Either the fourth-placed Eastern division team or the fifth-placed Western division team, based upon regular season record, also makes the playoffs.

Ayre guided the team to a fifth-placed finish and qualification for the play-offs.

In the play-offs, the third-placed team plays against the sixth-placed team and the fourth-placed team plays against the fifth-placed team in two-legged semi-finals ( home and away ).

Bégin was a member of the fifth-placed women's water polo team at the 2000 Summer Olympics, and of the bronze-medal-winning team at the 2001 world championships in Fukuoka, Japan.

12 teams took part, competing for a place in the intercontinental play-off against the fifth-placed team from South America.

In the first two matches, the third-placed team will face the sixth-placed team and the fourth-placed team will face the fifth-placed team, with the two winners then playing off for the right to face the second-placed team.

The winners took away $ 5 million, second-placed team received $ 4 million, the third-placed team $ 2. 5 million, the fourth-placed team $ 2 million, the fifth-placed team $ 1. 5 million, the sixth-placed team $ 1 million and the seventh-placed team received $ 500, 000.

More of the same in the following season, but the team could only rank seventh, thus out of the European zone ; however, as fifth-placed RCD Mallorca was expelled from European competition due to bankruptcy, the Valencian took its place in the qualifying rounds of the UEFA Europa League.

Her good form continued into 2006, where she was a hurdles finalist at the 2006 IAAF World Indoor Championships and the 2006 European Athletics Championships, as well as part of the fifth-placed relay team at the Europeans.

For the second year in succession the Titans qualified for the finals, finishing 4th and thereby earning a home qualifying final against the fifth-placed New Zealand Warriors.

He was sacked in January 2004 after a fifth-placed finish in the round-robin tournament.

In a match-up suggested by bookmakers as a 500 / 1 chance for the 2005 grand final's opponents at the start of the season, the fourth-placed Wests Tigers and fifth-placed North Queensland Cowboys had both reached their first decider.

The club's form nosedived in the 1921 – 22 season, with a finishing position of nineteenth, before bouncing back to a fifth-placed finish in the following campaign.

In the 2004 Summer Olympics, he participated in the 100 metres, achieving a second place and a season's best time in the heat from which he qualified, before exiting the competition in the second round with a fifth-placed finish.

He was also one of the candidates as leader of L ' Unione for the primary election held on 16 October 2005, being fifth-placed with 2. 2 % of national votes.

If he had made par on that hole, he would have made a playoff for the championship, but he still finished in a tie for sixth and won $ 10 as the fifth-placed non-amateur.

OMA Beijing: In Asia, Koolhaas is working with his team on the office ’ s largest project to date, the 575, 000 m2 China Central Television Headquarters ( CCTV ) and Television Cultural Center ( TVCC ), currently under construction in Beijing and due for completion in 2008.

The sports activities in vogue are football ( Drukstar is the popular team in Thimphu ), basketball, golf, Kwon do ( Bhutan earned a gold medal in this game in the South Asia Federation Games in 2004, squash, golf ( popular among the elite middle class ) and in recent years cricket.

Brazil is the only team to have won the championship in four different continents ; once in Europe ( 1958 Sweden ), once in South America ( 1962 Chile ), twice in North America ( 1970 Mexico and 1994 USA ) and once in Asia ( 2002 Korea / Japan ).

There are a growing number of participants, competing solo and on a team ; it is most popular in Asia, especially in Japan where high school and university teams compete fiercely.

FPP ’ s focus, in the beginning, came from the expertise and relationships that the small founding team had with specific communities, primarily in the Guyanas and in South and South East Asia.

The design team in the company ’ s Sweden office controls the steps of production from merchandise planning to establishing specifications, and production is outsourced to approximately 800 factories in Europe and Asia.

The now-defunct Lexus Cup in women's golf was an annual competition that matched an Asia team against an " International " team drawn from all other nationalities.

Anchors such as Rico Hizon, Bernard Lo, Lorraine Hahn, Dalton Tanonaka and Bill Hartley were part of the original CNBC Asia team.

1996 was also the first time for a team from outside Asia ever to win gold at the Hong Kong International Race, a Canadian men's crew from Toronto.

From 2012 Caterham will race in GP2 with under the guise Caterham Racing which was rebranded from Caterham Air Asia team that raced in 2011.

The winning team becomes the champion of Asia and automatically qualifies for the FIFA Confederations Cup.

The National Basketball League has also become the first Australasian sporting league to field a team from Asia with the Singapore Slingers playing in the 2006 / 07, through to the 2007 / 08 season.

The contract is until the end of the season and the team must adapt to long-term goals if it is to succeed in Asia.

The team ( consisting entirely of players from the Japanese professional leagues ) beat China, Taiwan, and Korea to win the Asia tournament in November 2003, but Nagashima suffered a stroke in March 2004, and was unable to travel to the Athens Olympics.

Montgomerie has been the playing captain of the European team in the Royal Trophy, played against a team from Asia.

The winner of the Japan Series also goes on to be the Japanese representative team in the annual Asia Series.

On September 19, 2008 Eidos opened a Shanghai based studio consisting of a small team to build up relations in Asia.

Under the NCC program, Caidic led the Philippines in capturing the 1985 South East Asian Games Gold Medal and in 1986, he led the last all-amateur national team to capture the FIBA Asia Championship gold medal and scored 22 points in an 82-72 win over China in the finals.

High1 ( Korean: 하이원 ) is a professional ice hockey team based in Chuncheon, South Korea, and a member of Asia League Ice Hockey where the competition is played among South Korea, Japan, and China.

The Global Leadership Team is a virtual team and is spread across Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, and North and Central America.

Beate Sirota Gordon ( born in Vienna, October 25, 1923 ) is a former Performing Arts Director of the Japan Society and of Asia Society, and was a member of the team that worked under Douglas MacArthur on the Constitution of Japan.

* 1993 – All members of the Zambia national football team lose their lives in a plane crash off Libreville, Gabon in route to Dakar, Senegal to play a 1994 FIFA World Cup qualifying match against Senegal.

The Milwaukee Brewers benefited from these events by qualifying in the playoffs as a Wild Card team, to lose to the Philadelphia Phillies, the eventual World Series winner.

This allowed the team to take part in its first regional tournament, which until 1926, was the qualifying stage for the national title.

The team finished 5th with a 17 – 15 record, qualifying for the first ever MLS Playoffs.

The teams play each other once, with the top two teams qualifying for the final in each individual League, so no team from the Gold League will meet a Silver League team.

However, he recovered and led the Raiders to victory in 9 of their last 11 games in the season, qualifying for the playoffs as a wild card team.

By the time of the Summer Olympics, the NOCs had affiliated separately, though they fielded a joint team with a standard uniform as Olympic qualifying rounds had been completed before the final demise of the Soviet Union.

The Canadian ice-hockey team finished their qualifying round with 4 wins, and had a total score of 110-3 against Switzerland, Czechoslovakia, Sweden, and Great Britain.

Serbia's national football team made their first appearance during the qualifying rounds for Euro 2008 although they did not qualify for the competition.

He enrolled at the University of British Columbia in 1945 at age 16, and was among Canada's outstanding track sprinters in the late 1940s, qualifying for the 1948 Olympic team.

* The winners of the Oceania qualifying tournament, Australia played the fifth placed team from the South American qualifying tournament, Uruguay.

The football team has played in 17 bowl games and the basketball team has had strong showings in the last several years, qualifying for the NCAA tournament and, most recently, making the final four of the 2007 NIT Tournament.

Decent home form, including a victory over Real Madrid, led to the team sitting comfortably in the top half of the Liga and qualifying from their Europa League group, although poorer performances away from Bilbao meant that a really successful run never materialised.

His first months were marred by a series of embarrassing losses and an early exit from the cup, but with a late-season return to form the team held on to its place in the top flight and finishing third in the Champions League Group Stage, qualifying them for the UEFA Cup.

On 7 September 2005, Eriksson's England team lost a World Cup qualifying match against Northern Ireland 1 – 0, the first time that England had lost to that team since 1972 and one of only five competitive games lost during Eriksson's tenure.

Shortly after qualifying for the last stage of the Grand Slam, Kramnik played on board one for the Russian team in the 2010 Olympiad.

They were the only team to bring a psychologist to the training camp ( because the memories of 1950 still affected some players ) or a dentist ( for, because of their humble origins, many players had dental problems, which caused them infections and also had negative impact on performance ), and had sent a representative to Europe to watch the qualifying matches a year before the tournament had begun.