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==Satellite tournament==

A satellite tournament is either a minor tournament or event on a competitive sporting tour or one of a group of such tournaments that form a series played in the same country or region.{{Citation needed|date=November 2023}}

===Poker===
A satellite tournament in [[poker]] is a qualifying event. Winners of these satellites usually win the [[poker jargon#buy-in|buy-in]] fee to a larger, more prestigious tournament like the [[World Series of Poker]] Main Event. Although there are some land-based satellite tournaments (usually for very high-stakes tournaments), most of them are [[online poker|online-based]]. Some sites, like [[PokerStars]], maintain several tiers of satellites. A player can thus start out at one tier (not necessarily the lowest one) and play their way to a higher tier. The entry fee for each tier is always higher than the fee for the tier below it, with the first tier being the cheapest.

===Tennis===
In professional tennis, satellite circuits were four-week tournaments (five before 1987), typically organised by a country's national tennis association and overseen by the [[International Tennis Federation]]. They were played by players who were ranked outside the top few hundred by the [[Association of Tennis Professionals]], with openings for unranked players in the qualifying draw. Total prize money ranged from $25,000 to $75,000 per circuit.  ATP points were awarded on the basis of a player's ranking within the circuit and from 1987 onwards on the basis of the conversion of a player's circuit points into ATP points. Players successful at this level of pro tennis would move on to play [[ATP Challenger Tour|ATP Challenger Series]] or even top-flight [[ATP Tour]] events. The men's satellite tournaments began as early as 1971 such as the Pacific Southwest Satellite played in Inglewood, California was a standalone event won by [[Mike Estep]], and were officially the second tier of tournaments after the main tour and predated the introduction of challenger events in 1978, they then became the third tier of events and were discontinued following the 2006 season as the circuit moved exclusively to one-week [[Futures tournaments]], the modern denomination for a satellite tournament.

===Pinball===
A satellite tournament in [[pinball]] is modeled after those in [[poker]]. It is a smaller tournament that leads up to a major pinball championship, where participants have the opportunity to win their entry into the larger tournament. Applying the satellite tournament concept to pinball was first done by [[Northwest Pinball and Arcade Show]] in 2013 to promote both the show and the tournaments at the show. Since then, some other major tournaments have begun using the concept.