Sentence examples for death tournament from inspiring English sources

This is from Square Enix, a conversion of its iOS roleplaying game, where you're taking part in a "fight to the death" tournament, battling a succession of fantasy foes.

Regarded as Australia's answer to US indie filmmaker Roger Corman, Ginnane has a CV pockmarked with morbid treasures, mostly twisted genre movies including the aforementioned Patrick, crocodile creature feature Dark Age and dystopian future death tournament splatterfest Turkey Shoot.

Banks is in talks to play Effie Trinket in the upcoming book-to-film "The Hunger Games," Variety reports; she'd take on the role of adult escort and sometimes protector of the story's heroes, teenage warriors participating in a televised fight to the death tournament on a post-Apocalyptic vision of Earth.

I can see myself getting in on all the rituals, fetching obscure potion ingredients, and fighting in life or death tournaments against other dudes for the honor of being ceremoniously sacrificed to a drapey, black fashion goddess named Witch Hazel, or something.

Each year, 68 college basketball teams are chosen to compete in the sudden-death tournament known as March Madness.

Celaena has to represent the prince in a to-the-death tournament against other trained assassins in order to become the kings champion assassin.

Katniss, of course, is being played by Oscar-nominee Jennifer Lawrence, while Josh Hutcherson fills the role of Peeta, her ally in the gruesome fight-to-the-death tournament, and other love interest.

The premiere builds to a droll "death bracket" elimination tournament mocking N.C.A.A. basketball: fireworks versus lightning; spider bites versus bee stings; flood versus avalanche.

When the USA were finally drawn against Germany and an opening game against their World Cup nemesis Ghana, there was a general air of resignation that fate would bring Klinsmann's team up against those two, but there was still a further sting in the tale when Portugal, and Cristiano Ronaldo, appeared as the final team in one of the undoubted groups of death of the tournament.

The New Zealander had no qualms of Wales being drawn in the 'Pool of Death' for the tournament based in England.

His specific role in Weir society is that of a Warrior a champion who will fight to the death in a tournament designed to establish what faction holds power in the socially stratified and corrupt world of the Weirlind.