The phrase "fail the competition" is grammatically correct and is commonly used in written English.
It means to not succeed or achieve a desired outcome in a competition or contest. Example: Despite their best efforts, the team failed the competition and did not advance to the final round.
We've been watching other clubs fail in the competition we nearly won; we've seen veteran players have unusually poor performances and young players looking as inconsistent as one would expect.
All successful businesses start with one sharp positioning, they stray from that centre then they fail provided the competition is smart.
Rodin (1840-1917), comically, failed the entrance competition for the Ecole des Beaux-Arts three times.
Bats that fail the test are banned from competition in sanctioned leagues.
The crowd tried, but failed throughout the competition.
We glory in the Cinderella aspects of the event when an unknown team makes it to the Round of 16, but then always fails as the competition grows even stronger.
The quest to be younger has become a social -- even societal -- sport, but we will all fail this competition.
King quotes the American political analyst Thomas Frank approvingly on the way "these hymners of Darwinian struggle, of the freedom to fail, of competition to the death, advance their war on the world by means of tearful weepy-woo".
Although they fail to win the competition, a YouTube video of their performance gains the band popularity at school.
Many horses may fail in competition because of the difference between the training and competition environments and thus the lack of training to generate appropriate emotional (and thus behavioral) responses to the latter.
The cost differences were increasing from 2013 given the implication that future manufacturing cost could widen the gap between Korea and China so that Korea would fail on competition with China from the simple estimated results.
