Sentences with phrase «into tournament play»

«If it were up to me, I would love to get a couple games under my belt before hopping into tournament play,» he said.

Not exact matches

(He continued to play tournament chess into his thirties and still plays «blitz chess» — five - minute games — over the Internet.)

Oh man... Officially, it was a musical play designed to raise money for the debate team, I guess to pay for our top teams to go to state tournaments and such, which they often did, Pacilio having honed the team into one of the very best in California.

While the top two teams in each pool advance and the third - place team earns an automatic qualification for the next WBC, the last - place team in each pool is dismissed entirely, and has to earn their way into the next main tournament through a qualifying round played the year before.

The Spartans (26 - 7), who won their fifth straight game, will play Monday against the No. 2 seed East Tennessee for the tournament title and an automatic berth into the NCAA Ttournament title and an automatic berth into the NCAA TournamentTournament.

The season starts in June and goes through August and entails summer tournament play «'' roughly two per month «'' with possible play into late fall.

The spot carries direct entry into group play into next season's Europa League should Wenger's team falter in the second - tier tournament this term, while seventh sends a side into the second qualifying round.

But if the team carries its strong late - season play into the NCAA Tournament, that could change.

They've now played 19 innings of baseball, managed all of one run, and are in danger of not even qualifying for the 2021 World Baseball Classic — the team that finishes last in each pool is entered into the qualifying tournament that will take place in 2020.

You saw the shot he hit to get them into the NCAA Tournament and again the way they play with the 4 guards and the spread and the quickness and their point guard did a heck of a job.

yes it was enjoyable — OT marked his baptism as an arsenal artillery man — fortunately for us he's coming into his prime and playing international tournaments will increase his self belief, i really hope yesterdays goals don't prove as just a flash in the pan.

He's had to work his way into the team and in my conversations with him it has been pretty obvious he would like to play in this tournament,» Hodgson continued.

«and the way and style they play is different so it will be an experience for all of us and one that we can learn from going into the tournament.»

The NIT, with 14 places to fill, took its time, operating on the theory that teams ought to play their way into the tournament.

John Calipari will have to groom these kids into playing smart basketball like Kentucky did during the tournament.

Katie Peterson, another nonexempt LPGA member, wanted to play the Futures this year, but couldn't get into tournaments.

He has lost in two play - offs in his last three tournaments ««including that heart - breaking missed putt against Rickie Fowler at Sawgrass — but that should fill him with plenty of confidence heading into the Wells Fargo event.

Kentucky heads into the 2012 SEC Tournament as the prohibitive favorites, having gone undefeated in league play, riding a 22 - game winning streak and holding a 30 - 1 overall record.

He made one final in that first year and rose to the rank of No. 89, but the next year, when he lost in the first round of a tournament in Washington, D.C., he ran into a nearby park and tearfully gave his rackets to two old men playing checkers, vowing to quit.

But we can't go into that tournament thinking it's anything different than what we've been playing.

The first Olympic tournament played by pros that could be seen by Americans who weren't insomniacs or night watchmen might prove to be a watershed moment for the sport — and for North America — which prompted Owen Nolan to bolt the Team Canada bench with four minutes to go, race into the dressing room and grab his video camera.

Playing deep into the NCAA Tournament is excruciatingly glorious.

The 21 - year - old striker has scored 29 Premier League goals in a phenomenal Premier League season and won his first two senior caps for the Three Lions, scoring 80 seconds into his debut against Lithuania, though Roy Hodgson recently said he would play at the youth tournament.

The 1963 NCAA title game between Loyola of Chicago and Cincinnati was surely one of the most memorable in tournament history: It was the last title game to be decided in overtime; the last one before UCLA began its intimidating reign of 10 championships, including seven in a row, over the next 12 years; the first one to be played under a lucrative new six - year television contract that launched college basketball into the big - money era; and, most significantly, the first in which the majority of players on both sides were black — or, as most of the nation was still saying back in March of 1963, Negro.

What started from humble beginnings, as an opportunity to get pre-season playing time for lots of young high school rugby squads, has blossomed into the largest Youth and High School Rugby Tournament in the United States (and likely the entire Western Hemisphere!).

Starting February 27th, Maryland plays Purdue - Illinois - Indiana, followed by the B1G tournament, there's really no time there to get Wiley back into the rotation in the role that was envisioned for him at the start of the season.

The 32 competitors will be divided into four brackets of eight (based on official rankings) and they'll compete in a double - elimination match play tournament, with 16 players advancing to the Final 16.

«At the moment he's playing like a golfer that has tripled bogeyed the first hole and needs to birdie the next seven holes to get back into the tournament ASAP.»

While it's clear England are not short of potential successors to Hart going into next summer, it's important to remember that the West Ham keeper's tournament experience must surely play a part.

In college, I played on two NCAA championship water polo teams, and into adulthood and middle age I've competed in basketball tournaments, triathlons, running events, and open water swims.

Now, as the Senate Republican Majority's deputy leader, he'll still be dealing with double madness as his No. 10 seed Orange play No. 7 seed Dayton in the NCAA Tournament Friday and budget negotiations head into their final two weeks.

Using Super Street Fighter II's tournament mode, players with multiple Switch units can put them into tabletop mode and play a form of musical chairs by physically moving to the right unit for the next fight.

Unlike the Naruto: Ultimate Ninja Storm series which is more and more a mess of technical, balance and gameplay issues these days, Brave Soldiers delivers what is a nice, franchise - based fighting game, at first, i was expecting a simple fighting game with some button mashing, however, the game proved me wrong and i fell in love, the combo system, while easy, is a lot more deep than the one in the Naruto games, with all of the characters having two special attacks, two «burst attacks», a knock - away and a launcher respectively, a throw and an ultimate attack (called a «Big Bang Attack»), every character also has an universal dodge - action that sends them behind their enemies while spending one cosmo bar, making bar management that much precious and shielding you from a half - a-hour combo, unlike in the NUNS series, the fighting and the characters are nicely balanced, with every character being fun to play and viable at the same time, the game runs smoothly without frame - rate issues and the cell - shaded graphics, character models, arenas and effects alike are nice to the eye, battles are divided into rounds, with all the tiny nice stuff like character introductions and outros being intact (fun fact: the characters will even comment on their score after the battle), the game also features an awakening system, called the «Seventh Sense» awakening, unlike the NUNS awakening system which became severely unbalanced in the later game, every character simply gains a damage / defense boost, with the conditions being the same for all characters, eliminating situations when one character can use awakening at almost any point in the battle, or one awakening being drastically stronger than the other, the game has a story mode with three story arcs used to unlock characters, a collection mode, tournament modes, a survival mode, a series of special versus modes and online battle modes.

Basically this year our pal Harry's been entered into the Triwizard Tournament, where basically Hogwarts plays the host of the event.

Konami could also tap into interest surrounding the World Cup soccer tournament to hype this fall's Pro Evolution Soccer 2011, or play up its downloadable efforts like the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 revamp Rush»N Attack Ex-Patriot.

There are plenty of esports tournaments on this weekend, but one Overwatch pro is taking his viewers on a trip through a tournament from his perspective — a rare insight into the thoughts and play of competitive Overwatch players.

At first, it seems like it might be a very non-Harry-centric story until somehow Harry's name gets submitted as an entry despite the strict age limits, turning the Triwizard Tournament (with wizards played by Robert Pattinson, Stanislav Ianevski, Clemence Poesy) into a Tetrowizard Tournament.

Heath Ledger plays a charming hero, a lowly squire, who falsifies documents granting him a noble title, getting him into a jousting tournament.

It doesn't stop there though, Unreal Tournament III will be free to play for the weekend on Steam, so if you didn't like it at launch then maybe the new content and improvements will draw you back into it.

- after the remakes of Terry's Wonderland 3D and Dragon Quest Monsters 2, Yuji Horii asked the team what should be next - the choices were Caravan Heart (GBA), a professional version of Dragon Quest Monsters 2, or a brand new game - the staff made the plot together with Takeshi Uchikawa (who is currently directing Dragon Quest XI)- the suggestion was to make the theme become something catchy, which lead to a science fiction vibe - Horii said «anything's alright as long as it's interesting» - the creation of the Dragon Quest Monsters: Super Light helped build Joker 3 - fan feedback from the mobile game was used, which lead to monster stats being seen - the Reactor device lets you easily see all the things that occur on the field - the team had some trouble bringing together the ridable monsters aspect of the game, but eventually worked it out - the full game starts off with monsters that players can ride on land - you'll eventually unlock sea, air, and multi-jump land rising monsters - a «Big Air ride» was teased as well - by clearing the story, features will be unlocked that further modify monsters such as abilities and changing their sizes - Stealth Boxes which can not be found without using the Reactor only contains useful items that are optional - compulsory items that are needed to be found with the Reactor are placed in non-stealth locations - accessories can strengthen monsters, but monster strength is mainly determined from raising and combining them - features more offense - related content in the form of new spells and skills - new water - type spells are included - new skills added enable more detailed adjustments in versus, adding more strategic features - one of the items that can be bought with Communication Coins has the same effect with «Key of Encounters» - this lets players recruit monsters a bit more easily they've befriended before - since Communication Coins can only be obtained from multiplayer battles, it's completely optional - people who still do StreetPass but don't want to do multiplayer battles can still get them by combining monsters - DLC monsters are planned to be added regularly post-release until around Golden Week (April 29 — May 5)- - A national tournament is also planned, with more details coming later - carryover feature from Dragon Quest Monsters 2 that comes into play after the ending - players can bring up to 10 monsters which are ranked A or below from DQM2 to DQMJ3 each day

The former even helps to ease veteran players into the 200cc scene, which in and of itself gives Mario Kart a way to really attract more core racing fans, who can host their own online tournaments without items to focus on more competitive play.

Unlike the previous story in Gundam Breaker 2 where you played part in a computer simulation, Gundam Breaker 3's story appears to borrow a bit from Gundam Build Fighters where your team will take part in local battles that eventually culminate into your participation in the national Gundam Battle tournament.

There's 2015's criminally features - sparse Ultra Smash on the Wii U, which plays brilliantly but gives the player so little to dig their teeth into (there's not even an offline tournament mode; you can only play exhibition matches against the AI).

Join our amazing community on discord and type your steam user name into #tournament - check - in at least 30 minutes before the tournament starts., so our admins know who is there and ready to play.

There's the lumbering rocket jumping character, an assassin with a grappling hook, a soldier with a sprint that basically turns him into an Unreal Tournament character for a few seconds, a chunky robot with a heavy charge dash and a powerful shotgun, and a bunch more I've yet to play with.

When a game like Titanfall crashes down from the sky right into our hearts, with its faced pace moving, bringing us back to great games such as Unreal Tournament and Quake, and of course with its huge mechanical robots which we get to play.

There's obviously an Ashes mode will allows you to play through the entire tournament as either male or female teams and it's exciting and fun to get stuck into.

While Andrew goes into the tournament confident and willing to lay his strategies on the line, other competitors are playing it a little closer to the chest.

The campaign is split into two portions: «The One,» the new campaign mode, allows you to play 5 - on - 5 basketball in real world courts, whereas the other campaign, «The League,» involves playing in NBA tournaments.

He almost always plays well in majors, never loses a lead going into the final round, and wins more than one - fourth of every tournament he enters.