It is Chile's oldest and most prestigious school.

It ranks amongst the most prestigious mathematics journals in the world by criteria such as impact factor.

It was founded in 1947 and is the world's largest and most prestigious scientific and educational computing society.

It is the second most prestigious chase in England, after the Cheltenham Gold Cup.

The Reuben, named for cartoonist Rube Goldberg, is the most prestigious award for U. S. comic strip artists.

The office of consul was the most prestigious of all, and represented the summit of a successful career.

At the time, the house of Trastámara was the most prestigious in Europe, due to the rule of the Catholic Monarchs, so the alliance of Catherine and Arthur validated the House of Tudor in the eyes of European royalty and also strengthened the Tudor claim to the English throne via Catherine of Aragon's ancestry.

* Cell, Nature, and Science, the three most prestigious scientific journals involved in biomedical research

In 2006, Brubeck was awarded the University of Notre Dame's Laetare Medal, the oldest and most prestigious honor given to American Catholics, during the University's commencement.

The committee presiding over Britain's prestigious Turner Prize in 2004, for example, called it " the most influential work of modern art.

In 1828, he attempted the entrance examination for the École Polytechnique, the most prestigious institution for mathematics in France at the time, without the usual preparation in mathematics, and failed for lack of explanations on the oral examination.

According to the Film Arts Foundation in San Francisco, " The Chris Awards ( is ) one of the most prestigious documentary, educational, business and informational competitions in the U. S ; ( it is ) the oldest of its kind in North America and celebrating its 54th year.

The three most prestigious film festivals are commonly regarded to be that of Cannes, Berlin and Venice ; these festivals are sometimes called the " Big Three.

The Toronto International Film Festival, begun in 1976, is regarded North America's most major and most prestigious film festival, and the most widely attended worldwide.

Run since 1929, it is widely considered to be one of the most important and prestigious automobile races in the world, alongside the Indianapolis 500 and the 24 Hours of Le Mans.

The most recent champions of the prestigious Czech Open are Sweden's IBK Dalen.

The ADCC Submission Wrestling World Championship is the most prestigious full range ( takedown, position, and submission inclusive ) grappling tournament in the world.

The World Jiu-Jitsu Championship, also commonly called the Mundials ( Portuguese for " Worlds "), is the most prestigious jacketed full range ( takedown, position, and submission inclusive ) grappling tournament in the world.

The most prestigious German board game award is the Spiel des Jahres (" game of the year ").

That the founder of genre science fiction who gave his name to the field's most prestigious award and who was the Guest of Honor at the 1952 Worldcon was pretty much a crook ( and a contemptuous crook who stiffed his writers but paid himself $ 100K a year as President of Gernsback Publications ) has been clearly established.

History paintings were traditionally regarded as the highest form of Western painting, occupying the most prestigious place in the hierarchy of genres, and considered the equivalent to the epic in literature.

In 2002, the inaugural television component of the " Unböring " campaign, titled Lamp, went on to win several awards, including a Grand Clio, Golds at the London International Awards and the ANDY Awards, and the Grand Prix at the Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival, the most prestigious awards ceremony in the advertising community.

The numbers of competitions a team participates in varies from team to team, but generally, most teams tend to participate in eight-twelve competitions a year.

After the World Cup, the most important international football competitions are the continental championships, which are organised by each continental confederation and contested between national teams.

The rules do not specify a minimum number of players for a match to take place, but most competitions have some local ruling on this, with seven players being a common minimum.

The IOI is one of the most prestigious computer science competitions in the world.

The core event for most competitions is the individual 2, 000m ; less common are the mile ( e. g., Evesham ), the 2500m ( e. g., Basingstoke — also the original distance of the CRASH-B Sprints ).

Overall, they have won fifty-three official titles on the national and international stage, more than any other Italian club: a record twenty-eight league titles, a record nine Italian cups and five national super cups and, with eleven titles in confederation and inter-confederation competitions ( two Intercontinental Cups, two European Champion Clubs ' Cup / UEFA Champions Leagues, one European Cup Winners ' Cup, a record three UEFA Cups, one UEFA Intertoto Cup and two UEFA Super Cups ) the club currently ranks fourth in Europe and seventh in the world with the most trophies won.

Philostratos is quoted as saying, " The rules regard jumping as the most difficult of the competitions, and they allow the jumper to be given advantages in rhythm by the use of the flute, and in weight by the use of the halter.

Where scoring takes place it may be a subsidiary measure, only used if no clear winner has been established by other means ; in some competitions, such as the UFC 1, there was no scoring, though most now use some form of judging as a backup.

This was the origin of the first Ultimate Fighting Championship tournament ( later renamed UFC 1: The Beginning ) in the U. S. inspired by the Brazilian Vale tudo tradition and along with other minimal rule competitions, most notably those from Japan such as Shooto and Pancrase, have evolved into the combat sport of Mixed Martial Arts ( MMA ).

There is evidence that, although knockouts were common, most pankration competitions were probably decided on the ground where both striking and submission techniques would freely come into play.

Pankration competitions were held in tournaments, most being outside of the Olympics.

The preparation of pankratiasts included a very wide variety of methods, most of which would be immediately recognizable by the trainers of modern high level athletes, including competitors in modern mixed martial arts competitions.

The costs of participating in the high end large boat competitions make this type of sailing one of the most expensive sports in the world.

In most competitions, points are awarded by three corner judges using electronic scoring tallies.

Tours is home to François Rabelais University, the site of one of the most important choral competitions, called Florilège Vocal de Tours International Choir Competition, and is a member city of the European Grand Prix for Choral Singing.

In most competitions, riders are allowed to walk the initial course, but not the jump-off course ( usually the same course with missing jumps, e. g., 1, 3, 5, 7, 8 instead of 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 ) before competition to plan their ride.

Fifteen years later, Lepping competitions were brought to Britain and by 1900 most of the more important shows had Lepping classes.

The international governing body for most major show jumping competitions is the Fédération Équestre Internationale ( FEI ). The two most common types of penalties are jumping penalties and time penalties.

The Self-Determination Theory has been one of the most proven theories on how athletes participate in competitions of this level.

In most competitions, including all those that subscribe to the BJCP style guidelines, as well as the International Mead Fest, the term " traditional mead " refers to this variety ( because mead is historically a variable product, these guidelines are a recent expedient, designed to provide a common language for competition judging ; style guidelines per se do not apply to commercial or historical examples of this or any other type of mead.

Spins are a required element in most figure skating competitions.