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One or more competitions held at a single venue and concentrated into a relatively short time interval. A competition involving a number of matches, each involving a subset of the competitors, with the overall tournament winner determined based on the combined results of these individual matches.
A tournament, or tourney (from Old French torneiement, tornei ), was a chivalrous competition or mock fight that was common in the Middle Ages and Renaissance (12th to 16th centuries), and is a type of hastilude. Tournaments included mêlée, hand-to-hand combat, contests of strength or accuracy, and sometimes jousts.
informal for a tournament : She has become the first woman this year to win six tourney titles. He limited his schedule to a maximum of 16 tourneys a year. Fewer examples. It is the 13th year for the premier charity golf tourney that raises funds for cancer research.
a competition for teams or single players in which a series of games is played, and the winners of each game play against each other until only one winner is left: a tennis / chess / golf tournament
Noun. When compared to the 2016 Copa, which saw the U.S. bow to Argentina 4-0 in the semifinals, Fox’s deliveries for this year’s tourney were up 44%, versus an average draw of 987,000 viewers per match.
May 7, 2018 · The tournament - a battle between two groups of mounted knights. Often called a mêlée, hastilude, tourney or tournoi. The joust - a one on one duel between mounted knights using wooden lances.
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noun. /ˈtʊəni/ /ˈtʊrni/ (North American English) (also more frequent tournament British and North American English) a sports competition involving a number of teams or players who take part in different games and must leave the competition if they lose. The competition continues until there is only the winner left.
