Samus appeared in multiple GameFAQs "Character Battle" contests, winning the "Character Battle V" in 2006.
Aerith has been included in most of GameFAQs' "Character Battle" contests, though she progressed only a few rounds each time.
Crash has been included in a number of GameFAQs' "Character Battle" contests, but never progressed more than one round each time.
The organizer has a fixed prize budget, and rewards players contingent on the number of battles they win in a three-battle contest.
This paper reports the results of laboratory experiments that are designed to test theoretical predictions in a multi-battle contest with value complementarities among the battles.
Several robustness checks confirm that mitigating the momentum/discouragement effect is essential for effort-maximizing prize design in dynamic multi-battle contests.
The central event is the Kite Battle, a contest that pits more than 160 local neighborhoods and their respective kites, or machijirushi, against one another.
We read in "Spin the Battle: Fierce Contest to Woo Public" (front page, Nov. 19) of Republicans subtly implying that the Florida Supreme Court may be biased against them because of ties to the Democratic Party.
There's no battle, no contest, no drama – he's simply dragged up slowly from half a mile down, pulled unceremoniously through a hole in the ice to die, gasping in a world he doesn't belong in, then hacked apart and fed to the dogs.
For example, this article about the Tea Party refers to a "battle," a "contest," and one of the candidates as "a heavy favorite to beat" his opponent.
Scores of party colleagues will suddenly find themselves pitched into battles to contest merged seats, while hundreds of MPs will be fighting such radically revised constituencies that previously comfortable majorities cannot be guaranteed.
