If you thought Competitive Eating was as asinine as sports could possibly get, you were wrong. Behold, The Sauna World Championships:

Competing in six-person heats — written without irony — the 84 contestants battle to see whose skin boils last. You may wear only a bathing suit that goes eight inches down the leg and absolutely nothing else. You can wipe sweat from your face but not your body. You cannot cover your ears with your hands. You may not lean over too far. Ambulances will be standing by.

It’s not only completely silly and exceptionally uncomfortable to think about, it’s also dangerous:

He was the first out, at 4:15, and he was melting like the wicked witch. His forehead, his lips and his ears were giant lumps of pus. His triceps were riddled with pebble-size blisters, dozens of them. So much skin was hanging off him he looked like the world’s most successful gastric-bypass patient. His forehead was a science-fiction movie. His nose was cooked like a forgotten kielbasa. And this was just what we could see. He lifted up his shirt and there it was: this horrible, huge, pus-filled sac — the size of a $3 pancake — just hanging off his armpit. His wife gasped. TLC turned away in horror. When we dragged him to first aid the guy said, “You must go to the hospital. When these blisters break, you will lose lots of fluid and be highly susceptible to infection. We can’t do anything for you here. It is too serious.”

Check out the full story on ESPN.com and see for yourself how truly bored people in Scandinavia are.