The phrase "affects the contest" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing how a particular factor or event has an impact on a competition or contest.
Example: "The weather conditions significantly affects the contest, making it more challenging for the participants."
Alternatives: "influences the competition" or "impacts the event".
You run the practices, you pick the lineup, you set the substitution patterns, you call the plays, and yet, as is painfully apparent when your team blows three straight defensive assignments, there are times when none of this affects the contest you're hellbent on winning.
In Moyes' band of losers Carrick was the one-gear operator who struggled to affect the contest.
Campaign aides and analysts declined to speculate on how this might affect the contest, suggesting that such discussions might be in bad taste now.
It already looks very different from those that have gone before and part of its fascination is the constellation of factors that could affect the contest either way.
How do you see climate change — and the disorder and resource constraints that may result from it — affecting the contest between liberalism and authoritarianism?
The country is full of rugby supporters who think they know how the changes to the England team for this afternoon's fascinating Six Nations meeting with Wales at Twickenham will affect the contest, but the truth of the matter is that no one knows anything ahead of kick-off.
As this entry was "guesswork" and did not affect the contest outcomes, upon request Team Dührkop resubmitted a true "leave out" entry post-contest where all CASMI challenge compounds were removed from their training set (not just their "guess" based on top scoring candidates) prior to retraining and calculating the CSI FID_leaveout results.
Although our experiment was not designed to distinguish among different theoretical models of agonistic contest settlement (see above), we also tested a common prediction of these models that the size of participants' weaponry affects the duration of contests.
Jonathan Sexton's three penalties helped Leinster lead 9-3 at half-time with Ronan O'Gara replying for Munster as scrappy scrum exchanges affected the Limerick contest.
At that point, registered voters from San Diego to Seattle who wanted to affect the presidential contest might as well have stayed home.
Comparing this optimality condition to the situation under perfect enforcement (20), one can see that the enforcement problem affects the additional incentives set by the contest.
