Survive and advance

In tournament play, it's all you can do. When you're in the middle of a huge field, like in NASCAR, golf or college basketball, you have to negotiate and navigate cautiously and carefully. See the holes, pick through them, shoot through them. When coming up on a pack, you wait, so some patience, move with them. You can use the pack to get to where you want. And you'll get bumped, too. You know it's coming, might as well brace for it. Then, there it is--daylight. You power through, and cruise along to the finish line. Until the next race.