Autumn has a strong association with American football, as the regular season begins during September and ends with playoff competition in December or January, in the winter season.

In the simplest competition, singles, one of the two opponents flips a coin to see who wins the " mat " and begins a segment of the competition ( in bowling parlance, an " end "), by placing the mat and rolling the jack to the other end of the green to serve as a target.

The IIHF World U20 Championship typically begins on 26 December, while the Spengler Cup also begins on 26 December in Davos, Switzerland ; the Spengler Cup competition includes HC Davos, Team Canada, and other top European Hockey teams.

In competition, divers must submit their lists beforehand, and once past a deadline ( usually when the event is announced or shortly before it begins ) they cannot change their dives.

The competition begins in August with the lowest-ranked clubs ; they contest the Extra Preliminary Round, followed by the Preliminary Round and First Qualifying Round.

Before the competition begins, the host will often bring up a " sacrificial poet ", whom the judges will score in order to calibrate their judging.

He begins by promoting Eugen Sandow ( Nat Pendleton ), the " world's strongest man ", at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, overcoming the competition of rival Billings ( Frank Morgan ) and his popular attraction, belly dancer Little Egypt, with savvy marketing ( allowing women to feel Sandow's muscles ).

When the competition begins, Lum surprises everyone by flying away and Ataru finds himself unable to catch her.

The day of the competition, however, he does not show up and Kelly begins to worry.

* World Series Cricket begins playing games in competition to official International Cricket Council sanctioned matches.

* The European Tour begins its first season of competition.

* The inaugural Rugby League Challenge Cup competition begins in the 1896 – 97 season.

* March 29: Paris – the new Super League competition, the first ever season of professional rugby to be played in summer, begins with new team Paris Saint-Germain's first match: a 30-24 win over Sheffield Eagles at Charlety Stadium before 17, 873.

* Inaugural FA Cup competition begins with four matches played on 11 November.

Thus begins the tradition of the Captain " playing himself into office ," by hitting a single shot before the start of the annual competition.

The rules are based on the knockdown karate rules explained above, but modified to use boxing gloves and allow punches to the face, although it may be argued that it is unclear where this karate competition format ends and kickboxing begins.

Because of this, the final schedule is often published, and made available to competitors, shortly before the competition begins.

In the substantive approach, the starting point before the race begins is unfair, since people have had differing experiences before even approaching the competition.

But so-called positive action efforts to bring an underprivileged person up to speed before a competition begins are limited to the period of time before the evaluation begins ; at that point, the " final selection for posts must be made according to the principle the best person for the job ," that is, a less qualified applicant should not be chosen over a more qualified applicant.

One view was that equality of opportunity was more focused on what happens before the race begins, while meritocracy is more focused on fairness at the competition stage.

Calculating the point at which a population begins to slow from competition is also very difficult.

It begins with a market and a music competition on the streets on the last Sunday in June.

Following a complaint form a Hungarian, EPSO agreed to clarify information in recruitment competition notices concerning eligibility and pre-selection tests.

" Danny arrives, in uniform, just in time to see the band win the competition with a stirring rendition of " The William Tell Overture ", during which Phil notices his wife and children are in the audience.

Part XIB of the act allows the ACCC to issue competition notices to telecommunications corporations if it has reason to believe the corporation has engaged in " anti-competitive conduct ".

Soon after opening of Polish sky for competition flights “ avoiding ” the Warsaw hub became more often.

Soon after, car dealer and racing driver Ken Rudd fitted his own competition Ace with a pre-war BMW-designed, Bristol-produced six-cylinder engine.

Soon after, she retired from full-time competition on the singles tour.

Soon after the strategic victory by the HBC, the Snake River route was used for emigrants as the Oregon Trail, which brought a new form of competition.

Soon after, a European competition was launched to design a grand park.

Soon titled " The Rose of Spain ", she won the competition on 11 February 2002 with 26. 6 % of the votes, beating with a record audience of 10, 680, 000 viewers and 58. 8 % share.

Soon after, the company bought the Enquirers main competition, The Star, from Rupert Murdoch.

Soon afterwards, sport authorities ordered the replaying of 11 matches in the country's top competition, the Campeonato Brasileiro, that had been worked by Edílson.

Soon after, Raj and Jai have a friendly wrestling competition, in which Jai wins but also gets the King's favor.

Soon after the Avex Taiwan competition, Wang was called again and given a chance to go to Japan.

Soon after this split, the USPSA devised a series of competition " divisions " with varying limits on type and modification of equipment, including a " Production " division with rules similar to the IDPA's regulations.

Soon after winning the competition for the Legislative Buildings in Victoria, Rattenbury was involved in a series of financial ventures.

Soon after that they represented China in the Asian club championship, changing their name to Aoshen at the start of that competition, which they won ( some media reports at the time incorrectly gave their name as " 北京奥盛 ").

Soon after, rollcages in competition cars with built-in side impact bars, and seats with head restraints on the side would become mandatory.

Soon, the competition enters its knockout stages.

Soon another talent competition was held, this time it was the All Army Talent Competition, to find service personnel to appear on Ed Sullivan's Toast of the Town ( which later evolved into The Ed Sullivan Show ).

Soon the American Biscuit and New York Biscuit groups were opening bakeries and lowering prices in each others area in an attempt to eliminate the competition.

Soon, a bitter competition developed between the two magazines, as they tried to grab the same readership using the same techniques of investigative journalism.

Soon after the completion of the merger all the marketing effort went into full price games under the Melbourne House label and it was clear that the budget side was sliding into oblivion, the competition had become intense as everyone was recycling their old full price games as budget games.

Soon after, practically a " competition " among the youth of Bengal began, to kill Britishers and embrace martyrdom.

Soon after the great success of the Leland Giants ( they went 123 – 6 against top Midwest competition, mostly semi-pro ), Foster decided to form the Chicago American Giants, which chiefly consisted of Foster's best players from Leland, including Hill, who was made team captain.