DOHA, Qatar -- The Asian Games was struck by tragedy on Thursday as a South Korea competitor was killed during the three-day event equestrian competition.
But the event has had competition over recent years from the Lonach Gathering, which attracts celebrities such as Billy Connolly, Robin Williams, Steve Martin and Ewan MacGregor.
What if instead of counting individual medals, each event was a competition in itself, with the country winning the most gold medals taking all the allotted "electors" for that sport.
Beyond fear and treating the event as a competition, networking nights often leave those attending in the same comfort zone they arrived in: see a person you know, spend the majority of the night by their side, and meet a few new people but not nearly as many as you hoped had you decided to branch off early and look solo.
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It could be easy to dismiss an event like this as mere competition, but these games are more important than that.
The one event that had a final competition, meaning the top three finishers qualify for the Beijing Olympics, was the women's 10, 000-meter race.
This will continue with the Panorama event - a steel band competition taking place in Hyde Park on the Saturday before the carnival.
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He will spin discs alongside the winner of the House the House DJ competition, an event hosted by MP and former music executive Mike Weatherley which seeks to give a platform to new young talent.
Last year the Northern Ireland Trophy was an invitational event but this year's competition has ranking points.
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Now carnival organisers in Burnham, 12 miles away, have announced they will be holding a Beyonce lookalike competition at their own event in September.
Too young to compete at a Grand Prix event, the top level of competition, Hester wanted Valegro to learn the trade under his young apprentice.
Last year the competition held its inaugural event with 17 schools.
Ahead of a larger event at PAX, neither wanted to reveal anything about their play that would give their steep competition a leg up on them in the coming event.
For those expats at the Guangzhou event swimming against the rising tide of competition, employing a number of techniques is necessary to make it in China -- local connections being one of the most useful.
Germany is hosting the event for the first time, with the competition based at the Ahorn-Sportpark in Paderborn and taking place between 21-27 August.
At the individual event later this week, Daley faces stiff competition.
This weekend's event will be McIlroy's final major competition as an amateur before he turns pro and attempts to win a European Tour card later this year.
Organisers said the name will feature on the event's website during the week-long competition.
Traditional companies tend to view products and services as the basis of competition and a task as a discrete event.
This event is a significant signal that the basis of competition has shifted markedly from cellular technology to computing technology to content.
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Only one (implausible) event might bring about rapid, and real, competition: a sudden surge of interest by the average American in his electricity bill.
You make it to the Olympic team if you finish in the top three and hit the Olympic standard for your event, either at the trials or some other competition.
The competition between Wales and England for the event mirrors their rivalry on the field in the 2012 European Championship qualifying tournament with the senior teams due to play their Group G matches next year in Cardiff on 26 March and at Wembley on 6 September.
When it comes to summertime festivals, no event is quite as buzzworthy as the Clovermead Bee Beard Competition.
Furthermore, many of the gymnasts lacked consistency within the same event throughout the various stages of the three-part competition.
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The society said without public subsidy and faced with increased competition it could not afford to run the event.
"There is so much competition that if one company goes to an event, the other companies will go, " Ms. Okoe said.
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In a hearing scheduled for Monday afternoon, Ellison's lawyers will argue that Bertarelli has illegally seized control of the 156-year-old sporting event and trashed its already somewhat tarnished tradition of gentlemanly competition.
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