In a tournament there will probably be a tournament director who will enforce the rules when required and arbitrate in cases of doubt.

The tournament director was criticised for not forfeiting Kasparov when the videotape evidence was made available to him.

* 16-Jim Albrecht, tournament director of the World Series of Poker.

The event was hosted by noted tournament director Matt Savage.

#" Madison system "-This is a popular tournament format where there is no weight classes and the tournament director pairs wrestlers into brackets ( usually 8 or 16 man ) based on weight at weigh-ins.

# Division-based system-In this system, the tournament director separates athletes by age ( ex: Grade 2 and under, Grade 4 and under, and Grade 6 and under ), and by weight class.

His older brother, Gus, has been tournament director at the Scottsdale ATP event, but from 2007 he became president of the firm managing Pete's business activities.

When September concluded, Miguel Laborde was replaced by Juan Trinidad as the BSN's tournament director.

Since 2004 Krajicek has been the tournament director of the ABN AMRO World Tennis Tournament in Rotterdam.

The PGA professional is not only a talented teacher and player, but also an expert tournament director, merchandiser, Rules administrator, businessperson, and community leader.

The problem was compounded by one regional director handing out the 1982 Regionals as practice material to attending teams, rendering that region's tournament completely unplayable.

He is also director of The Grand Assault of Arms, an annual open classical fencing tournament organized by the AHF in New York City.

The tournament was the brainchild of Dr. James Naismith, founder of the game of basketball ; Emil Liston, athletic director at Baker University ; and Frank Cramer, founder of Cramer Athletic Products.

At that tournament, he caught the eye of Montreal Expos scouting director Jim Fanning, who signed Walker for $ 1500,

The Varsity Baseball team has consistently made post season play in the NEPSAC Class A Championship tournament which in called the Blackburn Tournament in honor of Tom Blackburn who was the longtime varsity baseball coach and athletic director at Worcester Academy.

* Dan Hedaya as tournament director

Rockwell, a graduate of Ithaca College, won 757 games on the Heights between 1968 and 1996 at the Division I and II levels, going to the Division II national tournament 12 of their last 13 seasons in the division, and becoming a power in the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference in Division I. Rockwell also served as Le Moyne athletic director from 1990 to 2009.

He was named to the team by executive director Wayne Gretzky as he looked to bring a younger team to this tournament than played at the 2002 Winter Olympics.

While he was away, Murphy spoke to the referee ; the tournament director Mike Ganley was summoned and he docked Maguire a frame for not being ready to start at the scheduled time.

Martinez is currently the tournament director at the Andalucia Tennis Experience.

As of October 2008, he is the tournament director of the ATP Masters Series event in Paris and plays on the senior ATP tour.

The tournament director will select the movement depending on the number of pairs playing, to allow them to play the desired number of boards each, without repetition.

The lean and leathery Oklahoma amateur, who has been playing topnotch tournament golf for many years, refused to let the Masters jitters overtake him and closed the tournament with his second straight 69.

Much research has been carried out on chess, in part because many tournament players are publicly ranked in national and international lists, which makes it possible to compare their levels of expertise.

Since 1995, Costas has also hosted NBC's coverage of the U. S. Open golf tournament.

The World Crokinole Championship ( WCC ) tournament has been held annually since 1999 on the first Saturday of June in Tavistock, Ontario.

The sport has particularly strong followings in the UK, US, New Zealand and Australia ; every four years, these countries play the MacRobertson Shield tournament.

However, little headway has been made to institute a playoff tournament, given the entrenched vested economic interests in the various bowls.

Australia has been the most successful of the five teams to have won the tournament, taking four titles.

In subsequent years, international Test cricket has generally been organised as bilateral series: a multilateral Test tournament was not organised again until the quadrangular Asian Test Championship in 1999.

There has been a football tournament at every Summer Olympic Games since 1900, except at the 1932 games in Los Angeles.

The concept of picking players and running a contest based on their year-to-date stats has been around since shortly after World War II, Wilfred Winkenbach devised fantasy golf in the latter part of the 1950s, in which each player selected a team of professional golfers and the person with the lowest combined total of strokes at the end of the tournament would win.

The tournament has become known for the possibility for " minnows " from the lower divisions to become " giant-killers " by eliminating top clubs from the tournament and even theoretically winning the Cup, although lower division teams rarely progress beyond the early stages.

The championship has been awarded every four years since the inaugural tournament in 1930, except in 1942 and 1946 when it was not held because of the Second World War.

Indianapolis has played host for the men's tournament on three occasions to date.

Indianapolis has hosted all but one of the women's tournaments since its inception in 1995, and Bankers Life Fieldhouse has hosted every tournament since 2002, as well as the 2000 edition.

Aside from the multitude of regional games held during the NCAA tournament, Indianapolis has hosted six men's NCAA Final Fours ( 1980, 1991, 1997, 2000, 2006, 2010 ) and two women's ( 2005, 2011 ).

She holds the title of International Master ( IM ), and has one of three tournament results ( norms ) necessary to qualify for the International Grandmaster ( GM ) title.

Comparing motherhood to playing chess, Polgár has said that a chess tournament now " feels like a vacation.

Poker has gained in popularity since the beginning of the twentieth century, and has gone from being primarily a recreational activity confined to small groups of mostly male enthusiasts, to a widely popular spectator activity with international audiences and multi-million dollar tournament prizes.

As a result of the Mitchell Report, Clemens has been asked to end his involvement with the Giff Nielsen Day of Golf for Kids charity golf tournament in Houston that he has hosted for four years.