The phrase "contests among" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to a competition between people or groups of people. For example: "The school held contests among the students to determine who had the best spelling skills."
There seems little fondness for these contests among spectators.
Elections have always been, and ought to remain, contests among individual candidates and their ideas.
And the Romans staged gladiatorial contests among naked pregnant women — Lydian slaves — who fought to the death.
From time to time, Super Bowl advertisers have sponsored contests, among them brands like Chevrolet and Doritos.
Everything seems metaphor here: the sex, the interactions of the characters and the frequently degrading contests among them all represent something bigger and more central.
The community's popular National Tom Sawyer Days festival over the Fourth of July weekend should go ahead because all of the major events – the fence-painting and frog-jumping contests among them – are inside the flood levee.
A polite six-week elimination contest among 12 contestants (now 10 after two episodes) to win a paid job as a "Sports Center anchor for a year.
Keyboard Contest Among the contestants are a microbiologist, a midwife, a news anchor, a tennis coach, a flight attendant, a lawyer and a bank executive.
Contest designers often use tools to make a contest among asymmetric contestants more even, in order to either elicit higher effort levels, or for ethical reasons.
A hot dog bun-eating contest among three elephants and four human contestants takes place Friday at 11 30 a.m. at Surf Avenue and 21st Street.
The name was selected in a contest among News employees..
