The winners of that round then advanced to the best-of-seven ALCS.

The branch winners are entered into 16 regional competitions which are then visited by several individuals who select the ones they like best.

Although its opponents would include winners of 9 of the last 15 NFL MVP awards, the team advanced to the 2010 NFC Championship game where they defeated the Minnesota Vikings, led by Brett Favre, 31 – 28 in overtime ( at 9: 19 CST ), and then went on to win their first Super Bowl appearance in franchise history.

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

If the Notrump hand rebids a major suit, it's an instant 4-4 fit and ability to trump club losers ( or, alternately, to sluff the other major on club winners and then to trump losers in the other major ).

The winners of the first round then play a best of five championship series.

The winners of these two games go to the conference championships, and the winners of those conference championship games then face each other in the Super Bowl.

The winners of each match are promoted and then play a final for the tier title.

The winners of each Division's Semifinal game then travel to play the first place teams in the Division Finals.

First came a 3 – 1 home win over eventual double winners Manchester United, then came a 1 – 0 away win over relegated Bolton Wanderers.

Since then, domestic cup winners who do not otherwise qualify for the Champions League are given a place in the UEFA Europa League, formerly known as the UEFA Cup before 2009.

However, in 1968, the Federal Communications Commission claimed the show “ misled the public as to how the winners were determined ” ( winners were determined by lobby ; if winners did not attend the event then another name would be chosen ) and admonished NBC for participating in the scandal.

The first draws are made in August, then the competition runs as two parallel north and south area competitions, before the two winners meet in late March or early April in the final at England's national stadium, Wembley.

He then ran the from the battlefield near Marathon to Athens to announce the Greek victory over Persia in the Battle of Marathon ( 490 BC ) with the word νικωμεν ’ ( nikomen –" We have won "), as stated by Lucian " chairete, nikomen " (" hail, we are the winners ") to then collapse and die.

The engines powered another seven winners until 1938 ( two of them, 1930 and 1932, in Miller chassis ), then ran at first with stock-type motors before later being adjusted to the international 3. 0 liter formula.

The top two team from each group then advance to the Semi Finals where the winners then advance to the finals.

The top two team from each group then advance to the Semi Finals where the winners then advance to the finals.

The top two team from each group then advance to the Semi Finals where the winners then advance to the finals.

The two division winners within each league played each other in a best-of-five series to determine who would advance to the World Series.

The winners of that round advance to the best-of-seven NLCS.

The winners of each division played each other in a best-of-five series to determine who would advance to the World Series.

The divisional winners met in a best-of-5 series to advance to the World Series, in a " 2 – 3 " format, first two games were played at the home of the team who did not have home field advantage.

The top four teams from the " Super 8 " round advance to the semi-finals, and the winners of the semi-finals play in the final.

Advancing to the playoffs as winners of the second half, Houston beat Los Angeles in their first two playoff games at home, but the Dodgers took the next three in Los Angeles to advance to the NLCS.

The Buffalo and Rochester metropolitan areas each played a championship game, the winners of which would advance to the " New York Pro Championship " on Thanksgiving weekend.

The semifinal winners advance to their respective cup final, hosted by the higher surviving seed.

The winners of both the Dublin and Laurens County pageants advance to the state pageant.

The United States did not advance out of the group however were the only team to face eventual winners Italy without losing.

Then at the Amsterdam 1964 Interzonal, Bronstein scored very well, but only three Soviets could advance, by a FIDE rule, and he finished behind countrymen Smyslov, Mikhail Tal, and Boris Spassky, who finished as the joint winners, along with Larsen.

The top two teams, as well as the top two all-around competitors not from an advancing team, at each regional receive a berth in the NCAA Championships, In addition, individual event winners who did not already qualify with their team or as an all-arounder will advance.

Sweden managed to advance as group winners ahead of the eventual champions Denmark.

" The division winners ( the first three seeds ) would then receive a bye to automatically advance to the Divisional Playoffs, which became the second round of the playoffs.

Again, only the top two division winners in each conference would automatically advance to the Divisional Playoffs, while everybody else had to play in the Wild Card round.

In some larger states such as Pennsylvania, New York, Florida and California, the district winners advance to one of many sectional tournaments.

The winners of each sectional tournament then advance to a state or divisional tournament, the latter only being held in Texas and California and are similar to the state tournaments held in less densely populated states.

The winners of each pool would advance to single elimination US and International Championship games, and the winners of those games would advance to the World Championship game.

However, there is no doubting that many of the defenders of Rorke's Drift-and each of the 15 winners of the VC and the DCM-did indeed exhibit the attribute required in order to win those awards: that of conspicuous valour in the face of the enemy.

At the time, however, Tromsø IL was fighting in the bottom of the Northern Norwegian 2nd division ( Until 1979, the 2nd division was divided in three different groups, two southern and one northern – with the winners of the southern groups being promoted to the top division, while the winner of the northern group would have to face the 2nd placed teams of the two southern groups ), and was eventually relegated.

Two weeks after the Division Finals, the division winners face off for the Champion's Cup.

" The Superfight " began as a non-tournament match that would determine the first reigning UFC Champion for tournament winners to face ; it later evolved into a match that could feature either title matches or non-title matches.

In the 1992 – 1993 season, the European Cup was renamed the UEFA Champions League and the winners of this competition would face the winners of the European Cup Winners ' Cup in the UEFA Super Cup.

In the 2009 – 2010 season, the UEFA Cup was renamed the UEFA Europa League and the winners of this competition would face the winners of the UEFA Champions League in the UEFA Super Cup.

The winners of the conference cups do not face each other at the end of the season to determine the season ; instead all conference champions are league champions, with the Philippine Cup being the most prestigious conference of the season.

In its original form, the tournament had a flatter structure than most tournaments, with the top 32 players all coming in at the last 64 stage ( in other tournaments there are only 16 players left when the players ranked 17 – 32 come in, and then the 16 winners of those matches face the top 16 ).

The losers are eliminated, while the winners proceed to the second stage of the L Bracket – the L Bracket semifinals – to face the losers of the W Bracket semifinals.

The winners then face the top two seeds in the semi-finals, whose winners then meet in the final at Stade de France.

In the first two matches, the third-placed team will face the sixth-placed team and the fourth-placed team will face the fifth-placed team, with the two winners then playing off for the right to face the second-placed team.

Incheon were to face first stage winners Busan I ' Park in the semi-final, and they easily defeated the southern side by a 2 – 0 scoreline to set up a championship final against Ulsan Hyundai Horang-i.

No major prizes are offered, with winners receiving a dictionary, a home version of the game, and a special Countdown teapot depicting the show's clock face.

On the January 26 episode of Raw, Nowinski would interrupt a match between John Hennigan and Matt Cappotelli, the winners of the third season of Tough Enough, telling them to stop rubbing their victory in his face.

Traditionally, the winners of Atlantic University Sport would face one of the other three conference champions, with the other two meeting in the Churchill Bowl.

Then the 2 winners would face off in the championship match for an additional $ 20, 000 ($ 25, 000 total ).