Oxford was still under house arrest in mid-July, but took part in an Accession Day tournament at Whitehall on 17 November 1581.

In November 2007, she took part in Chess Champions League – Playing for a Better World in Vitoria Gasteiz, Spain a tournament to raise funds for equipment for a Hospital in Mbuji-Mayi, Congo.

The opening match of the tournament was held in Patiala while the closing ceremony took place in Ludhiana.

In 1973 the first officially sanctioned international sevens tournament took place at Murrayfield, one of Scotland's biggest stadiums, as part of the Scottish Rugby Union centenary celebrations.

In December 1554, Ambrose and Robert Dudley took part in a tournament held to celebrate Anglo-Spanish friendship.

The Egyptian national roller hockey team has took part in many world competitions, but unlikely the team didn't win any tournament.

However his win at Amsterdam 1978 took him to his first interzonal tournament at Rio de Janeiro, where he failed to progress further.

One tournament ( Motor City Open ) was contested in nearby Taylor, MI, while the other six ( including the PBA World Championship ) took place at Thunderbowl.

In 1945, Mayer took home second place honors in the Class A state tournament.

In 1976 and 1978 the then, New Richland-Hartland Cardinal football team won the State Championship and in 1999 the NRHEG Wrestling Team took 2nd in the state team tournament.

In one of the worst meltdowns in major championship history ( along with Ken Venturi shooting a final-round 80 in 1956 Masters to lose by one shot, and Rory McIlroy's collapse, also shooting an 80 in 2011 ), he took a six-stroke lead into the final round and lost the tournament to Nick Faldo by five strokes, shooting a Sunday 78 to Faldo's 67.

In 1929 the first official tournament took place in Slovakia.

Gilmour also took part in the NHLPA's Four-on-Four tournament at the Copps Coliseum in Hamilton, Ontario where his Team Ontario defeated Team Quebec in the championship game.

Two weeks later, Morrison took part in the Western Olympic trials in Houston, Texas winning the Heavyweight Title and garnishing the " Most Outstanding Fighter " of the tournament.

The tournament was held in the market-place of the town, and forty knights took part.

The Soviets took the gold at the opening edition of the tournament, in 1965.

A cricket tournament, played as part of the 1900 Summer Olympics, took place on 19 – 20 August at the Vélodrome de Vincennes.

He took outright first at the same tournament the following year.

In 1967, he was second to Fischer at Monte Carlo, won at Moscow and took second after Stein at the city's Alekhine Memorial tournament.

The 1976 tournament in Yugoslavia was the last in which only four teams took part in the final tournament, and the last in which the hosts had to qualify.

This was the first tournament in which a unified Germany took part and also the first major tournament to have the players ' names printed on their backs.

The draw for the final tournament took place on 2 December 2011 at the Ukraine Palace of Arts in Kiev, Ukraine.

In 1970, he tied for fourth place at an international tournament in Caracas, Venezuela, and was awarded the grandmaster title.

His most notable successes were first-place finishes at Copenhagen 1923, Marienbad 1925, Dresden 1926, Hanover 1926, the Carlsbad 1929 chess tournament, and second place behind Alekhine at the San Remo 1930 chess tournament.

In Wimbledon at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club is where the famous lawn tennis tournament takes place.

A qualification phase, which currently takes place over the preceding three years, is used to determine which teams qualify for the tournament together with the host nation ( s ).

In March, she finished in a four-way tie for second place in the Budapest Zonal and then won the tiebreaking tournament.

Jan Timman lead early in the tournament, but Polgár staged a comeback scoring 3 points in the last 4 games to share first place.

In 2003, Polgár scored one of her best results: an undefeated clear second place in the Category 19 Corus chess tournament in Wijk aan Zee, Netherlands, just a half-point behind future World Champion Viswanathan Anand, and a full point ahead of then-world champion Vladimir Kramnik.

She appeared headed for a first place victory in the tournament, but lost her game against compatriot Péter Lékó.

Polgár finished tied for fifth / sixth place, winning $ 5, 625 for the three-day tournament.

Polgár finished the 9 round tournament at 5 – 4 in a four-way tie for third to sixth place.

In 1936, Robinson won the junior boys singles championship in the annual Pacific Coast Negro Tennis Tournament and earned a place on the Pomona annual baseball tournament all-star team, which included future Hall of Famers Ted Williams and Bob Lemon.

Each tournament began with a ritual which would decide how the tournament would take place.

A traditional polo tournament between the teams of Chitral and Gilgit takes place every year in July.

The Rugby World Cup, first held in 1987, takes place every four years, with the winner of the tournament receiving the Webb Ellis Cup.

This both enables players to look up past games of note and tournament directors and players to resolve disputes ( according to whatever specific rules are in place ) where claims that an illegal move, flip or other anomaly are voiced.

Several individual competitions take place under the umbrella of the tournament.

The female Governor of Osaka from 2000 – 2008, Fusae Ohta, when called upon to present the Governor's Prize to the champion of the annual Osaka tournament, was required to do so on the walkway beside the ring or send a male representative in her place.

FIFA asked Gabriel and Brian Eno to organise an opening ceremony for the 2006 FIFA World Cup finals in Germany, planned to take place a couple of days before the start of the tournament ; however, the show was cancelled in January 2006 by FIFA.

The tournament would not take place until after the US Open.

The last place in the finals was contested between the United States and Mexico only three days before the start of the tournament in a one-off match in Rome, which the United States won.

After the war, FIFA were keen to resurrect the competition as soon as possible, and they began making plans for a World Cup tournament to take place.