Finalists have been announced since 1980, and are shown as the indented entries.

In Portugal, proms are held before the end of the year, in May or June and are called " Baile de Finalistas " ( Finalists ball ).

The top two players selected in each region are the " Finalists " and are placed on a national ballot.

Finalists are chosen by an independent board of eminent journalists and photographers.

Finalists are chosen by a committee and winners are selected based on a vote.

By the conclusion of the competition, about 7, 800 Finalists are selected to receive prestigious National Merit Scholarships totaling nearly $ 35 million.

All Finalists are considered for one of the 2, 500 National Merit $ 2, 500 Scholarships, which are awarded on a state representational basis.

About 1, 100 Merit Scholarship awards are provided by corporate sponsors for Finalists who meet criteria specified by the sponsor.

Most of these awards are for children of the sponsor's employees, for Finalists living in a particular geographic area, or for Finalists who have career plans the sponsor wishes to encourage.

There are also approximately 4, 600 college-sponsored Merit Scholarship awards for Finalists who plan to attend a sponsor college.

Semifinalists, Regional Finalists, and National Finalists of the competition are invited to join the Siemens Scholar Network.

Finalists for receiving the award are put on a short list by National Council of Culture ( CNC ), and grouped into five categories:

Finalists are nominated by staff editors, and the winners are selected by the advisory editors.

Finalists vying for the position are an internationally-renowned group of conductors that includes ESO resident conductor Stephen Squires, Donato Cabrera, Jose Luis Gomez, Andrew Grams, Daniel Hege, Marcelo Lehninger, Tania Miller, Jaime Laredo, Rafael Payare, Ignat Solzhenitsyn, Alastair Willis, Dorian Wilson, and Victor Yampolsky, with the final selection announcement expected in 2013.

The ten Semi-Finalist videos with the highest overall score are selected as Finalists.

In 2012, there are 68 AP Scholars, 9 AP Scholar with Honor, 6 AP Scholar with Distinction, 8 National Merit Commended Students, 2 National Merit Semi-Finalists, 5 National Merit Finalists, 2 National Merit Special Scholarship Competition Award Recipients, and 1 National Merit Hispanic Recognition Program Award Recipient.

In 2012, there are 5 AP National Merit Finalists and 2 Semi-Finalists.

Finalists from the county's east end failed to place.

Finalists compete for trophies and educational grants-in-aid from Colgate-Palmolive Company at New York City's Madison Square Garden in February.

Finalists read from their works at the presentation ceremony in the Great Hall of the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D. C ..

Finalists since 1958-33 of Norwood's OMHA Finals appearances came in a 27-year span from 1983 to 2010:

Finalists were whittled down by a combination of votes from " industry figures " and the general public.

In February 2007, the Titans played their historic first game in a trial against the previous season's Minor-Premiers and Grand Finalists Melbourne Storm, previously the newest club in the League ( apart from the merged teams ).

During the decade, they had made DCI Finals seven times in nine years, and would never again fall from the ranks of DCI's Top Twelve Finalists.

Six students from the class of 2006 were National Merit Semifinalists, and all became Finalists.

Finalists must qualify from approximately 25, 000 competitors at over 100 regional science fairs ( or, in the province of Quebec, the provincial science fair ) throughout Canada.

The school regularly produces National Merit Finalists and Governor's Scholars from its large population of academically dominant students.

For the 2009-2010 school year, LISD recognized 43 National Merit Finalists from a pool of 49 Semifinalists.

They played in the New South Wales Premier League as Belconnen Blue Devils from 2000 to 2005, and lost to Bonnyrigg White Eagles in the 2005 Preliminary Final, whilst they were Premiers ( 1st in the league ) and losing Grand Finalists in 2004.

Finalists have been made public since 1980.

Judges select Pacemaker Finalists and Pacemakers based on the following: coverage and content, quality of writing and reporting, leadership on the opinion page, evidence of in-depth reporting, design, photography, art and graphics.

One track by Fox appeared on each of the official Fame Academy compilation albums, Fame Academy: Bee Gees Special ( Polydor, August 2003 ) and Fame Academy-The Finalists ( Polydor, October 2003 ).

A behind-the-play incident involving Nathan Burke of St Kilda during the Cats ' Elimination Final triumph over the Saints saw Ablett suspended by the AFL Tribunal for two weeks, with Geelong subsequently losing to the season's two eventual Grand Finalists – Hawthorn in the 2nd Semi-Final and West Coast at Waverley Park in the Preliminary Final – and prematurely ending Ablett's year.

On the Popstars Live: the Finalists, Taylor covered Jealous Guy first performed by John Lennon and later an Australian number one hit for Roxy Music in 1981.

While shaded by the specactular success of the previous decade, the Dragons remained competitive throughout most of the 1970s winning premierships in 1977 and 1979, being runner-up Grand Finalists in 1971 and 1975 and finishing the regular season in 3rd place or better in all years excepting 1974 and 1978.

* Finalists Announced for Entrepreneur Magazine's Entrepreneur of 2010 Contest Presented by The UPS Store, Entrepreneur Magazine, July 27, 2010

In season 1974 / 5 the club reached the fifth round of the very first FA Vase Competition where they lost to eventual Finalists Epsom & Ewell by one goal.

Saints beat favourites and that season's UEFA Cup Finalists, Jim McLean's Dundee United, in what turned out to be the last time the Scottish Cup was won by a team composed entirely of Scottish players.

On the field the squad was bolstered by news that eight players had been granted visas just a week before the clubs top-flight début as NL1 Grand Finalists Tony Duggan, Josh Hannay, Mark Dalle Cort, Damien Quinn, Jace Van Dijk, Darren Mapp and new signings Australian Ryan O ' Hara and Papua New Guinean Jason Chan flew to Wales.

Finalists of the dance competition ' Dancing with the Stars ' performed for an audience of 3500 and were judged by Shahid Kapoor and Rajiv Surty.

Starr's Mill had 7 National Merit Finalists for the 2003-2004 academic year, as stated by Vice Principal, John " The Boosh " Bouchell.