The winners of these semifinals qualify for the final at Stade de France, where the winner will be champions of the league and receive the Bouclier de Brennus.

The following week, Henin reached the semifinals of the Bausch & Lomb Championships in Amelia Island, Florida, losing to eventual winner Elena Dementieva 3 – 6, 6 – 4, 7 – 5.

Yet again, he reached the semifinals of the 2000 FIDE World Championship before losing to eventual winner Anand.

At Roland Garros the Australian captured the title by beating Gonzales in the final, 2 – 6, 6 – 4, 6 – 3, 8 – 6, and at Wembley he defeated Hoad in the final, Gonzales's winner in the semifinals.

He reached the semifinals of the U. S. Open, was finalist to Laver at the Pacific Southwest Open, defeating the new U. S. Open winner, Arthur Ashe, 6 – 3 6 – 2 and in November captured the Wembley pro tournament over WCT player, John Newcombe.

These teams compete in single-elimination quarterfinals, semifinals, and finals, judged by progressively larger panels of judges, and a tournament winner is crowned.

However, in the semifinals Morgan was defeated by the eventual winner of the entire tournament, D ' Angelo Dinero.

The winners of the L Bracket semifinals proceed to the L Bracket finals, with the winner of that game being the Losers ' Bracket champion.

The season-ending playoffs have one feature distinguishing them from rugby playoffs in most other countries — the semifinals are two-legged, with the winner determined by aggregate score.

He defeated Osamu Nishimura in the quarterfinals before he ended up losing to the eventual winner Shane Douglas in the semifinals.

Wolyniec came into his own during his second stint with the team, scoring a number of key goals, including two overtime game-winners and a late winner in the U. S. Open Cup semifinals against D. C. United.

In this case, the teams compete in either flights, in which the winner is final, or a series of heats and semifinals before the winners move on to the finals.

The winner turned out to be Genichiro Tenryu ; Kiniski left thereafter, and in 2001 the permanent PWF president was announced as Stan Hansen, who had competed in the tournament and lost to Tenryu in the semifinals.

The winners from the interdivision semifinals define the first of the two promotions while the losers compete in another best-of-five series where the winner faces the TNA Finals loser in a five-game series for the second promotion to the Liga A.

After defeating Atlantis in the semifinals, Aguayo faced the previous year's winner, Felino, for the trophy.

Stosur thrashed fifth seed Li Na 6 – 1, 6 – 0 in her final round robin match to advance to the semifinals for the second straight year, where she met maroon group winner, Petra Kvitova for a spot in the final.

In the semifinals, the 1st place team played the 4th / 5th winner, while 2nd place played 3rd place.

Hasbrouck Heights made the 2nd round in the North I Group I state playoffs in 2006, beating Pascack Hills High School 9-3 in the opening round then losing to ultimate winner Bogota High School 24-17 in the semifinals.

In Major League Baseball, the National League Championship Series ( NLCS ) is a round in the postseason that determines who wins the National League pennant and advances to Major League Baseball's championship, the World Series, facing the winner of the American League Championship Series.

In Major League Baseball, the American League Championship Series ( ALCS ), played in October, is a round in the postseason that determines the winner of the American League pennant.

The winner of the wild card has won the first round 7 out of the 11 years since the re-alignment and creation of the NLDS.

After this second round, if there is still no winner, during the regular season the game ends as a tie.

The Louisiana Creoles hold that the winner eats the eggs of the losers in each round.

Polgár made it to the third round of the knockout tournament until she was eliminated by tournament winner Boris Gelfand.

The judges determine a winner based on their scoring of each round.

At the 2006 French Open, Hewitt reached the fourth round, where he lost to defending champion and eventual winner Rafael Nadal in four sets.

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.

In poker, the showdown is a situation when, if more than one player remains after the last betting round, remaining players expose and compare their hands to determine the winner or winners.

Emil Constantinescu of the Democratic Convention ( CDR ) emerged as the winner of the second round of the 1996 presidential elections and replaced Iliescu as chief of state.

There was no winner in the first round of the presidential elections.

Result: After round two Nashville has an absolute majority and is the winner.

IRV often elects a different winner to the two round system and tends to produce the same results as the exhaustive ballot.

Because of these similarities the contingent vote tends to elect the same winner as the two round system, and often produces different results to instant-runoff voting.

When a Condorcet winner exists, he does not necessarily win a runoff election due to insufficient support in the first round.

Class winners and other qualifiers ( based on time differential against the class winner ) then compete in a handicapped elimination round called the " Challenge ".

In the event of a tie at the end of three rounds, a fourth " sudden death " overtime round, sometimes called " Golden Point ", will be held to determine the winner after a one minute rest period.

If there is no score in the additional round the winner shall be decided by superiority as determined by the refereeing officials.

Under the new rule if a competitor has a 12 point lead at the end of the second round or achieves a 12 point lead at any point in the 3rd round then the match is over and the athlete in the lead is declared the winner.

The winner is the player who has accumulated the most points at the end of the final round.

* June 19 – Boris Yeltsin emerges as the winner in Russia's first round of presidential elections.

Traditionally, all decathletes who finished the event do a round of honour together after the competition, rather than just the winner or medalling athletes.

The loser ( by majority rule ) of a pairing is eliminated, and the winner of a pairing survives to be paired in a later round against another alternative.