Timeline for What is the correct term in sports for "get to the next round"?
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| Jun 20, 2015 at 17:17 | comment | added | TimR | @Sven Yargs. Yipee :) | |
| Jun 20, 2015 at 7:37 | comment | added | Sven Yargs | +1. I'm upvoting this partly because it's a perfectly reasonable answer, but also because, as the 11th upvote for the accepted answer, it should qualify (or is that advance?) Tim Romano for a gold Populist badge. Everybody wins! | |
| Jun 19, 2015 at 18:42 | comment | added | talrnu | @TusharRaj Indeed, a minor quibble resolved easily in context, but worth considering nonetheless. | |
| Jun 19, 2015 at 18:40 | comment | added | Tushar Raj | @talrnu: Didn't think anyone would pick that nit. Good one :) | |
| Jun 19, 2015 at 18:38 | comment | added | talrnu | It might be worth considering here that you can qualify for something but never actually achieve it, e.g. a team might win the first round in a tournament and qualify to enter the next round, but choose to forfeit their position before ever entering the next round. In that sense, they never actually got to the next round. | |
| Jun 19, 2015 at 15:52 | comment | added | Tushar Raj | @SvenYargs: Well put. | |
| Jun 19, 2015 at 15:50 | comment | added | Sven Yargs | In U.S. sports journalism, the usual formulation is "qualified" for the playoffs, but "advanced" to the next round/quarterfinals/semifinals/championship game (unless—as is often the case—each round has its own special formal or informal name such as "Division Series," "Conference Title," or "Sweet Sixteen," in which case the team winning at the previous level has "advanced" to that). The difference may reflect the fact that few U.S. sports have a qualifying round (as opposed to a regular season) in which multiple teams from a group advance to the knockout round (as happens in World Cup play). | |
| Jun 19, 2015 at 12:04 | comment | added | Eilia | (+1) As confirmation, qualification games can be mentioned. E.g. "The Asian section of the 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification acts as qualifiers for the 2018 FIFA World Cup, to be held in Russia, for national teams which are members of the Asian Football Confederation (AFC)". (Wikipedia) | |
| Jun 19, 2015 at 11:59 | vote | accept | Gasim | ||
| Jun 19, 2015 at 11:56 | history | edited | Tushar Raj | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jun 19, 2015 at 11:48 | history | answered | Tushar Raj | CC BY-SA 3.0 |