Sentence examples for tournament phase from inspiring English sources

The current format of the competition involves a qualification phase, which currently takes place over the preceding three years, to determine which teams qualify for the tournament phase, which is often called the World Cup Finals.

32 teams, including the automatically qualifying host nation(s), compete in the tournament phase for the title at venues within the host nation(s) over a period of about a month.

The World Cup really is two tournaments, each phase requiring different tactics.

He is now 38-1 at Roland Garros and has piled up five titles in six years, putting himself within one more dusty run of tying Borg's men's record for the tournament's international phase, which began in 1925.

The Irish skipper, William Porterfield, also joined in: "The ICC has the tournament in two phases because they will lose a lot of revenue if one of the 'top nations' go out to any of us in the early rounds".

With the change of name came a change in format for the tournament: a round-robin phase, followed by a knockout phase for the top four teams.

So imagine if they won the Euros …" Back in the northern end of Newry Holmes and Brown differ over their team's chances of staying in the tournament after the first phase of matches.

A 33-13 defeatoto Australia at Twickenham - a record losing margin to the Wallabies - condemned England to become the first host nation to exit the tournament at the group phase.

White, 48, now languishes at 66th in the rankings and rarely qualifies for the televised phase of tournaments.

In a move some regard as controversial and others view as key for the future, the BBC will go head-to-head with Sky, which will screen live Masters coverage for the first time, as the tournament reaches its key phases on Saturday and Sunday.

It would also run against the trend: men's tournaments have been phasing out best-of-fives in attempt to prevent injuries caused by wear and tear.