1.   Dempsey was quick to add, however, that he does not expect the tournament format to change.

2.   FIFA has since changed the tournament format to single elimination after the first round.

3.   Hamilton knows that coming back to Boston in a tournament format can be a distraction.

4.   The difference is that you seed them in a tournament format rather than letting the computers dictate who will play for the national championship.

5.   The victors meet Saturday and the losers play a consolation game in traditional two-day tournament format.

6.   Mundial has staged exhibition games in the past, many of them in a four-team tournament format called the Marlboro Cup.

7.   New tournament format, same result.

8.   The new tournament format is another anti-Canada ploy, Murray felt.

9.   The revised tournament format -- weather permitting -- called for the third round to be played later Saturday and the final round as originally scheduled Sunday.