Sentence examples for rival tournament from inspiring English sources

Fans prefer a single World Cup because they want to know which country's football team is the best in the world; a rival tournament would defeat that purpose.

Its major events sell out fast (darts historian Patrick Chaplin tells me World Championship tickets were the eighth-quickest seller online this year, not far behind Kate Bush and Fleetwood Mac), while TV audiences approach a million on Sky, and top two million for a rival tournament on the BBC.

In 1977 media mogul Packer sparked outrage by starting World Series Cricket - a rival tournament set up in opposition to established international cricket and broadcast on his Channel Nine network in Australia.

English clubs could yet play in next season's Heineken Cup, despite previously threatening to set up a rival European tournament.

As a result, soccer fans are hopeful that next year's competition will rival the 1986 tournament, held in Mexico, considered by rough consensus to have been the last truly great World Cup.

There, on Saturday, the Terrapins will face Duke (33-4), their Atlantic Coast Conference rival and the tournament's East Regional champion, which advanced with a 79-69 victoverover Southern California 24-10 todayay. 24-10 today

At one point in the script, Lisa's tournament rival announces: "I think I'll warm up with a bunch of Qs" and dots his competition grid with Qs.

The Scotsman later said his rival "had the tournament in his pocket".

Long-standing rival and official tournament equipment sponsor Adidas is left with the consolation of losing finalist and winning the play-off for third place, edging out arch-rval and pretournament favorite Nike, which goes home empty handed.

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Following the Civil War, this practice quickly spread, and clubs soon learned that games with rival clubs and tournaments drew larger crowds and brought prestige to the winners.