
Given the following passage

"SC Bern is the major ice hockey team of Bern who plays at the PostFinance Arena. The team has ranked highest in attendance for a European hockey team for more than a decade. The PostFinance Arena was the main host of the 2009 IIHF Ice Hockey World Championship, including the opening game and the final of the tournament.",

answer the following question. Note that the answer is present within the text.

Question: A type of competition that has a large number of participants that normally decides upon one winner is called a? 

tournament
