Questions about example sentences with, and the definition and usage of "Championship"

A: It means if someone is competing for the heavyweight championship that is the most important contest in their profession. They may not get another chance to win the heavyweight championship so the "stakes are high" meaning they have a lot to lose and a lot to gain depending on if they lose or win.

A: It’s like getting/ securing

A: Pedro Lamy was the last Portuguese driver in Formula One Championship.

A: When including had before the verb, you're changing the sentence from a regular past tense to a perfect past tense.

To explain this I'll use an example:

"I had called James, as soon as he got home." This is the past perfect tense of the sentence. The regular past tense would be something like " I called James today." That is if it happened today. "I called James yesterday.", if it happened yesterday.

When we're talking of using the past perfect tense, we're talking of an event that happened in the past which took place before a more recent event that also happened in the past. (If you talk about the events of your morning the day before and then the events that happened in the evening before today, the events that happened in the evening are more recent while still being talked about in past tense.)

You can forgo using the past perfect tense entirely when you are not talking about two things that took place in the past, one after the other. E.g. "I drove to work yesterday."

In the context of your example, both events (The amateur championship tournament, and the lady turning professional are events that took place in the past. One of them happened before the other).

In the first sentence, you are using the past perfect tense. In the second sentence, you are using the regular past tense.

I'd like others to look into my answer and provide further details, comments, or ammendments to my answer should they feel it necessary.

A: @Shin_p A championship is a competition to find the champions (best player or team).

A competition is a match or series of matches.

A: tournament is before the championship
tournament decides the semi finals and then the finals and then the championship
the championship means only two people competing for first place

A: the first one when using "is" is talking about in that very moment and when using "was" its pass tense so them winning the championship already happened

A: A championship is usually the final matches. And a tournament is the series of matches to get to the finals.

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A: 1 and 3 are fine.

For 2- “hadn’t fought for this like a lion the day before, he wouldn’t have this cup now”

A: what does this championship means to you

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A: *championship

A: I think a smoother way to phrase "I was standing all the time", would be, "I was standing the entire time."