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Loyola locked in the auto - bid with a 65 - 49 win over Illinois State in the conference tournament title game, setting the stage for one of the great Cinderella runs in March Madness history.

With the group stages of the 2014 FIFA World Cup now having drawn to a close, a number of the countries who were fancied for a tilt at the trophy have been knocked out of one of the most unpredictable tournaments in living memory.

Since being awarded the right to host the event, Qatar's tournament organisers have had to deal with a barrage of questions about the suitability of staging the World Cup in searing June and July temperatures, which can reach up to 50C.

The tournament starts with the 12 teams divided into three groups of four for the preliminary stage.

He arrived on the international stage with a display of pure skill and stone - cold bravado at the 2000 European Championships, the World Cup - like tournament played every four years between European national teams.

Following a dramatic and exciting last day of group games at Euro 2016, we all have a few days without football before the serious business of the knockout stage begins, so I thought it might be worth a look back over the tournament so far, with a firm eye on how the various Arsenal players have done so far.

The Germans were also the only team in the tournament to win all three of their games in the group stage with wins over Portugal (1 - 0), the Netherlands (2 - 1) and Denmark (2 - 1).

Defensively, it was heartening to see the forwards and midfielders chock - a-block with burning energy to drop back, defend, and help out their defenders, which was crucial to Arsenal progressing through to the group stages of the tournament.

Sanchez is currently away on international duty with Chile for the 2015 Copa America tournament on home soil and could miss the start of the season if his national team reach the latter stages.

So the Sunday stage belonged exclusively to a pair of underdogs who have minuscule Q ratings but were exceedingly easy to root for: Ted Purdy, who endured an eight - year exile on the Asian and Nationwide tours and finally last year, at age 30, earned a place on the PGA Tour, only to be haunted by a pair of tournaments that he let slip away; and 22 - year - old Sean O'Hair, whose boyish smile and gentle manner belie the brutal treatment he had to endure from a father obsessed with driving his son to success.

The Gunners have lost their first two games of the group stage this season, leaving them with a mountain to climb as they take on tournament favourites Bayern Munich next.

All good things must come to an end, though, and Spain's last two major tournaments have ended prematurely, with their golden generation of stars finally coming unstuck on the international stage.

On the other hand, England's back - to - back defeats in the group stage coupled with Italy's shock loss to Costa Rica on Friday saw them get knocked out of the world's biggest tournament.

McGinley will replace McIlroy as tournament host of the Irish Open next year, with Lahinch & Portmarnock Links in the running to stage the tournament.

Nigeria are due to face Lionel Messi and Argentina, but with Iran and Bosnia making up their group they have a great chance of making it to the knockout stages of the tournament.

France, who take on Romania, Albania and Switzerland in the group stage of Euro 2016, will undoubtedly miss the talents of Benzema, with the player himself said to be devastated at missing out on the tournament.

The 16 - year - old was named the Premier Cup's Most Valuable Player in 2015, with Manchester United failing to make the latter stages of the tournament, which is some achievement based on the talent that can be found playing in the tournament.

The straw arena was built from the ground up using some 4,500 bales of hay, with 300 fans flocking to the inaugural tournament staged between local football teams last weekend.

However, there is the genuine possibility of seeing another surprise finalist, with several who are still standing unlikely to have been a popular betting selection in the early stages of the tournament.

After being knocked out of the FA Cup by eventual semi-finalists Sheffield United at this stage last season, and having upset fans with comments about the «distraction» of the prestigious tournament, Lambert will be hoping to avoid another banana skin this afternoon when the Villans host the Tangerines.

To the disbelief of many, Russia exited the tournament, along with Poland, at the group stages.

He's still the Netherlands top World Cup scorer with seven World Cup goals, and three of those came in the final group stages (no knock out games in either tournament), against Argentina in 1974 and a brace against Austria in 1978

Giroud arrives with a wealth of experience and a proven pedigree at the highest level having scored goals regularly in the Premier League, in Europe and on the international stage, where he has represented France at three major tournaments.

Manchester United took Turkish side Fenerbahce in important Europa League game in the group stages of the tournament and it turned out to be another disaray United performance as they found themselves behind in just second minute with Moussa Sow scoring with incredible overhead kick to put Fenerbahce 1 - 0 in lead.

Last time Wales reached the quarterfinal stage of a major tournament was back in 1958 world cup where they lost to eventual winners Brazil with Pele scoring the only goal in the game.

Carvalho played all 90 minutes in the victory over Ghana and 45 minutes in the 2 - 2 draw with the USA as Portugal crashed out at the group stages of a major tournament for the first time since 2002.

Sure, the event isn't managing to attract some of the big players just yet, so there's no representative of Sony demonstrating a new exclusive or Activision showing off the latest Call of Duty, but there are some indie developers who want to let the public see their work, and up on stage there's a Street Fighter tournament raging while the other side of the room has Overwatch matches being played as a large crowd watches on with rapt attention.

From there the expo hall was directly in front of you with the side hallways reserved for panels, console free play rooms, tournaments, and even some Rock Band and Dance Central stages.

Online mode is split into two parts: For Fun mode throws you into an unranked free - for - all and team battles in which all items and stages are enabled, while the tournament - style For Glory mode consists of ranked showdowns with items and stage effects off.

With the wild card and group stage complete, the action will now move to teams having their tournament life on the line for real during main week of action, kicking off Monday August 8 at 10 AM PST and continuing all week leading to the grand finals on Saturday, August 13.

With all the hype and drama of the main stage games, it's easy to miss that EVO also has a ton of side tournaments dedicated other games.

With the stage set for The International 3 (August 7 to 11), the biggest Dota 2 (Defense of the Ancients 2) tournament...

As always, there are new fighters (like Pac - Man and Wii Fit Trainer) and stages (like Skyloft and Wily Castle), but this Smash aims to both update its suite of online modes and mend fences with those who prefer tournament - style play.

AniClash keeps on trucking with # 3 of our First 5 series of BlazBlue: Central Fiction tournaments taking place before the next stage of AniClash's Season 5 evolution begins!

High has experimented with transgenics in a number of multimedia, interspecies projects such as Embracing Animal (2004 - 2006), and she has staged competitions between human white blood cells through her ongoing Blood Wars tournaments.

Through the NASA Tournament Lab hosted on topcoder, the Challenge will kick - off on December 15 and last for three months, starting with an ideation stage for data - driven application pitches, followed by storyboarding and prototyping of concepts with the greatest potential.