tournament

Phonetic

US /ˈtʊrnəmənt/UK /ˈtʊənəmənt/

Translations

NOUNDuring the Middle Ages, a series of battles and other contests designed to prepare knights for war., A series of games; either the same game played many times, or a succession of games related by a single theme; played competitively to determine a single winning team or individual., A digraph obtained by assigning a direction to each edge in an undirected complete graph.

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tournaments: Plural

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The tournament , with 172 goals, set a new record for the highest number of goals scored with the 32 team format
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Thus Meridian advanced past each school in the Mississippi High School Activities Association's tournament, only to fall to Starkville in the championship game, 57–51.[
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One year later in Fatal Fury 2, Geese's half brother Wolfgang Krauser hosts a new global King of Fighters tournament in a bid to draw out Geese's killers and prove himself stronger.
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Qatar was perhaps among the most ill-suited hosts for a tournament of the scale of the World Cup, a country so lacking in stadiums and infrastructure and history that its bid was labeled “high risk” by FIFA’s own evaluators
Source:www.nytimes.com
With its national team failing to qualify again for the World Cup, China's football fans have adopted a referee as the country's star representative at the tournament, which begins on Thursday.
Source:www.bbc.com

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