tournament (n)

a competition for teams or single players in which a series of games is played, and the winners of each game play against each other until only one winner is left

*****hardly= barely= scarcely (adv)

The Carl Hayden boys had hardly any support and very little money.

= Hardly the Carl Hayden boys had any support and very little money.

Hardly had he left home, when it began to rain.  他一離開家就馬上下雨

He had hardly left home when it began to rain.

As soon as he had left home, it began to rain.

On his having left home, it began to rain.