The phrase "a tournament rather than" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when comparing two options, indicating a preference for one over the other.
Example: "I would prefer to participate in a tournament rather than a casual game."
Alternatives: "a competition instead of" or "a contest rather than".
They argue that sending a team that wins a tournament rather than an entire regular season isn't necessarily fair and that a worse team is more likely to emerge from a tournament rather than a regular season.
Meaning, in keeping with his conservative and managed manner, waiting for somebody else to lose a tournament rather than gambling to win it on what could be a disastrous shot.
The first season was a shortened season of only five teams, and played as a tournament rather than a regular season.
"You're getting a certain amount of togetherness and learning to play as a team". The most popular of the summer passing programs is a tournament rather than a league--the L. A. Summer Games in late June.
Subjects playing a sequential donation game increased their donations when the game was framed as a 'generosity tournament' rather than an 'earnings tournament' [ 27].
When Latos was 12 years old, his grandfather insisted that he play in a baseball tournament rather than stay at his bedside the day he died.
In 1990, Vice President Dan Quayle was criticized for playing at the Cypress Point Club in Monterey, Calif., which had no black members and gave up a major golf tournament rather than change its admission practices.
Or she could throw in the towel, pulling out of the tournament rather than risk further injury -- a decision her camp was leaning toward late Monday night.
I'm coming here just to try to win the tournament, rather than making the cut".
"I'd rather be known as the girl that won the tournament, rather than the girl that got shot".
So far, a few star players, like Barry Bonds of the United States and Hideki Matsui of Japan, have bowed out of the tournament rather than risk injury.
