Whereas stadium tourism is a growing area within sports tourism, football remains underexplored. Existing research largely focuses on match-day or heritage experiences, drawing single case studies, with no current study comprehensively exploring the multiplicity of touristic experiences across sizeable range stadia. We address this neglect through an extensive investigation stadia as destinatio...

Serge LeBlanc, who was born and raised in Sainte-Marie-de-Kent—a small town approximately 45km from the City of Moncton New Brunswick, Canada—is a proud Southeast Acadian known affectionately to his friends colleagues as ‘Bâyo’. Since 1990s, has become staple regional national hockey communities capacity an extremely dedicated equipment manager. He worked with Wildcats Quebec Major Junior Hocke...

Most NCAA football teams never play each other in a given season, which has made ranking them a long-running and much-debated problem. The official Bowl Championship Series (BCS) standings are determined in equal parts by input from coaches, sports writers, and an average of algorithmic rankings. These standing determine which teams play for the national championship, and, in part, which teams ...

Previous studies on periodization have led to the view that most athletes fail peak at major events. These conclusions might be based definitions of “peak performance” are too narrow. In this study, a track and field athlete was defined as succeeding in competition if their outcome within acceptable range from best result season. The data seven championship finals semifinals together with 42 Di...

In today’s reality, holding sports competitions, including official ones, requires maximum commitment, interest, and desire to improve from participants, organizers, sponsors. Competitions are an integral part of the training process, a logical conclusion various stages preparation. The purpose study is analyze performance professional women’s volleyball teams in «DmARt SUPERLEAGUE» during regu...

Since rugby union became a professional sport in 1995 its popularity has increased such that the Six Nations Championship in 2014 had a higher average attendance per game than either the UEFA Euro Cup 2012 or the FIFA World Cup 2014. 2 3 Rugby (both union and league) is the third most popular team contact sport worldwide. Rugby union is played in around 120 countries and rugby league in around ...

Global vision systems as found in the small size league are prohibited in the middle size league. This paper presents methods for creating a global view of the world by cooperative sensing of a team of robots. We develop a multiobject tracking algorithm based on Kalman filtering and a single-object tracking method involving a combination of Kalman filtering and Markov localization for outlier d...

We study the effects of randomness on competitions based on an elementary random process in which there is a finite probability that a weaker team upsets a stronger team. We apply this model to sports leagues and sports tournaments, and compare the theoretical results with empirical data. Our model shows that single-elimination tournaments are efficient but unfair: the number of games is propor...

The checkers program Chinook has won the right to play a 40-game match for the World Checkers Championship against Dr. Marion Tinsley. This was earned by placing second, after Dr. Tinsley, at the 1990 U.S. National Open, the biennial event used to determine a challenger for the Championship. This is the first time a program has earned the right to contest for a human World Championship. In an e...

The Mirrored Traveling Tournament Problem (mTTP) is an optimization problem that represents certain types of sports timetabling, where the objective is to minimize the total distance traveled by the teams. This work proposes the use of hybrid heuristic to solve the mTTP, using an evolutionary algorithm in association with the metaheuristic Simulated Annealing. It suggests the use of Genetic Alg...