The phrase "a tournament was set" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to indicate that arrangements or preparations have been made for a tournament to take place.
Example: "After weeks of planning, a tournament was set for the following weekend, attracting teams from all over the region."
Alternatives: "a tournament was organized" or "a tournament was arranged".
McIlroy said he was "not sure if I've ever hit the ball that well in a major championship" The tone for an extraordinary final day of an extraordinary tournament was set when Northern Ireland's McIlroy holed six birdies in his opening 13 holes, including an incredible 72-foot putt.
The two feuds first came together at WrestleMania IV, when as the result of the vacating of the WWF Heavyweight Championship a 14-man single-elimination tournament was set up to crown a new champion.
The tournament was set to replace the Champions Trophy, a one-day competition that was last held in 2009.
Since 2007 the Lofoten Masters surf tournament was set up to encourage more surfers to experience the "Arctic aloha".
The rubber match between MIT (7-16, 5-7 NEWMAC) and Coast Guard 15-122, 5-7 NEWMAC) in the first round of the 2001 NEWMAC Tournament was set for yesterday, and the results will appear in Tuesday's edition.
This year's tournament was set to start just weeks before the Africa Cup of Nations finals, offering five countries from the region, who have qualified for Egypt, a unique chance to warm-up in a tournament setting.
The IIHF also considered either demoting both teams to the B pool or banning them from the 1988 tournament as further punishment, but backed off as the next year's tournament was set to be held in the Soviet Union, while Canada represented the only media revenue the tournament generated at the time.
The tournament is set in motion by an impresario, himself a chess master but not at all a programmer, and the event is preserved for posterity by a young man who is entrusted with videotaping it (as if to emphasize the event's cinema-specificity, those two roles are played by Gerald Peary, a film critic, and Daniel Metz, a film programmer, respectively).
