One day, the crowd gathered largely to see Shinji Saito, the six-time winner in the 2A division, where competitors resemble people trying to fight out of an invisible box using a pair of spinning, looping rotors on strings.
In 4A, the off-string division, some competitors cast the string, like a whip or a fishing rod, and wrapped it around the axle of an airborne yo-yo.
In another solid performance by a female competitor in a major racing event during the weekend, Courtney Force won the Funny Car division competition.
In addition, he said, the new stock could be offered as an incentive to help retain employees at the Internet divisions, whose competitors routinely make stock options part of basic compensation.
Microsoft said yesterday that it would be eliminating its troubled UltimateTV division, a competitor to TiVo, which is based in San Jose, Calif.
At its heart, Yahoo Screen was always driven by the need to create more places for video ads to live, and like abortive video divisions at competitors including Microsoft, the group was neither able to out-YouTube YouTube nor eat into traditional TV networks' audiences.
Susan Petersen Kennedy, president of Penguin Group USA, drew a similar contrast with the Random House division, her biggest competitor, which merged Ms. Godoff's Random House Trade Group with its Ballantine Books division.
The play-acting has given Roche the confidence to take on both the Federal Aviation Administration and his division's larger competitor in radar technology, Raytheon.
It is the right segment of the market for Oldsmobile, but pits the division against the toughest competitors in the industry.
