The phrase "hot contest" is correct and usable in written English.
You might use the phrase "hot contest" to describe a competition that is highly sought-after or extremely intense. For example: "The playoff spot was such a hot contest this year that every team was determined to win!".
Now "Avatar" is in a hot contest with "The Hurt Locker," a much smaller film directed by Kathryn Bigelow, who is Mr. Cameron's ex-wife.
But there is a hot contest for the Long Island seat held by Representative Rick Lazio before he left it to run for the Senate.
This going should be fine for Kingman but other things can go wrong and even 7-4 does not appeal in what looks a hot contest.
They enjoyed an enthralling spectacle mainly due to a surprisingly hot contest for the lime-green jersey of sprints leader between the Spaniard Angel Madrazo and Briton Peter Williams of IG-Sigma Sport.
While the Shays-Farrell race turned into an unexpectedly hot contest, the nasty House battle between Rob Simmons, the Republican incumbent, and Jim Sullivan, a former Norwich councilman, was more tepid than predicted.
Meanwhile working out which pollster won the hot contest to be worst in the referendum run-up will require a lengthy post mortem, but one poll stands out for being not only way out but also an embarrassment to the client (and to any City types encouraged by it to gamble on a victory for staying in).
Even as Republicans make the primary choices on March 7, in several counties around the state there are also hot contests for the little-noticed posts of party central committees, with a statewide group that calls itself "mainstream" trying to regain control from more socially conservative groups.
But he's 9lb higher in the weights than last year and this may be a hotter contest.
With the Democratic Senate primary attracting the most attention in an otherwise somnolent political season here so far, political observers expect a large number of unpredictable Republican votes in the hotter contest.
He could afford to bide his time, since it had started raining again and at this point the hottest contest was a blazing row between Chiaraviglio and assorted men in blazers about the conditions.
And the hottest contest of the 2011 awards, which will be given out in Los Angeles on Feb. 13, might be in the best new artist category, in which Justin Bieber, 16, squares off against Drake, who is 24 — the same age as that old pro, Lady Gaga.
