SUDDENDEATH

Sudden death

In a sport or game, sudden death is a form of competition where play ends as soon as one competitor is ahead of the others, with that competitor becoming the winner. Sudden death is typically used as a tiebreaker when a contest is tied at the end of the normal playing time or the completion of the normal playing task. An alternative tiebreaker method is to play a reduced version of the original; for example, in association football 30 minutes of extra time after 90 minutes of normal time, or in golf one playoff round after four standard rounds . Sudden-death playoffs typically end more quickly than these reduced replays. Reducing the variability of the event's ...

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Sudden Death

Sudden Death is a 1995 American action film starring Jean-Claude Van Damme and Powers Boothe.

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sudden death

Noun

  1. Instantaneous, unexpected death not caused by violence.
  2. The climax of a game, in which the next team to score instantly wins; often in an extra period of time following a tie at the end of the regular period of play.


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