This latter failure is more than merely bad reportage and it is distinctly more important than it would have been had the author drawn Clerfayt as, say, a tournament golfer.

The annual CHIO ( short for the French term Concours Hippique International Officiel ) is the biggest equestrian meeting of the world and among horsemen considered to be as prestigious for equitation as the tournament of Wimbledon for tennis.

A popular, but probably apocryphal, story is that once when an opponent laid a cigar on the table, he complained to the tournament arbiters, " He is threatening to smoke, and as an old player you must know that the threat is stronger than the execution.

The British Open is the Open Championship men's golf tournament.

* British Open Wheelchair Championships a wheelchair tennis tournament that is part of the ITF super series

The Crawford rule is routinely used in tournament match play.

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

The tournament is a double-knockout formula, best of three series, games to 100.

The Great Britain team won the last MacRobertson International Croquet Shield tournament, which is the major international test tour trophy in association croquet.

In Wimbledon at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club is where the famous lawn tennis tournament takes place.

The event is organised by the sport's governing body, the International Cricket Council ( ICC ), with preliminary qualification rounds leading up to a finals tournament which is held every four years.

The tournament is the world's fourth-largest and fourth-most-viewed sporting event.

According to the ICC, it is the most important tournament and the pinnacle of achievement in the sport.

Clabbers is a game played by tournament Scrabble players for fun, or occasionally at Scrabble variant tournaments.

The caddy also usually receives a salary, as the player is not guaranteed to win money at every tournament.

Dino Zoff ( born February 28, 1942 in Mariano del Friuli ) is an Italian former football goalkeeper and is the oldest winner ever of the World Cup, which he earned as captain of the Italian team in the 1982 tournament in Spain, at the age of 40 years, 4 months and 13 days.

Currently, the Olympic men's tournament is played at Under-23 level.

This is generally regarded as a warm-up tournament for the upcoming FIFA World Cup and does not carry the same prestige as the World Cup itself.

It is commonly played in home games but are rarely played in casino and tournament play.

The " FA Cup " is run by and named after the Football Association and usually refers to the English men's tournament, although a women's tournament is also held.

Using a more open and attacking style than usually used by Italian sides, he coached Italy to a second-place finish in Euro 2000, suffering an extra-time defeat at the hands of France in the final, when in the 90th minute of the game, Italy were 1-0 up and less than sixty seconds from winning the tournament before France scored to equalise and go to extra time.

Before the tournament begins, the players will agree to a blinds structure, usually set by the tournament organizer.

Play money tournaments usually require the ' payment ' of play money and the tournament winnings are play money.

In formal player dealt settings, such as in a casino or during a tournament, an offer to cut the deck is mandatory and the designated player must perform the cut, generally by inserting a cut card ( a plastic card about the size of a playing card, usually solid-colored ) into the deck ; the dealer then makes the actual cut at that point in the deck.

#" Madison system "-This is a popular tournament format where there is no weight classes and the tournament director pairs wrestlers into brackets ( usually 8 or 16 man ) based on weight at weigh-ins.

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

The format was identical to the original European Champions ' Cup with 32 teams contesting four knock-out rounds prior to the showpiece final, with the tournament usually running from September to May each year.

In a tournament event where the score is all square after the last hole, usually 18 or 36, the players will play on until a player wins a hole ( sudden death ).

The winner of the tournament is usually the person who wins every poker chip in the game and the others are awarded places based on the time of their elimination.

In a shootout tournament players are usually awarded places in tiers based on how many rounds they lasted and in which place they were eliminated.

The tournament, usually held on the west coast of the United States, was televised live on NBC.

It is usually held in December, at the Hotel Zuiderduin, and is traditionally the last tournament held before the World Championship.

They are usually bought in bags or bottles of 2, 000 to 5, 000, but other sizes are available, such as a 250, 000 round ( 65 kg ) of tournament grade pellets.

The ACB continued to use the name " World Series Cup " to describe the One Day International tournament it held during each summer, usually involving Australia and two other international teams.

Before the " MSG Incident ", Levesque had been booked into the finals of the 1996 King of the Ring tournament during the following summer, but his place-and the push that usually went with it-would instead go to Steve Austin, igniting his rise toward mainstream superstardom and helped the WWF defeat WCW in the Monday Night Wars.

In casual play, the tee a player hits from is usually their prerogative ( there is no rule prohibiting a man from hitting off the closest tee box, nor any prohibiting a woman from using the tournament tee ), but players will generally gravitate toward the traditional tee for their gender and / or age, as this will provide the best results given a player's nominal drive distance.

Historically, the tournament was usually held on a round-robin or double round-robin basis.

The leading events are open to all age groups, but are usually won by golfers in their early twenties who are working towards a career in professional tournament golf:

It was the year before the 1994 World Cup, and, according to Laudrup, because players usually suffer a drop in performance after such a major international tournament, he correctly predicted that Barcelona would not win major trophies the following season.

It holds its championship tournament at the Joe Louis Arena in Detroit, usually in the second week of March.

An archery tournament will be held at North Falmouth, Mass. ( Sept. 23, 24 ).

* Africa Cup of Nations, biennual football tournament held in Africa and organised by the CAF

* Bell Challenge, a WTA Tour Tier III tennis tournament held in Quebec

The World Crokinole Championship ( WCC ) tournament has been held annually since 1999 on the first Saturday of June in Tavistock, Ontario.

* Family Circle Cup, a major tennis tournament held in Charleston, South Carolina

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 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.

The Canada Cup is an international club tournament that is held every year in Toronto, Canada.

The USA Cup is an international club tournament that is held annually in Dallas – Fort Worth metroplex, USA.

The world's largest club team tournament, the Czech Open is a traditional summer tournament held in Prague, Czech Republic.

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.

* Groningen 1946 chess tournament-the first major international chess tournament to be held after World War II.

At the conclusion of the regular Big Ten season, a tournament is held to determine the conference winner, who receives the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA tournament.

Aside from the multitude of regional games held during the NCAA tournament, Indianapolis has hosted six men's NCAA Final Fours ( 1980, 1991, 1997, 2000, 2006, 2010 ) and two women's ( 2005, 2011 ).

In September 1992, Polgár participated in a tournament held in Aruba in which a team of senior men's players competed against a team of top women players.

Polgár then tied for first in the Hastings tournament held over New Years, 1992 – 93.

In November 2010, Polgár won the four-player rapid tournament which was held to celebrate the National University of Mexico's 100th anniversary.

The second Kabaddi World Cup tournament was held in 2007 with India winning over Iran in the final round.

The opening match of the tournament was held in Patiala while the closing ceremony took place in Ludhiana.