Amateur boxing may be found at the collegiate level, at the Olympic Games and Commonwealth Games, and in many other venues sanctioned by amateur boxing associations.

Games to a specified number of ends may also be drawn.

Games may be played by one person for their own entertainment, or by a group of people.

Games may be geared for children, or may be played outdoors such as lawn bowling.

Some products supplied by manufacturers may not be intended to be awarded at all, and are instead just used as part of the gameplay ( such as the low-priced items used in several Pricing Games of The Price Is Right ).

In some cases, some game companies may provide such software ; examples include Epic Games ' Impersonator for Unreal Tournament 2004 and Valve Corporation's FacePoser for Half-Life 2.

In some sailing events, such as the Olympic Games, which are held on closed courses where no other boating is allowed, specific racing rules such as the Racing Rules of Sailing ( RRS ) may apply.

The sports that are included in the World Games are limited by the facilities available in the host city ; no new facilities may be constructed for the games.

However, because of space limitations, indoor tracks may have other nonstandard lengths, such as 160-yard ( 146. 3 m ) indoor track at Madison Square Garden used for the Millrose Games.

* Roman Board Games — The Lines of the Twelve Philosophers, which may be related to XII scripta

They may be designed to represent a classical ideal, or to represent some local aspect of those particular Games.

The first flights are scheduled to commence on 4 July 2008, and flight frequencies may be increased on demand, with expectations to increase to 72 each weekend after the 2008 Olympic Games.

Sometimes interventions may also be intended to nip future challenges to the Culture in the bud ( The Player of Games ).

Working together for the Opening Ceremonies of the Winter Games delivers the creative endeavor to not only entertain a huge audience, but to also introduce them to sights and sounds that they may have never experienced before.

Labib Boutros, former director of athletics at the American University of Beirut has conducted recent studies of an ancient stadium in Amrit, Syria ( ancient " Marathos ") and suggested that it's construction may date back as far as 1500 BC, saying that the Amrit stadium held festivals that were " devoted to sports in Phoenicia several centuries before the Olympic Games "

In 2006, Computer and Video Games reported that System Shock 3 may be under development, but conclusive details have not surfaced about its project's status.

Games aimed at younger children may contain puzzles and problems to solve or scripts.

" Duncan Harris emphasised, in his Computer and Video Games article " Blade Runner: A classic revisited ", that " critics may have been divided over the means by which you got there: a logical trail of clues, many of which were less the result of detective work than blind luck and idle exploration ...", " but you couldn't deny that here, for once, was a movie tie-in which put the movie first, dismissing thoughts of its own genre and letting the subject dictate the design.

While board game expansions are typically designed by the original creator, video game developers sometimes contract out development of the expansion pack to a third-party company, ( see Hellfire for Diablo ), it may choose to develop the expansion itself or it may do both ( Ensemble Studios developed the real-time strategy game Age of Empires III and the first expansion called the WarChiefs itself, but contracted Big Huge Games for the second expansion pack, the Asian Dynasties ).

In the Video Games, once the Pokémon League Champion is defeated, you may go on with your adventure or even challenge that Champion however many times you wish.

* 25 — In San Francisco Arts & Athletics, Inc. v. United States Olympic Committee the United States Supreme Court rules that the Gay Games may not use the word " Olympic " in its name because of the trademark held by the USOC.

On the day that the Circus Games occurred, Caligula had a statue made of Agrippina ’ s image to be paraded in a covered carriage at the Games.

After the Circus Games, Caligula ordered written evidence of the court cases from Tiberius ’ treason trials to be brought to the Forum to be burnt, first being the cases of Agrippina and her two sons.

Games can be based on pure strategy, chance ( e. g. rolling dice ) or a mixture of the two, and usually have a goal which a player aims to achieve.

Games can be decided when:

Ken Uston reviewed 32 games in his book Ken Uston's Guide to Buying and Beating the Home Video Games in 1982, and rated some of the Channel F's titles highly ; of these, Alien Invasion and Video Whizball were considered by Uston to be " the finest adult cartridges currently available for the Fairchild Channel F System.

While it is possible to create a controlled sporting event such as X Games, there are environmental variables that cannot be held constant for all athletes.

As well, the IFF hopes that floorball will be included as a demonstration sport at the 2013 Special Olympics World Winter Games.

There is a strong possibility that it will be played at the 2013 Special Olympics World Winter Games.

Other honors include his ivory statue as head of procession of the Circus Games ; his posts of priest of Augustus and Augur were to be filled by members of the imperial family ; knights of Rome gave his name to a block of seats in a theatre in Rome.

By the end of the nineteenth century, men's gymnastics competition was popular enough to be included in the first " modern " Olympic Games in 1896.

Games played with curved sticks and a ball can be found in the histories of many cultures.

This rulebook is so big ( 592 pages ) that some fans speculated that it might be bulletproof, and it did indeed stop some bullets when tested by Hero Games staffers.

* 1948 – Olympic Games: The Games of the XIV Olympiad – after a hiatus of 12 years caused by World War II, the first Summer Olympics to be held since the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, Germany, open in London, England, United Kingdom.

* G — Games played: number of games where the player played, in whole or in part

Games played ( most often abbreviated as G or GP ) is a statistic used in team sports to indicate the total number of games in which a player has participated ( in any capacity ); the statistic is generally applied irrespective of whatever portion of the game is contested.

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The NLCS and ALCS, since the expansion to best-of-seven, are always played in a 2 – 3 – 2 format: games 1, 2, 6 and 7 are played in the stadium of the team that has home field advantage, and Games 3, 4 and 5 are played in the stadium of the team that does not.

The ALCS and NLCS, since the expansion to best-of-seven, are always played in a 2 – 3 – 2 format: Games 1, 2, 6, and 7 are played in the stadium of the team that has home field advantage, and Games 3, 4, and 5 are played in the stadium of the team that does not.

Bowls is played at the Commonwealth Games ; the last being held in Delhi, India, where Natalie Melmore ( England ) and Robert Weale ( Wales ) won the singles Gold Medals.

A second edition of Bunnies & Burrows was printed in 1982 by Fantasy Games Unlimited, although the continuing popularity of the first edition is evidenced by how it was still being actively played in 2008.

Thus, the first Olympic medals in curling, which at the time was played outside, were awarded for the 1924 Winter Games, with the gold medal won by Great Britain and Ireland, two silver medals by Sweden, and the bronze by France.

After goalie Dominik Hasek played poorly in Games 3 and 4 of the series, both losses, head coach Mike Babcock replaced him with Chris Osgood.

Field hockey is a sport played internationally by both men and women including the Olympic Games, the Commonwealth Games, the quadrennial Hockey World Cups, the annual Champions Trophies and World Cups for juniors.

** Games played for the 2011-13 ICC Intercontinental Cup.

Games here are played on trees ( as pictured to the left ).