The phrase "a tournament against" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a competitive event where one team or individual competes with another.
Example: "The team is preparing for a tournament against their biggest rivals next week."
Alternatives: "a competition with" or "a match versus".
And this unique product is playing in a tournament against an ever-changing group of competitors.
Playing in a tournament against the top teams, he was head and shoulders above.
In December, the squad spent eight days in Hawaii playing in a tournament against other elite high-school teams.
"If you were drafting guys to play in a tournament against people who knew their stuff, that's the No. 1 pick," Ryan said.
Of course, training for and playing in a tournament against some of the world's best young players might be a good preparation for a club season.
Last week, AlphaGo, an A.I. built by Google DeepMind, won a tournament against a top-ranked human player of the game of Go.
The following morning Hall went to watch a youth team he and West Brom's Ray Barlow had been coaching play in a televised five-a-side tournament against a side representing Leeds United and coached by their strikers Don Revie and Wilbur Cush.
It is always good to start out a big tournament against a strong opponent.
To give a famous example, when Bobby Fischer was thirteen he played a tournament game against the master Donald Byrne — a game that some people have called the greatest chess game played in this century.
To give a famous example, when Bobby Fischer was thirteen he played a tournament game against the master Donald Byrne a game that some people have called the greatest chess game played in this century.
As Major League Soccer has placed added emphasis on its clubs' success in the regional club championship (Los Angeles hosts two-time defending champion Monterrey on Wednesday night), it was a former M.L.S. player — Herculez Gomez — who once again scored in a tournament match against a team from the North American league.
