A typical kitchen timer is quite adequate for all but the largest professional tournaments, which may use computer software tied to video displays throughout the venue.

Quake 3 has also been used extensively in professional electronic sports tournaments such as Quakecon, Cyberathlete Professional League and the Electronic Sports World Cup.

Quake III Arenas multiplayer-focused development led to it developing a large community of competitive players and like its predecessors it was used extensively in professional electronic sports tournaments.

On the professional circuit, men play best-of-five-set matches at all four Grand Slam tournaments, Davis Cup, and the final of the Olympic Games and best-of-three-set matches at all other tournaments, while women play best-of-three-set matches at all tournaments.

There are no longer any professional tournaments held on a wooden surface although some tournaments ( e. g. Rotterdam Open and Open Sud de France ), are played on a wood-based court with an acrylic layer on top.

Some juniors, however, such as Australian Lleyton Hewitt and Frenchman Gaël Monfils, have catapulted directly from the junior tour to the ATP tour by dominating the junior scene or by taking advantage of opportunities given to them to participate in professional tournaments.

Current professional sumo tournaments began in the Tomioka Hachiman Shrine in 1684, and then were held in the Ekō-in in the Edo period.

## Premier Mandatory: Four combined tournaments with male professional players, with U. S .$ 4. 5 million in equal prize money for men and women.

Until 1996 professional players were not allowed to participate in the World Cups ; since then major league players generally have not participated because the tournaments have conflicted with regular season games.

In professional Go games and many amateur tournaments, a player has several byo-yomi periods, for example five periods of one minute each.

* List of professional Go tournaments

In later interviews, McCormack listed five attributes that made Palmer especially marketable: his good looks ; his relatively modest background ( his father was a greenskeeper before rising to be club professional and Latrobe was a humble club ); the way he played golf, taking risks and wearing his emotions on his sleeve ; his involvement in a string of exciting finishes in early televised tournaments ; and his affability.

In professional golf, a small number of notable tournaments use the match play scoring system.

Currently, there are few professional tournaments that use match play.

* List of professional Go tournaments

The city is also home to the International World Jet Ski Final Races, multiple professional fishing tournaments, custom boat regattas, the Western Winter Blast pyrotechnics convention, Havasu 95 Speedway, the Chilln-n-Swilln Beer Festival annual charity event, the Havasu Triathlon, the Havasu Half Marathon and the Havasu Island Hot Air Balloon Fest & Fair.

The lake has also hosted numerous professional Bass and Walleye fishing tournaments over the years.

The game is regularly played at a sporting level with organized competition involving worldwide leagues, tournaments, professional teams, and players.

Most professional fields and tournaments, though, count any hit on a person, the equipment on their person, or even objects picked up at random from the field.

Leagues can be of various sizes ( for example, regional, national or international ) and offer organized tournaments for professional, semi-professional, and amateur teams, sometimes with financial prizes.

Four of the tournaments held outside North America are co-sanctioned with other professional tours.

Alternate history is related to but distinct from counterfactual history — the term used by some professional historians when using thoroughly researched and carefully reasoned speculations on " what might have happened if ..." as a tool of academic historical research.

By the mid-1980s at least 500 courses in business ethics reached 40, 000 students, using some twenty textbooks and at least ten casebooks along supported by professional societies, centers and journals of business ethics.

It would eventually be replaced by cheaper systems using video compression, most notably Sony's Digital Betacam ( still heavily used as a electronic field production ( EFP ) recording format by professional television producers ) that were introduced into the network's television studios.

An attempt by their professional body to prevent chiropractors from calling themselves " Doctor " failed in the courts, in part because it was pointed out that practicing chiropractic physicians hold a doctorate in their discipline, and it would be anomalous to prevent them using the title when holders of doctorates in non-medical disciplines faced no such restriction.

A vinyl sign cutter ( sometimes known as a cutting plotter ) is used by professional poster and billboard sign-making businesses to produce weather-resistant signs, posters, and billboards using self-colored adhesive-backed vinyl film that has a removable paper backing material.

With the rise of technology and occupational specialization in the 19th century, other bodies began to claim professional status: pharmacy, veterinary medicine, nursing, teaching, librarianship, optometry and social work, all of which could claim, using these milestones, to be professions by 1900.

Specialty professional organizations recommend that patients take the lowest effective dose possible to achieve the desired therapeutic result when using proton pump inhibitors to treat gastroesophageal reflux disease long-term.

" If trackballs are better professional gamers would be using them "-Kim Se Young-Korean Starcraft 2 Player

Besides using professional actors, German, American and otherwise, Herzog is known for using people from the locality in which he is shooting.

In this context using " zeroth " as an ordinal is not strictly correct, but professional shorthand.

In 1969, aided by Robert W. Kendler, the president-founder of the U. S. Handball Association ( USHA ), the International Racquetball Association ( IRA ) was founded using the name coined by Bob McInerney, a professional tennis player.

Most professional garden designers are trained in principles of design and in horticulture, and have an expert knowledge and experience of using plants.

It is also frequently used as a weapon in hardcore professional wrestling matches, most often as a covering for another type of weapon — Mick Foley was infamous for using a two-by-four wrapped in barbed wire — and infrequently as a covering of or substitute for the ring ropes.

Many types exist, small mouth blown whistles for various functions from toys to hunting using bird and fowl calls type whistles, to professional whistles as police, boatswain's pipe, military, sports whistles ( also called pea whistles ), to much larger steam or air preasure operated ones as train whistles, which are steam whistles specifically designed for use on locomotives and ships.

Currently in its eleventh edition and published under the name Robert's Rules of Order Newly Revised ( and often referred to using the initialism RONR ) it is the most widely used parliamentary authority in the United States, according to the National Association of Parliamentarians, a professional association of approximately 4, 000 members which provides education and accreditation certifications for parliamentarians.

Some professional applications require subwoofers designed for very high sound levels, using multiple 12 ", 15 ", 18 " or 21 " drivers.

In professional concert sound system design, subwoofers can be incorporated seamlessly with the main speakers into a stereo or mono full-range system by using an active crossover.

At present, there are two manufacturers of these drivers in Germany, one of which produces a range of high-end professional speakers using tweeters and mid-range drivers based on the technology.

The established small system operating software was CP / M from Digital Research which was in use both at the hobbyist level and by the more professional of those using microcomputers.

Some larger professional printers using solvent inks may employ a replaceable plastic receptacle to contain waste ink and solvent which must be emptied or replaced when full.

For 2011, the ACO split GT2 into two categories, GTE-Pro ( for all-professional teams with current-spec cars ) and GTE-Am ( for teams with one amateur and one professional per car using previous-spec cars ), as a way to entice rookies to enter one of the three Le Mans Series.

He was scheduled to finish on July 10, at which time he would start the military wedding number using over 400 professional dancers.

One book suggests the following 7 advance planning steps: ( 1 ) develop an impressive management and professional team ; ( 2 ) grow the company's business with an eye to the public marketplace ; ( 3 ) obtain audited or auditable financial statements using IPO-accepted accounting principles ; ( 4 ) clean up the company's act ; ( 5 ) establish antitakeover defenses ; ( 6 ) develop good corporate governance ; ( 7 ) create insider bail-out opportunities and take advantage of IPO windows.