Date:	Thu, 17 Jun 1993 12:51:40 -1000
From:	Darrin.Skinner@ebay.sun.com (Darrin Skinner)
Message-Id: <9306172251.AA28572@stuntkite.EBay.Sun.COM>
Organization: Division of Applied Sciences, Harvard University
Subject: competition vs event -- symantics?


Ok, this is a strange question but I'll ask anyway.

Is Berkeley SKC, East Coast SKC, etc a competition, 
festival, event, ... ?

What would you call Ballet, Precision, Innovative?

The reason I ask this is that I just finished writing
a program that deals with competitions and events.
I needed to have a generic term to describe each 'thing'.
What I ended up using was the following:

	Competition    Class   Type  Event     Heat  
	-------------- ------- ----- --------- ------ 
such as Berkeley SKC   Masters Team  Ballet    Finals
or	AKA convention Novice  Indiv Precision Heat 1 

Does anyone know how other sports use these terms?
Competition and Event are the most 'cross-used' (tm :{) )
terms.  Does anyone have a STRONG arguement why is 
should be one way or the other?

Thanks, 

Darrin


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