 World Championship, Teams and riders
A provisional entry list was released by the Fédération Internationale de Motocyclisme on 23 October 2014. An updated entry list was released on 2 February 2015.


2015 MotoGP World Championship
The 2015 FIM MotoGP World Championship was the premier class of the 67th F.I.M. Road Racing World Championship season.


2015 MotoGP World Championship
2015 was the final season that Bridgestone was the sole tyre supplier for MotoGP, as Michelin became the sole tyre supplier for the 2016 season.


2015 MotoGP World Championship
The 2015 season also saw the début of the Suzuki GSX-RR and Aprilia RS-GP. The GSX-RR previously made an appearance at the 2014 Valencian Grand Prix ahead of a full-season return for Suzuki as a factory team for the first time since 2011 and the RS-GP was used by Gresini Racing after the team split from Honda at the end of last season.


2015 MotoGP World Championship, Season summary
Marc Márquez started the season as the defending riders' champion, having won his second consecutive title in 2014.


2015 MotoGP World Championship, Season summary
Valentino Rossi led the championship for almost the entire season as he chased a tenth world title, but ultimately, the honours went to his Yamaha Motor Racing teammate Jorge Lorenzo, who took his third MotoGP title and a fifth world title overall. Lorenzo started the season quietly with three finishes off the podium, whereas Rossi took wins in Qatar and Argentina. Thereafter, Lorenzo took four successive wins for the first time in his career to bring himself back into the championship race, before Rossi won at Assen.


2015 MotoGP World Championship, Season summary
Lorenzo did not win again until Brno, taking the championship lead on countback, but ceded it back to Rossi, when he won at Silverstone. Lorenzo crashed out at Misano, while Rossi finished fifth – ending a 16-race streak of podium finishes – after both Yamaha riders were caught out by wet weather. In the final five races, Rossi finished ahead of Lorenzo once, as Lorenzo continued to close the points gap; at a maximum of 23 after Misano, Lorenzo pulled it back to 7 going into Valencia.


2015 MotoGP World Championship, Season summary
At the final race, Lorenzo took his seventh win of the season, while Rossi could only finish fourth – after a back-of-the-grid start – to give him the title by five points. Rossi had lost the title under controversial circumstances, following a coming together on track with reigning champion Márquez amid accusations of unsportsmanlike conduct. The only time of the season where Lorenzo had more points on the board than Rossi was after the final race of the season.


2015 MotoGP World Championship, Season summary
Third place in the final riders' championship standings went to Márquez, who won five races during the season, but six retirements during the campaign stopped him from challenging the Yamaha pair in the championship run-in. The only other rider to win a race during the season was Márquez's Repsol Honda teammate, Dani Pedrosa. Pedrosa missed three races at the start of the season, after electing to undergo surgery to alleviate issues with arm-pump. Upon his return, he did not podium until Catalunya, and ultimately, took two wins in the closing four races at Motegi, and Sepang.


2015 MotoGP World Championship, Season summary, Other championship standings
In the other championships, the eleven wins for Rossi and Lorenzo were enough for Yamaha to take the teams' title by over 200 points ahead of Repsol Honda, and the manufacturers' title by 52 points ahead of Honda. Amongst the class of rookies, Suzuki rider Maverick Viñales took the IRTA Cup, finishing in twelfth place overall, while Héctor Barberá of Avintia Racing was the best-placed Open class rider, in fifteenth.


2015 MotoGP World Championship, Season summary, Collisions between contenders
The 2015 season also saw several moments of controversy between the main championship contenders. In Argentina, Rossi chased Márquez down for the lead before the two riders collided on the penultimate lap. Rossi stayed upright but Márquez was unable to rejoin; Rossi later spoke of Márquez as an "all or nothing" rider. Rossi and Márquez again collided at Assen on the final lap; Rossi rejoined the circuit through the gravel and went on to win the race, while race direction deemed the incident as a racing incident. At Misano, Rossi was given a penalty point on his licence, for impeding Lorenzo in qualifying. Rossi accused Márquez of helping Lorenzo in his title aspirations at Phillip Island, in the pre-event press conference at Sepang, a claim that Márquez refuted.


2015 MotoGP World Championship, Season summary, Collisions between contenders
The most significant of the clashes came during the Sepang race; Rossi and Márquez collided for a third time in 2015 on the seventh lap of the race. After a series of 18 overtakes and exchanges of positions between the two, Rossi made a move on Márquez at Turn 14, pushing Márquez to the outside of the circuit. The two riders made contact and Márquez fell from his bike. He remounted and returned to the pits but had to retire from the race.


2015 MotoGP World Championship, Season summary, Collisions between contenders
Rossi maintained the third place that the pair had been battling over until the end of the race. After the race, race direction reviewed the incident and deemed Rossi at fault for the collision, and three penalty points were added to his licence. With this, it meant that Rossi would have to start the final race in Valencia from the back of the grid. On the podium, Lorenzo made a gesture showing his disapproval at the move and deemed the penalty as "inadequate".


2015 MotoGP World Championship, Season summary, Collisions between contenders
Rossi appealed the penalty to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), but the penalty was ultimately upheld; Lorenzo submitted a statement towards the appeal and later apologised for his actions on the podium before the Valencia weekend. Rossi voiced his regret at his move on Márquez, while Márquez stood his ground on his riding style in Malaysia.


2015 MotoGP World Championship, Season summary, Collisions between contenders
Following the fallout from Sepang, FIM president Vito Ippolito deemed the events – which included a clash between the Márquez family and Italian television reporters "Le Iene"  as having a "damaging effect on the staging of our competitions and poisoned the atmosphere around the sport", with Ippolito and Dorna Sports boss Carmelo Ezpeleta calling a private meeting – cancelling the pre-event press conference – for all riders and crew chiefs in Valencia.


2015 MotoGP World Championship, Teams and riders
As in 2014, the MotoGP class was divided into two categories: Factory and Open. Manufacturers who had not won a dry race since the start of the 2013 season or were new to the class could enter the Factory category with all the Open concessions.


2015 MotoGP World Championship, Teams and riders
A provisional entry list was released by the Fédération Internationale de Motocyclisme on 23 October 2014. An updated entry list was released on 2 February 2015.


2015 MotoGP World Championship, 2015 Grand Prix season results, Riders' standings
Points were awarded to the top fifteen finishers. A rider had to finish the race to earn points.


2015 MotoGP World Championship, 2015 Grand Prix season results, Constructors' standings
Points are awarded to the top fifteen finishers. A rider has to finish the race to earn points.


2015 Motorcycle Grand Prix of the Americas
The 2015 Motorcycle Grand Prix of the Americas was the second round of the 2015 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It was held at the Circuit of the Americas in Elroy on April 12, 2015.


2015 Motorcycle Grand Prix of the Americas
In the MotoGP class, Repsol Honda's Marc Márquez took his first pole position of the season, and he ultimately went on to win the race, his third victory in as many years at the circuit. For the first time since the 2014 Aragon Grand Prix, three different manufacturers were represented on the podium; behind Márquez was Ducati's Andrea Dovizioso, who prevailed in a battle with Yamaha's Valentino Rossi, who finished in third place.


2015 Motorcycle Grand Prix of the Americas
In his 200th premier class start, local hero Nicky Hayden could only finish in thirteenth, while numerous riders retired from the race – Pol Espargaró collided with Scott Redding, with caused both riders to retire from the race, while Yonny Hernández, Mike Di Meglio and Stefan Bradl all crashed before the halfway mark.


2015 Motorcycle Grand Prix of the Americas, Classification, MotoGP
The race start was delayed due to a water spillage at Turn 3, and ultimately started at 14:37 local time.


2015 Motorcycle Grand Prix of the Americas, Championship standings after the race (MotoGP)
Below are the standings for the top five riders and constructors after round two has concluded.


2015 Mount Carbon train derailment
The 2015 Mount Carbon train derailment refers to a derailment in Mount Carbon, West Virginia, on February 16, 2015, which involved a CSX Transportation train hauling 107 tank cars of crude oil from North Dakota to Virginia. It resulted in a large oil spill that caught fire with several subsequent large, violent fireball eruptions. The spill, fire, and eruptions destroyed one home, forced the evacuation of hundreds of families and caused the temporary shut down of two nearby water treatment plants. Eventually, 19 railcars carrying crude oil caught fire with each car carrying up to 30,000 US gallons (110,000 l; 25,000 imp gal) of crude oil.


2015 Mount Carbon train derailment, Background
The train was composed of two GEVO locomotives, a covered hopper car acting as a buffer car, 107 tank cars, and a single trailing end buffer car, with a total of 109 cars. The train was carrying volatile Bakken crude, from North Dakota's shale fields at Manitou, North Dakota, to an oil shipping depot in Yorktown, Virginia. All of the cars were DOT-111 tank cars meeting the Casualty Prevention Circular (CPC)-1232 industry standard. These so-called CPC-1232's were introduced by the rail industry in 2011 to increase the safety of carrying flammable liquids. However, several accidents involving the cars have brought their effectiveness into doubt.


2015 Mount Carbon train derailment, Accident
At the time of the accident, the train was being led by CREX ES44AC #1349 and CSX Transportation ES40DC #5243 was traveling through Mount Carbon, West Virginia, in an area of town known as Adena Village, across the river from Boomer Bottom. The state was under a winter storm warning and getting heavy snowfall at times, with as much as 5 inches (130 mm) in some places. At the time, it was unclear whether the snow contributed to the crash.


2015 Mount Carbon train derailment, Accident
West Virginia Governor Earl Ray Tomblin's spokesman Chris Stadelman stated that 26 cars left the tracks, 19 of which caught fire. A portion of the train hit and completely destroyed a house, and initial reports stated another rail car ran into the nearby river (it was later found that no cars went into the river), prompting the closure of nearby water treatment plants.


2015 Mount Carbon train derailment, Accident
Some tank fires were still burning the following morning, but federal investigators were allowed to get within 150 feet (46 m) of the derailed cars, and Appalachian Power crews were able to repair a line and restore electricity to about 900 customers. During the emergency response, authorities closed the adjacent West Virginia Route 61 in the area of the accident. One lane of the highway was subsequently reopened to most residents, allowing them to return home.


2015 Mount Carbon train derailment, Accident
An investigation by federal authorities, using data found on the train's digital data recorders, revealed the train was traveling at 33 miles per hour (53 km/h) at the time of the accident. The legal speed for the section of railroad track where the accident occurred is 50 miles per hour (80 km/h), eliminating illegal speed as a factor in the derailment. Oil spilled into a creek near the accident site, but tests have not found the areas potable water supply to be contaminated by the crude oil that leaked.


2015 Mount Carbon train derailment, Accident
The weather at the time of the accident was 15 °F (−9 °C) with 8 inches (200 mm) of recent snow. The train was traveling at 33 miles per hour (53 km/h), below the 50-mile-per-hour (80 km/h) speed limit for the area and a 40-mile-per-hour (64 km/h) speed restriction imposed by CSX due to cold weather. The second car in the train (the first tanker car behind the buffer car), through the 28th car derailed. Shortly after the derailment occurred, the train went into emergency braking as a result of the brake line coming apart. The engines traveled 636 feet (194 m) after this. The train crew must have seen the damage behind them and moved the engines and the buffer car an additional 999 feet (304 m) away from the accident.


2015 Mount Carbon train derailment, Accident
The second car in the train (the first tanker car behind the buffer car), through the 28th car derailed. The first five of these cars, position 2 to 6 turned over on their sides. The next 18 cars at position 7 to 24 piled up in a tight accordion style, while the last four cars that derailed at position 25 to 28 were somewhat in line. Cars 7 to 25 released their oil. Only two of the cars were punctured, four leaked due to valve or fitting damage. The remaining 13 suffered from thermal tears. These thermal tears were likely the cause of the violent fireball eruptions.


2015 Mount Carbon train derailment, Accident
The first fireball occurred 25 minutes after the derailment with the 13th and last fireball happening more than ten hours later. The fire burned for four days, finally burning out on February 20.


2015 Mount Carbon train derailment, Aftermath
One person was treated for potential inhalation according to CSX. As of February 17, the West Virginia National Guard took water samples to determine whether oil seeped into Armstrong Creek and CSX contractors also monitored the air for pollution linked to the fires. Federal railroad and hazardous materials officials are currently probing the accident, and Governor Tomblin declared a state of emergency.


2015 Mount Carbon train derailment, Aftermath
Immediately following the accident, the various emergency response agencies organized The Unified Command for the West Virginia Train Derailment (UCWVTD), as a central command. The UCWVTD ordered evacuations of the Mount Carbon areas most at risk from the fires; specifically Adena Village, and Boomer Bottom. As the situation improved in the days that followed, most residents were allowed to return home.


2015 Mount Carbon train derailment, Investigations
The U.S. Federal Railroad Administration was the lead agency in the investigation of the accident. The U.S. National Transportation Safety Board contributed with a detailed analysis of the tank car performance.


2015 Mount Carbon train derailment, Investigations
The cause of the derailment was determined to be a broken rail. Specifically, it was a failure known as a vertical split head (VSH), where the top of the rail is split lengthwise. Specialized rail inspections in this area are performed by CSX's contractor, Sperry Rail Service, using internal rail flaw detector cars. Inspections on December 17, 2014 (61 days before) and January 12, 2015 (35 days before) had revealed a defect at the point where the rail later broke. However, in both cases, the inspector did not perform a detailed inspection by hand as required.


2015 Mount Carbon train derailment, Investigations
The inspector told investigators that he thought the indications from his instruments were simply caused by rough rail surface conditions. It was also revealed that the inspector had been working on the CSX territory for fifteen years but had not been given the enhanced training that a new employee would have been given.


2015 Mount Everest avalanches
During the afternoon of 25 April 2015, a MW 7.8 earthquake struck Nepal and surrounding countries. Shaking from the quake triggered an avalanche from Pumori into Base Camp on Mount Everest. At least twenty-two people were killed, surpassing an avalanche that occurred in 2014 as the deadliest disaster on the mountain.


2015 Mount Everest avalanches, Avalanches
Mount Everest is approximately 220 kilometres (140 mi) east of the epicentre, and between 700 and 1,000 people were on or near the mountain when the earthquake struck, including 359 climbers at Base Camp, many of whom had returned after the aborted 2014 season. The earthquake triggered several large avalanches on and around the mountain. One avalanche, originating on the nearby peak of Pumori, swept into Base Camp and blew many tents across the Khumbu Glacier towards the lower Icefall. An Indian Army mountaineering team recovered the bodies of 19 mountaineers from the South Base Camp and rescued at least 61 stranded climbers from the mountain.


2015 Mount Everest avalanches, Avalanches
At least 61 people were injured, with dozens initially reported missing, and many more stranded at camps at higher elevations, having lost secure descent routes.


2015 Mount Everest avalanches, Rescue operations
Helicopters reached Mount Everest on the morning of 26 April to commence rescue operations, managing to transport 22 of the badly injured to Pheriche village, before the operation was halted by bad weather. Pheriche is an important stopover for climbers, and has a rudimentary hospital staffed by volunteer doctors from the Himalayan Rescue Association.


2015 Mount Everest avalanches, Rescue operations
Later that day, a helicopter reportedly evacuated several climbers from Camp I, the first camp above Base Camp, with some 100 mountaineers still unable to safely descend from Camps I and II. Expedition leaders decided to try to evacuate climbers from Camp I by repairing the route through the Khumbu Icefall. On 26 April, a helicopter dropped additional technical gear at Camp I, and a team of Sherpas and foreign guides attempted to re-establish the route from the top back down to Base Camp. Simultaneously, another team dispatched from Base Camp tried to re-establish the route from the bottom up.


2015 Mount Everest avalanches, Rescue operations
But this attempt was unsuccessful as a subsequent avalanche took out most of the ladders and reportedly killed three Sherpas at Khumbu Icefall, pushing the death toll on the mountain to at least 24. Further climbers were rescued via helicopter on 27 April.


2015 Mount Everest avalanches, Rescue operations
Climbers at Base Camp posted on Twitter in the days after the disaster, writing of "great desolation" and "high uncertainty" among those who were left, and stating that the area looked as if it had been hit by a nuclear bomb; one mountaineer, commenting on Facebook, said that people stuck higher up on the mountain were "getting desperate". On 27 April, 60 people were rescued from Camp I and 170 were rescued from Camp II. Seventeen bodies were found on 25 April, and one was found on 27 April. On 26 April, one of the 61 badly injured died at KMC hospital.


2015 Mount Everest avalanches, Deaths
A Nepal Mountaineering Association report on 28 April listed 19 deaths, of which 10 were identified as Nepalese Sherpas and five were foreign climbers. Four were not identified by name. The five climbers were listed as two Americans, one Chinese, one Australian and one Japanese. On 27 April, National Geographic reported 24 deaths.


2015 Mount Everest avalanches, Deaths
Google executive Dan Fredinburg, who was climbing Everest with three company employees while mapping the area for a future Google Earth-type project, and three other Americans, were confirmed dead.


2015 Mount Everest avalanches, Effect on 2015 climbing season
Although the ladders at the Khumbu Icefall were damaged by the avalanches, a handful of mountaineers, undeterred by the disaster, immediately sought Nepalese government permission to continue with their attempt on the mountain and were granted permission to do so on 29 April 2015. "The ladders will be repaired in the next two to three days and climbing will continue, there is no reason for anyone to quit their expedition," said Tulsi Gautam, chief of the Nepal Department of Tourism. "There is no scientific reason to expect another quake... and we feel the ground is stable enough for climbing despite aftershocks."


2015 Mount Everest avalanches, Effect on 2015 climbing season
The closure of routes over the icefall for the remainder of the season was later announced, the second consecutive year that the mountain has been closed due to avalanches. After the second earthquake on 12 May 2015, Dambar Parajuli, president of the Expedition Operators' Association of Nepal, said there were no climbers or Nepali sherpa guides remaining at Everest Base Camp. As a result, no one climbed Mount Everest in the spring of 2015, the first time in 41 years that this has happened.


2015 Mount Everest avalanches, Effect on 2015 climbing season
In August one climbing permit was issued, to Japanese mountaineer Nobukazu Kuriki. He turned around 700m below the summit in October (in the autumn post-moonson season). He had tried four times previously, losing all his fingers to frostbite.


2015 Mountain West Conference Baseball Tournament
The 2015 Mountain West Conference Baseball Tournament will take place from May 21–25. All seven of the league's teams will meet in the double-elimination tournament to be held at University of Nevada, Reno's William Peccole Park. The winner of the tournament will earn the Mountain West Conference's automatic bid to the 2015 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament.


2015 Mountain West Conference Baseball Tournament, Format and seeding
The conference's seven teams will be seeded based on winning percentage during the round robin regular season schedule. The bottom two seeds will play a single-elimination game prior to the main six-team bracket. The top two seeds will receive a bye to the second round, with the top seed playing the lowest seeded team that won its first round game, and the second seeded team playing the higher seeded first day winner. The losers of the first day's games will play an elimination game in the double-elimination format.


2015 Mountain West Conference Football Championship Game
The 2015 Sports Authority Mountain West Football Championship Game determined the 2015 football champion of the Mountain West Conference (MW).


2015 Mountain West Conference Football Championship Game, History
After the 2013 phase of Mountain West Conference realignment, the league added two new members, San Jose State and Utah State for the 2013 season. By adding two new members for a total of 12 football members (11 all-sports members and football-only Hawaii), the MW was able to split into two divisions, the Mountain and the West, and to organize an annual conference championship game.


2015 Mountain West Conference Football Championship Game, Teams, West Division Champions
This is San Diego State's first appearance in the Championship.


2015 Mountain West Conference Men's Basketball Tournament
The 2015 Mountain West Conference Men's Basketball Tournament was a tournament played March 11–14 at the Thomas & Mack Center in Las Vegas, Nevada.


2015 Mountain West Conference Men's Basketball Tournament, Seeds
Teams were seeded by conference record, with a ties broken by record between the tied teams followed by record against the regular-season champion, if necessary. The top six seeds received first round byes.


2015 Mountain West Conference Women's Basketball Tournament
The 2015 Mountain West Conference women's basketball tournament will be held on March 9–13, 2015 at the Thomas & Mack Center in Las Vegas, Nevada. As with last year the top 5 seeds will get the first round bye. For the 3rd year in a row all games Mountain West Network will carry the tournament, but this year they also add the championship game to their schedule. The tournament champion will receive the Mountain West's only bid to the 2015 NCAA Tournament.


2015 Mountain West Conference Women's Basketball Tournament, Seeds
Teams are seeded by conference record, with a ties broken by record between the tied teams followed by record against the regular-season champion, if necessary.


2015 Mountain West Conference football season
The 2015 Mountain West Conference football season was the 17th season of college football for the Mountain West Conference (MW). In the 2015 NCAA Division I FBS football season, the MW had 12 football members: Air Force, Boise State, Colorado State, Fresno State, Hawaii, Nevada, New Mexico, San Diego State, San Jose State, UNLV, Utah State, and Wyoming.


2015 Mountain West Conference football season, Pre-season, Mountain West Media
2015 Mountain West Media Day will be held at The Cosmopolitan in Las Vegas, NV on July 28, 2015.


2015 Mountain West Conference football season, Pre-season, Preseason All-Mountain West Teams
(* - member of the 2014 All-Mountain West first team)


2015 Mountain West Conference football season, Pre-season, Preseason All-Mountain West Teams
(** - member of the 2014 All-Mountain West second team)


2015 Mountain West Conference football season, Pre-season, Award watch lists
The following Mountain West players were named to preseason award watch lists.


2015 Mountain West Conference football season, Coaches
NOTE: Stats shown are before the beginning of the season


2015 Mountain West Conference football season, Coaches
*first year as conference member, ^achieved as head coach of New Mexico from 99 to 08


2015 Mountain West Conference football season, Schedule, Championship game
The championship game was played on December 5, 2015. It featured the Air Force Falcons, champions of the Mountain Division, and the San Diego State Aztecs, champions of the West Division. The game was played at Qualcomm Stadium in front of 20,959. San Diego State won the game 27–24 to claim their first outright conference championship since 1986, and their first ever outright Mountain West Conference championship.


2015 Mountain West Conference football season, Awards and honors, All Conference teams
(* - Two-Time First-Team Selection)(** - Two-Time Second-Team Selection)(*** - Three-Time Second-Team Selection)


2015 Movistar Team season
The 2015 season for Movistar Team began in January at the Tour de San Luis. As a UCI WorldTeam, they were automatically invited and obligated to send a squad to every event in the UCI World Tour.


2015 Moçambola
The 2015 Moçambola is the 38th season of top-tier football in Mozambique. The season began on 14 March 2014. Ferroviário Maputo won the league title by a single point with a 1–1 draw at Ferroviário Nampula. Costa do Sol could have taken the championship with a win or pulled even with a draw, but fell 1–0 at Chibuto to finish second despite leading the league for seven of the last 10 weeks. The championship was the 10th overall for Ferroviário Maputo and first since 2009.


2015 Moçambola
1º de Maio, Desportivo de Nacala and Ferroviário Quelimane finished as the bottom three teams in the league table and were relegated to regional groups for the 2016 season.


2015 Moçambola, Teams
A total of 14 teams will contest the league, including 11 sides from the 2014 season and three promoted from 2014 regional groups, Ferroviário Nacala, 1º de Maio and Vilankulo.


2015 Moçambola, Teams
On the other hand, Têxtil do Punguè, Ferroviário Pemba and Estrela Vermelha Beira were the last three teams of the 2014 season and are playing in regional groups for the 2015 season. LD Maputo are the defending champions from the 2014 season.


2015 Moçambola, Results
All teams play in a double round robin system (home and away).


2015 Mr. Olympia
The 2015 Mr. Olympia contest was an IFBB professional bodybuilding competition that was held on September 19–21, 2015, in Las Vegas, Nevada. It was the 51st Mr. Olympia competition celebrated. Other events at the exhibition included the 212 Olympia Showdown, Ms. Olympia, Fitness Olympia, Figure Olympia, Bikini Olympia, Women's Physique Showdown, and Men's Physique Showdown contests.


2015 Mubadala World Tennis Championship
The 2015 Mubadala World Tennis Championship was a non-ATP affiliated exhibition tournament. It was the 7th edition of the Mubadala World Tennis Championship with the world's top players competing in the event, which was held in a knockout format. The winner received a purse of $250,000. The event was held at the Abu Dhabi International Tennis Complex at the Zayed Sports City in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.


2015 Mubadala World Tennis Championship – Singles
Novak Djokovic was the three-time defending champion and lost the final to Andy Murray by way of a walkover.


2015 Much Music Video Awards
The 2015 Much Music Video Awards (MMVAs) were held on June 21, 2015 outside the Much headquarters in downtown Toronto. Ed Sheeran served as co-host for the show.


2015 Mumbai City FC season
The 2015 Season is Mumbai City's 2nd season in existence in the Indian Super League. Mumbai City began the season on 5 October 2015 against Pune City, with the opening game of their League campaign. For 2nd season, Nicolas Anelka was announced as the marquee player as well as the manager of the club, replacing Englishman Peter Reid. Mumbai City finished their season at 6th position in ISL 2015.


2015 Mumbai City FC season, Transfers and Loans, Transfers In
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality


2015 Mumbai City FC season, Transfers and Loans, Transfers Out
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality


2015 Mumbai City FC season, Players and staff, Squad
As of 3 October 2015 Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


2015 Munnar Plantation strike
The Munnar Plantation strike was a nine-day strike led by the women of the Munnar Kannan Devan Hills Plantations Limited (KDHPL).It was famous for it being an all-women uprising leading to the formation of an all-women union Pembilai Orumai (women's unity) and is referred to as a turning point in Kerala's political history.


2015 Munnar Plantation strike, Introduction
The salary of plantation workers in the state is decided by the Plantation Labour Committee. PLC comprises representatives of trade unions, plantation managements, and the government. PLC meeting and discussion is possible only if the labour minister takes the initiative.


2015 Munnar Plantation strike, Introduction
The strike began on September 6 with about 5000 workers, the majority being women, agitating in front of the KDHPL office after the management struck down the bonus to ten percent, which was 20 percent the previous year, citing dips in profit and falling tea prices – this despite the daily wage being a mere Rs 234 for 12 hours of labour and the fact that the daily output per worker had increased to 31 kilograms from 21. The main demands of the workers was a hike in wages from Rs.232 to Rs.500.


2015 Munnar Plantation strike, Introduction
One of the most important facts about this strike, is that the agitation was led and organised by the women workers who steadfastly refused to allow men into it, citing reasons such as that they were easily swayed by alcohol and that it was the women who did the actual work of plucking leaves and carrying and loading the burden, which comes with greater occupational hazards such as knee damage and pesticide inhalation.


2015 Munnar Plantation strike, Introduction
The country's biggest trade unions such as AITUC (CPI), INTUC (Congress) and CITU (CPM) were forbidden from co-opting the movement, even though at one time they tried to barge into their protest because according to the workers, they had done precious little to improve their conditions and instead preferred to cosy up to the management. A controversy was started a spark happened between Pembilai Orumai and Mm mani in April 2017


2015 Munnar Plantation strike, Negotiations
The government eventually intervened, and conducted negotiations with the striking workers led by the all-women union, Pembilai Orumai. They were given front seats at the negotiations led by the Chief Minister of Kerala, Oommen Chandy, and the Labour Minister Shibu Baby John, and on September 13, their demands were finally met.


2015 Munnar Plantation strike, Aftermath
Similar strikes were soon called by women workers at other places including Harrisons Malayalam Ltd's tea estates in Idukki and Wayanad districts, where 500 women workers went on strike and over 11,000 workers of TATA Tea resorted to ‘go slow’ plucking in peak plucking season, one of the slogans being ‘we pluck tea leaves, you pluck our lives.'


2015 Munster Senior Football Championship
The 2015 Munster Senior Football Championship will be that year's installment of the annual Munster Senior Football Championship held under the auspices of Munster GAA. It is one of the four provincial competitions of the 2015 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship. Kerry entered the competition as defending Munster champions and retained their title after a 1-11 to 1-6 victory over Cork in a replay.


2015 Munster Senior Football Championship
The draw to decide the fixtures was made on 10 October 2014. Having reached the final the year before, Cork and Kerry were both given places in the semi-finals of the competition, but unlike previous seasons, they were not prevented from meeting each other in the semi-finals. Despite this, the two teams were drawn on different sides of the tournament, and so could not meet outside the final.


2015 Munster Senior Football Championship
Under GAA rules introduced in 2014 to allow counties to more easily predict the dates of their qualifier matches, the two sides of the draw will be named as either A or B. Which sides will be A and B has yet to be decided.


2015 Munster Senior Football Championship, Teams
The Munster championship is contested by all six counties in the Irish province of Munster.


2015 Munster Senior Hurling Championship Final
The 2015 Munster Senior Hurling Championship Final was a hurling match which was played on 12 July 2015 at Semple Stadium, Thurles. The winners would advance to the semi-finals of the All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, with the loser going into the All Ireland quarter-finals. Tipperary and Waterford contested the final with Tipperary winning the title on a 0-21 to 0-16 scoreline. The win was Tipperary's 41st Munster Senior title and first since 2012.


2015 Munster Senior Hurling Championship Final, Build Up
On 23 June Waterford and Tipperary struck a deal to stage the final at Semple Stadium in Thurles as the regular venue for this fixture, Páirc Uí Chaoimh, is out of commission due to redevelopment work. Ticket prices for the final ranged from €30 to €35 in the stand and €25 in the terrace with Tipperary allocated the Killinan End terrace and Waterford the Town End Terrace


2015 Munster Senior Hurling Championship Final, Build Up
The match was shown live on RTÉ Two as part of The Sunday Game Live with commentary from Marty Morrissey and Michael Duignan.


2015 Munster Senior Hurling Championship Final, Build Up
In the Minor final which was played before the senior final, Tipperary defeated Limerick 0-20 to 0-17.


2015 Munster Senior Hurling Championship Final, Team News
Waterford made one change to the side that defeated Cork in the semi-final with Tom Devine making first championship start. Tipperary made two changes to the team that defeated Limerick with Michael Breen making his full championship debut at right half-back and the fit again Cathal Barrett taking over from injured Paddy Stapleton at right corner back. Conor O’Brien is replaced by Ronan Maher in the full back line.


2015 Munster Senior Hurling Championship Final, Match, Summary
Tipperary got the opening point with a strike from Niall O’Meara with Colin Dunford getting Waterford's first score to make it two points to one after 5 minutes. Tipperary opened up a four-point lead after 12 minutes on a six points to two scoreline and had a 0-10 to 0-9 lead at half time, helped by four Seamus Callanan points. Jason Forde got the opening score of the second half to push Tipperary's lead to two points. Maurice Shanahan got the equalizing score for Waterford in the 43rd minute to make the score 0-11 each.


2015 Munster Senior Hurling Championship Final, Match, Summary
John O'Dwyer got his third point in the 58th minute to open up a three-point lead for Tipperary. Lar Corbett then increased the lead to four with a long range shot. Seamus Callanan scored another point from a 65 to increase the lead back to four after Maurice Shanahan had got one back for Waterford. Two more points from Tipperary increased the lead to five points before both teams traded points to leave the final score 0-21 to Tipperary, 0-16 to Waterford.


2015 Munster Senior Hurling Championship Final, Reaction
Waterford manager Derek McGrath speaking after the game said  "I think the first 10 or 15 minutes Tipp looked a bit more fluid than us. I thought we got a grip in the middle part of the first half and we seemed to be able to grind it out. This much vaunted ‘system’ seemed to be up and running and we were disappointed to go in a point down. But I could have no real qualms overall. I thought Tipp were a slightly better team than us.”


2015 Munster Senior Hurling Championship Final, Reaction
Tipperary manager Eamon O'Shea who picked up his first major trophy said "“I thought we started well, we tried to keep the ball open. In the second-half I thought we did better, we moved the ball. We got a few breaks at various times and managed to get the points.”“I don’t always feel the silverware is as important as the outside thinks, but it is important. I thought it important we stayed at the game - they’re a resilient bunch, they’ve been through a fair bit.


2015 Munster Senior Hurling Championship Final, Reaction
“We had nine Munster final debutants, sometimes people think we’ve been going since the year 2000. We had nine people who played their first Munster final there - I think that’s good, to have that transition. “I thought a five-point win - maybe those who watch the game don’t call it a close game, but for me it was as close as it gets. I didn’t relax until the last minute of play.


2015 Munster Senior Hurling Championship Final, Reaction
“We’ve been through close games and sometimes we’ve come out the wrong side of them, but you have to be careful judging a team who come out the wrong side of a game by a point or two. I was always happy the team would be capable of winning a really tight match, and today was a really tight match.”


2015 Munster Senior Hurling Championship Final, Reaction
Former Waterford player, John Mullane writing in the Irish Independent felt it was an important win for Tipperary saying "For Tipperary, this was an important landmark under Eamon O'Shea, the first piece of silverware they have collected in his third and final season in charge. What will have pleased him most was Tipp's ability to come through a battle because those question marks remained after losing the 2013 and 2014 National League finals, and last year's All-Ireland decider."


2015 Munster Senior Hurling Championship Final, Reaction
Former Tipperary player, Nicky English writing in the Irish Times thinks that both teams can take something from the game saying "Both Tipperary and Waterford can take something from this but, importantly, they have room to improve before the All-Ireland series and will need to, as this wasn’t a great match. A few weeks ago the consensus was that Kilkenny and Tipperary were decisively ahead of the chasing pack. But now, although they’ve won their provincial titles, I think they’ve both shown vulnerabilities in their game which will encourage the other four teams still in the championship."


2015 Munster Senior Hurling Championship Final, Reaction
On the Sunday Game on the night of the match, Tipperary captain Brendan Maher was  named as the man of the match by a panel consisting of Donal Óg Cusack and Eddie Brennan. The other nominees were Tipperary's Cathal Barrett and Waterford’s Maurice Shanahan.


2015 Murcian regional election
The 2015 Murcian regional election was held on Sunday, 24 May 2015, to elect the 9th Regional Assembly of the autonomous community of the Region of Murcia. All 45 seats in the Regional Assembly were up for election. The election was held simultaneously with regional elections in twelve other autonomous communities and local elections all throughout Spain.


2015 Murcian regional election, Overview, Electoral system
The Regional Assembly of Murcia was the devolved, unicameral legislature of the autonomous community of Murcia, having legislative power in regional matters as defined by the Spanish Constitution and the Murcian Statute of Autonomy, as well as the ability to vote confidence in or withdraw it from a regional president.


2015 Murcian regional election, Overview, Electoral system
Voting for the Regional Assembly was on the basis of universal suffrage, which comprised all nationals over eighteen, registered in the Region of Murcia and in full enjoyment of their political rights. Additionally, Murcians abroad were required to apply for voting before being permitted to vote, a system known as "begged" or expat vote (Spanish: Voto rogado). The 45 members of the Regional Assembly of Murcia were elected using the D'Hondt method and a closed list proportional representation, with an electoral threshold of five percent of valid votes—which included blank ballots—being applied regionally. Seats were allocated to constituencies, which were established by law as follows:


2015 Murcian regional election, Overview, Electoral system
Each constituency was entitled to an initial minimum of one seat, with the remaining 40 allocated among the constituencies in proportion to their populations.


2015 Murcian regional election, Overview, Election date
The term of the Regional Assembly of Murcia expired four years after the date of its previous election. Elections to the Regional Assembly were fixed for the fourth Sunday of May every four years. The previous election was held on 22 May 2011, setting the election date for the Regional Assembly on Sunday, 24 May 2015.


2015 Murcian regional election, Overview, Election date
The president had the prerogative to dissolve the Regional Assembly of Murcia and call a snap election, provided that no motion of no confidence was in process, no nationwide election was due and some time requirements were met: namely, that dissolution did not occur either during the first legislative session or within the legislature's last year ahead of its scheduled expiry, nor before one year had elapsed since a previous dissolution under this procedure.


2015 Murcian regional election, Overview, Election date
In the event of an investiture process failing to elect a regional president within a two-month period from the first ballot, the Regional Assembly was to be automatically dissolved and a fresh election called. Any snap election held as a result of these circumstances would not alter the period to the next ordinary election, with elected deputies merely serving out what remained of their four-year terms.


2015 Murcian regional election, Parties and candidates
The electoral law allowed for parties and federations registered in the interior ministry, coalitions and groupings of electors to present lists of candidates. Parties and federations intending to form a coalition ahead of an election were required to inform the relevant Electoral Commission within ten days of the election call, whereas groupings of electors needed to secure the signature of at least one percent of the electorate in the Region of Murcia, disallowing electors from signing for more than one list of candidates.


2015 Murcian regional election, Parties and candidates
Below is a list of the main parties and electoral alliances which contested the election:


2015 Murcian regional election, Opinion polls
The table below lists voting intention estimates in reverse chronological order, showing the most recent first and using the dates when the survey fieldwork was done, as opposed to the date of publication. Where the fieldwork dates are unknown, the date of publication is given instead. The highest percentage figure in each polling survey is displayed with its background shaded in the leading party's colour. If a tie ensues, this is applied to the figures with the highest percentages. The "Lead" column on the right shows the percentage-point difference between the parties with the highest percentages in a given poll. When available, seat projections are also displayed below the voting estimates in a smaller font. 23 seats were required for an absolute majority in the Regional Assembly of Murcia.


2015 Murray State Racers football team
The 2015 Murray State Racers football team represented Murray State University in the 2015 NCAA Division I FCS football season. They were led by first-year head coach Mitch Stewart and played their home games at Roy Stewart Stadium. They were a member of the Ohio Valley Conference. They finished the season 3–8, 2–6 in OVC play to finish in seventh place.


2015 Music City Bowl
The 2015 Music City Bowl was an American college football bowl game played on December 30, 2015 at Nissan Stadium in Nashville, Tennessee. The 18th edition of the Music City Bowl began at approximately 6:00 p.m. CST and was broadcast nationally by ESPN. It featured the Louisville Cardinals from the ACC, and the Texas A&M Aggies from the SEC. It was one of the final 2015–16 bowl games of the 2015 FBS football season. The game was sponsored by the Franklin American Mortgage Company and is officially known as the Franklin American Mortgage Music City Bowl.


2015 Music City Bowl, Teams
The game is the fourth overall meeting between these two teams, with Texas A&M leading the series 3–0 going into the game. The last time these two teams met was in 1994 with Texas A&M beating Louisville with the score of 26–10. This is the first time the two teams have met as members of the SEC and ACC; their last meeting came when Texas A&M was a member of the Southwest Conference and Louisville was an independent.


2015 Mutua Madrid Open
The 2015 Mutua Madrid Open was a professional tennis tournament that was played on outdoor clay courts at the Park Manzanares in Madrid, Spain from 2–10 May. It was the 14th edition of the event on the ATP World Tour and 7th on the WTA Tour. It was classified as an ATP World Tour Masters 1000 event on the 2015 ATP World Tour and a Premier Mandatory event on the 2015 WTA Tour.


2015 Mutua Madrid Open
Ion Țiriac the former Romanian ATP player and now billionaire businessman is the current owner of the tournament.


2015 Mutua Madrid Open, ATP doubles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:


2015 Mutua Madrid Open, WTA singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following player received entry using a protected ranking into the main draw:


2015 Mutua Madrid Open, WTA doubles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:


2015 Mutua Madrid Open – Men's Doubles
Daniel Nestor and Nenad Zimonjić were the defending champions, but chose not to participate together. Nestor played alongside Leander Paes, but lost to Feliciano López and Max Mirnyi in the second round. Zimonjić partnered up with Marcin Matkowski, but lost in the final to Rohan Bopanna and Florin Mergea, 2–6, 7–6(7–5), [9–11].


2015 Mutua Madrid Open – Men's Singles
Andy Murray defeated the two-time defending champion Rafael Nadal in the final, 6–3, 6–2, to win the Men's Singles title at the 2015 Madrid Open.


2015 Mutua Madrid Open – Men's Singles, Seeds
The top eight seeds receive a bye into the second round.


2015 Mutua Madrid Open – Men's Singles, Seeds
Click on the seed number of a player to go to their draw section.


2015 Mutua Madrid Open – Women's Doubles
Sara Errani and Roberta Vinci were the defending champions, but chose not to participate this year. First-time pairings Casey Dellacqua and Yaroslava Shvedova won the title, defeating Garbiñe Muguruza and Carla Suárez Navarro in the final, 6–3, 6–7(4–7), [10–5].


2015 Mutua Madrid Open – Women's Doubles, Seeds
The top four seeds receive a bye into the second round.


2015 Mutua Madrid Open – Women's Singles
Maria Sharapova was the defending champion but lost to Svetlana Kuznetsova in the semifinals.


2015 Mutua Madrid Open – Women's Singles
Petra Kvitová won her second title at the event, defeating Kuznetsova in the final, 6–1, 6–2.


2015 Mutua Madrid Open – Women's Singles, Seeds
Click on the seed number of a player to go to their draw section.


2015 Myanmar National League
The 2015 Myanmar National League (known as the Ooredoo Myanmar National League for sponsorship reasons) is the 6th season of the Myanmar National League, the top Burmese professional league for association football clubs. The first round of the season began on 10 January 2015, with the last round ending on 31 October 2015. The Myanmar National League will be temporarily suspended for three months from 8 March to 22 June due to the 2015 Southeast Asian Games held in Singapore. The 2015 transfer window for Myanmar National League clubs will open from 19 May 2015 to 18 June 2015.


2015 Myanmar National League
Yadarnarbon came in as the champions of the 2014 Myanmar National League. Hanthawaddy United and Rakhine United entered as the two promoted teams from the 2014 Myanmar National League 2.


2015 Myanmar National League, Events
This season will be the first Myanmar National League season to have Ooredoo as the title sponsor, after penning a deal worth US $1.5 million per year on 20 March 2015.


2015 Myanmar National League, Teams
A total of 12 teams will compete in the league: 10 sides from the 2014 season and two promoted teams from the 2014 Myanmar National League 2. The two promoted clubs replace Southern Myanmar United and Gospel For Asia.


2015 Myanmar National League, Teams, Personnel and sponsoring
Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


2015 Myanmar National League, Teams, Foreign players
The number of foreign players is restricted to four per club, including a slot for a player from AFC countries.


2015 Myanmar National League, Matches
Fixtures and Results of the Myanmar National League 2015 season.


2015 Myanmar National Sports Festival
The 2015 Myanmar National Sports Festival, officially known as 4th National Sports Festival (Burmese: စတုတ္ထအကြိမ် အမျိုးသားအားကစားပွဲတော်) was the sport competition of 1 union territory, 7 regions and 7 states. It was the first time in 18 years that the festival was held, after the 3rd National Sports Festival in Yangon in 1997.


2015 Myanmar National Sports Festival
The festival was held to produce new generations for all kinds of sports and to prepare for the 28th SEA Games.


2015 Myanmar National Sports Festival
The 1st, 2nd and 3rd National Sports Festivals were held in 1992, 1994 and 1997 in Yangon. The festival could not be held after 1997 because of the difficulty of organising the events. From this year, the government is trying to hold the sports festival annually.


2015 Myanmar constitutional referendum
A constitutional referendum was scheduled to be held in Myanmar (Burma) in May 2015. If approved, the proposed reforms would have come into effect after the general elections in November. After most of the proposed amendments to the constitution were discarded, the referendum was postponed.


2015 Myanmar constitutional referendum, Electoral system
Proposed changes to the Constitution of Myanmar must be approved by at least 75% of both houses of the Assembly of the Union before going to a referendum. When the referendum is held, the changes must be approved by at least 50% of the registered voters, rather than 50% of those voting.


2015 Myanmar constitutional referendum, Referendum bill
The proposed constitutional amendment bill was discussed at the Assembly of the Union from 23 to 25 June 2015. Amendments were confined to four key clauses.


2015 Myanmar constitutional referendum, Referendum bill
The Assembly of the Union voted against most of the constitutional amendments on 25 June, ensuring that the military's veto power remained intact and that Aung San Suu Kyi could not become president in the 2015 general elections. The result was no surprise given that 25% of the seats in the Assembly are, by law, held by the military. The proposal aimed to reduce the vote share needed to amend the constitution to 70%. The Assembly of the Union approved only a minor change to article 59(d).


2015 Myanmar constitutional referendum, Cancellation
The Union Election Commission requested to delay the referendum in July 2015 because it concerned only a minor change to article 59(d). On 22 July, the Assembly of the Union voted to postpone the referendum.


2015 Myanmar floods
Severe flooding in Myanmar began in July 2015 and continued into September, affecting 12 of the country's 14 states, resulting in about 103 deaths and affecting up to 1,000,000 people. Most of the casualties were reported from the Irrawaddy Delta. Torrential rains that began on 16 July destroyed farmland, roads, rail tracks, bridges and houses, leading the government to declare a state of emergency on 30 July in the four worst-hit regions in the west—Magway Division, Sagaing Division, Chin State and Rakhine State.


2015 Myanmar floods
Myanmar's Ministry of Agriculture reported that more than 1.29 million acres of farm land have been inundated and 687,200 acres damaged. Moreover, 15,239 houses were destroyed, according to OCHA figures.


2015 Myanmar floods, Background
Beginning on 16 July 2015, unusually heavy monsoon rain fell on Myanmar, causing rivers and creeks to overflow with rainwater and flooding low-lying areas around waterways. By August, the flooding was the worst to affect the country for decades. In addition to the higher-than-average rainfall, mismanagement of irrigation projects and deforestation caused by logging have been cited by U Win Myo Thu, head of environmental organization EcoDev, as contributing to the flooding. Cyclone Komen, which struck in late July, also made the situation worse.


2015 Myanmar floods, Affected areas, Sagaing Division
In Sagaing Division, more than 190,000 acres (77,000 hectares) of farmlands are flooded and 18,000 acres (7,300 hectares) were destroyed. Kalay Township was severely affected by flooding; news reports showed the welcome signboard of the town completely submerged underwater. Kantbalu was also severely affected.


2015 Myanmar floods, Affected areas, Magway Division
Overspills of Mone and Man creek affected 300 villages as well as town area in Pwintbyu, Sidoktaya and Ngape. Sinbyugyun, a city in Magway Division, was not affected by the flood.


2015 Myanmar floods, Relief efforts
The government has been accused of responding slowly to the crisis. However, unlike in 2008 during Cyclone Nargis when it refused outside help, this time around the government has sought international aid. The United Nations pledged $9m (£6m) in assistance. The UN's World Food Programme has delivered aid to 82,000 people in the worst hit parts of western Myanmar.


2015 Myanmar general election
General elections were held in Myanmar on 8 November 2015, with the National League for Democracy winning a supermajority of seats in the combined national parliament. Voting occurred in all constituencies, excluding seats appointed by the military, to select Members of Assembly to seats in both the upper house (the House of Nationalities) and the lower house (the House of Representatives) of the Assembly of the Union, and State and Region Hluttaws. Ethnic Affairs Ministers were also elected by their designated electorates on the same day, although only select ethnic minorities in particular states and regions were entitled to vote for them.


2015 Myanmar general election
These polls were the first openly contested election held in the country since 1990, which was annulled by the military government after the National League for Democracy's (NLD) victory. The poll was preceded by the 2010 general election, which was marred by a boycott and widespread allegations of systematic fraud by the victorious Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP).


2015 Myanmar general election
The NLD won a sweeping victory, taking 86 percent of the seats in the Assembly of the Union (235 in the House of Representatives and 135 in the House of Nationalities), well more than the 67 percent supermajority needed to ensure that its preferred candidates would be elected president and second vice president in the Presidential Electoral College. While the NLD only needed a simple majority to carry on the normal business of government, it needed at least 67 percent to outvote the combined pro-military bloc in the Presidential Electoral College (the USDP and the appointed legislators representing the military). Although NLD leader Aung San Suu Kyi is constitutionally barred from the presidency (as both her late husband and her children are foreign citizens), she was made the de facto head of government, after being appointed to a newly created office, the State Counsellor of Myanmar.


2015 Myanmar general election, Preparation
As the election approached, the ruling Union Solidarity and Development Party confirmed it would contest its winning constituencies from 2010. The opposition National League for Democracy party confirmed it would contest even if a constitutional measure barring Aung San Suu Kyi from running for president was not amended.


2015 Myanmar general election, Preparation
The National Unity Party confirmed it would review its winning seats from 2010 and would consider other constituencies to challenge. The National Democratic Force said the party was prepared to challenge in as many as 200 constituencies but was still determining candidates. Ethnic political groups would contest in each state based on ethnic party strongholds, although some indicated they would consider forming an alliance as the Federal Union Party.


2015 Myanmar general election, Preparation
Before the election, 91 political parties were registered to take part in 2015.


2015 Myanmar general election, Preparation
In July 2015, Myanmar's Union Election Commission (UEC) designated the number of constituencies for running in the 2015 general election of four levels of parliamentary representatives: 330 constituencies for elections to the House of Representatives (the lower house), 168 for the House of Nationalities (the upper house), 644 for the State and Regional Hluttaws (local parliaments) and 29 for ethnic ministers of the local parliaments. The UEC also issued procedures for international observers to follow in monitoring the election, which was preliminarily scheduled for the end of October or the beginning of November.


2015 Myanmar general election, Preparation
The Union Election Commission cancelled elections in Kyethi and Mong Hsu townships in Shan State following armed clashes between the Tatmadaw and the insurgent Shan State Army - North. Despite calls by the Shan State Progressive Party to proceed with the elections, the UEC has denied the request, stating that it is not possible to hold free and fair elections in these areas. Elections were further cancelled in some villages in Hopang, Namtit, both of which fall within the nation's Wa Self-Administered Division, and under the control of the insurgent United Wa State Army. The cancellation of these elections will see the vacancy of 7 seats in the House of Representatives and 14 seats in the Shan State Hluttaw.


2015 Myanmar general election, Preparation, Cancellation of by-elections
By-elections had been scheduled to be held in November or December 2014, to elect members for six seats in the House of Nationalities, 13 in the House of Representatives, and 11 in state and regional legislatures. The seat vacancies were primarily the result of their former holders' moves to ministerial posts or departmental positions within government, but also included some other constituencies where representatives had died. The by-elections were expected to indicate the relative strengths of the contending parties, including President Thein Sein's Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) and the opposition National League for Democracy (NLD) party led by Aung San Suu Kyi.


2015 Myanmar general election, Preparation, Cancellation of by-elections
On 7 September 2014, the Union Election Commission cancelled the by-election because the period for campaigning would take place too close to that of the general elections in 2015 and because the results would therefore not have had any political significance.


2015 Myanmar general election, Possible presidential candidates, Before election
In the event of a USDP victory, President Thein Sein was considered the frontrunner to continue as President after the election. Commander-in-Chief of the Military Min Aung Hlaing is close to retirement and was another favourite for the presidency, but may assume the role after a transitional period headed by another ex-military figure. Aung San Suu Kyi has reiterated her desire to become the next president but constitutional changes need to take place before she would be allowed to run. Although Parliament voted against most constitutional amendments on 25 June 2015 meaning that Aung San Suu Kyi cannot become president in the election, Suu Kyi later stated that she would be "above the President" if the NLD won the elections.


2015 Myanmar general election, Possible presidential candidates, Before election
Shwe Mann, the former No. 3 in the junta who is now speaker of House of Representatives, considered reform-minded, was the most likely figure to take the mantle from Thein Sein until he was removed from his position within the party on 12 August 2015.


2015 Myanmar general election, Possible presidential candidates, After election
While National League for Democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi is constitutionally barred from the presidency, former commander-in-chief of Tatmadaw Tin Oo, Aung San Suu Kyi's personal physician Tin Myo Win, Htin Kyaw, Myo Aung and Tin Mar Aung are mentioned as possible presidential picks and Khun Htun Oo, Sai Nyunt Lwin and Aye Thar Aung are mentioned as possible vice presidential picks after the election. On 10 March 2016, Htin Kyaw and Henry Van Thio were nominated as the Vice Presidents of Myanmar by NLD. Htin Kyaw was elected as the ninth president of Myanmar on 15 March 2016 by 360 of the 652 MPs at the Assembly of the Union; Aung San Suu Kyi was appointed as the State Counsellor, a position similar to Prime Minister, on 6 April 2016.


2015 Myanmar general election, Results
The National League for Democracy (NLD) obtained a majority of the total seats in both the House of Nationalities and the House of Representatives of the Assembly of the Union, which is enough for its nominees to win election as president and first vice president in the Presidential Electoral College, and for control over national legislation.


2015 Myanmar general election, Results
The NLD also received a majority of total combined seats in the State and Regional Hluttaws, including 21 of 29 Ministers of Ethnic Affairs. With the final tally of all elected seats (township and ethnic), it is believed they will have the ability to control most local governments and parliaments, either entirely on its own or with the support of ethnic parties.


2015 Myanmar general election, Results
The exceptions to this are the Rakhine State Hluttaw, where the Arakan National Party won a plurality of total seats and is expected to govern with the NLD's support, and the Shan State Hluttaw, where the USDP (which won a plurality of elected seats) and Military Representatives control roughly equal seats to the combined total of the various other parties, led by the Shan Nationalities League for Democracy and the NLD in second and third place, respectively.


2015 Myanmar general election, Results, House of Nationalities
168 of the 224 seats in the House of Nationalities (Amyotha Hluttaw) were up for election. The remaining 56 seats (25%) were not elected, and instead reserved for military appointees (taken from Tatmadaw personnel; officially known as "Defence Services Personnel Representatives"). There are 12 members elected per state/region, including one member from each self-administered zone.


2015 Myanmar general election, Results, House of Nationalities
The list of military appointees was published as the UEC Announcement 2/2016.


2015 Myanmar general election, Results, House of Representatives
There are 330 of 440 seats in the House of Representatives (Pyithu Hluttaw) that are elected, of which 323 were filled after seven seats were cancelled due to the ongoing armed insurgencies in Shan State. The remaining 110 seats (25%) were not elected, and instead reserved for military appointees (taken from Tatmadaw personnel; officially known as "Defence Services Personnel Representatives"). Members are elected to constituencies based on township and population.


2015 Myanmar general election, Results, House of Representatives
The list of military appointees was published as the UEC Announcement 1/2016.


2015 Myanmar general election, Results, State and Regional Hluttaws
There are 644 district seats (out of a total of 864) in the State and Regional Hluttaws, or Local Assemblies, of which 630 were up for election after 14 seats were cancelled due to the ongoing armed insurgencies in Shan State. These figures exclude the 29 elected Ethnic Affairs Ministers, who have different election parameters and their accountability solely to an ethnic electorate, but also sit alongside the elected district and appointed military members of their respective state/region. There are two members are elected for each township of the state/region. The remaining 220 seats (approximately 25% of each assembly) were not elected, and instead reserved for military appointees (taken from Tatmadaw personnel; officially known as "Defence Services Personnel Representatives").


2015 Myanmar general election, Results, State and Regional Hluttaws
The list of military appointees was published as the UEC Announcement 3/2016.


2015 Myanmar general election, Results, State and Regional Hluttaws, Ethnic Affairs Ministers
29 Ministers of Ethnic Affairs for the State and Regional Assemblies were up for election.


2015 Myanmar general election, Results, State and Regional Hluttaws, Ethnic Affairs Ministers
"Under the 2008 Constitution, ethnic affairs ministers are elected to a given state or division if that division is comprised of an ethnic minority population of 0.1 percent or greater of the total populace [roughly 51,400 people]. If one of the country's ethnic minorities counts a state as its namesake, however, it is not granted an ethnic affairs minister (e.g., there is no Mon ethnic affairs minister in Mon State). Only voters who share an ethnic identity with a given ethnic affairs minister post are allowed to vote for candidates to the position." Ministers are not elected for ethnicities that are a majority of their state or region, or where a state/region already has a self-administered region or self-administered division dedicated to those ethnic groups.


2015 Myanmar general election, Reactions
On 9 November 2015, former chairperson of the Union Solidarity and Development Party and Speaker of the House of Representatives, Shwe Mann, conceded defeat to the National League for Democracy's Than Nyunt in his hometown constituency of Phyu, announcing on his Facebook that he had 'personally congratulated' his opponent for the victory.


2015 Myanmar general election, Reactions
On 9 November 2015, acting chairperson of the Union Solidarity and Development Party, Htay Oo, announced that the party had conceded defeat in a statement to Reuters.


2015 Myanmar general election, Reactions
On 11 November 2015, chairperson of the National League for Democracy, Aung San Suu Kyi, called for 'national reconciliation' talks with incumbent president, Thein Sein, commander-in-chief of the Myanmar Armed Forces, Senior General Min Aung Hlaing, and Speaker of the House of Representatives, Shwe Mann to be set for a later date. All have accepted her invitation.


2015 Myanmar general election, Reactions
On 12 November 2015, incumbent President of Myanmar, Thein Sein, who has led political reforms during his tenure, congratulated Aung San Suu Kyi and her party on his Facebook, promising that his current government will 'respect and obey' the election results and 'transfer power peacefully'. Commander-in-chief of the Myanmar Armed Forces, Senior General Min Aung Hlaing, also took to his Facebook to congratulate Suu Kyi, vowing that the Tatmadaw will co-operate with the new government following the transition. This was after a meeting conducted within the Tatmadaw's top ranks.


2015 Myanmar general election, Reactions
US President Barack Obama and UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon congratulated Suu Kyi on her victory and praised Thein Sein for his organisation of the election. Suu Kyi also received calls from French President François Hollande, British Prime Minister David Cameron, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Philippine President Benigno Aquino III.


2015 Myanmar general election, Political transition
Myanmar's recent political history is underlined by its struggle to establish democratic structures amidst conflicting factions. This political transition from a closely held military rule to a free democratic system is widely believed to be determining the future of Myanmar. The resounding victory of Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy in 2015 general elections has raised hope for a successful culmination of this transition.


2015 Myanmar general election, Political transition
The 2017 murder of Ko Ni, a prominent Muslim lawyer and a key member of Myanmar’s governing National League for Democracy party and the Rohingya genocide is seen as a serious blow to the country’s fragile democracy. Mr. Ko Ni’s murder has caused fears about the removal of a trusted advisor for Aung San Suu Kyi, particularly in regards to reforming Myanmar’s military-drafted Constitution and ushering the country to democracy.


2015 Myanmar general election, Controversy
Controversy has been raised over such issues as inaccurate voter lists, cancellation of voting in some violent areas, vilification of Burmese Muslims as a campaign tool, and the ineligibility to vote of the Muslim Rohingyas. According to The Economist, "No matter how many millions of Burmese vote against the Union Solidarity and Development Party, which rules the country and is backed by the army, the army will remain the real power in Myanmar."


2015 Myanmar general election, Controversy
There have been allegations of fraud in many townships where unknown ballots cast as advance votes boosted the results of the Union Solidarity Development Party. The Union Election Commission has defended these votes, stating that they had arrived before the polling booths closed, and thus they were legitimate votes. In Lashio, where the National League for Democracy was expected to win, there are allegations of voting fraud which pulled USDP candidate and incumbent vice-president Sai Mauk Kham forward by more than 4000 votes. The NLD, Shan Nationalities League for Democracy and Shan Nationalities Democratic Party have agreed to file a complaint with the Union Election Commission. The UEC responded by declaring that the victory of Sai Mauk Kham was legal and that no fraud had taken place.


2015 N'Djamena bombings
On three days immediately before and during Ramadan, 2015, four attacks struck Chad's capital N'Djamena. Three suicide attacks against two police targets killed 33 people on 15 June, five policemen and six terrorists were killed during a police raid on 27 Jun, and a suicide bomber killed 15 in N'Djamena's main market, on 11 July.


2015 N'Djamena bombings, Background
Chad, long affected by Boko Haram, intervened militarily by attacking insurgent-held towns in Northern Nigeria, in early 2015. The economic disruption caused by the lawlessness in Borno State and the Extrême-Nord of Cameroon had seriously affected the country. Thus Chad's and Niger's militaries, with the approval of their neighbour, made forays across their borders into Nigeria. Later in 2015, an agreement was made that Benin, Cameroon, Chad, Niger, and Nigeria would join in military coalition against the Boko Haram insurgency, under the Multinational Joint Task Force (MNJTF). In January 2015, the headquarters of the MNJTF in Baga had been overrun by Boko Haram, a rather ignominious moment for the Force. The sacking of the Headquarters in Baga preceded what has been referred to as the 2015 Baga massacre.


2015 N'Djamena bombings, Background
As part of the 2015 MNJTF agreement, Chad committed to hosting a new headquarters in N'Djamena. Nigerian president Muhammadu Buhari has held talks in N'Djamena about forming a new coalition with Benin of 8,700 troops. As a result of this Chad became an explicit target for Boko Haram. Threats were made in several videos in early 2015.


2015 N'Djamena bombings, Bombings
The near simultaneous suicide bombings outside a police headquarters and police academy killed 33 people, and wounded over 100 others. The first, at the Police Headquarters, a motorcyclist blew himself up. The second, at the Police Academy, involved two attacks at the same location. Chad's government accused Boko Haram of the attack, which remained unclaimed until 8 July, when Boko Haram revealed its responsibility, under the name Islamic State's West Africa Province


2015 N'Djamena bombings, Bombings
During a police raid, a result of the investigation into the bombings of 15 June, suspected terrorists detonated explosives, killing five policemen and six terrorists. Injuries were not reported. The police subsequently announced 60 arrests and the destruction of the cell that was responsible for the 15 June attacks.


2015 N'Djamena bombings, Bombings
Around 0830, a suicide bomber, believed to be a man dressed in a burqa, triggered his explosives when stopped for a security control at the south door of N'Djamena's main market. 15 were killed and at least 80 injured.


2015 N'Djamena bombings, Reaction
A spokesman for the Chad's government, Jean-Bernard Padaré, "They wanted to test us," Mr. Padaré said. "But it shows they are desperate. They thought it would hurt our morale, but it only confirms our will to eradicate them."


2015 N'Djamena bombings, Reaction
French president François Hollande said "There is no doubt that Boko Haram is responsible and will be brought to justice for this new humanitarian horror."


2015 N'Djamena bombings, Reaction
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon condemned the attacks and praised Chad "for its courageous role in the fight against Boko Haram".


2015 N'Djamena bombings, Reaction
Immediately after the 15 June attack, Chad's government banned the full face veil. In early August 2015, the parliament reinstated the death penalty for terrorism.


2015 N'Djamena bombings, Reaction
On 21 July 2015, Condé Nast published an article that suggested now was a great a time to visit Chad, noting, rather controversially, that the worst that might happen was "having [one's] wallet stolen in N'Djamena's market". The article was retracted soon after.


2015 NA LCS season
The 2015 NA LCS season was the third year of the North American League of Legends Championship Series. It saw an expansion of the league from eight to ten teams, as well as the introduction of championship points and the regional finals gauntlet to better determine which teams should qualify for the World Championship. The season was divided into spring and summer splits, each consisting of a regular season and playoff stage. The top six teams from the regular season advanced to the playoff stage, with the top two teams receiving a bye to the semifinals. Regular season games and the spring playoffs were played in the Riot Games Studios in Los Angeles, California, while the summer finals were held at Madison Square Garden.


2015 NA LCS season
The spring split began on January 24 and concluded with Team SoloMid winning their third NA LCS title on April 19, with a roster consisting of Dyrus, Santorin, Bjergsen, WildTurtle and Lustboy.


2015 NA LCS season
The summer split began on May 30 and concluded with Counter Logic Gaming winning their first NA LCS title on August 23, with a roster consisting of ZionSpartan, Xmithie, Pobelter, HuHi, Doublelift and Aphromoo.


2015 NA LCS season
The three teams that qualified for the 2015 World Championship were Counter Logic Gaming (summer champions), Team SoloMid (most championship points) and Cloud9 (regional finals winner).


2015 NAB Challenge
The 2015 NAB Challenge was the Australian Football League (AFL) pre-season competition that was played before the 2015 home and away season. It featured 27 matches across 25 days, beginning February 26 and ending March 22. It was the second year in a row where the competition did not have a Grand Final or overall winner. The competition was sponsored by the National Australia Bank (NAB).


2015 NACAC Championships in Athletics
The 2015 North American, Central American and Caribbean Championships was a regional track and field competition held at the Estadio Nacional de Costa Rica in San José, Costa Rica  from August 7-9, 2015. It was the second edition of a senior track and field championship for the NACAC region, held eight years after the first.


2015 NACAC Championships in Athletics, Participating nations
According to an unofficial count, 369 athletes from 31 countries participated.


2015 NACAC Championships in Athletics – Results
These are the full results of the 2015 NACAC Championships which took place in San José, Costa Rica, from 7 to 9 August at the Estadio Nacional.


2015 NACAC Championships in Athletics – Results, Men's results, 100 meters
Semifinals2 semifinals - Advance 3 on place + 2 on time


2015 NACAC Championships in Athletics – Results, Men's results, 100 meters
Heats4 heats - Advance 3 on place + 4 on time


2015 NACAC Championships in Athletics – Results, Men's results, 200 meters
Semifinals3 semifinals - Advance 2 on place + 2 on time


2015 NACAC Championships in Athletics – Results, Men's results, 200 meters
Heats5 heats - Advance 4 on place + 4 on time


2015 NACAC Championships in Athletics – Results, Men's results, 400 meters
Semifinals3 semifinals - Advance 2 on place + 2 on time


2015 NACAC Championships in Athletics – Results, Men's results, 800 meters
Semifinals3 semifinals - Advance 2 on place + 2 on time


2015 NACAC Championships in Athletics – Results, Men's results, 110 meters hurdles
Semifinals2 semifinals - Advance 3 on place + 2 on time


2015 NACAC Championships in Athletics – Results, Men's results, 400 meters hurdles
Semifinals2 semifinals - Advance 3 on place + 2 on time


2015 NACAC Championships in Athletics – Results, Women's results, 100 meters
Semifinals3 semifinals - Advance 2 on place + 2 on time


2015 NACAC Championships in Athletics – Results, Women's results, 200 meters
Semifinals3 semifinals - Advance 2 on place + 2 on time


2015 NACAC Championships in Athletics – Results, Women's results, 400 meters
Semifinals3 semifinals - Advance 2 on place + 2 on time


2015 NACAC Championships in Athletics – Results, Women's results, 800 meters
Semifinals2 semifinals - Advance 3 on place + 2 on time


2015 NACAC Championships in Athletics – Results, Women's results, 100 meters hurdles
Semifinals3 semifinals - Advance 2 on place + 2 on time


2015 NACAC Championships in Athletics – Results, Women's results, 400 meters hurdles
Semifinals2 semifinals - Advance 3 on place + 2 on time


2015 NACAM Rally Championship
The 2015 NACAM Rally Championship is the eighth season of the NACAM Rally Championship. This championship was the FIA regional rally championship for the North America and Central America (NACAM) region. The season began 13 April in Oaxaca, Mexico, and ended 27 November in Jamaica, after seven events.


2015 NACAM Rally Championship
The calendar has undergone a major change for 2015. Peru has been dropped as has 2014 cancelations, Guyana and Venezuela. Colombia, who stepped in to provide three championship events in 2014 after cancellations will not host an event in 2015. A second Mexican event, the RAC 1000 Rally, has been added as well as debutant host countries, Panama and the United States who plans to host the third round in the state of West Virginia.


2015 NACRA Rugby Championship
The 2015 NACRA Rugby Championship, the eighth edition of the NACRA Rugby Championship, is a rugby union championship for Tier 3 North American and Caribbean teams. Pool play will take place between 28 February and 18 April. A championship game, as well as promotion/relegation matches, will follow.


2015 NACRA Rugby Championship
The championship is split between North and South zones, which each have a three-team Championship. The North Zone has a three-team Cup, while the South Zone has a four-team Cup. The winner of each Championship play for the final, championship game, and a promotion/relegation game is played in each zone, between the winner of the Cup, and the last place team of the Championship.


2015 NACRA Rugby Championship
Competition points are different from most rugby union tournaments: Two points are awarded for a win, one for a draw. There are also bonus points for scoring four tries and for losing within a margin of 7 points or less.


2015 NACRA Rugby Championship, Teams
Thirteen teams will take place in this year's tournament. They are seeded into two pools based on their regional rankings.


2015 NACRA Rugby Championship, Teams
There are two notable changes from last year: Mexico has replaced Bermuda in the North Championship, and Jamaica is no longer participating.


2015 NACRA Rugby Championship, North Zone, North Zone Championship
Pre -tournament World Rugby Rankings in parentheses. USA South is not a full member of World Rugby. Games


2015 NACRA Rugby Championship, North Zone, North Zone Cup
Pre -tournament World Rugby Rankings in parentheses. Turks & Caicos Islands are not a full member of World Rugby. Games


2015 NACRA Rugby Championship, South Zone, South Zone Cup
Pre -tournament World Rugby Rankings in parentheses. British Virgin Islands, Curaçao and St Lucia are not full members of World Rugby. Games


2015 NACRA Rugby Championship, Final
The champions of the north and south zone championship, Mexico and Trinidad and Tobago respectively, faced off in the NACRA Championship final. Trinidad and Tobago, as the higher ranked team, earned the right to host the match at St Mary's College Sports Ground on 25 April 2015.


2015 NACRA Rugby Championship, Final
Trinidad and Tobago won their third NACRA Championship, defeating first time finalists, Mexico, in the final 30-16.


2015 NACRA Sevens
The 2015 NACRA Sevens was an Olympic qualification tournament for Rugby sevens at the 2016 Summer Olympics held in the United States at WakeMed Soccer Park in Cary, North Carolina on 13–14 June 2015. The teams were split into two groups. The top two teams in each group advanced to the semi-finals. The winning team qualified directly to the Olympics, and the second and third placed teams advanced to the Olympic Qualification Tournament.


2015 NACRA Sevens, Pools
Note: The team from Saint Vincent and the Grenadines was scheduled to participate in Pool A, but withdrew after their players were denied visas to enter the United States.


2015 NACRA Sevens, Pool stage
The ranking of each team in each group was determined as follows:


2015 NACRA Women's Sevens
The 2015 NACRA Women's Sevens Championships was an Olympic qualification tournament for Rugby sevens at the 2016 Summer Olympics held at WakeMed Soccer Park in Cary, North Carolina, USA on 13–14 June 2015. It was the 11th championship in a series that began in 2005. The tournament used a round-robin format, with the top team qualifying directly to the Olympics, and the second and third place teams qualifying for the Olympic Qualification Tournament.


2015 NACRA Women's Sevens, Pool Stage
The ranking of each team in each group were determined as follows:


2015 NAIA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament
The 2015 Buffalo Funds - NAIA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament was held in March at Municipal Auditorium in Kansas City, Missouri. The 78th annual NAIA basketball tournament featured 32 teams playing in a single-elimination format. 2015 tournament would bring four new teams to the NAIA National Semifinals. The first tournament since 2005 tournament to do so. (It would be the 8th time in tournament history this has happened; previous years were the inaugural year 1937, 1945, 1947, 1965, 1969, 2001, 2005). As of 2018, it is the most recent tournament to do so.


2015 NAIA Division II Men's Basketball Tournament
The 2015 NAIA Division II Men’s Basketball National Championship was held in March at Keeter Gymnasium in Point Lookout, Missouri. The 24th annual NAIA basketball tournament featured thirty-two teams playing in a single-elimination format. The championship game was won by Cornerstone University of Grand Rapids, Michigan over Dakota Wesleyan University of Mitchell, South Dakota by a score of 66 to 45.


2015 NAIA Division II Men's Basketball Tournament, Tournament field
The 2015 tournament field was announced on March 14 in a live selection show. The field is made up of 23 automatic qualifiers and eight at-large bids and one automatic host bid presented to College of the Ozarks. This tournament field welcomed the return of four out of the last five champions, led by defending champion and top seed Indiana Wesleyan University along with Cardinal Stritch, Cornerstone, and Saint Francis. There were four newcomers to the bracket, Brescia, Northwestern Ohio, Olivet Nazarene and St. Francis of Illinois.


2015 NAIA Division II Men's Basketball Tournament, Tournament field
The complete field consists of Ashford, Bellevue, Bethel, Brescia, Briar Cliff, Cal Maritime, Cardinal Stritch, Concordia, Cornerstone, Dakota State, Davenport, Embry-Riddle, Friends, Grace, College of Idaho, Indiana University East, Indiana Wesleyan, Midland, Milligan, Morningside, Mount Mercy, Northwestern Ohio, Olivet Nazarene, College of the Ozarks, Saint Francis, Saint Thomas, Southern Oregon, Tabor, Union, and Warner Pacific.


2015 NAIA Division II Men's Basketball Tournament, Highlights, Fab Four
The fifth ranked Dakota Wesleyan Tigers came back from a twelve point deficit to defeat the College of Idaho Yotes 88-80 and advance to the NAIA championship game. On the other side of the bracket, Davenport hit three free throws in the final six seconds to secure a 79-75 win over defending champion Indiana Wesleyan.


2015 NAIA Division II Men's Basketball Tournament, Highlights, Championship game
Cornerstone won their third national championship, defeating Dakota Wesleyan 66-45 behind a twenty-four point performance by Ben Lanning.


2015 NAIA Division II Men's Basketball Tournament, Epilogue
When the NAIA Division II Men’s Basketball All-America Teams, almost all the players were represented at the national tournament, with a few notable exceptions including Lawrence Jackson of Northwestern Ohio, Jordan Nelson of Waldorf, Andre Winston of Southeastern.