Sentences with phrase «hard fought series»

This series should be a hard fought series, and one which will guarantee an American - born captain will raise the Stanley Cup for only the second time in history.

Not exact matches

People need to see that the Hate Monger's stereotype is not true and it is a hard pill for many to swallow to think that Muslims fight to defend this country as well like US Government Agent in the series.

In a series of hard - fought scrimmages that are beautifully brainless if not heroic, the grunting, tussling, spluttering tangle of arms and legs scrambles for possession of a 3 1/2 - pound, cork - filled leather ball.

Sixers win a hard fought six or seven game series over the Wiz, due in large part to home court advantage.

Team Simon defeated previous # 1 Team Greco in one of the hardest fought, nail - biting, physical games to ever be played in an All Sports Series regular season game.

Like I said above, that game was as physical and as hard fought as you will see on the All Sports Series court.

If you're going to drop a 3 - game series, that's about the best way to do it — get gut - punched in the first game, fight hard but still lose the second, and then pull off a come - from - behind, big win in the third.

Millwall Lionesses will look to build on their hard - fought 2 - 1 win over Everton, their first of the FA WSL Spring Series, when they travel to London Bees on Saturday.

SPAL fought hard, we compliment them, and we were coming off a series of wins.

This series is going to be hard fought and well coached.

INWOOD — State Sen. Adriano Espaillat defeated his longtime rival Assembly Guillermo Linares Uptown Thursday night — in one of a series of hard - fought primary battles that in other parts of the city toppled scandal - scarred incumbents.

This game was my least favorite in the paper mario series, it is extremely hard to finish without a game guide, it doesn't communicate with the player enough, the boss battles require specific hidden thing stickers that if the player doesn't find or use in battle, they will not be able to finish the boss fight, the availability of stickers is good though, and the levels (most of them) are

In the series, a new half - hour comedy from Eastbound & Down's McBride and Jody Hill, Goggins plays Lee Russell, a bow tie - wearing, pattern - loving sycophant and one of two vice principals (the other being McBride's Neal Gamby) fighting hard to be named principal of a South Carolina high school after the current boss (Bill Murray) steps down.

Street Fighter is one of the most prominent fighting game series in the world, but it can be hard to track down competitive arcade scenes for some of the older games, like Street Fighter 3.

DRAGON BALL FighterZ Officially Joins the Evolution Championship Series Line - Up for 2018 DRAGON BALL FighterZ, one of the most highly anticipated fighting games to launch in recent memory will take its place amongst other serious, hard - hitting, tournament - worthy fighting games at this year's EVO 2018 Championship — running August... [Read More]

Gavin and Beretta Score Hard - Fought Second in Battle of the Brands LEXINGTON, Ohio, — Corvette Racing was up to the challenge in the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Challenge, the sixth round of the American Le Mans Series.

Chevrolet Team Aims for Sixth Straight GT1 Manufacturers» Title at Laguna Seca MONTEREY, Calif. — After nine hard - fought races that spanned the length and breadth of North America, it all comes down to this: four intense hours at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca that will decide the American Le Mans Series GT1 manufacturers, team and drivers championships.

MONTEREY, Calif. — After nine hard - fought races that spanned the length and breadth of North America, it all comes down to this: four intense hours at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca that will decide the American Le Mans Series GT1 manufacturers, team and drivers championships.

Gavin and Milner Score GT Victory on Streets of Long Beach; Magnussen and Garcia Finish Fourth in Battered Corvette LONG BEACH, Calif. — Corvette Racing drivers Tommy Milner and Oliver Gavin won a hard - fought battle in the streets of Long Beach today, claiming a GT class victory in the second round of the American Le Mans Series.

LEXINGTON, Ohio, — It was the dawn of a new day for Corvette Racing at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course as the next - generation Corvette C6.R finished second and fourth in the hard - fought GT2 category in the sixth round of the American Le Mans Series.

LEXINGTON, Ohio, August 8, 2009 — It was the dawn of a new day for Corvette Racing at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course as the next - generation Corvette C6.R finished second and fourth in the hard - fought GT2 category in the sixth round of the American Le Mans Series.

LONG BEACH, Calif. — Corvette Racing drivers Tommy Milner and Oliver Gavin won a hard - fought battle in the streets of Long Beach today, claiming a GT class victory in the second round of the American Le Mans Series.

The Audi A4 has been locked in an executive saloon battle royale against the BMW 3 Series and Mercedes C - Class since the 1990s, but the contest has never been harder fought than it is now.

LONG BEACH, Calif., April 14, 2012 — Corvette Racing drivers Tommy Milner and Oliver Gavin won a hard - fought battle in the streets of Long Beach today, claiming a GT class victory in the second round of the American Le Mans Series.

The Swiss catwalk will see the likes of the MiTo SBK Limited Edition 1.4 170 HP QV and the MiTo Superbike Special Series, two cars which celebrate the most prestigious and hardest fought championship, Superbike, the motorcycling event that Alfa Romeo models have taken part in since 2007 as Official Safety Cars.

There are four challenges in total — Rampage, where you try to defeat as many enemies as possible within a time limit, Arena, which is similar except the fight is purely against other officers, Bridge Melee, where you have to knock off as many enemies as you can without falling off yourself (harder than you might think), and Speed Run, where you have to run through a series of gates, defeating enemies as you go in order to get to the end as quickly as possible — very similar to the «Guan Yu's Escape» scenario.

Robin is easily one of the hardest characters to design for an action game since in the anime series, her limbs taking damage or a toll harms her and many of her fights have been focused on finding an opening for a Clutch due to how her vision effects her combat.

The series is hard and usually involves a lot of level grinding and screaming when you accidentally encounter a FOE — a boss - type monster that usually squashes you dead if you try to fight it when you first see it.

I have a hard time seeing Arms becoming Nintendo's next big IP, but it has a solid enough foundation to potentially grow into a midlevel series and a few memorable characters — like Twintelle, whose coiled fighting arms spring not from her shoulders but her pigtails — with potential to eventually receive cameos in other Nintendo franchises.

With some new control features and all of the gameplay options from the console version of the game it's hard to go wrong for fighting game fans or anyone who enjoys the Marvel vs. Capcom series.

I personally can't imagine anyone picking up this series for its plot, but with so many other fighting games focusing a bit more on storyline as of late it's hard not to warn people away.

MK 4 - 8 really tried too hard to make the MK franchise into a 3D fighting series and really lost the feeling of what the original games established.

New players to the series need not worry too much about the challenge, and those of us with many hours under our belts commanding squads can also look forward to harder fights.

Unless you've followed the series from much earlier on, I imagine most people will find it a bit hard to follow - even then I feel it's a bit overly complex for a 2D fighting game.

This is hard to fathom now when we are here to review Tekken 7 but having been there from the early beginnings all the way up to this release really goes to show how much this game series has grown from a querky fighting game into a powerful beast of a fighting game that deserves a place among the top fighting game series in the world.

It's only been a week after Compile Heart's x Idea Factory's long awaited title, Neptunia vs SEGA Hard Girls, has been launched along SEGA's popular Shining Series fighting game and Blade Arcus EX and both games now rank in the top spots in Japan's all platform rank system.

The Survival mode takes things up a notch, with a series of 10, 30, 50 or 99 progressively harder fights to slog through.

With Guilty Gear developers Arc System Works at the helm and a 3v3 team mechanic that borrows heavily from Capcom's Marvel Vs Capcom series, FighterZ could easily have been an obtuse, rock - hard brawler only fighting game die - hards would enjoy.

In fighting games terms, Street Fighter has always been the most talked about franchise among die - hard fans, although we've always preferred the Mortal Kombat series.

On top of all that, players got to fight Artorias himself, which was easily one of the hardest bosses the series had ever delivered.

As a die - hard Tekken fan I always seem to compare other fighting games to that series, which isn't the best of ideas when writing a review but, much to my surprise, King of Fighters XIV compared pretty darn well to my old favourite.

These are two teams who just finished a hard - fought series, the results of which were one - sided, to say the least.

The litigation was hard - fought, but settled in 2009 following a series of round table meetings for a total of nearly # 1 million, with individual settlements of up to # 180,000.

Even though the Galaxy Note 7 turned out to be a disaster, Samsung hasn't given up plans of launching a new Note - series phone this year, and the company wants to make the phone stand out this year to win back customers and eclipse rivals in the hard - fought premium phone market.

Sure, he might not have the followings that series regulars like Ryu and Chun - Li have, but you'd be hard pressed to find even a casual fighting game fan who can't identify Blanka on sight.

The battle between Sony's PlayStation consoles and Microsoft's Xbox series is hard - fought, but right now we think the PS4 Pro has the edge over the Xbox One S, thanks to a combination of good hardware, great games, and a generous online offering.