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That means you'd make money if Nyquist finishes first or second.

Whether he finishes first tomorrow or 15th, I'm all in with him.

What's, say, on a horse's mind, when it finishes first in a race?

By definition, that means the candidate who finishes first can still lose the runoff.

It comes with a million dollar prize pool; the team that finishes first earns $400,2000.

And he sees a danger for Mr. Ossoff even if he finishes first on Tuesday.

Otherwise, this is just a show about how the worst guy in Washington always finishes first.

Whether he finishes first or second, Buttigieg will take solid momentum with him into the New Hampshire primary on Tuesday.

What matters is who wins the league or the cup, who finishes first, who breaks the record, who writes the history.

Named after Erwin "Cannonball" Baker, a record-setting cross-country driver, it had only one rule: The vehicle that finishes first wins.

"If a person finishes first, the next person can perform oral on the first or use a vibrator and/or fingers," she says.

Whoever finishes first and second in Iowa will command the bulk of media attention, he said, and reshape the narrative of the race.

Auston Matthews, Toronto Maple Leafs Why he can win it: There's a good chance he finishes first or second in rookie goals and points.

There's always something going on, and you know as soon as the race finishes, first is gold, second is silver and third is bronze.

With solid economic growth last year — including a torrid 5.2 percent state GDP increase in the fourth quarter — Texas finishes first in our Economy category this year.

But whoever finishes first among them — even if it's a distant third place overall — will be in good position heading into the more mainstream waters of New Hampshire.

But Mr Van der Bellen has said repeatedly that he would not appoint Mr Strache as chancellor, even if the FPÖ finishes first, because of its anti-European views.

You can order the same puzzle and complete it over a video call, race to see who finishes first, or frame the puzzle once completed as a reminder of each other.

Florida and Ohio, specifically, are big "winner-take-all" states that allot all their delegates to whomever finishes first statewide (as well as being home states to Rubio and Kasich, respectively).

Speed climbing involves two athletes climbing a fixed route to see who finishes first, while in lead climbing, athletes will try to climb as high as possible in a fixed time limit.

If Trump finishes first in the winner-take-all states of Ohio and Florida, he will be more than halfway to the 1,237 delegates he needs to lock up the GOP nomination.

But there's a good deal of variety in state rules, and the upshot is that some states actually end up sending a disproportionate amount of delegates to whoever finishes first and second.

That this week's matches feel like a box-checking exercise, a formality, is part of it; so, too, is the fact that it does not matter who finishes first and who finishes second.

That even if he finishes first in the delegate count (which appears quite likely at this point), if he's short of an outright majority, the non-Trump delegates could unite around someone else.

Noren is 633,436 adrift of his countryman but if he finishes first or second and Stenson is outside the top eight and Willet outside top two, then he can leapfrog them both in the standings.

If the billionaire businessman finishes first in those two states, which are awarding their delegates on a winner-take-all basis, he will be more than halfway to the 1,237 delegates he needs to become the Republican nominee for president.

Mercedes driver Hamilton, who can clinch his fourth title on Sunday if he finishes first or second and other results go his way, might also be giving the Jamaican a quick passenger ride in a road car earlier in the day.

However, the breakdown of opinion among the various candidates' supporters shifted in predictable ways: Still, it is worth noting that even when Trump is named, Cruz supporters aren't overwhelmingly thrilled by the idea of deposing him if he finishes first.

"I think that the real race here between South Carolina and Nevada is who consistently finishes first among the mainstream candidates and whether or not Cruz is actually able to overcome Donald Trump in one of these two places," O'Connell said.

If the duck with your number finishes first you win the $500 prize.

"New Juyuan High School finishes first semester." ( ) China.org.cn. February 4, 2010. Retrieved on May 17, 2013.

If the player finishes first in every race, more about the chosen character is revealed in a bonus ending.

Since Green moves first, 1 point is added to the total number of Red's moves if Green finishes first.

If a stage race starts with team time trial, the leader's jersey is given to a rider who finishes first of the winning team.

Aside from the point system, a player who finishes first wins a special prize. The last kid standing with the best of three showdown wins ₱50,000 and a chance to play for ₱1,000,000.

Ellen Van Dijk finishes first in Waregem. The eighth running of Dwars door Vlaanderen's women's race was held on Wednesday 3 April 2019. The race started in Tielt and finished in Waregem, covering a distance of 118 km.

From 1949 to 1969, Septemvri exists as an independent club, during which period it reaches the height of its success. In 1959, the club finishes first in the B PFG and is promoted to first division for the 1959–60 season.

Gordon Central has an outstanding fine arts program. The marching band (the Blue Wave Band) regularly finishes first at competitions. The Chorus Department is known for its award-winning history. The school participates in literary, one-act, and academic bowl competitions.

The team that finishes first would get qualification in the AFC Cup, but AFC denied entry of Pakistani football clubs in 2019 AFC Cup because of incomplete licensing regulations due to absence of footballing activity since the end of 2014-15 season.

If Gangbangdek finishes first, she will gift him all thousand dong of cloth. Mosi-gakssi, who weaves with her loom amid the clouds, finishes earlier by a few days. The Jade Emperor gives her all of the carpenter's pay. Gangbangdek is incensed and curses the palace.

The 2009 Claxton Shield finals series will have the top three teams after regular fixtures qualify. The team who finishes first will auto-qualify for the final where they will meet the winner of the 2nd vs 3rd. Both semi- finals and finals are best of three series.

The 2016–17 season was also the last for play-offs in the Championship for at least three seasons. Starting with the 2017–18 season, the play-offs will be replaced by automatic promotion for the team that finishes first in the home-and-away season, provided said team meets the Minimum Standards Criteria.

Teams are ranked by log points, then points difference (points scored less points conceded). The top two teams will qualify for the title play-offs. The team that finishes first will have home advantage against the team that finishes second. The team that wins the Varsity Shield will be promoted to the 2013 Varsity Cup.

As the competition begins, Kiat Kun notices that Beng Soon is also participating. Once the starting gun fires, Kiat Kun pushes himself to the limit and eventually establishes himself among the lead runners. Kiat Kun appears assured of third place, but unexpectedly trips over a stone and thus finishes first. Beng Soon ends the race in third place.

The Viking Marching Band was the Group VI New Jersey state champions in the four consecutive seasons from 2013 through 2016 and again in 2018.James, Davy. "SBHS Marching Band Dominates State Championships; South Brunswick High School finishes first in every category en route to 7th state title.", South Brunswick Patch, October 24, 2013. Accessed September 24, 2014.

Nilceu Santos finishes first in the 2008 Copa América de Ciclismo. The Copa América de Ciclismo is a single-day road bicycle racing event held in Brazil. From 2001 to 2007 and in 2009 it took place at Autódromo José Carlos Pace, in São Paulo. The 2008 edition was held in a street circuit around Flamengo Park, in Rio de Janeiro.

They arrive at a cemetery, and Little Dick falls into a large tomb. He then has a nightmare about him being led to a grand hall where an orgy session has been held, with Limpcock and Erotica being among the people attending. He later arrives at an olympics stadium where a race has been held. He unintentionally races, finishes first, and is rewarded.

Following the three rounds of cross pool matches, the six teams were seeded one through to six and played in three final play-offs to determine who finishes first to sixth. The final was contested between Fiji and Samoa, who had previously drawn 30–30 during the Cross-pool matches. Fiji won the final 39–29, scoring 6 tries to claim their second title.

The snowmobiles are lined up for the restart by their position in the race, with the drivers involved in the stoppage starting in the rear. The winner of the event is the rider who finishes first in the feature event. Events attract over 10,000 spectators. Typically, a snocross event uses the standard short-track motorsport standard of qualifying rounds, heat races, consolation final, and the feature.

Rutland initially told ORU he was not interested in the position, and would not even submit a resume, but was eventually persuaded to accept the post by ORU board chairman Mart Green.Bill Sherman, "ORU president finishes first year", Tulsa World, July 7, 2010. (This link also includes a video interview of Rutland.) According to an Associated Press report, Rutland would make a yearly salary of $275,000.

At no point do two teams for the same league play each other. Therefore, there is a total of four games each in the tournament played across two days. The winning team is the team who finishes first in the round-robin standings. They either have the best record of the four teams, or in the case of a tie, the best goal difference in their two match ups.

The Zone Premier League competition consists of ten teams, each of whom have a 1st-grade side, a Reserve grade side and a Third grade side. The regular season takes place over 18 rounds, with each team playing each other once at home and once away. The team that finishes first at the end of the 18 rounds is crowned Minor Premier. The top four teams contest the Finals Series.

In the first stage, the championship will be played in two rounds. In the first round nine clubs (excluding the teams participating in the 2013 Copa do Nordeste) play each other once. The team that finishes first gains a place in the 2014 Copa do Brasil. The second round will feature twelve clubs, with the inclusion of Santa Cruz Futebol Clube, Sport Club do Recife and Salgueiro Atlético Clube, who play each once.

However, Travis has since voiced regret for his past misdeeds. In 1975, while his brother was serving time in jail for a high-speed car chase, Randy won a talent contest at a nightclub, Country City USA, in Charlotte, North Carolina. The club's owner, Elizabeth "Lib" Hatcher, took an interest in the young singer, hired him as a cook, and gave him regular singing jobs at the club.Miller, H.G. (October 1988), "Randy Travis: nice guy finishes first".

Although the concept of a minor premiership exists in North America, and a separate award is often presented for the best record in the regular season, the term "minor premiership" is not used. The Presidents' Trophy is awarded by the National Hockey League to the team which finishes first in the standings at the end of the season, as are the Supporters' Shield in Major League Soccer and the NWSL Shield in the National Women's Soccer League.

The regular season runs between April to September each year and consists of 16 rounds with four matches played each round and one team sitting out a bye. Each team plays each other twice (home and away) and sits out two byes over the course of the season. The top four teams qualify for the finals series (finals). The team that finishes first in the league standings is crowned league premiers and, from 2020, will be promoted to NPL1.

The player begins each race with the character's primary weapon, secondary weapon, and a 100% full turbo gauge. In the "Championship" mode, the player does a two-lap race on the first planet, Yendas, and a one-lap race in two other planets. Which planet the next race takes place on depends mostly on whether or not the player finishes in first place. If the player finishes first in all three races, they will go to the planet Segal for an extra race.

The format for the Junior episodes, which is a first for the Minute to Win It franchise, follows different mechanics: two teams of two members complete five levels together within the 60-second time limit to earn points. Aside from the point system, the team who finishes first wins a special prize. At the end of the game, the team with the most points wins ₱75,000 as well as a chance to play in the ultimate challenge with the top prize of ₱500,000.

Collins-Hill Ferrari Wins 12-Hour Race at Sebring, The New York Times, 23 March 1958, Page S1. Allison came in fourth with his Lotus in the 1958 Grand Prix of Europe at Spa-Francorchamps, more than four minutes behind victor Tony Brooks.Brooks Vanwall Finishes First in Grand Prix Race in Belgium, The New York Times, 16 June 1958, Page 30. Allison and Dan Gurney shared one of three team Ferrari cars that competed in the June 1959 1000 km Nürburgring race.

The series will feature two teams from each the AIHL and the NZIHL each playing the others once with the winner being the team who finishes first in the round-robin standings. The two teams chosen from each league will be the 2011 regular season champions and the winner of the 2011 playoffs. In a situation where the winning of both events is the same the runner up of the playoff final will be selected to represent their respective league.

Teams are ranked by log points, then points difference (points scored less points conceded). The top four teams will qualify for the title play-offs. In the semi-finals, the team that finishes first will have home advantage against the team that finishes fourth, while the team that finishes second will have home advantage against the team that finishes third. The winners of these semi-finals will play each other in the final, at the home venue of the higher-placed team.

The nine division winners enter a tournament to determine the over-all Serie D champion and is awarded the Scudetto Dilettanti. Teams placed second through fifth in each division enter a playoff tournament after the regular season as well. Eventually, a final game determines which team finishes first and which teams comes in second in this 36-team playoff, and these teams may be bumped up to Lega Pro Seconda Divisione if one or more current Seconda Divisione teams runs into financial difficulties or is penalized.

During the race, Mater infiltrates the criminals' meeting, just as the camera is used on a few more cars, causing a multi-car pileup, while McQueen finishes first. Due to increased fears over Allinol's safety, Axlerod lifts the requirement to use it for the final race. However, when McQueen decides to continue using it, the criminals plot to kill McQueen in the next race in London. This spooks Mater, causing him to blow his cover and allow him, Finn, and Holley to be captured.

The contestants carry all the weight they had lost over a series of hills and discard one weeks worth at each hill based on the chart above. Daris finishes first in 15 minutes and though he is offered $10,000, he sells it for a 1-pound advantage. The contestants then go to a Wal-Mart with Bob to meet quarterback Tony Romo, where they go for a run. Before the last-chance workout, the contestants are shown highlight videos of their journeys during the show.

The team that finishes first will be promoted to Premiership Rugby providing their ground meets the RFU Minimum Standards Criteria. The team that finishes last will be relegated to National League 1. Each club will receive £530,000 in funding from the RFU in the last year of a deal with the RFU. Plans to expand Premiership Rugby from 12 to 13 teams for the 2019-20 season, which would have reprieved Newcastle Falcons from being relegated to the Championship, were blocked by the RFU.

It was officially announced on January 22 at the annual NASCAR Media Tour in Charlotte, North Carolina that two changes were made for the 2007 Chase for the Nextel Cup. The first is that wins became more important. The driver who finishes first now received 185 points instead of 180. Including the five bonus points for leading a lap and the possible five bonus points for leading the most laps, a driver could now get a maximum of 195 points for winning a race.

The Result: Ted finishes first. Dave finishes second, and makes the dramatic gesture of commiserating with the now-eliminated Wayne, who incurs more than ten two-minute penalties and never solves the directions on his starting disc. The Second Challenge: Dave and Ted must navigate a car from the pit back to their hotel. They may turn either left or right from the pit exit, and may make further left turns without penalty, but the contestant incurs a five-kilometre penalty for each right turn.

The movie is about the story of the Italian athlete Dorando Pietri and restitutes the runner's fortunes and misfortunes at the 1908 Summer Olympics in London. The start of Pietri's sporting career was a hard one. A passionate long-distance runner, like his brother Ulpiano, Dorando Pietri was rebuffed by trainer Barbisio because he was deemed to be too meager. Still, Pietri takes part in the marathon race at Carpi, his home town, and finishes first, ahead of Pericle Rondinella, the star runner of Barbisio's team.

The climax of the film, in which Kiat Kun is pushed to the limit but trips and finishes first -- a parallel to Singapore's political history. Kiat Kun is dejected until he learns that the third prize in the 1965 National Primary School Cross Country Competition is a pair of shoes. Because he was sick on the day his school selected representatives for the race, he pleads with his P.E. teacher to let him enter. The teacher, initially reluctant, relents when Kiat Kun rushes to get his cough medicine, demonstrating his running ability.

"There's a simplicity in the way Michael has someone address the camera, and real purity to his light," comments D.J. Stout, Art Director of Texas MonthlyCatherine Calhoun, "A Nice Guy Finishes First" Photo District News, November 1995. Originally taken for a September 11, 1989 article of Fortune, O'Brien's photo of Donald Trump was later used as the cover for Trump's second book, Trump: Surviving at the Top. Although O'Brien's photo was donated to the National Portrait Gallery in 2011, the photo was later installed after Trump was elected the 45th President of the United States.

The H Newman Reid Trophy was first awarded in 2010 to the Newcastle North Stars after they finished first in the regular season with 54 points. The Reid Trophy was backdated to 2008 including minor premiers the Sydney Bears (2008) and the Newcastle North Stars (2009 & 2010). ;V.I.P. Cup The V.I.P. Cup was awarded to the minor premiers of each season; that is, the team that finishes first overall in the standings at the end of the regular season. The VIP cup was last awarded to the Adelaide Avalanche in 2007.

With a nod to a local runner who was notorious for his demanding workouts, Collins said, "Whoever finishes first, we'll call him the Iron Man." Each of the racers had their own support crew to supply water, food and encouragement during the event. Of the fifteen men to start off in the early morning on February 18, 1978, twelve completed the race. Gordon Haller, a US Navy Communications Specialist, was the first to earn the title Ironman by completing the course with a time of 11 hours, 46 minutes, 58 seconds.

In the semi-finals, the team that finishes first has home advantage against the team that finishes fourth, while the team that finishes second has home advantage against the team that finishes third. The semi-final winners progress to the final, played at the venue of the higher-placed team. Since the introduction of the Varsity Shield tournament in 2011, a promotion/relegation system between the Varsity Cup and Varsity Shield competitions was also introduced. In 2011, the bottom Varsity Cup side played in a play-off match against the Varsity Shield champions.

Here Ghote meets Jack Cooper, an English alcoholic follower of horse racing, and "Bunny" Bender, who has inherited the title of Raja but appears to have only modest financial means. Bedekar is unenthusiastic about renewed police interest into the incident, but Bender seems more interested in helping. In order to educate Ghote in the subject of horse racing, Bender persuades Ghote to place a bet of 50 Rupees on a horse called "Cream of the Jest". Unexpectedly the horse finishes first, but a steward's inquiry seems to rob Ghote of his winnings.

Gamblers awaiting the result of a horse race at the Hippodrome de Vincennes in Paris In North American racing, the three most common ways to bet money are to win, to place, and to show. A bet to win, sometimes called a "straight" bet, means staking money on the horse, and if it comes in first place, the bet is a winner. In a bet to place, you are betting on your horse to finish either first or second. A bet to show wins if the horse finishes first, second or third.

Repilov was joined on the podium by Pavlichenko, who took the silver, and West, who took home the bronze. Also during the 2017–18 campaign he has won a silver at Altenberg and a bronze at Calgary. During the 2018–19 Luge World Cup Repilov achieved back to back podium finishes first in placing second in Calgary in the men's singles and then in Lake Placid in successfully defending his 2017–18 triumph there in the men's singles event and also claiming victory in the men's sprint singles event. Repilov currently resides in Dmitrov.

Prior to the merge, tribes compete against each other in challenges. These most often are multi-segment obstacle courses that include both physical and mental elements with the tribe that finishes first declared the winner; commonly, these start with tribe members collecting puzzles pieces that are then used to solve a puzzle by other tribe members. Other challenges may be based on winning a number of rounds of head-to-head competitions. Challenges are normally held with equal numbers of all tribes participating and in some cases equal splits of gender.

2007–08 – Concorde Capital’s research department is recognized first in Ukraine, based on the annual Thomson Reuters Extel survey.Thomson Reuters Extel Survey признал аналитиков Concorde Capital лучшими по Украине 2009 – Concorde Capital ranks among the top three research teams in Ukraine.Concorde Capital вновь занимает ведущие позиции в рейтинге Thomson Reuters Extel Survey 2016 – Concorde Capital finishes first place in the Extel survey among its nominees for “Emerging EMEA: Ukraine: Country Research” as determined by a survey of employees of international hedge funds, private equity funds and public companies.

The top four teams in the eight receive what is popularly known as the "double chance" when they play in round-one qualifying finals. The team that finishes first on the ladder, play the fourth placed team at the first placed team's home ground. This is referred to as the first qualifying final but it is sometimes played after the second qualifying final which is between second and third on the ladder at the second placed team's home ground. Both qualifying finals are played before the elimination finals.

The railroad workers team from the Danube port of Porţile de Fier was founded in 1928, under president I. Tipărescu. The first antebellum appearance is recorded in 1939–40 (9th place in the Liga II). In 1940–41, it finishes first in the series and wins the right to promote to the Liga I, but the championship is interrupted because of the war. Players used in that period were: Robu, Negru, C. Ionescu, Pavel, Martin, Iaşinschi, Dumitrescu, Pârjol, Haţieganu, Mureşan, Ispas, Iliescu, Dobrescu, Jumanca, Szilárd, Cozma, Ludwig, Lupulescu, Felecan II, Biolan II, Nanu.

The Grand Prix mode consists of 10 levels, after which the player is rewarded with an ending sequence. However, if the player finishes in first place in all levels, an 11th level is unlocked, and other ending sequences are shown, depending on whether the player finishes first in this level also. In the versus mode 2, 3, or 4 player can race against each other in a split screen mode. Nine levels are initially available for all multiplayer modes, in addition to the Grand Prix levels which can also be played.

The simulator takes place in the year 2071 with six race tracks (from Airport Mayhem to the Ruins of Lost Vegas) and five cars (from the Interceptor to the Crusher).Video game information at The Arcade Flyer Archive If the player finishes first, they will receive a code that unlocks new cars and race courses. Wasteland Racers 2071 is one of the arcade games featured at Chuck E. Cheese's. None of the cars are linked to an actual manufacturer like Chevrolet or Ford; fantasy cars based on futuristic prototypes are used to navigate the post-apocalyptic racing venues.

Jomby played for the Youth squad of STB Le Havre from 2005 till 2008 when he signed his first professional contract with the same club and made his debut in the 2008-09 LNB season. In 2010, he signs for BCM Gravelines where he joins his former coach at Le Havre, Christian Monschau. With Gravelines, Rudy Jomby wins one Semaine des As title in 2011 and finishes first of the 2011-12 regular season. In 2012, he signs a three years contract with Cholet Basket where he joins his former youth team coach at Le Havre, Jean-Manuel Sousa.

But, still feeling guilty about hurting Meredith, Michael organizes a charity five-kilometer (3.1 miles) fun run to raise awareness of the dangers of rabies. Over half of the money raised is spent on the check presentation ceremony. Whilst Michael is getting changed for the race, Pam sees him naked. Few take the race seriously (Creed, Oscar and Stanley sneak off to a bar while Jim and Pam visit a garage sale) and while Toby Flenderson (Paul Lieberstein) finishes first and Michael becomes ill, having "carbo-loaded" (he ate fettucini alfredo before the race) and abstained from water.

The World Championship round is the top level playoff where the winning team finishes first overall for the tournament and wins the gold medal. It comprises the top three teams from Group A and B and the top two teams from Group C. The winning teams in the quarter-finals move on to compete in the semi-finals, while the losing teams are sent to the 5th-8th placement round. The two winning teams in the semi-finals advance to the gold medal game leaving the losing teams to compete for the bronze medal and third and fourth spot overall.

The new AIHL Champions Trophy was awarded to the 2009 AIHL Champions, the Adelaide Adrenaline following their victory in the 2009 final. In 2010 the AIHL Champions Trophy was re-launched as the H Newman Reid Trophy, honouring the minor premiers from each season back to 2008. ;H Newman Reid Trophy The H Newman Reid Trophy is awarded to the regular season's minor premiers; that is, the team that finishes first overall in the standings. Reid is considered the father of ice hockey in Australia, opening Australia's first two ice rinks and employing key people who introduced Australians, including his own children, to winter sports.

The V.I.P. Cup is a retired trophy that was awarded to the minor premiers of each season in the Australian Ice Hockey League from 2004 to 2009; that is, the team that finishes first overall in the standings at the end of the regular season. The trophy is named for its sponsor, V.I.P. Home Services. The last winners of the trophy are the Newcastle North Stars, who finished at the top of the standings in the 2009 AIHL season, but lost the grand final against the Adelaide Adrenaline. Since its inception in 2004, the V.I.P. Cup winner has never managed to claim the Goodall Cup in the corresponding playoff series.

The contestant must price three items within specified ranges: a grocery item priced under $10 within $1; a small prize priced under $100 within $10; and a medium prize priced under $500 within $100. For each bid given within the correct range, the contestant chooses one of five colored mechanical rats (yellow, green, pink, orange and blue), which are positioned on a large dollar sign-shaped racetrack. The rats are then set in motion on the track and all five rats ultimately travel the same distance. The contestant wins a car, a large prize, or an additional medium-valued prize if a chosen rat finishes first, second, or third.

Tournament 17: Hiromi Matsunaga makes P-League history by scoring the highest three-game series of 781 by way of games of 278, 288 and 215. The two semifinal matches are among the most exciting thus far. In the ABC match, Urara Himeji stays behind Matsunaga, and matches all but just one of Matsunaga's 10 consecutive strikes leading to the 10th frame. Himeji finishes first by striking out in the frame for a 279, and takes some of the pressure off of Matsunaga, while she deals with the possibly of rolling a perfect 300-game. Unfortunately, Matsunaga throws the ball high and leaves the 4-7, and finishes with a 288.

"Team Dizzy Bat" is a variation of the simpler dizzy bat drinking game, in which there are two even teams with two bats competing against each other in a relay race, with the bats acting as the baton. Each team splits into two even groups, facing each other about fifteen yards apart with both bats starting on the same side. Instead of the participants drinking a full beer from the inside of the Wiffle ball bat, they must drink a full beer (can, cup, or bottle), then spin around ten times, run over to their other group, and pass the bat to next player. Whichever team finishes first is the winner.

Typically between four and eight teams contest the finals series. The team which finishes first on the ladder after the home-and- away season is referred to as a "minor premier", but this usually holds little stand-alone significance, other than receiving a better draw in the finals. Many suburban and amateur leagues have a sufficient number of teams to be played across several tiered divisions, with promotion of the lower division premiers and relegation of the upper division's last placed team at the end of each year. At present, none of the top level national or state level leagues in Australia are large enough to warrant this structure.

In the final race their car is leading the pack but loses a wheel. Ace's car then takes the lead, but on the flat part of the track, Brady's car takes the lead and finishes first, setting a new pinewood derby record. Ace is shocked, but makes a gesture of congratulating the Davises; still, the minute he leaves the room, he throws a temper tantrum. When Phil asks Brady who grandpa's neighbor was who gave him advice, Brady points out a man in the audience, who turns out to be the man in the instructional video Phil has been watching to help design his car.

Teams placed second through fifth in each division enter a playoff tournament after the regular season where, eventually, three of the four semi-finalists of the final phase emerge. The fourth semi-finalist is the winner (or the final loser if the winner is already promoted) of Coppa Italia Serie D. A final match, between the winners of the semifinals, determines which team finishes first and which teams comes in second in this 37-team playoff. Eventually these teams may be included up to Lega Pro Seconda Divisione if one or more current teams runs into financial difficulties and so are not admitted in this league.

The series features two teams from each the AIHL and the NZIHL each playing the others once with the winner being the team who finishes first in the round-robin standings. The two teams chosen from each league will be the regular season champions and the winner of the playoff. In a situation where the winning of both events is the same the runner up of the playoff final will be selected to represent their respective league. Melbourne Ice won both the H. Newman Reid Trophy and the Goodall Cup after finishing first in the 2011 regular season standings and winning the playoffs after defeating the Newcastle North Stars in the final.

The object of Cool Riders is to finish each stage ahead of a computer-controlled rival by the end of a stage's checkpoint and within the allotted time. Whoever finishes first gets to select the next stage. For every rival defeated up to stage four, the player receives a promotion, indicated on the lower left-hand corner of the screen. There are three routes to choose from (westbound and eastbound routes with a middle route that takes the player through the United States.) There are five stages, where stage five is an "Extra Stage" where the object is to outrace all seven computer-controlled rival opponents on the streets of New York City to the finish line.

A total of 38 swimming events were contested in a 50-metre pool. To give the smaller island nations a chance against the stronger swimming nations of Australia and New Zealand the championships rules stated that in the individual events only the top two qualifiers from each country progress through to the final with the third fastest swimmer only from those countries with two swimmers qualifying for the ‘A’ final permitted to swim in the ‘B’ final. In the relay events it was one medal per country. So, for example, if New Zealand 'A' finishes first, Australia 'A' finishes second, New Zealand 'B' finishes third and New Caledonia finishes fourth, New Caledonia would be awarded the bronze medal.

Although she qualified third for the season-opening Toyota Indy 300, her team withdrew after teammate Paul Dana was killed in a practice session accident on the day of the race. Thus, Patrick's 2006 IndyCar campaign began at the first road course round of the season, the Grand Prix of St. Petersburg, where she finished sixth; she came eighth at the Indy Japan 300 at Motegi. At the Indianapolis 500, Patrick finished eighth after starting tenth. The rest of her season was modest with four top-tens, which included a season- high placing of consecutive fourth-position finishes: first at the Firestone Indy 200 at Nashville Speedway, and then the ABC Supply Company A.J. Foyt 225 at Milwaukee Mile.

If Player B won a game by playing her or his last card (the case of more than one card played is excluded) after Player A has played theirs and Player A could have prevented this from happening by playing a higher card, s/he is deemed to have assisted Player B. There are several ways to penalize Player A. The most common way is for Player A to be deducted the total points that the other two losers have lost on top of her or his own so that the other two may win some points. This rule can vary between styles of play. If the scoring system is based on ranks (e.g. who finishes first, second, third or last), the rule would not apply.

A total of twelve competitors compete in the knockout rounds, where the difficulty of each obstacle is increased. In the first three knockout rounds, the number of competitors is reduced by two; the competitor having the slowest time is relegated to the wild-card round. The two competitors who are ranked just above the slowest competitor have to compete in a head to head race against each other; the competitor who finishes first in the race automatically advances to the next round. The five competitors who did not qualify for the fourth knockout round compete in the wild-card round, with the winner of the final head to head race in that round reentering the competition; the four competitors who lose their head to head races are eliminated.

Therefore, the league eliminated the regular season title in 1961, choosing to recognize only the winner of the ACC tournament as conference champion. Fans and media do claim a regular-season title for the team that finishes first, and the NCAA recognizes a regular-season title winner in order to maintain its system of choosing NIT and NCAA tournament berths based on regular season placement. For the ACC, the unofficial crowning of a regular season champion is insignificant as a 1975 NCAA rule change allowed more than one team per conference to earn a bid to the NCAA Tournament. As a result, the team finishing atop the ACC regular-season standings has invariably been invited to the NCAA Tournament even if it did not win the ACC Tournament.

They all look forward to the challenge, but are scared. Later they each get visits from either Bob or Jillian, checking in on them: Jillian focuses on helping Danny and his wife work together, Bob encourages Amanda to put all her effort into working out, Jillian works with Liz on focusing on herself before others for once, seeing she is isolated and a gym is nowhere near, and her husband is often out of town, while Bob helps Rudy balance his family, his job, and working out. They all come back to run the marathon, and at the halfway point each one is accompanied by a companion: Rudy gets Dina, Amanda gets her best friend, Liz gets her husband, and Danny gets his wife. Rudy finishes first, then Amanda, and then Danny and Liz finish together.

In this timed event there are two teams competing. Each team consist of a 60-foot climber, 2 boom runners (1 male, 1 female), a hot sawyer, a women's single buck sawyer and a standing block chopper. First a climber must climb and descend the 60-foot pole, when their feet touch the pad it is the signal for the male boom runner stationed on the chopping dock to run the logs to the logrolling dock; when he touches the dock it is then the female boom runner's turn to run the logs over to the chopping dock, once touching there the hot saws then cut through a log and when the log drops the women commence the single buck, with the standing block chop the anchor event in this relay. Whichever team finishes first with the best time is the winner of the event.

Sugiuchi put up another solid season in , going just 10–8 (partly due to the time he missed while pitching for the national team in the 2008 Beijing Olympics"SoftBank Fails to Add a Bat" NPB Tracker) but striking out a league-leading 213 with a 2.66 ERA while anchoring a rotation that was short Saito and Wada for much of the season."Hurler Iwakuma finishes first in PL" The Japan Times It marked the first time in his seven-year career that he had recorded double-digit wins or thrown more than 140 innings in consecutive seasons. On October 7, the Hawks sent Sugiuchi to the mound in their regular-season game against the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles in the hopes of avoiding a last-place finish in the pennant race. He and young Eagles hurler Masahiro Tanaka both threw nine shutout innings, sending the game to extra-innings, but the Eagles won in twelve innings.

Marcia Pinder 2012 WBCA HS Coach of the Year The WBCA presents an award to the National Coach of the year in each of six divisions: # NCAA Division I # NCAA Division II # NCAA Division III # NAIA # JC/CC (Junior College/Community College) # High School The WBCA presents an award to the Rookie Coach of the Year. The award is named in honor of Maggie Dixon, the former coach of the Army women's basketball team, who died shortly after competing her rookie season as a coach. NCAA/WBCA Coaches' Trophy The NCAA and WBCA jointly award a Coaches trophy, presented to the team that finishes first in the USA TODAY ESPN Division I Top 25 Coaches' Poll. The WBCA presents the Carol Eckman Award, given annually since 1986, to the women's college basketball active coach who "best demonstrates the character of the late Carol Eckman, the mother of the collegiate women's basketball national championship".