The result is decided when an opponent is deemed incapable to continue by a referee, is disqualified for breaking a rule, resigns by throwing in a towel, or is pronounced the winner or loser based on the judges ' scorecards at the end of the contest.

The franchise then held a naming contest to publicize the team, promising a $ 1, 000 war bond to the winner.

During the 2005 Conservative leadership contest, eventual winner David Cameron pledged to withdraw the Conservatives from the EPP-ED coalition, while opponent David Davis argued in a letter to the editor of the Daily Telegraph that the current ED arrangement allowed the Conservatives to maintain suitable distance from EPP while still having influence in the largest parliamentary grouping.

The winner of the contest was an elementary school student, who submitted the drawing of a robot called Red Arone, which superficially resembled both Ultraman and Mazinger Z.

Godzilla vs. Biollante began as a winner of a contest by Toho.

According to Gandhi's autobiography, the contest winner was Maganlal Gandhi ( presumably no relation ), who submitted the entry ' sadagraha ', which Gandhi then modified to ' satyagraha '.

Submitted in a command-wide contest, it was chosen as the winner by a three judge panel: General Curtis E. LeMay, Commander-in-Chief, Strategic Air Command ; General Thomas S. Power, Vice Commander-in-Chief, Strategic Air Command ; and Brigadier General AW Kissner, Chief of Staff, Strategic Air Command.

Ahead of the 1996 primary contest, Senate majority leader and former vice-presidential nominee Bob Dole was seen as the most likely winner.

The première of Cavalleria rusticana, winner of the Sonzogno contest, was held May 17 at the Teatro Costanzi in Rome.

Viewers in the U. S. made slime and water sounds with their mouths and sending in their own entries for the Slime-In, a contest hosted by Nickelodeon that flew the winner to the set of You Can't Do That On Television to be slimed ( which was later replicated by Canada's YTV, with their version being called the Slime Light Sweepstakes ).

Heinlein was motivated to write the story by a contest in Thrilling Wonder Stories magazine promising $ 50 US to the winner, but ended up submitting it to a rival magazine, Astounding, and was paid $ 70 ( approximately $ 1085 in 2008 ).

At the close of the October – November 1985 contest, that episode's in-studio winner drew a card from a bowl containing the names of each of the 75 at-home participants featured over the five-week period.

In the contest between Apollo and Marsyas, the terms stated that the winner could treat the defeated party any way he wanted.

Eurytus broke his promise to give the royal daughter to the winner of the archery contest.

* Chrysothemis, the first winner of the oldest contest held at the Pythian Games, the singing of a hymn to Apollo.

Next, he fought with great Ajax in an armed sparring contest where the winner was to draw blood first.

He was the second winner of the most ancient singing contest at Delphi, after Chrysothemis and before his son Thamyris.

* Iasius, winner of the horse-racing contest at the Olympic games held by Heracles.

Her name is on the cast list among the other stars, usually tagged " Brewster magazine beauty contest winner " and sometimes even with a picture.

In June 1929 nearly 100 residents attended a meeting and decided to apply for their own post office and to state a “ name contest ” in which the winner was paid $ 10.

In 1900, the Disciples of Christ held a nationwide contest to name the proposed community, the winner to receive an oceanside lot there.

There is also a beauty contest for different age groups where the winner is crowned Miss and Little Miss Swine Time.

* Chris Holloway, winner of the best beard contest of Central Massachusetts

Boldfaced names indicate the ultimate nationwide winner of each contest:

In the 2004 competition, the margin between winner Joe Jitsu and runner-up Colin the Vet was 1 %, so both strips were added to the comic.

A split decision indicates a disagreement between the judges, while a unanimous decision indicates that all judges saw the fight the same way and all have declared the same winner.

Mrs. Robert Swanson of West Miami won lifetime passes to Dolphin games when her nickname entry successfully predicted the winner and score of the 1965 football game between Notre Dame and the University of Miami, a scoreless tie.

The presidential elections were the most competitive in the history of the country in which the difference in the ballot count between the winner and the first runner up was less than one percent point, and in which neither candidate got absolute majority in a system in which a second round of voting has not been instituted.

This rule was changed for the start of the 2009 season, making the site for any tiebreaker game to be determined by the winner of the regular season head-to-head record between the teams involved.

The winner of the annual football game between NMU and Michigan Tech is awarded the Miner's Cup.

Each player's objective is generally to have as many disks one's own color at the end as possible and for one's opponent to have as few — or, technically in consideration of the occasional game in which not all disks are placed, that the difference between the two should be as large as possible if the winner and as small as possible if the loser.

Since 1988, the Millennium Trophy has been awarded to the winner of the game between England and Ireland.

The first World Series game was a highly anticipated matchup between 2-time National League Cy Young Award winner ( 2008, 2009 ) Tim Lincecum, against the 2008 American League Cy Young award winner and heretofore undefeated in postseason play Cliff Lee.

Service alternates between opponents every two points ( regardless of winner of the rally ) until the end of the game, unless both players score 10 points or the expedite system is operated, when the sequences of serving and receiving stay the same but each player serves for only 1 point in turn.

If a piece is placed that creates a connection between both players ' goal edges ( i. e. all edges are connected ), the winner is the player who placed the final piece.

Foot racing competitions evolved from wagers between aristocrats, who pitted their footman against that of another aristocrat in order to determine a winner.

The 11-time German champion and 12-time German cup winner won a remarkable nine back-to-back doubles between 1994 and 2002.

In 1998, after Rafter defeated Sampras in the Cincinnati Masters final, Sampras, at the time winner of 11 Grand Slams, when asked about the difference between himself and Rafter, famously stated " Ten grand slams ", that a controversial line-call cost him the match, and that a player had to come back and win another Grand Slam title in order to be considered great.

Subsequently the Polish winner of the 1905 Nobel Prize in literature, Henryk Sienkiewicz, wrote several immensely popular novels set in conflicts between the Poles and predatory Teutonic Knights, rebelling Cossacks and invading Swedes.

1 Esdras 3-4 tells the story of a speech-writing competition between three bodyguards of Darius I, in which the winner would receive honor and riches from the King.

For the top-flight Argentine Primera División, there is no playoff between the Apertura and Clausura winner.

There is no playoff between the Apertura and Clausura winner.

The Dakota Marker is the trophy awarded to the winner of the annual college football game played between the South Dakota State University ( SDSU ) Jackrabbits and the North Dakota State University ( NDSU ) Bison.

Some fragments of this work mention a birth of Ophioneus and a battle of the gods between Cronus ( not Chronos ) on one side and Ophioneus and his children on the other in which an agreement is made that whoever pushes the other side into Ogenos will lose and the winner will hold heaven.

* Paavo Nurmi, Finnish, Regarded as the greatest track and field athlete of all time and winner of nine Olympic gold medals ( despite missing 1932 games in a professional controversy over travel expenses ), setting world records at distances between 1500 m and 20 km, and one of the Flying Finns

This belt was created as an honorary championship exclusively to award the winner of a historic fight between two high-profile boxers.