There are also dance competitions, carnival-style parades, food exhibitions and the crowning of the Tapati queen.
The tournaments culminate in the crowning of a world champion.
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The discovery of the boson, then, is rightly hailed as the crowning achievement of one of history's most successful scientific theories.
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The vigil was the crowning event of a weeklong series of concerts, parties and memorials.
Ironically, the crowning achievement of Mr Manning's career may also mark its sunset.
I've referred to it before as the crowning jewel of Asian golf.
Puss in Boots seems to be the crowning achievement of that partnership.
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But the crowning moment of his career so far came with the two tries he scored in Saturday's 35-18 win over the Wallabies at Twickenham.
The crowning achievement of this eleventh-hour "Perestroika Bonds" salvage effort was to be a direct run on the U.S. capital markets, involving a dollar-denominated offering out of New York.
This is the crowning event of the festival, which was attended by 60, 000 people who mingled with all manner of famous chefs, from Food Network stars Guy Fieri and Paula Deen to highbrow pan-rattlers Alice Waters and Alain Ducasse.
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The mall, which opened in May and already attracts 1 million shoppers on weekends, is the crowning achievement of Sy's 60-year career in retailing that began with one small shoe store in Manila and now includes 26 other malls in the Philippines, four more in China, one in Guam and a chain of department stores and supermarkets.
The tradition of not crowning the monarch dates from 1815, when Willem I became the monarch of the newly created Kingdom of the Netherlands, says Han van Bree, a historian who specialises in the Dutch royal family.
This has traditionally been a feeble body of pen-pushers under a mild-mannered secretary-general, usually a senior regional official rewarded with the post as the crowning boondoggle in a career of not rocking the boat.
Walter did so brilliantly, his crowning achievement being the founding of TV Guide in the nascent days of television.
The crowning touch was a statue of Aladdin topping a fanciful Opera House that teetered on the irreversible edge of kitsch.
Jenkins takes over for Bob Diamond, whose years-long ascension to become Barclays chief got its crowning achievement with the bargain acquisition of a sizable chunk of Lehman Brothers after the U.S. investment bank failed in 2008.
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The Grammy producers would love to duplicate the success of American Idol, on which viewers have a hand in crowning the next pop superstar.
"Dawn's crowning success at Vesta was the delivery of instruments that require proximity, exemplified by the gamma-ray and neutron measurements of Prettyman et al. yielding elemental abundances that unequivocally confirm the meteorite links, " Binzel wrote.
Here was the region's richest resident, Li Ka-shing, tying the milestones of his 78 years to a crowning wish.
Opera spared little expense to showcase a major overhaul of the Opera Turbo feature, the crowning achievement in the new version.
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That includes amassing copious amounts of premium art (both Western and Islamic) of which The Card Players will be its crowning jewel.
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The crowning pieces were supposed to be delivered Monday morning but had to be rescheduled because of bad weather, according to the Port Authority.
Baltimore Ravens All-Pro Linebacker, Ray Lewis has already announced his forthcoming retirement, and he is hoping that a Super Bowl win will be his crowning achievement in a career that has been a blessing on the field and riddled with questions off of it.
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