And now a bit of background on this groundbreaking competition: The Foyle Young Poetrs is organised by The Poetry Society and supported by The Foyle Foundation, the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award is now in its 18th year.
Ask NBC, and the answer will be "The Million Second Quiz," a groundbreaking competition that will start on Monday night and end 10 days later — the online component is 10 consecutive 24-hour days — with the presentation of what the network calls the biggest guaranteed pot of money in game show history.
After the initial success in 2000 of "Survivor," the network's groundbreaking castaway competition, the amount of reality programming in prime time grew steadily, from about 4 hours in 2000 to roughly 18 hours in 2005.
3plet is currently a finalist in MIDEM's upcoming Midemlab competition for groundbreaking music startups, though, and the company hopes this will give it a bit more visibility to bring its service to a wider audience.
In 1948, Eero Saarinen's design for an inverted and weighted catenary curve won the competition; however, groundbreaking did not occur until 1954.
Fifteen-year-old Jack Andraka won the 2012 Intel Science Competition, the world's largest high school science research competition, for his groundbreaking research on pancreatic cancer.
But another part of this mass disappointment had to do with disenchantment: The ruling perception during its first four years had been that the iPhone was a groundbreaking, five-years-ahead-of-the-competition device.
When American aviation engineer Burt Rutan's groundbreaking SpaceShipOne flight won the Ansari X prize (a competition to encourage innovation) in 2005, space flight entered a new era.
Sperm competition was only described a century later when groundbreaking work showed that if two (or more) males mate with a single female, their sperm compete for the chance to fertilize her egg cells or 'oocytes' (Parker, 1970).
You have a brilliant idea for a groundbreaking business, an innovative product or a better-than-the-competition service.
But while the functionality isn't really groundbreaking in 2015, Microsoft hopes its assistant has an edge over the competition: It's designed to act like a human person.
