2018 Urawa Red Diamonds season, Squad, Out on loan
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


2018 Uruguay Open
The 2018 Uruguay Open was a professional tennis tournament played on clay courts. It was the fourteenth edition of the tournament which was part of the 2018 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place at the Carrasco Lawn Tennis Club in Montevideo, Uruguay between November 5 and 11, 2018.


2018 Uruguay Open, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:


2018 Uruguay Open, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following player received entry into the singles main draw as an alternate:


2018 Uruguay Open – Doubles
Romain Arneodo and Fernando Romboli were the defending champions but only Romboli chose to defend his title, partnering Fabrício Neis. Romboli lost in the first round to Sergio Galdós and Federico Zeballos.


2018 Uruguay Open – Doubles
Guido Andreozzi and Guillermo Durán won the title after defeating Facundo Bagnis and Andrés Molteni 7–6(7–5), 6–4 in the final.


2018 Uruguay Open – Singles
Pablo Cuevas was the defending champion but lost in the first round to Mario Vilella Martínez.


2018 Uruguay Open – Singles
Guido Pella won the title after defeating Carlos Berlocq 6–3, 3–6, 6–1 in the final.


2018 Uruguayan Primera División season
The 2018 Liga Profesional de Primera División season, also known as the Campeonato Uruguayo 2018, was the 115th season of Uruguay's top-flight football league, and the 88th in which it is professional. The season was named as "Ing. Julio César Franzini" and began on 3 February, ending on 11 November. Peñarol were the defending champions, and successfully defended the title with a 2–1 win over Nacional in the championship playoff.


2018 Uruguayan Primera División season, Format
The format in this season was the same as the most recent season, with the Torneo Apertura in the first half of the year and the Torneo Clausura in the second half, and a Torneo Intermedio played between both tournaments.


2018 Uruguayan Primera División season, Teams
The two bottom-placed teams in the relegation table of the 2017 season, Juventud and Plaza Colonia, as well as Sud América, who lost a tiebreaker to El Tanque Sisley, were relegated to the Segunda División for the 2018 season. They were replaced by Torque, Atenas, and Progreso, who were promoted from the Segunda División.


2018 Uruguayan Primera División season, Teams
On 2 February 2018, the Uruguayan Football Association confirmed that El Tanque Sisley would not take part in the league due to an outstanding debt. As a result, El Tanque Sisley were administratively relegated to the second tier for the 2019 season and the season was played by 15 teams.


2018 Uruguayan Primera División season, Teams
a: Boston River is based in Montevideo but plays its home games at Estadio Parque Artigas in Las Piedras. b: El Tanque Sisley is based in Montevideo but plays its home games at Estadio Campeones Olímpicos in Florida. c: Torque is based in Montevideo but plays its home games at Estadio Municipal Casto Martínez Laguarda in San José de Mayo. They played their first five home games at Estadio José Nasazzi in Montevideo.


2018 Uruguayan Primera División season, Torneo Apertura
The Torneo Apertura, named "Sr. Abdón Porte", was the first tournament of the 2018 season. It began on 3 February and ended on 6 May. With El Tanque Sisley being unable to take part in the season, all teams were awarded three points in their matches against El Tanque Sisley, with no goals for being counted.


2018 Uruguayan Primera División season, Torneo Intermedio
The Torneo Intermedio, named "Sr. Juan Carlos Bugallo" was the second tournament of the 2018 season, played between the Apertura and Clausura tournaments. It consisted of two groups whose composition depended on the final standings of the Torneo Apertura: teams in odd-numbered positions played in Serie A, and teams in even-numbered positions played in Serie B. Given the absence of El Tanque Sisley for this season, Serie A had the usual eight teams while Serie B was contested by seven teams. It started on 9 May and ended on 10 June, with the winners being granted a berth into the 2019 Copa Sudamericana and the 2019 Supercopa Uruguaya.


2018 Uruguayan Primera División season, Torneo Clausura
The Torneo Clausura, named "Cr. Hugo Sebastiani", was the third tournament of the 2018 season. It began on 21 July and ended on 4 November. As happened in the Torneo Apertura, all teams were awarded three points in their matches against El Tanque Sisley, with no goals for being counted.


2018 Uruguayan Primera División season, Aggregate table
The aggregate table includes the results of the three stages played throughout the season (Torneo Apertura, Torneo Intermedio, and Torneo Clausura).


2018 Uruguayan Primera División season, Aggregate table
Since El Tanque Sisley did not compete (which caused the Torneo Intermedio to have groups of different size), the points earned by the teams in the smaller group of the Torneo Intermedio were weighted for the purposes of elaborating the aggregate table: teams in Serie B had their points divided between the number of games they played (6) and then multiplied by the number of games played by teams in Serie A (7), in order to get the points earned in the Torneo Intermedio to the effects of the aggregate table.


2018 Uruguayan Primera División season, Championship playoff, Final
Since Peñarol, who had the best record in the aggregate table, won the semifinal, they became champions automatically and the final was not played. Nacional became runners-up as the second-placed team in the aggregate table. Both teams qualified for the 2019 Copa Libertadores group stage.


2018 Uruguayan Primera División season, Relegation
Relegation was determined at the end of the season by computing an average of the number of points earned per game over the two most recent seasons: 2017 and 2018. El Tanque Sisley was one of the teams relegated to the Segunda División for the following season, as well as the two teams with the lowest average.


2018 Utah House of Representatives election
The 2018 Utah House of Representatives election was held in the U.S. state of Utah on November 6, 2018, to elect members to the House of Representatives of the 63rd Utah State Legislature. A primary election was held in several districts on June 26, 2018. The election coincided with the election for U.S. Senate and other elections.


2018 Utah House of Representatives election
The Utah Republican Party won a majority of seats, keeping the Republican majority that they have held since 1977. The new legislature convened on January 28, 2019.


2018 Utah House of Representatives election, Background
Republicans have held the Utah State House of Representative since 1977, and the chamber was not considered competitive in 2018 However, as was the case in many states, Democrats were encouraged to see the purported "Blue Wave" come to the Utah State House.


2018 Utah House of Representatives election, Electoral System
The 75 members of the House of Representatives were elected from single-member districts by first-past-the-post voting to two-year terms. Contested nominations of the Democratic and Republican parties for each district were determined by an open primary election. Minor-party and independent candidates were nominated by petition. Write-in candidates had to file a request with the secretary of state's office for votes for them to be counted.


2018 Utah Proposition 4
Utah Proposition 4 was a ballot measure narrowly approved as part of the 2018 Utah elections. The proposition created an independent redistricting commission in the state, a measure to avoid gerrymandering.


2018 Utah Proposition 4
In 2020, the Utah legislature passed Senate Bill 200 which compromised positions between Better Boundaries Utah (the sponsor of the proposition) and the Utah legislature.


2018 Utah Proposition 4, Results
The proposal was approved narrowly, with 50.34% of the vote. The closeness of the result was hypothesized to be due to Republicans, the dominant party in Utah, voting against the proposition to maintain their total control over redistricting.


2018 Utah Royals FC season
The 2018 Utah Royals FC season marks the team's first year of existence and its inaugural season in the National Women's Soccer League (NWSL), the top division of the American soccer pyramid.


2018 Utah Royals FC season, Competitions, NWSL regular season, Results summary
Last updated: September 8, 2018Source: NWSL ResultsPld = Matches played; Pts = Points; W = Matches won;  T = Matches tied;  L = Matches lost; GF = Goals for; GA = Goals against; GD = Goal difference


2018 Utah Senate election
The 2018 Utah Senate election was held on November 6, 2018. Fourteen Senate seats were up for election. Prior to the election, the Republicans held a majority.


2018 Utah Senate election, Results
The election took place on November 6, 2018. Candidate list and results from the Lieutenant Governor of Utah.


2018 Utah State Aggies football team
The 2018 Utah State Aggies football team represented Utah State University in the 2018 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Aggies were led by sixth-year head coach Matt Wells during the regular season and played their home games at Merlin Olsen Field at Maverik Stadium. They competed as members of the Mountain Division of the Mountain West Conference. They finished the season 11–2, 7–1 in Mountain West play to finish in a tie for first place in the division with Boise State. Despite the tie, the conference does not credit them as divisional co-champions as a result of the head-to-head loss. They were invited to the New Mexico Bowl where they defeated North Texas. The 11 wins tied a school record.


2018 Utah State Aggies football team
Head coach Matt Wells was hired by Texas Tech on November 29; the team was led in the New Mexico Bowl by interim head coach and co-defensivecoordinator Frank Maile. Wells finished with a 44–34 record in his six seasons at Utah State. On December 9, the school rehired Gary Andersen, six years after he left for Wisconsin.


2018 Utah State Aggies football team, Previous season
The Aggies finished the 2017 season 6–7, 4–4 in Mountain West play to finish in a tie for fourth place in the Mountain Division. They were invited to the Arizona Bowl where they lost to New Mexico State.


2018 Utah State Aggies football team, Preseason, Mountain West media days
During the Mountain West media days held July 24–25 at the Cosmopolitan on the Las Vegas Strip, the Aggies were predicted to finish in fourth place in the Mountain Division.


2018 Utah State Aggies football team, Preseason, Mountain West media days, Preseason All-Mountain West Team
The Aggies had two players selected to the preseason all-Mountain West team.


2018 Utah Utes football team
The 2018 Utah Utes football team represented the University of Utah during the 2018 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Utes were led by 14th-year head coach Kyle Whittingham and played their home games in Rice–Eccles Stadium in Salt Lake City, UT. They were members of the South Division of the Pac-12 Conference.


2018 Utah Utes football team
The Utes completed the regular season with a 6–3 record in conference play, winning the South Division for the first time since joining the Pac-12 Conference in 2011. In the Pac-12 Championship Game, the team lost to North Division champion Washington by a score of 10–3. They were invited to the Holiday Bowl to play Big Ten Conference runner-up Northwestern, where the Utes lost by a score of 31–20 to end the year at 9–5 overall.


2018 Utah Utes football team
Utah was led on offense by quarterback Tyler Huntley until he suffered a season-ending collarbone fracture in the game against Arizona State on November 3. Redshirt freshman Jason Shelley started for the rest of the season. Running back Zack Moss compiled 1,096 rushing yards and 11 touchdowns. Two members of the Utah offensive line earned first-team all-conference honors, Jordan Agasiva and Jackson Barton. Utah's defense featured four members of the first-team All-Pac-12: defensive linemen Bradlee Anae and Leki Fotu, linebacker Chase Hansen, and cornerback Jaylon Johnson. Hansen led the conference in tackles for loss with 22, and Anae tied for the conference lead in sacks with 8.


2018 Utah Utes football team, Previous season
The Utes finished the 2017 season 7–6, 3–6 in Pac-12 play to finish in fifth place in the South Division. They were invited to the Heart of Dallas Bowl where they defeated West Virginia.


2018 Utah Utes football team, Preseason, Pac-12 Media Days
The 2018 Pac-12 media days are set for July 25, 2018 in Hollywood, California. Kyle Whittingham (HC), Chase Hanson (LB) & Lo Falemaka (OL) at Pac-12 Media Days. The Pac-12 media poll was released with the Utes predicted to finish in second place at Pac-12 South division.


2018 Utah Utes football team, Schedule
Utah announced their 2018 football schedule on November 16, 2017. The Utes will play FCS Weber State and Northern Illinois and returning to the traditional last game of the year spot, Utah will play in-state rival BYU Cougars football in out-of-conference play. In Pac-12 conference play, the Utes will not play cross-divisional foes California and Oregon State.


2018 Utah Utes football team, Game summaries, BYU
The Utes scored 28 unanswered points and overcame a 27–7 deficit in the third quarter to defeat their in-state rival, the BYU Cougars, for the eighth consecutive time.


2018 Utah elections
The Utah general elections, 2018 were held in the U.S. state of Utah on November 6, 2018. One of Utah's U.S. Senate seats was up for election, as well as all four seats in the United States House of Representatives, fourteen Utah Senate seats and all of the Utah House of Representatives seats.


2018 Utah elections, United States Senate
Incumbent Senator Orrin Hatch was eligible for re-election, but did not run in 2018. Republican Mitt Romney was elected to the U. S. Senate, defeating Democratic nominee and Salt Lake County Council member Jenny Wilson.


2018 Utah elections, United States House of Representatives
All of Utah's four seats in the United States House of Representatives were up for election in November. In districts 1, 2, and 3, Republican incumbents were re-elected. In district 4, Salt Lake County Mayor Ben McAdams defeated two-term incumbent Republican Mia Love.


2018 Utah elections, Utah Senate
Fifteen Utah Senate seats were up for election in November.


2018 Utah elections, Utah House of Representatives
All 75 seats in the Utah House of Representatives were up for election in November.


2018 Utah wildfires
The 2018 wildfire season in Utah began around June, 2018.


2018 Utah wildfires
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2018 Uttarakhand local elections
The 2018 Uttarakhand Municipal general elections were held in the Indian state of Uttarakhand on 18 November 2018.


2018 Uttarakhand local elections
The Uttarakhand State Election Commission announced the poll dates on 15 October 2018. The results were declared on 20 November 2018.


2018 Uttarakhand local elections
The elections for the Roorkee Municipal Corporation, municipal councils of Bajpur and Srinagar and the nagar panchayats of Bhatrojkhan and Selakui were postponed.


2018 Uttarakhand local elections
Elections are not held in the nagar panchayats of Badrinath, Kedarnath and Gangotri due to their status of temporary settlements. Local interim administration councils administer these three pilgrimage sites for a period of six months during the summers.


2018 Uzbekistan Cup
The 2018 Uzbekistan Cup was the 26th season of the annual Uzbekistan Cup, the knockout football cup competition of Uzbekistan.


2018 Uzbekistan Cup
A total of 26 teams participate in the tournament. The cup winner is guaranteed a place in the 2019 AFC Champions League.


2018 Uzbekistan Cup, Preliminary round
Sherdor 1 - 1 (aet; 7 - 6 p) Labsa


2018 Uzbekistan Cup, Round of 32
The draw for the round of 32 was held on 28 February 2018. Lokomotiv, Nasaf, Pakhtakor and Bunyodkor received byes before the draw.


2018 Uzbekistan Cup, Round of 16
The draw for the round of 16 was held on 18 April 2018.


2018 Uzbekistan Cup, Quarter-finals
The draw for the quarter-finals was held on 10 July 2018.


2018 Uzbekistan Cup, Final
The final was played on 28 October 2018 at the Istiqlol Stadium, Fergana.


2018 Uzbekistan Pro League
The 2018 Uzbekistan Pro League is the 27th since its establishment. The competition started on 6 April 2018 with the match between Norin and Dinamo Samarqand.


2018 Uzbekistan Pro League, Promotion play-offs
Mash'al and Istiqlol qualified for 2018 Uzbekistan Super League relegation play-off


2018 Uzbekistan Pro-B League
The 2018 Uzbekistan Pro-B League is the 1st since its establishment. The competition started on 12 March 2018.


2018 Uzbekistan Pro-B League, Promotion play-offs
Mash'al and Istiqlol qualified for 2018 Uzbekistan Super League relegation play-off


2018 Uzbekistan Super League
The 2018 Uzbekistan Super League (known as the Pepsi Uzbekistan Super League for sponsorship reasons) was the 27th season of top level football in Uzbekistan since 1992. Lokomotiv Tashkent were the defending champions from the 2017 campaign.


2018 Uzbekistan Super League, Teams
On 21 November 2017 according to UzPFL management decision the Uzbek League was officially renamed to Uzbekistan Super League starting from 2018 season. The number of teams playing in top division of Uzbek football is reduced from 16 to 12.


2018 Uzbekistan Super League, Teams
The draw for the 2018 Super League season was held on 3 February 2018. The first matchday is scheduled for 1 March 2018.


2018 Uzbekistan Super League, Teams
Sementchi, the winner of 2017 Uzbekistan First League did not participate in new Super League season. The club failed to pass licensing procedures like Mash'al Mubarek. These both clubs have been replaced by Neftchi Fergana and Sogdiana Jizzakh which according to 2017 season have been relegated to First League.


2018 Uzbekistan Super League, Foreign players
The number of foreign players is restricted to five per USL team. A team can use only five foreign players on the field in each game.


2018 Uzbekistan Super League, Foreign players
In bold: Players that have been capped for their national team.


2018 Uzbekistan Super League, Championship round
Teams keep records from regular stage (10 matches) against championship round opponents.


2018 Uzbekistan Super League, Relegation round
Teams keep records from regular stage (10 matches) against relegation round opponents.


2018 Uzbekistan Super League, Relegation play-off
Sogdiana and AGMK will play in 2019 Uzbekistan Super League next season.


2018 V de V Challenge Monoplace
The 2018 V de V Challenge Monoplace was a multi-event motor racing championship for open wheel, formula racing cars held across Europe. The championship features drivers competing mainly in 2 litre Formula Renault single seat race cars that conform to the technical regulations for the championship. The season began at Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya on 23 March and will finish at Estoril on 4 November after seven double-header rounds.


2018 V de V Challenge Monoplace
Drivers compete in three classes depending on the type of car they drive. Those competing in the current Tatuus FR 2.0 2013 car, as well as the previous Barazi-Epsilon FR2.0–10 car, which are in use since 2010, are included in Class A. Older Formula Renault 2.0 machinery along with other cars such as Formula BMW and Formula Abarth encompass Class B. From 2018 on, Formula 4 cars built to FIA regulations are allowed to race in V de V Challenge Monoplace, being included in Class C.


2018 V de V Challenge Monoplace, Race calendar and results
The calendar was published on 13 October 2017. In 2018, due to the race duration increasing from 20 to 30 minutes per race, each circuit will host two races instead of three.


2018 V de V Challenge Monoplace, Standings, Points system
Points are awarded following a complex system. Drivers receive a set of points according to their overall position in each race, as well as an additional set of points according to their position within the class their car belongs to. No separated standings for classes A, B and C are issued. The points distribution is as follows:


2018 V de V Challenge Monoplace, Standings, Points system
The total number of points scored in each round is multiplied by a coefficient, depending on the round. Only the best 12 results are counted towards the overall standings, whereas all results are valid towards the Gentlemen Drivers standings.


2018 V-Varen Nagasaki season
The 2018 season will be V-Varen Nagasaki's first season in the J1 League after earning promotion from the J2 League in 2017.


2018 V-Varen Nagasaki season, Background
V-Varen Nagasaki had finished the previous season in second place and thus earned promotion to the pinnacle of Japanese football, the J1 League. This will be their first ever season competing in the J1 League. The club's first move in preparation for the upcoming season was the signing of experienced FC Tokyo right wingback Yūhei Tokunaga. A couple days later would see the departures of goalkeeper Yuya Miura and midfielder Kenta Furube, while right back Yusuke Murakami retired. On 11 December 2017 it was announced that midfielder Mitsuru Maruoka would return to Cerezo Osaka once his loan concludes in January.


2018 V-Varen Nagasaki season, Background
On 22 December, Nagasaki bolstered their attack with the signing of forward Musashi Suzuki from Albirex Niigata. Three days later it was announced that Masato Kurogi, a midfielder from Ventforet Kofu who had already played for Nagasaki in 2014 and 2015, would return to the club. The next day the club announced three signings, including the signing of two goalkeepers: Kenta Tokushige from Vissel Kobe and Takuya Masuda, Nagasaki's starting goalkeeper from 2017 returning to the club on an extended loan from Sanfrecce Hiroshima. Forward Shu Hiramatsu also returned to the club on loan from Albirex Niigata. Again, the next day, the club announced that Spanish midfielder Miguel Pallardó would leave the club.


2018 V-Varen Nagasaki season, Player statistics
Numbers in parentheses denote appearances as substitute. Players with name struck through and marked  left the club during the playing season.


2018 V.League 1
The 2018 V.League 1 season (for sponsorship reasons also known as Nuti Café V.League 1) was the 62nd season of the V.League 1, the highest division of Football in Vietnam. The season started on 10 March 2018 and ran until 8 October 2018. It was expected to be known as the Toyota V.League 1, however, in December 2017 Toyota ended their sponsorship deal with the Vietnam Football Federation one year early.


2018 V.League 1, Changes from last season, Team changes
The following teams have changed division since the 2017 season.


2018 V.League 1, Changes from last season, Rule changes
Due to the increased number of teams in 2018 V.League 2 (10), there will be 1.5 relegation places in the 2018 V.League 1 season - the team finishing 14th will be relegated automatically, whilst the team finishing 13th will play a two-legged play-off against the team that finishes second in the 2018 V.League 2.


2018 V.League 1, Changes from last season, Rule changes
The league will continue to operate the "2+1" foreigner rule, meaning each squad shall be allowed 2 non-Vietnamese players and 1 naturalised Vietnamese. FLC Thanh Hóa and Sông Lam Nghệ An shall be allowed 3 non-Vietnamese players, 1 naturalised Vietnamese and  1 player from Asia because they will participate in AFC Cup.


2018 V.League 1, Teams, Personnel and kits
Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


2018 V.League 1, Results, Play-off match
The team finishing 13th faced the runner-up of 2018 V.League 2.


2018 V.League 1, Results, Play-off match
Nam Định won the match and would remain in the 2019 V.League 1.


2018 V.League 1, Positions by round
This table lists the positions of teams after each week of matches. In order to preserve the chronological evolution, any postponed matches are not included to the round at which they were originally scheduled, but added to the full round they were played immediately afterwards. For example, if a match is scheduled for matchday 13, but then postponed and played between days 16 and 17, it will be added to the standings for day 16.


2018 V.League 1, Attendances, By club
Updated to games played on 8 October 2018Source: Notes:† Teams played previous season in V.League 2


2018 V.League 1, Season statistics, Hat-tricks
4: scored 4 goals; (H) – Home ; (A) – Away


2018 V.League 2
The 2018 V.League 2 (referred to as  An Cường V.League 2 for sponsorship reasons) is the 24th season of V.League 2, Vietnam's second tier professional football league. The season began on 14 April 2018 and will finish on 29 September 2018. The season started with 10 clubs.


2018 V.League 2, Changes from last season, Team changes
The following teams had changed division since the 2017 season.


2018 V.League 2, Changes from last season, Rule changes
There is one direct promotion spot for the champion. The team finishing second will play a play-off match against the 13th-placed club of 2018 V.League 1. The club finishing last will be relegated to the 2019 Second League.


2018 V.League 2, Changes from last season, Name changes
In 16 May 2018, Bình Định had changed its name to Bình Định TMS.


2018 V.League 2, Attendances, By club
Updated to games played on finishedSource: Notes:†Teams played previous season in Second League  ††Teams played previous season in V.League 1


2018 VBA season
The 2018 VBA season was the third season of the Vietnam Basketball Association. The regular season began on June 16, 2018 and ended on August 16, 2018. The playoffs began on August 21, 2018 and ended on August 26, 2018. The finals began on September 4, 2018 and ended on September 9, 2018 with Cantho Catfish beating Hanoi Buffaloes in 3 games.


2018 VBA season, Teams, Import players
Each team is allowed 2 heritage players and 1 foreign player.


2018 VCU Rams baseball team
The 2018 VCU Rams baseball team was the program's 48th baseball season. It was their 6th season the Atlantic 10 Conference.


2018 VCU Rams baseball team, Regular season, Results
Updated with the results of all games through February 18, 2018.


2018 VCU Rams men's soccer team
The 2018 VCU Rams men's soccer team represents Virginia Commonwealth University during the 2018 NCAA Division I men's soccer season. It was the 39th season of the university fielding a program. The Rams were be led by ninth-year head coach, Dave Giffard.


2018 VCU Rams men's soccer team
The 2018 season saw the Rams win the Atlantic 10 Conference regular season for the first time in program history, amassing a 6-1-1 conference record. It was the Rams' first conference regular season championship since 2004.


2018 VCU Rams men's soccer team, Background
The 2017 VCU men's soccer team finished the season with a 12–7–0 overall record and a 5–2–0 A10 record. The Rams were seeded second–overall in the 2018 Atlantic 10 Men's Soccer Tournament, where they lost in the championship to UMass.


2018 VCU Rams men's soccer team, Background
The Rams earned an at-large bid to the 2017 NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Tournament, where they were seeded 16th overall in the field. It was the Rams' first berth into the NCAA Tournament since 2013. The Rams lost to Butler in the second round. The Rams had one player selected in the 2018 MLS SuperDraft: Rafael Andrade Santos, by D.C. United.


2018 VCU Rams men's soccer team, MLS Draft
The following members of the 2018 VCU Rams men's soccer team were selected in the 2019 MLS SuperDraft.


2018 VFF National Super League
The 2018 VFF National Super League is the 8th edition of the VFF National Super League, the highest tier football league in Vanuatu apart from Port Vila. The matches were played between 22 and 31 March 2018 at Luganville Soccer City Stadium.


2018 VFF National Super League, Grand final
The 2018 VFF National Super League Grand Final was played between two teams:


2018 VFF National Super League, Grand final
Both teams had already qualified for the 2019 OFC Champions League by winning their respective competitions. The Grand Final decided the seeding of the two teams in the 2019 OFC Champions League, with the winner seeded as Vanuatu 1 and the runner-up seeded as Vanuatu 2.


2018 VFL Women's season
The 2018 VFL Women's season was the third season of the VFL Women's (VFLW). The season commenced on 5 May and concluded with the Grand Final on 23 September 2018. The competition was contested by thirteen clubs.


2018 VFL Women's season, Clubs
Significant overhaul and changes were made to composition of the competition ahead of the 2018 season. With the establishment of the national AFL Women's competition in 2017, the league sought to affiliate clubs more closely to existing AFL/AFLW clubs. Consequently five foundation clubs departed; leaving Darebin, Melbourne University and VU Western Spurs (who were taken over by and renamed the Western Bulldogs to align with the AFL club) as the remaining clubs.


2018 VFL Women's season, Clubs
The departing clubs were replaced by the AFL-aligned Carlton, Collingwood, Essendon, Richmond and Southern Saints, the VFL-aligned Casey and Williamstown, and the North East Australian Football League (NEAFL)-aligned Northern Territory; Northern Territory aligned with Adelaide's AFLW team, giving Crows players an opportunity to play in the Victorian competition. The thirteen clubs were as follows:


2018 VFL season
The 2018 Victorian Football League season was the 137th season of the Victorian Football Association/Victorian Football League Australian rules football competition. The competition ran between April 2018 and September 2018. The premiership was won by the Box Hill Football Club, after it defeated Casey in the Grand Final on 23 September 2018 by 10 points.


2018 VFL season, League membership
There were several changes to the league's membership and alignments between the 2017 and 2018 seasons, with North Melbourne reserves joining the competition, Frankston rejoining, and North Ballarat departing, resulting in a total membership of 15.


2018 VFL season, League membership
The Frankston Football Club returned to the competition after a one-year hiatus. AFL Victoria had terminated the club's licence at the end of the 2016 season due to its unviable financial position, which saw it in administration owing more than $1,500,000. The club embarked on a campaign during 2017 to assure its long-term viability, which included signing up 1200 members and working to improve its relationship with the local leagues as a pathway for Mornington Peninsula footballers into state football. The club then applied for and was re-granted its VFL licence for the 2018 season.


2018 VFL season, League membership
At the end of 2017, the ten-year reserves affiliation between the AFL's North Melbourne Football Club and the VFL's Werribee Football Club came to an end. North Melbourne entered its reserves team in the VFL seniors, the first time that team had competed in the competition. Werribee continued to field a stand-alone senior team in the VFL. The teams continued to share a home ground, with all Werribee home games and most North Melbourne home games played at the newly upgraded Avalon Airport Oval in Werribee until North Melbourne's traditional home at Arden Street Oval was brought to VFL standard in mid-2019.


2018 VFL season, League membership
After the 2017 home-and-away season had concluded, AFL Victoria suspended North Ballarat's playing licence. The club had endured two years of off-field instability since the termination of its partial reserves affiliation with AFL club North Melbourne. This had included: multiple changes of personnel at executive and board level; the compulsory acquisition of its home ground Eureka Stadium in early 2017; and difficulties in governance associated with the club's attentions being divided between its VFL team and the North Ballarat City team it operated in the Ballarat Football League.


2018 VFL season, League membership
AFL Victoria determined that the club's governance had deteriorated to the point that it no longer met the minimum requirements for a VFL licence. The club's poor on-field performances – a combined win-loss record in 2016 and 2017 of 4–32 – was also a factor. The suspension brought to an end North Ballarat's 22-year association with the VFL, which included three premierships.


2018 VFL season, League membership
AFL Victoria maintains an interest in maintaining an ongoing VFL presence in Ballarat, and as of February 2019 there were ongoing discussions between AFL Victoria and club's board on a model for re-entry of the club as a new or rebranded Ballarat team in the competition, but no agreement has been reached.


2018 VFL season, League membership
Another significant change to the VFL's structure prior to 2018 was the abolition of the Development League competition, ending 90 years of VFA/VFL seconds/reserve grade football dating back to the 1920s. Under the new arrangement, VFL-listed players from all clubs will play for local affiliated suburban competitions when not playing senior football for their club – the structure which was already in place for the clubs with no Development League team. The decision was made for a number of reasons, including rising costs, difficulties with scheduling, shortages of manpower within the clubs, and to improve relationships with suburban football.


2018 VFL season, League membership
The clubs fielding Development League teams generally opposed the change, concerned that the pathway between suburban or under-18s football and the VFL would be affected. In particular, the clubs involved in affiliations with AFL clubs, where most of the senior players on any given week are AFL-listed reserves players, were concerned that they would be reduced to having almost no players of their own, reducing their identity or utility as football clubs.


2018 VFL season, VFL Women's, League membership
The VFL Women's competition, now in this third season since coming under the VFL brand, also underwent a significant change for the 2018 season, with a view towards aligning the competition more directly with the AFL Women's national competition, and with Victoria-based AFL clubs taking more direct roles in state level women's football development, either through fielding their own teams or by affiliating with existing clubs. This in turn meant a step away from the traditional Victorian Women's Football League clubs which had formed the core of the VFLW in its first two seasons.


2018 VFL season, VFL Women's, League membership
New licenses were granted to four AFL clubs – Carlton, Collingwood, Essendon, Richmond – who all fielded club-branded women's teams in the competition. A fifth AFL club, St Kilda, obtained a licence transferred to it from the Seaford Tigers, and the club formed a partnership with the VFL's Frankston to form a women's team called the Southern Saints. A sixth club, Hawthorn, obtained a licence from the Knox Falcons, transferred it to its senior VFL-affiliate Box Hill, then rebranded it to Hawthorn's brand.


2018 VFL season, VFL Women's, League membership
The VU Western Spurs, who were already affiliated with the AFL's Western Bulldogs, remained a separate entity but began co-branding with their AFL affiliate, becoming known as the Western Bulldogs and wearing the same colours from 2018. Two VFL clubs newly obtained licences for VFLW teams: Williamstown, which was granted a new licence, and the Casey Demons, to whom the Cranbourne Eagles licence was transferred. A licence was granted to the Northern Territory Football Club, which plays senior men's football in the North East Australian Football League, creating an interstate presence in the competition. Foundation clubs Diamond Creek, Eastern Devils and St Kilda Sharks all departed the revamped competition.


2018 VFL season, VFL Women's, League membership
Under the revamp, the thirteen clubs in the VFL Women's competition – and their affiliates – are:


2018 VG18
2018 VG18 is a distant trans-Neptunian object that was discovered well beyond 100 AU (15 billion km) from the Sun. It was first observed on 10 November 2018 by astronomers Scott Sheppard, David Tholen, and Chad Trujillo during a search for distant trans-Neptunian objects whose orbits might be gravitationally influenced by the hypothetical Planet Nine. They announced their discovery on 17 December 2018 and nicknamed the object "Farout" to emphasize its distance from the Sun.


2018 VG18
2018 VG18 is the second-most distant natural object ever observed in the Solar System, after the trans-Neptunian object 2018 AG37 (132 AU) discovered by the same team in January 2018. As of 2021 the object is at an observed distance of 123.5 AU (18 billion km) from the Sun, more than three times the observed distance of the dwarf planet Pluto. 2018 VG18 is not close to being the object with the most distant orbit on average, as its orbital semi-major axis is estimated to be only about 81 AU. For comparison, the semi-major axis of the planetoid and possible dwarf planet 90377 Sedna is about 500 AU.


2018 VG18
2018 VG18 is considered to be a dwarf planet candidate, as its absolute magnitude implies that it is around 500 km (310 mi) in diameter. Assuming that the object is predominantly icy in composition, it is expected to be large enough to attain a gravitationally rounded shape, and thus be a dwarf planet. Observations of 2018 VG18 show that it appears pinkish in color, indicative of an ice-rich surface.


2018 VG18, Discovery
2018 VG18 was discovered by astronomers Scott Sheppard, David Tholen, and Chad Trujillo at the Mauna Kea Observatory in Hawaii on 10 November 2018. The discovery formed part of their search for distant trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs) with orbits that may be gravitationally perturbed by the hypothesized Planet Nine. The search team had been involved in the discoveries of several other distant TNOs, including the sednoids 2012 VP113 and 541132 Leleākūhonua. 2018 VG18 was first identified as a faint object slowly moving in two images taken with the 8.2-meter Subaru Telescope on the night of 10 November 2018. At the time of discovery, 2018 VG18 was located in the constellation Taurus, at a very faint apparent magnitude of 24.6, approaching the lowest detectable magnitude limit for most telescopes.


2018 VG18, Discovery
2018 VG18's low on-sky motion and brightness indicated that it is very distant, which prompted additional follow-up observations to constrain its orbit and distance. The object was reobserved in December 2018 by Sheppard at the Las Campanas Observatory, with observation times spanning ten days. However, its orbit remained with a significant uncertainty due to its short observation arc. Nonetheless, the discovery of 2018 VG18 along with a preliminary orbit solution was formally announced in a Minor Planet Electronic Circular issued by the Minor Planet Center on 17 December 2018.


2018 VG18, Discovery
Since the discovery announcement, 2018 VG18 has been periodically observed by Sheppard at the Las Campanas and Mauna Kea observatories. Additional observations were also made at the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory in November 2019 and January 2020. As of 2020, 2018 VG18 has been observed for over three oppositions, with an observation arc of 3 years (1,095 days). Two precovery observations of 2018 VG18 have been identified in images taken by the Cerro Tololo Observatory's Dark Energy Camera on 16 January 2017.


2018 VG18, Nomenclature
Upon the announcement of 2018 VG18's discovery, the discoverers nicknamed the object "Farout" for its distant location from the Sun, and particularly because it was the farthest known TNO observed at the time. On the same day, the object was formally given the provisional designation 2018 VG18 by the Minor Planet Center. The provisional designation indicates the object's discovery date, with the first letter representing the first half of November and the succeeding letter and numbers indicating that it is the 457th object discovered during that half-month.


2018 VG18, Nomenclature
The object has not yet been assigned an official minor planet number by the Minor Planet Center due to its short observation arc and orbital uncertainty. 2018 VG18 is expected to receive a minor planet number once it has been observed for over at least four oppositions, which would take several years. Once it receives a minor planet number, the object will be eligible for naming by its discoverers.


2018 VG18, Orbit and classification
2018 VG18 is the second-most distant observed Solar System object from the Sun and is the first object discovered while beyond 100 astronomical units (AU), overtaking the dwarf planet Eris (96 AU) in observed distance. As of 2021 2018 VG18's distance from the Sun is 123.5 AU (18.5 billion km; 11.5 billion mi), more than three times the observed distance of Pluto from the Sun (34 AU during 2018). For comparison, the distances of the Pioneer 10 and Voyager 2 space probes were approximately 128 AU and 126 AU in 2021, respectively.


2018 VG18, Orbit and classification
At its nominal distance, 2018 VG18 is thought to be close to the heliopause, the boundary where the Sun's solar wind is stopped by the interstellar medium at around 120 AU. The new orbit determination indicates that this object is currently very close to aphelion which it should reach in mid-2062, and that it is a member of the scattered disc.


2018 VG18, Orbit and classification
At the time of discovery on 10 November 2018, 2018 VG18's distance from the Sun was 123.4 AU, and has since moved 0.2 AU from the Sun as of 2021. As it is approaching aphelion, 2018 VG18 is receding from the Sun at a rate of 0.06 AU per year, or 0.3 km/s (670 mph). 2018 VG18 was the farthest TNO known until February 2019 when 2018 AG37 (nicknamed "FarFarOut") was discovered at about 132 AU by the same team led by Sheppard.


2018 VG18, Orbit and classification
While 2018 VG18 and 2018 AG37 are among the farthest Solar System objects observable, some near-parabolic comets are much further from the Sun. For example, Caesar's Comet (C/-43 K1) is over 800 AU from the Sun while Comet Donati (C/1858 L1) is over 145 AU from the Sun as of 2021.


2018 VG18, Orbit and classification
2018 VG18's average orbital distance from the Sun is approximately 81 AU, taking approximately 730 years to complete one full orbit. With an orbital eccentricity of about 0.54, it follows a highly elongated orbit, varying in distance from 38 AU at perihelion to 125 AU at aphelion. Its orbit is inclined to the ecliptic plane by about 24 degrees, with its aphelion oriented below the ecliptic. At perihelion, 2018 VG18 approaches close to Neptune's orbit without crossing it, having a minimum orbit intersection distance of approximately 8 AU. Because 2018 VG18 approaches Neptune at close proximity, its orbit has likely been perturbed and scattered by Neptune; thus, it falls into the category of scattered-disc objects. 2018 VG18 last passed perihelion in the late 17th century.


2018 VG18, Orbit and classification
While 2018 VG18 is one of the most distant objects observed, it does not have the largest orbital semi-major axis. For comparison, the semi-major axis of the planetoid 90377 Sedna is about 480 AU. In an extreme case, the scattered-disc object 2014 FE72 has a semi-major axis around 1,400 AU, though its distance from the Sun as of 2021 is about 64 AU, approximately half 2018 VG18's distance from the Sun in that year.


2018 VG18, Orbit and classification
2018 VG18 was discovered in a particular region of the sky where other extreme TNOs have been found, suggesting that its orbit may be similar to those of extreme TNOs, which characteristically have distant and highly elongated orbits that may have resulted from the gravitational influence of the hypothetical Planet Nine. 2018 VG18's nominal orbit appears to be anti-aligned with Sedna; the longitude of pericenter of 2018 VG18's orbit is oriented about 193 degrees from Sedna's orbit.


2018 VG18, Physical characteristics
The size of 2018 VG18 is uncertain, though it is likely large enough to be a possible dwarf planet, based on its intrinsic brightness or absolute magnitude. Based on its apparent brightness and large distance, the JPL Small-Body Database calculates 2018 VG18's absolute magnitude to be about 3.7, though this estimate has a large uncertainty. The Minor Planet Center calculates 2018 VG18's absolute magnitude to be 3.5, in close agreement with the former estimate. Based on the Minor Planet Center's estimate of 2018 VG18's absolute magnitude, it is listed among the top six intrinsically brightest scattered-disc objects.


2018 VG18, Physical characteristics
The albedo (reflectivity) of 2018 VG18 has not been measured nor constrained, thus its diameter could not be calculated with certainty. Assuming that the albedo of 2018 VG18 is within the range of 0.10–0.25, its diameter should be around 500–850 km (310–530 mi). This size range is considered to be large enough such that the body can collapse into a spheroidal shape, and thus be a dwarf planet.


2018 VG18, Physical characteristics
Astronomer Michael Brown considers 2018 VG18 to be highly likely a dwarf planet, based on his size estimate of 656 km (408 mi) calculated from an albedo of 0.12 and an absolute magnitude of 3.9. Unless the composition of 2018 VG18 is predominantly rocky, Brown considers it very likely that 2018 VG18 has attained a spheroidal shape through self-gravity. Astronomer Gonzalo Tancredi estimates that the minimum diameters for a body to undergo hydrostatic equilibrium are around 450 km (280 mi) and 800 km (500 mi), for predominantly icy and rocky compositions, respectively. If the composition of 2018 VG18 is similar to the former case, the object would be considered a dwarf planet under Tancredi's criterion.


2018 VG18, Physical characteristics
Observations of 2018 VG18 with the Magellan-Baade telescope show that the object is pinkish in color. The pinkish color of 2018 VG18 is generally attributed to the presence of ice on its surface, since other ice-rich TNOs display a similar color. Apart from its color, the spectrum and surface composition of 2018 VG18 have not yet been measured in detail and will require further observations.


2018 VM35
2018 VM35 is an extreme trans-Neptunian object from the outermost region of the Solar System, approximately 130 kilometers (80 miles) in diameter. With a perihelion distance greater than 40 AU, it is considered a detached object. It is currently 55 AU (8.2 billion km) from the Sun and thus moves slowly across the sky.


2018 VM35, Orbit and classification
2018 VM35 orbits the Sun at an average distance of about 266 AU once every 4,347 years. Its orbit has a high eccentricity of 0.83 and an inclination of 8.48° with respect to the ecliptic. As with any slow moving object beyond the orbit of Neptune, an observation arc of several years is required to constrain the orbital parameters.


2018 VM35, Orbit and classification
It is predicted to reach perihelion (closest approach to the Sun) around 2058 coming to opposition in February 2058, while only reaching magnitude 24.3.


2018 VM35, Physical characteristics
Based on a generic magnitude-to-diameter conversion, 2018 VM35 measures approximately 130 kilometers (81 miles) for an absolute magnitude of 7.6 and an assumed albedo of 0.09.


2018 VMI Keydets baseball team
The 2018 VMI Keydets baseball team represents]ed the Virginia Military Institute during the 2018 NCAA Division I baseball season. The Keydets competed as a member of the Southern Conference, and were led by fourth-year head coach Jonathan Hadra. They played their home games out of Gray–Minor Stadium, as they have since 2007.


2018 VMI Keydets baseball team, Personnel
VMI lost only one offensive starter from the 2017 season, that being right fielder Tyler Tharp, who hit .348 in 58 games and led the team with 143 total bases. Relief pitchers Blaine Lafin, Jack Gomersall, and Ryan Bennett were the only other seniors lost from the previous season. However, backup infielder Mason Adamson, backup catcher Garrett St. Laurent, and relievers John Fuqua and Liam Roden did not return to the team in 2018.


2018 VMI Keydets football team
The 2018 VMI Keydets football team represented the Virginia Military Institute in the 2018 NCAA Division I FCS football season. It was VMI's 128th football season. The Keydets were led by fourth-year head coach Scott Wachenheim. They played their home games at 10,000–seat Alumni Memorial Field at Foster Stadium. They were a member of the Southern Conference (SoCon). They finished the season 1–10, 0–8 in SoCon play to finish in last place.


2018 VMI Keydets football team, Previous season
The Keydets finished the 2017 season 0–11, 0–8 in SoCon play to finish in last place. This was VMI's fourth winless season and the first time they had gone winless since 2004.


2018 VMI Keydets football team, Preseason, Preseason media poll
The SoCon released their preseason media poll on July 25, 2018, with the Keydets predicted to finish in last place. The same day the coaches released their preseason poll with the Keydets also predicted to finish in last place.


2018 VMI Keydets football team, Preseason, Preseason media poll, Preseason All-SoCon teams
The Keydets placed one player on the preseason all-SoCon teams.


2018 VP1
2018 VP1 is an Apollo near-Earth asteroid roughly 2 meters (7 feet) in diameter. The asteroid had a 0.41% chance (1 in 240) of impacting Earth on 2 November 2020 01:12 UT. It was discovered on 3 November 2018 when it was about 0.003 AU (450,000 km; 280,000 mi) from Earth and had a solar elongation of 165 degrees. The asteroid has a short 12.9 day observation arc. It was last observed on 16 November 2018 by the European Southern Observatory Very Large Telescope at apparent magnitude 26 pushing the telescope close to the limiting magnitude.


2018 VP1
The JPL Horizons 2 November 2020 nominal Earth approach was estimated as roughly 0.0028 AU (420,000 km; 260,000 mi). The line of variations (LOV, uncertainty region) allowed the asteroid to impact Earth or pass as far away as 0.025 AU (3,700,000 km; 2,300,000 mi). Its diameter of 2–4 meters makes it approximately 100–1000 times less massive than the 20-meter Chelyabinsk meteor. An Earth-impact by this asteroid, assuming it is a common primitive chondrite, might rattle some windows after an airburst and/or drop pebble-sized meteorites on roof tops after dark flight.


2018 VP1
Preliminarily results are that nothing was detected via infrasound or atmospheric flash monitors. The asteroid was not visually recovered.


2018 VP1, Return
2018 VP1 has a low 3.2° orbital inclination with respect to the ecliptic plane and an Earth-MOID of only 9700 km. Since the asteroid approached Earth in November 2018 and has a 2.00 year orbital period, the asteroid approached Earth again around 2 November 2020 (±3 days). Where Earth will be on a given date is known. However, given the short observation arc and the two years since it was seen at all, the location of the asteroid along its orbit was imprecisely known.


2018 VP1, Return
The asteroid intersected Earth's orbit. A slight variation in the known orbit of the asteroid can cause it to be early (NEODyS solution), right on time (Sentry solution), or late (JPL solution). The nominal NEODyS 1 November 2020 23:54 UT Earth approach is 0.0004 AU (60,000 km; 37,000 mi). The Sentry Risk Table showed an estimated 1 in 240 chance of Earth impact on 2 November 2020 1:12 UT. The nominal JPL Horizons 2 November 2020 11:33 UT Earth approach was 0.0028 AU (420,000 km; 260,000 mi) with a 3-sigma uncertainty of ± 4 million km.


2018 VP1, Return, Impact line
The line of variation (LOV) passed across the Pacific Ocean.


2018 VP1, Return, Impact line
The asteroid came to opposition (opposite the Sun in the sky) at the end of May 2020 at an estimated apparent magnitude of ~31, and as a moving object was much too faint for any telescope to detect. Large ground-based observatories take 10 hours to image a magnitude ~28 object. The Hubble Space Telescope needs 3 weeks of exposure time to image magnitude 31 objects. The November 2020 Earth approach was expected be hidden by the glare of the Sun due to the asteroid's low solar elongation in that time.


2018 VP1, Return, Impact line
Since the asteroid is only about 2 meters (7 feet) in diameter it is too small to do more than create a bolide and common strewn field similar to the Sutter's Mill meteorite or 2014 AA.


2018 VP1, Return, Impact line
It is not categorized as a potentially hazardous object given the estimated size is smaller than the threshold for potentially hazardous objects which are estimated at more than 140 meters in diameter.


2018 VTB United League Final Four
The 2018 VTB United League Final Four was the 4th final four tournament of the VTB United League, a regional European club basketball competition. The tournament is held in the VTB Ice Palace in Moscow, Russia. The four winners of the play-offs during the 2017–18 VTB United League qualified for the Final Four. The tournament will be hosted between 8 June and 10 June 2018.


2018 VTB United League Final Four
The last final four was held in 2012, as the league was decided through playoff series in the previous years. Khimki, the runners-up of the Final Four, qualified for the 2018–19 EuroLeague (as CSKA Moscow was already qualified).


2018 VTV Awards
The 2018 VTV Awards (Vietnamese: Ấn tượng VTV - Sắc màu 2018) is a ceremony honouring the outstanding achievement in television on the Vietnam Television (VTV) network from August 2017 to July 2018. It took place on September 7, 2018 in Hanoi and hosted by Minh Hà & Thành Trung.


2018 VTV International Women's Volleyball Cup
The 2018 VTV Cup is the 15th staging of the international tournament. The tournament will held in Hà Tĩnh, Vietnam.


2018 VTV9 – Binh Dien International Women's Volleyball Cup
The 2018 VTV9 - Binh Dien International Women's Volleyball Cup was the 12th staging. The tournament was held in Tam Kỳ, Quảng Nam Province, Vietnam.


2018 VTV9 – Binh Dien International Women's Volleyball Cup, Pools composition
VTV Bình Điền Long An (Host)   Thông tin LVPB  Fujian  Est Cola Team


2018 VTV9 – Binh Dien International Women's Volleyball Cup, Pool standing procedure
Match won 3–0 or 3–1: 3 match points for the winner, 0 match points for the loserMatch won 3–2: 2 match points for the winner, 1 match point for the loser


2018 Vaahteraliiga season
The 2018 Vaahteraliiga season was the 39th season of the highest level of American football in Finland. The regular season took place between May 10 and September 9, 2018. The Finnish champion was determined in the playoffs, and at the championship game Vaahteramalja XXXIX the Helsinki Roosters won a league record seventh consecutive championship, this time against the Kuopio Steelers.


2018 Val-d'Oise's 1st constituency by-election
The first round of a by-election was held in Val-d'Oise's 1st constituency on 28 January 2018, with a second round on 4 February because no candidate secured a majority of votes in the first round. The by-election was called due to the invalidation of the election of Isabelle Muller-Quoy, candidate of La République En Marche! (REM), in the June 2017 legislative elections by the Constitutional Council on 16 November 2017. It was the first legislative by-election held during the 15th National Assembly.


2018 Val-d'Oise's 1st constituency by-election
In the first round on 28 January, Isabelle Muller-Quoy of La République En Marche! and Antoine Savignat of The Republicans (LR) advanced to the second round, as they did in June 2017, with Muller-Quoy securing a considerably lower share of the vote amid low turnout. Savignat was elected in the second round with 51.45% of the vote, defeating Muller-Quoy.


2018 Val-d'Oise's 1st constituency by-election, Background
On 14 November 2017, the Constitutional Council heard an appeal regarding the 2017 legislative elections within Val-d'Oise's 1st constituency by the three main defeated candidates, Antoine Savignat of The Republicans (LR), Denise Cornet of the National Front (FN), and Leïla Saïb of La France Insoumise (FI), who argued that the election should be invalidated because Michel Alexeef, selected as a substitute to elected deputy Isabelle Muller-Quoy of La République En Marche! (REM), previously served as a president of an employment tribunal within the constituency from January 2016 to January 2017, rendering him ineligible to run in a legislative election under the electoral code.


2018 Val-d'Oise's 1st constituency by-election, Background
The Constitutional Council annulled the election of Muller-Quoy on 16 November 2017 under article L.O. 132 of the electoral code, and a by-election was held in the constituency in 2018 to fill the vacant seat. The legislative by-election was the first to be held since the election of Emmanuel Macron, and the first to be contested by a REM candidate.


2018 Val-d'Oise's 1st constituency by-election, Background
Since the 2017 legislative elections, the Constitutional Council received 298 appeals within 122 constituencies; since 21 July, 242 of these were rejected, with another forty cases outstanding when the result in Val-d'Oise was annulled.


2018 Val-d'Oise's 1st constituency by-election, Background
Though the poll opening and closing times were initially set as 8:00 and 18:00 CET, these hours were later extended to 20:00 CET.


2018 Val-d'Oise's 1st constituency by-election, Candidates
On 14 December 2017, the by-election was scheduled for 28 January 2018, with a second round on 4 February should no candidate secure a majority of votes in the first round; candidates are required to file between 2 and 5 January.


2018 Val-d'Oise's 1st constituency by-election, Candidates
As of 17 December 2017, Isabelle Muller-Quoy declared her candidacy for La République En Marche!, Antoine Savignat for The Republicans, Stéphane Capdet for the National Front, Leïla Saïb for La France Insoumise, Sandra Nguyen-Derosier for the Socialist Party (PS), Bénédicte Ariès for Europe Ecology – The Greens (EELV), Hélène Halbin for Lutte Ouvrière (LO), and Denise Cornet for The Patriots (LP), having stood under the FN label in June. In addition, Huguette François of the Party of France (PDF), previously invested in June as part of a far-right electoral alliance, Debout la France (DLF) candidate Jean-Paul Nowak, Christophe Hayes of the Popular Republican Union (UPR), and Brigitte Poli of the French Communist Party (PCF) also filed to run.


2018 Val-d'Oise's 1st constituency by-election, Campaign
On 9 January 2018, the Union of Democrats and Independents (UDI) announced its support for Savignat, whose substitute, Nathalie Groux, is an elected member of the UDI. Xavier Renou, substitute to Leïla Saïb, candidate of La France Insoumise, alleged that mayor of Beaumont-sur-Oise Nathalie Groux, substitute to Antoine Savignat of The Republicans, made it deliberately difficult to register as a candidate, a claim that Groux denied. On 13 January, Florian Philippot visited in support of Denise Cornet, followed by Christophe Castaner in support of Muller-Quoy on 14 January.


2018 Val-d'Oise's 1st constituency by-election, Campaign
Nicolas Bay visited on 19 January in support of Stéphane Capdet, and La France Insoumise deputies Alexis Corbière and Adrien Quatennens visited on 20 January to support the candidacy of Leïla Saïb, the same day that Valerie Pécresse came to support Antoine Savignat. Minister Agnès Buzyn visited to campaign with Muller-Quoy on 22 January, followed by Prime Minister Édouard Philippe on 25 January, the latter's visit considered an appeal to the traditionally right-wing tendencies of the constituency.


2018 Val-d'Oise's 1st constituency by-election, Campaign
In the first round on 28 January, Muller-Quoy received 29.28% of the vote, compared to Savignat with 23.67% of the vote, a significantly smaller margin than that in June. Saïb arrived in third with 11.47% of the vote, followed by Capdet with 10.11%, Nguyen-Dérosier with 6.88%, and Ariès with 6.20%.


2018 Val-d'Oise's 1st constituency by-election, Campaign
On 30 January, Castaner came to Beaumont-sur-Oise to support Muller-Quoy, followed by Pécresse and Laurent Wauquiez on 31 January to back Savignat, not long after a tense meeting of the two at the national council of the party on 27 January, and were accompanied by deputy and LR vice president Damien Abad. On 1 February, Philippe and Castaner visited the constituency together at a public meeting in support of Muller-Quoy, who was introduced by deputy Aurélien Taché. In the second round on 4 February, Savignat was elected deputy with 51.45% of the vote, defeating Muller-Quoy, who received 48.55%.


2018 Valdosta State Blazers football team
The 2018 Valdosta State Blazers football team represented Valdosta State University as a member of the Gulf South Conference (GSC) during the 2018 NCAA Division II football season. They were led by third-year head coach Kerwin Bell, who also served as offensive coordinator. The Blazers played their home games at Bazemore–Hyder Stadium in Valdosta, Georgia. Valdosta State compiled an overall record of 14–0 with a conference mark of 8–0, winning the GSC title. The beat Ferris State in the NCAA Division II Championship Game to win the program's fourth national title.


2018 Valdosta State Blazers football team, Preseason, Gulf South Conference coaches poll
On August 2, 2018, the Gulf South Conference released their preseason coaches poll with the Blazers predicted to finish in fifth place in the conference.


2018 Valdosta State Blazers football team, Preseason, Preseason All-Gulf South Conference Team
The Blazers had five players at five positions selected to the preseason all-Gulf South Conference team.


2018 Valdosta State Blazers football team, Schedule
Valdosta State's 2018 regular season football schedule consisted of five home games, four away games, and one neutral site game. The Blazers hosted GSC foes Delta State, North Greenville, Shorter, and West Georgia, and traveled to Florida Tech, Mississippi College, West Alabama, and West Florida. Three games were broadcast on ESPN3, as part of the Gulf South Conference Game of the Week.


2018 Valdosta State Blazers football team, Schedule
The Blazers hosted non-conference foe Albany State from the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SIAC) and competed in the Okefenokee Classic against Fort Valley State, also from the (SIAC).


2018 Valdosta State Blazers football team, Schedule
After an undefeated regular season, the Blazers were the No. 1 seed in the NCAA Division II playoffs.


2018 Valdostan regional election
The 2018 Valdostan regional election took place on 20 May 2018 in Aosta Valley, Italy.


2018 Valdostan regional election, Background
The 2013 regional election confirmed the incumbent autonomist coalition government, led by the Valdostan Union (UV), which retained its absolute majority in the Regional Council of Aosta Valley. The coalition lost 14pp from 2008, however.


2018 Valdostan regional election, Background
In July 2015 the regional government, which had been led by UV's Augusto Rollandin since 2008 (he had been President also in 1984–1990 and senator for Aosta Valley in 2001–2006), was enlarged to the centre-left Democratic Party (PD). In June 2016, after months of negotiations, the government was joined also by the Progressive Valdostan Union (UVP).


2018 Valdostan regional election, Background
In March 2017 the UVP left the government and, along with Edelweiss (SA), Autonomy Liberty Participation Ecology (ALPE) and For Our Valley (PNV), formed a new government without the UV, under President Pierluigi Marquis (SA). Finally, in October, Marquis resigned and was replaced by UVP's Laurent Viérin at the head of a coalition composed of the UV, the UVP, the Valdostan Autonomist Popular Edelweiss (EPAV) and the PD.


2018 Valdostan regional election, Parties and candidate
This is the list of parties that participated in the election.


2018 Valencia, Venezuela fire
On March 28, 2018, a fire broke out during a prison riot in the cells at the Carabobo state police headquarters in Valencia, Carabobo, Venezuela. The fire killed at least 68 people and injured scores of others. The fire is one of the deadliest incidents ever in a Venezuelan prison since the 1994 Sabaneta prison fire, in which more than 100 inmates died.


2018 Valencia, Venezuela fire
Four prosecutors have been named to investigate the circumstances preceding the victims' deaths. The U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights requested an investigation and reparations for the families of the fire victims.


2018 Valencia, Venezuela fire, Background
Violence and overcrowding are problems in Venezuela's prison system. The Observatorio Venezolano de Prisiones (English: Venezuelan Observatory of Prisons) estimates that 6,663 prisoners have died between 1999 and 2015, with average overcrowding at over 200%.


2018 Valencia, Venezuela fire, Background
More than 60 prisoners died in the 2013 Uribana prison riot. The organization Human Rights Watch states that because of poor training and insufficient numbers of guards, corruption and deterioration of infrastructure, armed gangs have seized control of inmate populations.


2018 Valencia, Venezuela fire, Fire
The fire began in the jail attached to the police station in Valencia, a city located about 160 km (100 mi) west of Venezuela's capital city, Caracas. The jail was built to contain only 60 prisoners, but when the fire broke out, it housed about 200.


2018 Valencia, Venezuela fire, Fire
The fire reportedly began when, during a riot, prisoners in the jail inside the police station lit their mattresses on fire in an attempt to escape. Later reports stated that the fire began during a party thrown by the inmates. Gunfire was also reportedly heard during the riot that preceded the fire. However, the circumstances surrounding the fire have yet to be officially confirmed, and local officials initially only confirmed that some people had died in the fire.


2018 Valencia, Venezuela fire, Fire
Later on the day of the fire, Tarek William Saab, Venezuela's lead prosecutor, stated that the death toll was 68, which included two women, most likely visitors; and Saab stated that an investigation would be started to “clarify” the incident.


2018 Valencia, Venezuela fire, Aftermath
On the same day of the fire, relatives of the dead prisoners gathered at the police station where the fire occurred, but were dispersed by police using tear gas. The gas was used after the protesters attempted to push their way into the station and detention center in question, the Carabobo state police headquarters, with one officer being injured by a stone.


2018 Valencia, Venezuela fire, Aftermath
The governor of Carabobo, Rafael Lacava, stated his "consternation" over the events, and the human rights body of the United Nations called for an investigation. In a released statement, the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights also requested reparations for the victims' families.


2018 Valencia, Venezuela fire, Aftermath
Political opponents of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro have seized on the fire as evidence that Venezuelan society has declined under Maduro's leadership. Venezuelan opposition leader Henrique Capriles tweeted "How many more times are we going to see the same Dantesque scenes with the prisoners of the country?"


2018 Valencia, Venezuela fire, Aftermath
Many of the dead prisoners were buried side by side, and three deep, in a mass grave separated by cinder blocks and marked by crosses.


2018 Valencian Community motorcycle Grand Prix
The 2018 Valencian Community motorcycle Grand Prix was the nineteenth and final round of the 2018 MotoGP season. It was held at the Circuit Ricardo Tormo in Valencia on 18 November 2018.


2018 Valencian Community motorcycle Grand Prix
In the Moto3 race, Red Bull KTM Ajo wildcard Can Öncü made history by winning on his debut, becoming the youngest ever Grand Prix winner at the age of 15 years, 115 days.


2018 Valencian Community motorcycle Grand Prix
In the MotoGP class, no Yamaha or Honda rider finished on the podium for the first time since the 2007 San Marino Grand Prix.


2018 Valencian Community motorcycle Grand Prix
In the Moto2 class, this was the final race for the Honda CBR600RR inline-4 engine package and also the final race for the Tech 3 Mistral 610 and Suter MMX2 chassis packages that débuted at the 2010 Qatar Grand Prix, since a new 765cc (46.7 cu in) inline-3 engine supplied by Triumph Motorcycles was introduced and Tech 3 and Forward Racing switched manufacturers to KTM and MV Agusta respectively in 2019.


2018 Valencian Community motorcycle Grand Prix, Classification, MotoGP
The race, scheduled to be run for 27 laps, was red-flagged after 13 full laps, as heavy rain had caused multiple riders to crash and racing conditions were deemed too dangerous. For the restart, the race distance was 14 laps.


2018 Valenzuela Classic season
The 2018 Valenzuela Classic season is the 1st season of the franchise in the Maharlika Pilipinas Basketball League (MPBL).


2018 Valparaiso Crusaders football team
The 2018 Valparaiso Crusaders football team represented Valparaiso University in the 2018 NCAA Division I FCS football season. They were led by fifth-year head coach Dave Cecchini and played their home games at Brown Field. They competed in the Pioneer Football League. They finished the season 2–9, 2–6 in PFL play to finish in a three-way tie for seventh place.


2018 Valparaiso Crusaders football team, Previous season
The Crusaders finished the 2017 season 6–5, 5–3 in PFL play to finish in a three-way tie for third place. The Crusaders had a winning season for the first time since 2003 and had five league wins for the first time since 1961.


2018 Valparaiso Crusaders football team, Preseason, Preseason All-PFL team
The PFL released their preseason all-PFL team on July 30, 2018, with the Crusaders having three players selected.


2018 Valparaiso Crusaders football team, Preseason, Preseason coaches poll
The PFL released their preseason coaches poll on July 31, 2018, with the Crusaders predicted to finish in a tie for fourth place.


2018 Vancouver International Film Festival
The 2018 Vancouver International Film Festival (VIFF) took place from September 27 to October 12, 2018.


2018 Vancouver Stealth season
The Vancouver Stealth are a lacrosse team based in Vancouver, British Columbia. The team plays in the National Lacrosse League (NLL). The 2018 season is the 19th in franchise history and the 5th season in Vancouver. The franchise previously played in Everett, Washington, San Jose, and Albany, New York.


2018 Vancouver Stealth season, Regular season, Final standings
x: Clinched playoff berth; c: Clinched playoff berth by crossing over to another division; y: Clinched division; z: Clinched best regular season record; GP: Games PlayedW: Wins; L: Losses; GB: Games back; PCT: Win percentage; Home: Record at Home; Road: Record on the Road; GF: Goals scored; GA: Goals allowedDifferential: Difference between goals scored and allowed; GF/GP: Average number of goals scored per game; GA/GP: Average number of goals allowed per game


2018 Vancouver Stealth season, Roster, Entry Draft
The 2017 NLL Entry Draft took place on September 18, 2017. The Stealth made the following selections:


2018 Vancouver Whitecaps FC season
The 2018 Vancouver Whitecaps FC season is the club's eighth season in Major League Soccer, the top division of soccer in the United States and Canada. Including previous iterations of the franchise, this is 41st season of professional soccer being played in Vancouver under a variation of the "Whitecaps" name.


2018 Vancouver Whitecaps FC season
Outside of MLS, the Whitecaps played in the 2018 Canadian Championship. They defeated the Montreal Impact 2–1 on aggregate in the semifinals before falling 7–4 on aggregate to Toronto FC in the finals.


2018 Vancouver Whitecaps FC season
On September 25, with five games remaining in the season the Whitecaps released manager Carl Robinson along with assistant coaches Martyn Pert, Gordon Forrest and goalkeeper coach Stewart Kerr. Whitecaps Academy technical director Craig Dalrymple was named acting manager for the remainder of the season.


2018 Vancouver Whitecaps FC season, Major League Soccer, Regular season, Results
Last updated: October 28, 2018Source:Pld = Matches played; Pts = Points; W = Matches won;  T = Matches tied;  L = Matches lost; GF = Goals for; GA = Goals against; GD = Goal difference


2018 Vancouver Whitecaps FC season, Playing statistics
Appearances (Apps.) numbers are for appearances in competitive games only including sub appearancesRed card numbers denote: Numbers in parentheses represent red cards overturned for wrongful dismissal.


2018 Vancouver Whitecaps FC season, Playing statistics
Source: (for players and positions) 00(for squad numbers) 00(for actual stats.)


2018 Vancouver municipal election
The 2018 Vancouver municipal election was held on October 20, 2018, the same day as other municipalities and regional districts in British Columbia selected their new municipal governments. Voters elected a mayor, 10 city councillors, 7 park board commissioners, and 9 school board trustees through plurality-at-large voting. Official registration for all candidates opened on September 4, 2018, and closed on September 14, 2018.


2018 Vancouver municipal election
For the first time, candidates were listed in random order instead of alphabetical order. This was done in an effort to create a more even playing field for candidates, as research has shown many voters are more likely to vote for those listed first on a ballot, giving those candidates a perceived advantage over those lower down on the list.


2018 Vancouver municipal election, Candidates and results, Mayor
Incumbent Gregor Robertson, who had been mayor of Vancouver since being elected in 2008, announced on January 10, 2018, that he would not be running for reelection in the 2018 election.


2018 Vancouver municipal election, Candidates and results, Mayor
At the close of nominations, 21 candidates had formally registered to run for mayor in the election.


2018 Vanderbilt Commodores football team
The 2018 Vanderbilt Commodores football team represented Vanderbilt University in the 2018 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Commodores played their home games at Vanderbilt Stadium in Nashville, Tennessee and competed in the Eastern Division of the Southeastern Conference (SEC). They were led by fifth-year head coach Derek Mason. Vanderbilt finished the season 6–7, 3–5 in SEC play to finish in 6th place in the East Division. They were invited to play in the Texas Bowl where they were defeated by Baylor.


2018 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Previous season
The Commodores finished the 2017 season 5–7, 1–7 in SEC play to finish in sixth place in the Eastern Division.


2018 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Preseason, SEC media poll
The SEC media poll was released on July 20, 2018 with the Commodores predicted to finish last in the East Division.


2018 Varsity Cup
The 2018 Varsity Cup was contested from 29 January to 16 April 2018. The tournament (known as the FNB Varsity Cup for sponsorship reasons) was the eleventh season of the Varsity Cup, an annual inter-university rugby union competition featuring South African universities.


2018 Varsity Cup, Competition rules and information
There were nine participating universities in the 2018 Varsity Cup. During the round-robin stage of the competition, these teams played each other once over the course of the season, either home or away. Teams received four points for a win and two points for a draw. Bonus points were awarded to teams that scored four or more tries in a game, as well as to teams that lost a match by seven points or less. Teams were ranked by log points, then points difference (points scored less points conceded).


2018 Varsity Cup, Competition rules and information
The top four teams qualified for the title play-offs. In the semi-finals, the team that finished first had home advantage against the team that received fourth, while the team that finished second had home advantage against the team that finished third. The winners of these semi-finals played each other in the final, at the home venue of the higher-placed team.


2018 Varsity Cup, Competition rules and information
Tries were worth five or seven points, depending on the point where the try-scoring move originated. If the try-scoring move originated in the opponents' half, it would count five points. If the move originated in the try-scoring team's own half, two bonus points were awarded and the try would be worth seven points.


2018 Varsity Cup, Competition rules and information
For the 2018 season, the Varsity Cup introduced a Power Play rule; when a team calls for the Power Play, they can nominate two opposition backline players to be removed from the field of play for a period of three minutes.


2018 Varsity Cup, Teams
The following teams took part in the 2018 Varsity Cup competition:


2018 Varsity Cup, Matches
The following matches were played in the 2018 Varsity Cup:


2018 Varsity Rugby
2018 Varsity Rugby was the 2018 edition of four rugby union competitions annually played between several university teams in South Africa. It was contested from 29 January to 16 April 2018 and was the eleventh edition of these competitions.


2018 Varsity Rugby, Varsity Cup
The following teams competed in the 2018 Varsity Cup:  CUT Ixias,  Maties,  NMMU Madibaz,  NWU Pukke,  UCT Ikey Tigers,  UFS Shimlas,  UJ,  UP Tuks and  Wits. All these teams also played in the competition in 2017. The competition was won by  Maties, who beat  NWU Pukke 40–7 in the final. NMU Madibaz finished bottom of the log and were relegated to the 2019 Varsity Shield. CUT Ixias remained in the Varsity Cup for 2019 after beating the  WSU All Blacks in a relegation play-off.


2018 Varsity Rugby, Varsity Shield
The following teams competed in the 2018 Varsity Shield:  CPUT,  Rhodes,  TUT Vikings,  UFH Blues,  UKZN Impi,  UWC and  WSU All Blacks. All these teams also played in the competition in 2017. The competition was won by  UWC, who beat  WSU All Blacks 55–10 in the final. UWC were promoted to the 2019 Varsity Cup for the first time, while the  WSU All Blacks remained in the Varsity Shield for 2019 after losing to  CUT Ixias in a promotion play-off.


2018 Varsity Rugby, Promotion/relegation play-offs, 2019 Varsity Cup play-off
There was a promotion/relegation match between  CUT Ixias, who finished eighth in the 2018 Varsity Cup and the  WSU All Blacks, who finished runners-up in the 2018 Varsity Shield. CUT Ixias won 37–31 to retain their place in the Varsity Cup for 2019, while the WSU All Blacks remained in the Varsity Shield competition.


2018 Varsity Rugby, Promotion/relegation play-offs, 2019 Varsity Shield play-off
There was a promotion/relegation match between  Rhodes, who finished seventh in the 2018 Varsity Shield and the University of Zululand, as the best-performing non-Varsity Rugby team at the USSA tournament. Rhodes won 44–5 to retain their place in the Varsity Shield for 2019.


2018 Varsity Rugby, Young Guns, Competition rules
There were nine participating universities in the 2018 Young Guns competition, the Under-20 sides of each of the nine Varsity Cup teams. These teams were divided into three regionalised sections and each team played every team in their section twice over the course of the season, once at home and once away.


2018 Varsity Rugby, Young Guns, Competition rules
Teams received four points for a win and two points for a draw. Bonus points were awarded to teams that scored four or more tries in a game, as well as to teams that lost a match by eight points or less. Teams were ranked by log points, then points difference (points scored less points conceded).


2018 Varsity Rugby, Young Guns, Competition rules
The three section winners qualified for the semi-finals, along with the runner-up with the best record.


2018 Varsity Rugby, Young Guns, Young Guns North, Log
The final standings for the 2018 Varsity Cup Young Guns North were:


2018 Varsity Rugby, Young Guns, Young Guns North, Matches
The following matches were played in the 2018 Varsity Cup Young Guns North:


2018 Varsity Rugby, Young Guns, Young Guns Central, Log
The final standings for the 2018 Varsity Cup Young Guns Central were:


2018 Varsity Rugby, Young Guns, Young Guns Central, Matches
The following matches were played in the 2018 Varsity Cup Young Guns Central:


2018 Varsity Rugby, Young Guns, Young Guns South, Log
The final standings for the 2018 Varsity Cup Young Guns South were:


2018 Varsity Rugby, Young Guns, Young Guns South, Matches
The following matches were played in the 2018 Varsity Cup Young Guns South:


2018 Varsity Rugby, Res Rugby, Competition rules
There were nine participating teams in the 2018 Res Rugby competition — the new name for the competition formerly known as the Koshuis Rugby Championship — the winners of the internal leagues of each of the nine Varsity Cup teams. These teams were divided into two divisions (a Championship division with five teams and a Premiership division with four teams) and each team played every team in their division once over the course of the season, either at home or away.


2018 Varsity Rugby, Res Rugby, Competition rules
Teams received four points for a win and two points for a draw. Bonus points were awarded to teams that scored four or more tries in a game, as well as to teams that lost a match by eight points or less. Teams were ranked by log points, then points difference (points scored less points conceded).


2018 Varsity Rugby, Res Rugby, Competition rules
The top two teams in the Championship qualified for the final.


2018 Varsity Rugby, Res Rugby, Championship, Log
The final standings for the 2018 Res Rugby Championship were:


2018 Varsity Rugby, Res Rugby, Championship, Matches
The following matches were played in the 2018 Res Rugby Championship:


2018 Varsity Rugby, Res Rugby, Premiership, Log
The final standings for the 2018 Res Rugby Premiership were:


2018 Varsity Rugby, Res Rugby, Premiership, Matches
The following matches were played in the 2018 Res Rugby Championship:


2018 Varsity Shield
The 2018 Varsity Shield was the 8th season of the Varsity Shield, the second-tier competition in the annual Varsity Rugby series. It was played between 19 February and 9 April 2018 and featured seven university teams.


2018 Varsity Shield
The competition was won by  UWC, who beat the  WSU All Blacks 55–10 in the final played on 9 April 2018, also winning promotion to the 2019 Varsity Cup.


2018 Varsity Shield, Competition rules and information
There were seven participating university teams in the 2019 Varsity Shield. They played each other once during the pool stage, either at home or away. Teams received four points for a win and two points for a draw. Bonus points were awarded to teams that scored four or more tries in a game, as well as to teams that lost a match by seven points or less. Teams were ranked by log points, then points difference (points scored less points conceded).


2018 Varsity Shield, Competition rules and information
The top four teams after the pool stage qualified for the semifinals, which were followed by a final.


2018 Varsity Shield, Teams
The teams that played in the 2018 Varsity Shield were:


2018 Varsity Shield, Pool stage, Standings
The top four teams qualified for the semifinals. Points breakdown:* 4 points for a win* 2 points for a draw* 1 bonus point for a loss by seven points or less* 1 bonus point for scoring four or more tries in a match


2018 Varsity Shield, Pool stage, Round-by-round
The table below shows a team's progression throughout the season. For each round, each team's cumulative points total is shown with the overall log position in brackets.


2018 Varsity Shield, Pool stage, Matches
The following matches were played in the 2018 Varsity Shield:


2018 Vegalta Sendai season, Squad
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


2018 Vehbi Emre & Hamit Kaplan Tournament
The 36th Vehbi Emre & Hamit Kaplan Tournament 2018, was a wrestling event held in Istanbul, Turkey between 20 and 22 July 2018.


2018 Vehbi Emre & Hamit Kaplan Tournament
This international tournament includes competition men's Greco-Roman wrestling. This ranking tournament was held in honor of the Olympic Champion, Hamit Kaplan and Turkish Wrestler and manager Vehbi Emre.


2018 Veikkausliiga
The 2018 Veikkausliiga was the eighty-eighth season of top-tier football in Finland. HJK were the defending champions.


2018 Veikkausliiga
Fixtures for the 2018 season were announced on 17 January 2017. The season started on 7 April 2018 and ended on 27 October 2018.


2018 Veikkausliiga, Teams
JJK were relegated to Ykkönen after finishing at the bottom of the 2017 season. Their place was taken by Ykkönen champions TPS.


2018 Veikkausliiga, Teams
HIFK as 11th-placed team lost their Veikkausliiga spot after losing to second-placed Ykkönen team FC Honka in a relegation/promotion playoff.


2018 Veikkausliiga, Results
Each team plays three times against every other team, either twice at home and once away or once at home and twice away, for a total of 33 matches played each.


2018 Veldhoven Open
The Dynamic Billard Veldhoven Open 2018 (sometimes known as the 2018 Netherlands Open) was the third Euro Tour 9-Ball pool event in 2018. The event was won by Austria's Mario He who defeated Albania's Eklent Kaçi 9–8 in the final. By making the final, Eklent had made the semifinal or better of four straight events.


2018 Veldhoven Open
The previous years champion Ruslan Tschinachow did not reach the last 32 stage.


2018 Veldhoven Open, Tournament format
The event saw a total of 228 players compete, in a double-elimination knockout tournament, until the last 32 stage; where the tournament was contested as single elimination.


2018 Veldhoven Open, Tournament format, Prize fund
The tournament prize fund was similar to that of other Euro Tour events, with €4,500 for the winner of the event.


2018 Venezuelan Primera División season
The 2018 Primera División season, officially Liga de Fútbol Profesional Venezolano or Liga FUTVE, was the 37th professional season of Venezuela's top-flight football league. Monagas were the defending champions, but did not qualify to the Serie Final, after being eliminated in the regular season of the Torneo Apertura and by Caracas in the quarter-finals of the Torneo Clausura.


2018 Venezuelan Primera División season
Zamora were the champions, defeating Deportivo Lara on the Serie Final, 5–1 on aggregate.


2018 Venezuelan Primera División season, Teams, Stadia and locations
Gran Valencia reached the final of the Segunda División and earned promotion to the Primera División, but the team was suspended "temporarily" by the Honorary Council of the FVF after forfeiting the second leg of the final. On 15 January, Academia Puerto Cabello was announced as the replacement.


2018 Venezuelan Primera División season, Teams, Stadia and locations
a: Caracas and Deportivo La Guaira played outside of the Estadio Olímpico in Caracas until September due to mainteinance works at the stadium. Caracas played its matches at Cocodrilos Sports Park and La Guaira at the Estadio José Antonio Anzoátegui in Puerto La Cruz (Torneo Apertura) and the Universidad Santa María campus in Caracas (Torneo Clausura). b: In the Torneo Apertura, Estudiantes de Mérida played Matchday 3 (against Aragua) at the Estadio General José Antonio Páez in Acarigua and Matchday 5 (against Mineros) at the Estadio Rafael Calles Pinto in Guanare, as the Estadio Metropolitano in Mérida was suspended.


2018 Venezuelan Primera División season, Teams, Stadia and locations
c: Atlético Venezuela, Estudiantes de Caracas and Metropolitanos played at Brígido Iriarte Stadium in Caracas until 11 March as the stadium was suspended. Atlético Venezuela is playing at the Estadio Giuseppe Antonelli in Maracay and Estudiantes de Caracas and Metropolitanos are playing at the Universidad Santa María campus in Caracas. Metropolitanos will play at the Estadio Olímpico in Caracas once the works are finished. d: In the Torneo Clausura, Carabobo will play outside of the Estadio Misael Delgado in Valencia due to mainteinance works at the stadium. Carabobo will play at the Estadio Metropolitano in Cabudare.


2018 Venezuelan Primera División season, Torneo Apertura
The Torneo Apertura is the first tournament of the season. The regular season started on 28 January and ended on 19 May.


2018 Venezuelan Primera División season, Torneo Clausura
The Torneo Clausura is the second tournament of the season. The regular season started on 21 July and ended on 28 October.


2018 Venezuelan Primera División season, Serie Final
The Serie Final is held between the champions of the Torneo Apertura and the Torneo Clausura to determine the champions of the season. The best team of the finalists in the aggregate table chose the order of the legs.


2018 Venezuelan municipal elections
Municipal elections were held in Venezuela on 9 December 2018, aimed at choosing only the 2459 municipality councillors of Venezuela.


2018 Venezuelan municipal elections, Background
Following the 2018 Venezuelan presidential election, municipal elections were quickly organized throughout Venezuela. The National Electoral Council proposed the election date of 9 December 2018, which in turn was approved by the Constituent National Assembly on 13 July 2018.


2018 Venezuelan municipal elections, Conduct
Many voting centers were seen empty due to low participation. Members of the state-run CLAP were ordered to participate in the elections with the government offering food products to those who were involved.


2018 Venezuelan municipal elections, Results
Official results showed that only 27.4% of eligible voters participated in the election compared to 47.3% in 2017.


2018 Venezuelan presidential election
Presidential elections were held in Venezuela on 20 May 2018, with incumbent Nicolás Maduro being declared re-elected for a second six-year term. The original electoral date was scheduled for December 2018 but was subsequently pulled ahead to 22 April before being pushed back to 20 May. Some analysts described the poll as a show election, with the elections having the lowest voter turnout in the country's democratic era.


2018 Venezuelan presidential election
Several Venezuelan NGOs, such as Foro Penal, Súmate, Voto Joven, the Venezuelan Electoral Observatory and the Citizen Electoral Network expressed their concern over the irregularities of the electoral schedule, including the lack of the Constituent Assembly's competencies to summon the elections, impeding participation of opposition political parties, and the lack of time for standard electoral functions. Because of this, the European Union, the Organization of American States, the Lima Group and countries including Australia and the United States rejected the electoral process. However, countries including China, Cuba, Iran, Russia, Syria, Turkey and others recognized the election result.


2018 Venezuelan presidential election
The two leading candidates opposing Maduro, Henri Falcón and Javier Bertucci, rejected the results, saying that the election was critically flawed by irregularities. Bertucci asked that the elections be repeated with Maduro being disqualified. Maduro was inaugurated on 10 January 2019, leading to the 2019 Venezuelan presidential crisis.


2018 Venezuelan presidential election, Background
Following the death of President Hugo Chávez in 2013, Venezuela faced a severe socioeconomic crisis during the presidency of his successor, Nicolás Maduro. Due to the country's high levels of urban violence, inflation, and chronic shortages of basic goods attributed primarily to the devaluation of the Venezuelan bolívar and to some extent due to economic policies such as strict price controls, civil insurrection in Venezuela culminated into the 2014–18 protests. Protests occurred periodically over the years, with demonstrations occurring in various sizes depending on the events Venezuelans were facing during the crisis.


2018 Venezuelan presidential election, Background
After facing years of crisis, the Venezuelan opposition pursued a recall referendum against President Maduro, presenting a petition to the National Electoral Council (CNE) on 2 May 2016.


2018 Venezuelan presidential election, Background
By August 2016, the momentum to recall President Maduro appeared to be progressing, with the CNE setting a date for the second phase of collecting signatures, though it made the schedule strenuous, stretching the process into 2017 which made it impossible for the opposition to activate new presidential elections.


2018 Venezuelan presidential election, Background
On 21 October 2016, the CNE suspended the referendum days before preliminary signature-gatherings were to be held. The CNE blamed several irregularities and alleged voter fraud as the reason for the cancellation of the referendum. International observers criticized the move, stating that CNE's decision made Maduro look as if he were seeking to rule as a dictator.


2018 Venezuelan presidential election, Background
Days after the recall movement was cancelled, 1.2 million Venezuelans protested throughout the country against the move, demanding that President Maduro leave office, with Caracas protests remaining calm while protests in other states resulted in clashes between demonstrators and authorities, leaving one policeman dead, 120 injured, and 147 arrested. That day the opposition gave President Maduro a deadline of 3 November 2016 to hold elections, with opposition leader Henrique Capriles stating, "Today we are giving a deadline to the government. I tell the coward who is in Miraflores ... that on 3 November the Venezuelan people are coming to Caracas because we are going to Miraflores".


2018 Venezuelan presidential election, Background
On 1 November 2016, then National Assembly President and opposition leader Henry Ramos Allup announced the cancellation of 3 November march to the Miraflores presidential palace, with Vatican-led dialogue between the opposition and the government beginning. By 7 December 2016, dialogue halted between the two. Two months later, on 13 January 2017 after talks stalled, the Vatican officially pulled out of the dialogue. On 23 January 2017, Henrique Capriles, a two-time presidential candidate declared: "This will be the last conventional protest; the next one will be a surprise one". The opposition then began to focus on its electoral efforts, with only sporadic protests occurring for the next few months.


2018 Venezuelan presidential election, Background
Following the 2017 Venezuelan constitutional crisis, protests in Venezuela intensified in mid-2017, though the movement died down after President Maduro called for a controversial special election, which resulted with the installation of the pro-government superbody, the Constituent National Assembly. Regional elections that occurred months later further cemented the government's power after they won 18 of the 23 governorships.


2018 Venezuelan presidential election, Background, Election preparations
After the government overcame mass protests and won two major disputed elections, one of which installed a constitutional superbody, the government rallied behind President Maduro, with government sources stating that elections were to be moved ahead to February or March 2018 instead of the planned late-2018 date to take advantage of their electoral momentum. On 11 December 2017, President Maduro announced that many of the main opposition parties, including Justice First and Popular Will, would be banned from participating in the 2018 presidential election for abstaining to participate in the 2017 municipal elections.


2018 Venezuelan presidential election, Background, Election preparations
In February 2018, the government announced that elections would be held on 22 April 2018, less than three months before the date. Popular Will announced on 16 February that it would boycott the elections. Following weeks of controversy involving international condemnation and rejection of potential election results, the CNE delayed the election for a few additional weeks pushing for a 20 May 2018 election date.


2018 Venezuelan presidential election, Electoral system
The President of Venezuela is elected by plurality in a single round of voting.


2018 Venezuelan presidential election, Electoral system
The elections were overseen by the National Electoral Council, with poll workers drafted via a lottery of registered voters. Polling places were equipped with multiple high-tech touch-screen DRE voting machines. After the vote is cast, each machine prints out a paper ballot, or VVPAT, which is inspected by the voter and deposited in a ballot box belonging to the machine's table. The voting machines perform in a stand-alone fashion, disconnected from any network until the polls close. Voting session closure at each of the voting stations in a given polling center is determined either by the lack of further voters after the lines have emptied, or by the hour, at the discretion of the president of the voting table.


2018 Venezuelan presidential election, Electoral system
After the Agreement of Electoral Guarantees was signed on 1 March by the political parties Great Patriotic Pole, Movimiento al Socialismo, Avanzada Progresista, and COPEI, the United Nations was asked, with a formal invitation and visit by the main candidates or their representatives, to send a delegation to monitor the election. The Democratic Unity Roundtable (MUD) opposed UN electoral observation in Venezuela. In the end, the UN refused to send a mission.


2018 Venezuelan presidential election, Electoral system
The Carter Center turned down Maduro's invitation to send an observation team on election day, as did other election observing institutions.


2018 Venezuelan presidential election, Electoral system
Smartmatic, the electoral product company which had participated in the majority of elections under the Bolivarian government, ceased operations in its native country in March 2018, stating that they could not guarantee the validity of election results through its machines.