Sentences with phrase «dollar prize»

20 of the best teams in the world will compete against one another for the lion's share of the multi-million dollar prize pool.

The prize money for the winner increased slightly in 2016, but in dollars the prize ended up being about $ 300,000 less than in 2015.

I'm imagining that there was a big state fair where there was a million dollar prize at stake and the winning dish was a creamy baked spaghetti.

The Dota 2 esports scene is thriving, particularly in the West where the yearly International world finals gathers a multi-million dollar prize pool.

The film is about an elderly man venturing from Montana to Nebraska in order to claim a million dollar prize with his son.

All those people can be convicted rapists and domestic abuser, but they can't be million dollar prize fighters with Olympic Medals.

The likes of League Of Legends and DOTA 2 are already attracting huge audiences to their live events, easily selling out large sports stadiums; most recently witnessed in the UK as 12,000 spectators piled into the Wembley SSE Arena to watch League Of Legend pros compete for a $ 1 million dollar prize pool in the annual Riot run championships.

The lure of multimillion - dollar prizes prompts inventors to pursue breakthroughs in space travel, DNA sequencing, automotive fuel efficiency, and robotics

Venter: This prize started out as a half million dollar prize out of the Venter Institute, in part after I sequenced the first version of the human genome.

Stopple said Zhang's next goal is to solve the Landau - Siegel Theorem, an important piece of a larger and more difficult problem called the Riemann Hypothesis, a 150 year - old mathematical conjecture with a one million dollar prize attached to it.

Bringing all of this excitement to you is the combined forces of Activision, Sledgehammer Games, Xbox, and MLG who will call together 32 of the world's best Call of Duty players for a chance to compete for their share of a million dollar prize purse.

Halo 5 is looking to be the biggest Halo yet, with a non-linear campaign, a huge million dollar prize arena championship, incredibly rich and interwoven lore, the all - new Warzone game mode, and a great injection of new talent (chiefly in the cast of Fireteam Osiris).

X Prize Foundation's Francis Béland announced at the TEDxOilSpill conference yesterday that the company is creating a multimillion - dollar prize for anyone who can propose a solution for the BP oil spill.

The players that were drafted into the league will earn salaries of over $ 30,000, housing, gaming products, and other amenities as well as a chance to earn more money from a $ 1 million dollar prize pool that will spread out across multiple tournaments during the season.

So my German Chocolate Doughnut recipe didn't win the Million Dollar prize but I do have my recipe published in this fabulous little book.

Chances are, you or someone you know is already a pro in Dota 2, a game that attracts multi-million dollar prizes and tournaments.

Under the Monopoly game concept and rules, weekly jackpots can roll as high as $ 25 million, and when one is hit, that triggers 10 or more additional million - dollar prizes.

The Nov. 7 jackpot was $ 21 million, and it triggered 14 million - dollar prizes in various states (none in Indiana).

To cover the jackpot and million - dollar prizes, the states needed to sell about $ 26 million in tickets, Nettles said.

Mark and Cindy Hill of Dearborn, Mo., somehow survived the sort of catatonic shock that can only come from the realization that you — yes, you — have landed the one - in -175-million chance of winning the record Powerball and have come forward to claim their chunk of the $ 587.5 - million - dollar prize.

He's begun a competition, where three of the seven regions will split a $ 1.5 billion dollar prize.

While celluloid would prove a wonderful substitute for ivory, Hyatt apparently never collected the ten - thousand - dollar prize.

On the line are a million - dollar prize, a host of scientific breakthroughs and the secure cryptographic systems used for everything from e-mail to banking.

The solutions each carry a million - dollar prize.

«The contest model, I think, is superficially attractive, but if you said, «We're going to put up a billion - dollar prize for a cure for cancer» — I mean, people who are knowledgeable about cancer research would say that's ridiculous,» Greenberg says.

Similarly, the Electronic Sports League, which holds massive gaming tournaments with million dollar prize pools, has started randomly testing players for so - called «smart drugs» that may give e-athletes an edge over their non-doping opponents.

As a buffet of quirky contestants prepare for the renowned Van Rookle Farms Cooking Contest, the heat is on to win a one million - dollar prize.

Despite David's insistence that he keeps the news of his million - dollar prize to himself (trying to protect his old man from ridicule), Woody starts talking about it rather quickly.

It tells him that if Woody presents the letter to the company headquarters in Lincoln, Nebraska, he'll claim a million - dollar prize.

Convinced he has won a million dollar prize, Woody's intent on claiming his winnings in Nebraska even if that means walking the entire eight hundred mile trip on foot.

Woody Grant's triumphant joy ride in «Nebraska»: Alexander Payne's drama followed an aging father (Bruce Dern) and his son (Will Forte) road tripping through the midwest to claim a million dollar prize that doesn't exist.

Beyond the hoopla and big - dollar prizes, the XQ project had other features not common to recent philanthropic efforts.

In teams of two, they will race across the globe - from Egypt to Japan, from Sweden to England - to battle for a million - dollar prize.

If you're lucky enough to hit the jackpot, or even take home one of the million dollar prizes, the most important thing to do is to not make any decisions right away.

Everyone wants to win Lotto Max's multi-million dollar prize.

The game has even announced its own eSports tournament back in February, which has a 75,000 dollar prize pool and has its live finals August 6 and 7 in Los Angeles.

Hi - Rez Studios, the developer of the action MOBA SMITE has announced the SMITE World Championships broke the 2 million dollar prize pool, with the total pool current sitting at over 2.5 million dollars.

World League is an eSports league, in combination with Activision that has a 3 million dollar prize pool.

The team of 5 took home their share of a 6.7 million dollar prize pool, and with the viewership speeding to terminal velocity, traditional sports executives are understandably picking up the phone.

Big names still get the million - dollar prizes, but lesser - known artists are starting to come to the forefront, such as Nissky and Viktor Tsvetkov, whose painting The Finish recently fetched $ 83,000 at Sotheby's London.

This familiar image was exhibited publicly for the first time at the Art Institute of Chicago, winning a three - hundred - dollar prize and instant fame for Grant Wood.

The fifteen thousand dollar prize is awarded to three artists each year to support their work and future achievements.