But the group winner goes into what most consider a far stronger side of the knockout round bracket — alongside France, Uruguay, Argentina, Brazil and Mexico.
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With its victory, Belgium won its third game at the World Cup but advanced to what most consider the tougher side of the knockout-round bracket, one that includes Brazil, Mexico, France, Argentina, Uruguay and Portugal.
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Even a loss by their second-stringers against Belgium in the final group game had a silver lining: finishing second in the group placed England in what is clearly the easier half of the knockout-round bracket.
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" Nabokov reportedly replied by describing a form of communication that had yet to be invented: "I often think there should exist a special typographical sign for a smile—some sort of concave mark, a supine round bracket, which I would now like to trace in reply to your question.
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In the United States, an unqualified 'bracket' typically refers to the square bracket; in Britain and most other English- speaking countries, the round bracket.
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Three-round bracket elimination sprint course. In heats of five, competitors ran through a course. The top ten in the first round advanced to the second round, and then the top five in the second round moved on to the final run. Saxon Panchick and Kristin Holte won the event.
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In each episode, the eight contestants face off in head-to-head competitions in a single-elimination bracket format. The first round bracket match-ups are chosen at random. The challenges vary in their format, but are generally very physically demanding and often involve physical contact between the two contestants. In addition, all competitions take place outdoors in hot, desert-like conditions, so the contestants are also battling the elements of the weather.
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In 2018, the baseball team, coached by Adrian Dinkel, had a 50-5 regular season record, and were ranked fourth in the NAIA. After an early exit from The Sun Conference tournament, they swept the Kingsport Opening Round bracket. They then swept five games in the NAIA World Series in Lewiston, ID, winning the national championship in their first trip to the tournament. Of Manuel Mesa won the tournament Most Valuable Player and Charles Berry Hustle awards.
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Matches conducted along such lines are tremendously exciting, as a top shooter may fumble, pause or have a momentary equipment failure, allowing a lesser shooter to claim the round. "Bracket- style" competitions often contain a concurrent "losers' bracket," where the losers in the "winners' bracket" compete for a lesser bracket win. "Bracket style" has sometimes been referred to as a "gun drag race". Timed: Some ranges conduct matches in a timed format, where a shooter clears three tables in an observed time, and the averages of the three tables are computed in a simple mean.
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Fahlman was not the first to suggest the concept of the emoticon – a similar concept for a marker appeared in an article of Reader's Digest in May 1967, although that idea was never put into practice. In an interview printed in The New York Times in 1969, Vladimir Nabokov noted: > "I often think there should exist a special typographical sign for a smile – > some sort of concave mark, a supine round bracket." Fahlman is credited with originating the first smiley emoticon, which he thought would help people on a message board at Carnegie Mellon to distinguish serious posts from jokes. He proposed the use of `:-)` and `:-(` for this purpose, and the symbols caught on.
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