In international sports, the term is perhaps best known in reference to two sporting traditions: team wildcards distributed among countries at the Olympic Games and individual wildcards given to some tennis players … 展开

In North American professional sports leagues, "wild card" refers to a team that qualifies for the championship playoffs without winning their specific conference or division outright. The … 展开

Motorcycle racing
In motorcycle racing the term 'wildcard' is used for competitors only involved in individual rounds of a championship, usually their local round. … 展开

Jeopardy!
Wildcards are a regular feature in tournaments of the popular game show Jeopardy!.
Jeopardy! tournaments … 展开

In professional tennis tournaments, a wildcard refers to a tournament entry awarded to a player at the discretion of the organizers. All ATP and WTA tournaments have a few spots set aside … 展开

NCAA tournaments in all of its sports have included wildcard berths, typically known as at-large berths or at-large bids. Winners of each athletic conference's tournament (or, in the case of basketball's National Invitation Tournament, the team with the best regular season … 展开

Although the term "wildcard" is not generally common in sports outside North America, a few competitions effectively (used to) employ such a system to determine one or more … 展开