The world floorball championships are an annual event where teams from across the world gather to play in a tournament in order to win the world championship.

The championship has been awarded every four years since the inaugural tournament in 1930, except in 1942 and 1946 when it was not held because of the Second World War.

In 1936, Robinson won the junior boys singles championship in the annual Pacific Coast Negro Tennis Tournament and earned a place on the Pomona annual baseball tournament all-star team, which included future Hall of Famers Ted Williams and Bob Lemon.

Homeschooled competitors are ranked on Speechranks, a website which also determines their eligibility for the championship tournament at the end of the school year.

Wabash won the first national intercollegiate championship basketball tournament ever held in 1922.

A periodic world cup or world championship usually takes the form of a knockout tournament ( possibly with an initial group stage ).

The Japan national championship tournament is held every January at Omi Jingu ( a Shinto Shrine ) in Ōtsu, Shiga.

The wrestler who wins the most matches over the fifteen days wins the tournament championship ( yūshō ) for his division.

Davenport's next tournament championship was at Wimbledon.

At the end of each regular season, four teams from each conference ( the division winners and two Wild Card teams ) play in the AFL Playoffs, an eight-team single-elimination tournament that culminates with the championship game, known as the ArenaBowl.

During the qualifying tournament for the 2010 FIFA World Cup, Serbia came first in its group, ahead of France and consequently qualified directly for the championship.

After extensive negotiations and Quebec's withdrawal from the championship competition, it was decided that a three-team tournament would take place in Montreal, with the Ottawa team receiving a bye to the Final because they were the only road team.

The 1925 and 1938 teams claimed to be national champions due to their undefeated records and defeats of other top national teams, but the 1925 claim is considered a mythical national championship because there was no tournament.

The NAIA national championship was founded in 1937, and the Southeastern Conference men's tournament was founded even earlier, in 1933 ; however, neither tournament has been continuous.

On June 5, 2009, it held down the first championship for the Phoenix high school's Passing League tournament.

Eriksson finally found major success in Italy with Lazio when he won the Coppa Italia and the Italian Supercup in 1998 and 2000, the European Cup Winners ' Cup ( 1999 – the very last tournament ), and the Serie A title ( the Scudetto ) in 2000 — only the second time that the Roman club had won the Italian championship in their history.

The tournament, and the world championship, was won by Viswanathan Anand.

The Haleyville Boys Golf team qualified for the state championship tournament in 2005 ( seventh place ), 2006 ( sixth place ), 2007 ( fourth place ), and 2008 ( sixth place ).

Its basketball team won the 1-A state championship in 2006 after consecutive second round exits in the tournament in the two previous years.

This allowed Fresno State, which had by far the lowest seeding of any team in the tournament, to win its first ever NCAA championship.

On August 13, 2011 the District 3 All-Stars from Laurel won the Senior League Softball World Series for Little League, going undefeated in the tournament and defeating Puerto Rico in the championship game by a score of 2-0.

Hartford City ’ s Blackford High School football team has also had some tournament success, winning the Indiana state 2A football championship in 1974-75 and 1979-80 – both teams were undefeated.

Though they lost in the championship game, it is the highest advancement by any athletic team at Monrovia High School in any state tournament.

In 2009, the Morgan State men's basketball team won the MEAC regular season and tournament championship and qualified for the 2009 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament.

In 1914 when the town was chosen for the U. S. Amateur Golf tournament, a representative hurried here from the Boston manager's office.

Within a week after the injury, suffered in St. Louis's victory in the final game of the Kentucky tournament, Nordmann was sitting on the Bill's bench doing what he could to help Benington.

After playing a splendid first nine holes in 34 -- two strokes under par -- on this fifth and final day of the tournament ( Sunday's fourth round had been washed out by a violent rainstorm when it was only half completed ), Player's game rapidly fell to pieces.

On that final Sunday at Pensacola neither Palmer nor Player was leading the tournament and, as it turned out, neither won it.

Even so, it was still not clear to many in the enormous horde of spectators -- unquestionably the largest golf crowd ever -- that this tournament was to be, essentially, a match between Palmer and Player.

As the third round of the tournament began on Saturday and the duel was resumed in earnest, it was Player's superior aggressiveness that carried him into the lead.

In 1970, he tied for fourth place at an international tournament in Caracas, Venezuela, and was awarded the grandmaster title.

For example, he once missed first prize in a tournament in Berlin by losing to Sämisch, and when it became clear he was going to lose the game, Nimzowitsch stood up on the table and shouted, " Gegen diesen Idioten muss ich verlieren!

His goal in the 3 – 1 group win over Argentina was his 25th for England in just 38 appearances, but his individual success could not be replicated by that of the team, which was eliminated in the quarter final by Brazil, who went on to win the tournament.

Nevertheless, he was still scoring and creating freely and as the tournament was about to start, he was expected to become one of its stars and galvanise his established reputation as one of the world's best footballers.

It was common in tournament play in the 1980s but is now rarely used.

When he was 15 years old, he played in his first West Indian under-19 youth tournament and that same year, Lara represented West Indies in Under-19 cricket.

Charles was a contestant in the Celebrity Poker Club tournament ( 2004 ) on Challenge, where he reached the semi-finals, and in the Channel 4 reality game show, The Games ( 2005 ), which documented the contestants ' intensive training regime and each live Olympic Games-style sporting event, in which he came fourth overall in the men's competition.

A demonstration tournament was also held during the 1932 Winter Olympic Games between four teams from Canada and four teams from the United States, with Canada winning 12 games to 4 .< ref >

The first multilateral competition at international level was the 1912 Triangular Tournament, a Test cricket tournament played in England between all three Test-playing nations at the time: England, Australia and South Africa.

In subsequent years, international Test cricket has generally been organised as bilateral series: a multilateral Test tournament was not organised again until the quadrangular Asian Test Championship in 1999.

The tournament was won by the West Indies, who defeated Australia by 17 runs in the final at Lord's.

The 1987 tournament, named the Reliance World Cup after their Indian sponsors, was held in India and Pakistan, the first time that the competition was held outside England.

In 2007 the tournament was hosted by the West Indies ; the Cricket World Cup became the first such tournament to be hosted on all six populated continents.