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Tournament in sentence

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Young Ash and his buddies are invited by the pokemon Mewtwo to a tournament to fight other Pokemon.
But i killed you in first tournament - No, that was my brother, Sub-Zero.
PRINCETON – Last month, AlphaGo, a computer program specially designed to play the game Go, caused shockwaves among aficionados when it defeated Lee Sidol, one of the world’s top-ranked professional players, winning a five-game tournament by a score of 4-1.
Moreover, FIFA would have required that Soldier Field – home to the Chicago Bears football team – be taken out of use for two months prior to the tournament.
Football, Brexit, and UsCAMBRIDGE – Of the 24 teams that qualified for this year’s UEFA European Cup football (soccer) tournament, only one came from Germany.
He cannot control the referees or the performance of Russia’s national team, the Sbornaya, which is ranked 70th in the world – the lowest-seeded team in the tournament.
But he has far more control over how the tournament is covered, at least by Russian media.
Unfortunately, China’s local officials need to excel in the country’s “growth tournament” to get promoted.
The month-long soccer tournament in Russia offered an enchanted respite from a tumultuous world and revealed the better angels of our nature.
In the counter-reality of the tournament, a mood of self-confidence, altruism, and openness to the “other” prevailed.
In stark contrast to the “real world,” the two leading powers, the United States and China, played no role in the tournament.
Russia is hardly an exponent of soft power, yet it deserves credit for the absence of violence during the tournament.
Usually a soccer powerhouse, the German team was eliminated in the first round of this year’s tournament, just as its politics were entering a deeper malaise.
This is certainly true for Argentina and Uruguay; in the case of Brazil (which has won the tournament more often than any other country), it is, if anything, an understatement.
Brazil’s highly organized anti-World Cup protesters want to divert some of the vast sums spent on the tournament into social programs.
For today’s activists, the choice may not be whether to support or oppose the tournament, but how to use it to further their ends.
Second-tier chess players who are good teachers often earn as much as top tournament players – or more.
The same is true of all games played at the final tournament, not only those among the top eight national teams.
Add to that the fact that Egypt had not qualified for a World Cup final since 1990, and expectations ended up far exceeding what the team could realistically achieve in the tournament.
This will lead to a further escalation of Western sanctions: restrictions on gas exports, general export restrictions, suspension from the World Trade Organization, withdrawal of the FIFA 2018 World Cup soccer tournament, and so on.
Staging the next World Cup in Brazil, as well as the Olympic Games in 2016, even though the football tournament alone will cost up to $13 billion, seems a logical move.
But it is the government’s performance in the European Union’s rotating presidency, not the Azzurri’s performance in the soccer tournament, that matters most.
Following the 2013 riots over the amount of money being spent on the 2014 soccer World Cup, protests continued up to, and even during, the tournament in June.
Football Versus FreedomNEW YORK – Last year, Brazilian authorities were taken by surprise when a wave of protests erupted during the Confederations Cup soccer tournament, a sort of warm-up to this year’s main event, the World Cup, which will be staged in 12 cities across the country beginning in June.
Not surprisingly, soccer’s international governing body, FIFA, and the World Cup’s corporate sponsors are worried – so worried that they and Brazilian government officials are planning carefully for protests during the month-long tournament.
Although we don’t exchange blows like men, we are just as passionate, especially since the world’s most famous tournament is being played on our continent.
After the 2010 World Cup in South Africa – a country where peace has taken root – and before the 2014 tournament in Brazil, it will be time to select the host for 2018.
In fact, Europe’s recent soccer experience – specifically, in the EURO 2012 tournament and this year’s World Cup – provides insight into how to revive Europe’s economy and address its deeper identity problem.
Reviving Europe’s UniversitiesCOPENHAGEN -- Writing at home sometime ago, with Wimbledon on TV in the background, it occurred to me that just as Britain hosts the world’s top tennis tournament but never wins it, so we Europeans are in a similar situation with education.
Nor was it a fluke: Egypt is consistently the most successful national team in the Africa Cup tournament, winning it five times previously.
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