2020 Galician regional election, Opinion polls
The table below lists voting intention estimates in reverse chronological order, showing the most recent first and using the dates when the survey fieldwork was done, as opposed to the date of publication. Where the fieldwork dates are unknown, the date of publication is given instead. The highest percentage figure in each polling survey is displayed with its background shaded in the leading party's colour. If a tie ensues, this is applied to the figures with the highest percentages. The "Lead" column on the right shows the percentage-point difference between the parties with the highest percentages in a given poll. When available, seat projections are also displayed below the voting estimates in a smaller font. 38 seats were required for an absolute majority in the Parliament of Galicia.


2020 Galician regional election, Opinion polls
Poll conducted after legal ban on opinion polls  Exit poll


2020 Galician regional election, Voter turnout
The table below shows registered vote turnout on election day without including voters from the Census of Absent-Residents (CERA).


2020 Galician regional election, Aftermath
Under Article 15 of the Statute, investiture processes to elect the president of the Regional Government of Galicia required of an absolute majority—more than half the votes cast—to be obtained in the first ballot. If unsuccessful, a new ballot would be held 24 hours later requiring only of a simple majority—more affirmative than negative votes—to succeed. If the proposed candidate was not elected, successive proposals were to be transacted under the same procedure.


2020 Galkayo bombing
On 18 December 2020, an al-Shabaab suicide bomber attacked Galkayo, Somalia. He targeted a political rally held in a sports stadium where the Prime Minister Mohamed Hussein Roble was scheduled to speak. The bombing killed 17 people, including several high-ranking officials.


2020 Galway Senior Football Championship
The 2020 Galway Senior Football Championship is the 125th edition of Galway GAA's premier gaelic football tournament for senior graded clubs in County Galway, Ireland. The winners receive the Frank Fox Cup but will not represent Galway in the Connacht Senior Club Football Championship, which was cancelled for 2020 due to the Covid-19 pandemic.


2020 Galway Senior Football Championship
Eighteen teams compete in the competition. This year's format was originally planned to mirror last year's format with the draw being carried out in February 2020. However due to the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic, the format was altered to reduce the number of matches to be played. A new draw was made on 3 July 2020 to compensate for these changes.


2020 Galway Senior Football Championship
Corofin were the defending champions for the sixth consecutive year after they defeated Tuam Stars after a replay in the 2019 final.


2020 Galway Senior Football Championship
This was All Ireland I.C.F.C. champions Oughterard's return the senior grade for the first time in 17 seasons (since their relegation from the S.F.C. in 2002) after they claimed to 2019 I.F.C. title. They were promoted along with the I.F.C. finalists Michael Breathnach's, who return to the Senior grade after their relegation in 2017.


2020 Galway Senior Football Championship, Team Changes
The following teams have changed division since the 2019 championship season.


2020 Galway Senior Football Championship, Group Stage
There are four groups called Group 1, 2, 3 and 4. Groups 1, 2 and 3 each contain four teams drawn randomly. The 1st and 2nd placed teams in each of these groups will qualify for the Quarter-Finals, while the 4th placed team will proceed to the Relegation Semi-Finals. Group 4 is divided into two sub-groups called Group 4A and Group 4B, each containing 3 teams. The 1st and 2nd placed teams in Group 4A will play the 2nd and 1st placed teams in Group 4B, with the two winners qualifying for the Quarter-Finals. The 3rd placed team in both Group 4A and 4B will play-off, with the loser proceeding to the Relegation Semi-Finals.


2020 Galway Senior Football Championship, Relegation Play-Offs, Relegation Semi-Finals
The 4th placed teams from Groups 1, 2 and 3 along with the Group 4 Relegation Play-Off Loser face-off in the Relegation Semi-Finals. The two winners from these Semi-Finals will secure their Senor status for 2021, while the two losers will proceed to the Relegation Final.


2020 Galway Senior Football Championship, Relegation Play-Offs, Relegation Final
The loser of the Relegation final will be relegated to the 2021 Galway I.F.C. The winner will maintain their Senior status into 2021.


2020 Galway Senior Football Championship, Finals, Quarter-Finals
The 1st and 2nd placed teams in Groups 1, 2 and 3 along with the two Group 4 Quarter-Final Play-Off winnersqualify for the Quarter-Finals.


2020 Galway Senior Hurling Championship
The 2020 Galway Senior Hurling Championship. was the 123rd staging of the Galway Senior Hurling Championship since its establishment in 1887. It was won by St. Thomas' for the third consecutive year and the fifth time in total. Kinvara participated in the senior championship having been promoted from the intermediate competition in 2019 but were subsequently relegated. The competition was sponsored by Brooks for 3 years starting in 2020.


2020 Galway Senior Hurling Championship, Competition Format
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Ireland the initial draw was scrapped, the format was changed and the groupings redrawn on 29 June 2020.


2020 Galway Senior Hurling Championship, Competition Format
Twenty four teams compete in the initial group stages of the championship – the top ranked twelve teams compete in the Senior A Group and the second ranked twelve teams compete in the Senior B Group. Eight teams from the Senior A Group and four teams from the Senior B Group progress to the knockout stage. The competition format is explained further in each of the championship rounds in the sections below.


2020 Galway Senior Hurling Championship, Group Stage, Senior A
Senior A consists of 12 teams divided into three groups of 4 teams. The top teams from each group plus one drawn second team qualify for the quarter finals. The remaining 2 second placed teams play in the preliminary quarter finals. The bottom team from each group will be relegated to playing in the following year's Senior B Section.


2020 Galway Senior Hurling Championship, Group Stage, Senior B
Senior B consists of 12 teams divided into three groups of 4. The top two teams in each group qualify for the 2020 preliminary quarter finals and compete in the following year's Senior A competition. The bottom placed teams in each group enter the relegation playoffs.


2020 Galway Senior Hurling Championship, Senior Knockout Stage, Senior Quarter Finals
The three teams who finished first in the Senior A groups and one of the second placed teams (drawn at random) will play the four winners of the senior preliminary quarter finals.


2020 Gamba Osaka season
The 2020 Gamba Osaka season was Gamba Osaka's 27th season in the J1 League and 33rd overall in the Japanese top flight. It will see them compete in the 18 team J1 League as well as the J.League Cup and Emperor's Cup competitions.


2020 Gamba Osaka season, First team squad
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


2020 Gamba Osaka season, Squad statistics, Goal scorers
The list is sorted by shirt number when total goals are equal.


2020 Gamboru bombing
At about 5pm on 6 January 2020, a bomb exploded at a market in Gamboru, Borno State, northeastern Nigeria. The market is located on a bridge which connects Gamboru to Fotokol, Logone-et-Chari, Far North Region, Cameroon. The bombing killed 38 people and injured over 35 others. No group claimed responsibility. Boko Haram often carry out attacks in the region, their insurgency having caused over 35,000 deaths since it began in 2009.


2020 Ganja missile attacks
The Ganja ballistic missile attacks (Azerbaijani: Gəncə bombalanmaları) comprise four separate ballistic missile attacks on the city of Ganja, Azerbaijan in October 2020, during the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh war. The missile attacks happened one week after Azerbaijan began firing cluster bombs and missiles against Armenian civilian areas in Stepanakert.


2020 Ganja missile attacks
The first attack took place on 4 October, killing one civilian and wounding over 30. The second attack occurred on 8 October; no casualties were reported. The third attack happened on 11 October. According to Azerbaijan's Foreign Ministry, at least seven people died and 33 were injured, including children. The fourth attack occurred on 17 October. According to initial reports, fifteen civilians were killed and fifty-five injured in the attack. Infrastructure was also destroyed, including apartment blocks and other buildings, and vehicles.


2020 Ganja missile attacks
The Azerbaijani government described the third attack "an act of genocide".


2020 Ganja missile attacks, Background
On 27 September 2020, clashes broke out in the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region, which is de facto controlled by Artsakh, but de jure part of Azerbaijan. Ganja, the second largest city of Azerbaijan, is home to a population of 335 thousand people; it is situated 97 kilometres (60 mi) north of the Nagorno-Karabakh Line of Contact and 241 kilometres (150 mi) east of the Armenian-Azerbaijani state border.


2020 Ganja missile attacks, Background
On 27 September 2020, Azerbaijan began firing cluster bombs and missiles against civilian areas in the bombardment of Stepanakert. On 4th of October, after the first attack, Arayik Harutyunyan, the self-proclaimed Republic of Artsakh's president, issued a warning to the Azerbaijani army and civilians for the latter to leave Ganja, claiming that military facilities were permanently located in the city.


2020 Ganja missile attacks, Background
On 5 October, spokesman of self-proclaimed Republic of Artsakh's president, Vahram Poghosyan echoing the earlier warning of Arayik of Harutyunian, made a statement saying that "A few more days and I am afraid that even archaeologists will not be able to find the place of Ganja. Get sober before it is too late." According to Human Rights Watch, threats of attacks on unspecified targets over an unspecified period, in a language few Azerbaijani civilians can read, were not effective warnings.


2020 Ganja missile attacks, Background
Trilateral talks on the conflict between the foreign ministers of Russia, Armenia and Azerbaijan commenced on 9 October 2020 in Moscow. Sergey Lavrov, Zohrab Mnatsakanyan, and Jeyhun Bayramov participated in the talks. Lavrov issued a joint statement following ten hours of talks that ended at 03:00 local time, confirming that a humanitarian ceasefire would come into force at midday. Minutes after the truce was due to commence, the two parties blamed each other for violating the ceasefire. Azerbaijan underlined that the ceasefire was temporary and emphasized that it would not renege on its goal to retake control of the region.


2020 Ganja missile attacks, Attacks, First attack
Ganja was first hit by a missile on 4 October. Artsakh denied targeting residential areas, but rather military targets, especially Ganja International Airport, and Arayik Harutyunyan, the president of the de facto Republic of Artsakh, claimed that military facilities permanently located there had been targeting civilians in Stepanakert using Polonez and Smerch missiles; Azerbaijan denied reports of there being military targets in the city.


2020 Ganja missile attacks, Attacks, First attack
Subsequently, both a correspondent reporting from the scene for a Russian media outlet and the airport director denied that the airport, which had not been operational since March due to the COVID-19 pandemic, had been hit while an Irish journalist, Orla Guerin visited the scene and found no evidence of any military target there.


2020 Ganja missile attacks, Attacks, First attack
According to Human Rights Watch, two residential buildings, one of them a multi-family structure, were destroyed and about 30 houses were damaged on Ali Nizami Street. As a result of the attack, one civilian was killed, while 30 were injured.


2020 Ganja missile attacks, Attacks, Second attack
Ganja was again hit on 8 October. No civilian casualties were reported, but a number of residential buildings and a school were damaged.


2020 Ganja missile attacks, Attacks, Third attack
A day after the ceasefire signed on 10 October, at 02:00 local time the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence stated that Armenian armed forces in Berd, Armenia, had fired upon Ganja with a Scud missile; the missile hit an apartment building, completely destroying it. Search and rescue teams shortly afterwards arrived at the scene. During the attack, significant infrastructure in the city was completely destroyed, including 31 apartment buildings, and structures and vehicles in the vicinity of the explosion were seriously damaged. The attack affected 205 people in a total of 95 apartments; The attack killed ten people, and 40 were injured, with women and children among the victims.


2020 Ganja missile attacks, Attacks, Third attack
Human Rights Watch confirmed that Armenian forces had fired a Scud-B ballistic missile that detonated in a residential neighbourhood, killing 10 civilians and wounding 34 others. It observed a massive crater and more than 20 damaged or destroyed buildings in the area, behind a row of multi-story commercial buildings.


2020 Ganja missile attacks, Attacks, Fourth attack
On 17 October, at approximately 01:00 local time, Azerbaijani authorities stated that Armenian forces had fired Scud missiles at Ganja; journalists reported three powerful explosions in the city. According to a RIA Novosti correspondent, the missiles struck densely populated residential areas of the city, leveling several rows of residential and other buildings, the first being less than two kilometers (1.2mi) away from the city hall and the second in Kapaz District in the east of the city. Vasily Polonsky, a "Dozhd" correspondent, stated that there were no military bases and important targets near the places struck by the missiles.


2020 Ganja missile attacks, Attacks, Fourth attack
According to local authorities, approximately 20 houses were destroyed, trapping many civilians under the rubble. Search and rescue teams of the Azerbaijani Ministry of Emergency Situations and servicemen of the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defense arrived at the scene and called in sniffer dogs to rescue the wounded and recover the dead.


2020 Ganja missile attacks, Attacks, Fourth attack
As a result of the attack, 15 civilians were killed, including a 13-year-old Russian citizen, and 55 were injured.


2020 Ganja missile attacks, Attacks, Fourth attack
Human Rights Watch confirmed that Armenian forces had used Scud-B ballistic missiles on two residential neighbourhoods in Ganja at about 1 a.m., killing 21 civilians, including five who had died of their wounds after the attack. They observed 10 houses destroyed and over 20 damaged at the site. Almost simultaneously with the attack, a second Scud-B missile hit another neighbourhood in the city. The attack destroyed or left uninhabitable 15 family homes and damaged 40 to 50 others. Human Rights Watch observed a large crater and dozens of damaged or destroyed residential buildings and munition remnants scattered at the blast site.


2020 Ganja missile attacks, Azerbaijani response
On 14 October, Azerbaijan stated that it had retaliated for the third attack, claiming the destruction of operational-tactical missile systems in the occupied Kalbajar District, under Artsakh's control.


2020 Ganja missile attacks, Azerbaijani response
Three days later, Azerbaijani president Ilham Aliyev stated that Azerbaijani forces had retaliated for the fourth attack, seizing control of Fuzuli and several villages within the district of the same name.


2020 Ganja missile attacks, Reactions
The attacks were strongly condemned by the Azerbaijani government, which labeled the third attack "an act of genocide against the Azerbaijani people we have witnessed since the Khojaly Massacre". Aliyev described the third attack as a war crime and a "gross" violation of the ceasefire, promising a "befitting retaliation". He also described the fourth attack as a war crime and promised to retaliate, adding that Azerbaijan would "punish" Armenia if the international community did not react, while the Azerbaijani ombudsman Sabina Aliyeva accused Armenia of supporting terrorism.


2020 Ganja missile attacks, Reactions
Internationally, the third and fourth attacks were condemned by Turkey, which described the latter as a war crime. The Qatari, Malay, Swiss, British, and Japanese ambassadors to Azerbaijan expressed their condolences for the third attack, while the European Union condemned the fourth attack and UN Secretary-General António Guterres described it as unacceptable. Artsakh authorities, who had called for Ganja to be evacuated, published a list mentioning military targets within the city.


2020 Ganja missile attacks, Reactions
On 16 October, Azerbaijanis, Iranian Azerbaijanis, and Turks living in the United Kingdom gathered in front of Amnesty International's London headquarters and held a protest rally, condemning the Armenian Armed Forces’ shelling of residential areas and civilians in Ganja, Mingachevir, Tartar, and other regions. The next day, Azerbaijani Americans held a rally in Chicago, condemning the ballistic missile attacks. The following day, British Azerbaijanis commemorated those killed during the attacks in front of the Azerbaijani embassy in London, while Georgian Azerbaijanis held a rally in front of the Parliament Building in Tbilisi. The same day, Russian Azerbaijanis dedicated part of the entrance of Azerbaijan's embassy to Russia in Moscow to the memory of the victims of the 17 October attack.


2020 Ganja missile attacks, Reactions
On November 23, Aziz Sancar, a Nobel laureate in chemistry from Turkey, transferred a significant amount of money to a specially created bank account to cover the future education expenses of Khadija Shahnazarova, a toddler who lost both her parents in the 17 October attack.


2020 Gardner–Webb Runnin' Bulldogs football team
The 2020 Gardner–Webb Runnin' Bulldogs football team will represent Gardner–Webb University in the 2020–21 NCAA Division I FCS football season. They will be led by first-year head coach Tre Lamb and play their home games at Ernest W. Spangler Stadium. They are members of the Big South Conference.


2020 Gardner–Webb Runnin' Bulldogs football team, Previous season
The Runnin' Bulldogs finished the 2019 season 3–9, 1–5 in Big South play to finish in a three-way tie for fifth place.


2020 Gardner–Webb Runnin' Bulldogs football team, Preseason, Polls
In June 2020, the Runnin' Bulldogs were predicted to finish sixth in the Big South by a panel of media and head coaches.


2020 Gardner–Webb Runnin' Bulldogs football team, Schedule
Gardner–Webb originally had games scheduled against Georgia Tech, Hampton and Monmouth, but they were canceled  due to each school's decision to cancel fall sports due to the COVID-19 pandemic.


2020 Garena Young Lions FC season
The 2020 season is Young Lion's 17th consecutive season in the top flight of Singapore football and in the S.League.


2020 Gator Bowl
The 2020 Gator Bowl was a college football bowl game played on January 2, 2020, with kickoff at 7:00 p.m. EST on ESPN. It was the 75th edition of the Gator Bowl, and was one of the 2019–20 bowl games concluding the 2019 FBS football season. Sponsored by financial technology company TaxSlayer, the game was officially known as the TaxSlayer Gator Bowl.


2020 Gator Bowl, Teams
The game matched the Indiana Hoosiers from the Big Ten Conference and the Tennessee Volunteers from the Southeastern Conference (SEC). This was the second meeting between the programs; they previously met in the January 1988 Peach Bowl, won by Tennessee, 27–22.


2020 Gator Bowl, Teams, Indiana Hoosiers
Indiana entered the game with an 8–4 record (5–4 in conference). They finished in fourth place in the Big Ten's East Division. The Hoosiers' four losses were all to ranked opponents: Ohio State, Michigan State, Penn State, and Michigan. This was Indiana's first Gator Bowl appearance.


2020 Gator Bowl, Teams, Tennessee Volunteers
Tennessee entered the game with a 7–5 record (5–3 in conference). They finished in third place in the SEC's East Division. The Volunteers lost to all three ranked opponents they faced: Florida, Georgia, and Alabama. After starting their season 2–5, the Volunteers entered the bowl on a five-game winning streak. This was Tennessee's seventh Gator Bowl; the Volunteers had a record of 4–2 in prior appearances.


2020 Gautam Buddha Cup
2020 Gautam Buddha Cup was the inaugural edition of Gautam Buddha Cup, a Twenty20 cricket tournament in Nepal. It was played at the Gautam Buddha International Cricket Stadium, Chitwan from 12 December 2020 to 15 December 2020.


2020 Gautam Buddha Cup, Squads
Originally, Paras Khadka was the captain of Team Narayani. However, he tested positive for COVID-19 few days before the tournament was about to start. He was withdrawn from the squad and Subash Khakurel was named the captain in his absence.


2020 Geelong Football Club season
The 2020 season is the Geelong Football Club's 121st season in the Australian Football League (AFL), the tenth with Chris Scott as senior coach and ninth with Joel Selwood as captain.


2020 Geelong Football Club season
Geelong participated in the 2020 Marsh Community Series as part of its pre-season schedule, and the club's regular season began 21 March against Greater Western Sydney at GIANTS Stadium where they lost by 32 points.


2020 Geelong Football Club season, Overview
Chris Scott continued as the club's senior coach for a tenth season, and Joel Selwood continued as the club's captain for a ninth year. Harry Taylor stepped down from his position as co-vice-captain and was replaced by Mark Blicavs. In addition, Patrick Dangerfield retained his position as co-vice-captain. Furthermore, Mitch Duncan, Tom Stewart and Zach Tuohy kept their positions in the leadership group, with Mark O'Connor joining the group.


2020 Geelong Football Club season, Overview
Car manufacturer Ford Australia was the major sponsor for the 2020 season, making it the 96th year of the partnership. GMHBA the naming rights sponsor for Geelong's home ground Kardinia Park, continuing a ten-year deal signed in October 2017 for the venue to be known as GMHBA Stadium.


2020 General Aung San Shield
The 2020 General Aung San Shield (Burmese: Bogyoke Aung San Shield) is the sixth season of Myanmar knockout football competition. The tournament is organized by the Myanmar Football Federation. This cup succeeded the Myanmar Football Federation Cup. It got cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Myanmar.


2020 General Aung San Shield, Qualifying rounds
Twenty-five teams, including MNL, MNL 2, and five amateur clubs will compete in the tournament with first round matches involving 12 teams: 10/Mon versus Paung Laung, University versus Kachin United, Junior Lions versus Yaw Myay, Myawady versus champion of the Yangon Premier League, Silver Stars versus play-off winner from amateur teams, and Mawyawady versus Happy Friendship on April 8 and 9.


2020 General Aung San Shield, Results, Preliminary Round
Preliminary round consists of two rounds for teams currently playing in the Regional League Division 1 level. The First round was held 8 April 2020.


2020 General Aung San Shield, Top goalscorers
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Myanmar the tournament was cancelled and declared null and void by the Myanmar Football Federation. At that time, the preliminary round had been played.


2020 Generali Open Kitzbühel
The 2020 Generali Open Kitzbühel was a tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts. It is the 76th edition of the Austrian Open Kitzbühel, and part of the ATP Tour 250 series of the 2020 ATP Tour. It will take place at the Tennis stadium Kitzbühel in Kitzbühel, Austria, from 6 to 13 September.


2020 Generali Open Kitzbühel, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:


2020 Generali Open Kitzbühel, Doubles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:


2020 Generali Open Kitzbühel – Doubles
Philipp Oswald and Filip Polášek were the defending champions, but chose to participate with different partners. Oswald partnered Marcus Daniell and lost in the quarterfinals to Marcel Granollers and Horacio Zeballos. Polášek partnered Ivan Dodig and lost in the semifinals to Austin Krajicek and Franko Škugor.


2020 Generali Open Kitzbühel – Doubles
Krajicek and Škugor went on to win the title, defeating Granollers and Zeballos in the final, 7–6(7–5), 7–5.


2020 Generali Open Kitzbühel – Singles
Dominic Thiem was the defending champion and chose not to defend his title, as he was still competing at the 2020 US Open.


2020 Generali Open Kitzbühel – Singles
Miomir Kecmanović won his first ATP Tour title, defeating Yannick Hanfmann in the final, 6–4, 6–4.


2020 Genesys 300
The 2020 Genesys 300 is an IndyCar Series event that was held on June 6, 2020 at Texas Motor Speedway in Fort Worth, Texas. It was the opening event of the 2020 IndyCar Series, due to race cancellations and postponements tied to the COVID-19 pandemic.


2020 Genesys 300, Background
On May 7, 2020, it was announced that the season would commence with a condensed, one-day event format at Texas Motor Speedway, with only limited spectators (Lone Star Towers office and condominium owners and tenants in Turn 2 were given tickets and parking passes to watch the event from their units), and drivers and crew members subject to social distancing and health screening protocols, and use of face coverings. Practice, qualifying and the race took place on the same day, requiring it to be shortened from 248 laps or around 600 kilometres (370 miles), to 200 laps (300 miles).


2020 Genesys 300, Background
As the pandemic prevented Firestone from manufacturing new tire compounds for the race, existing compounds were used instead. The right-hand tires had originally been manufactured for tests at the track in 2019, simulating the effects of the new aeroscreen introduced to all vehicles for the 2020 season. The left-hand tires were originally manufactured for the 2019 Indianapolis 500. Due to these tire variances, Firestone and IndyCar required that these tires be replaced after 35 laps of use, with each car provided with nine sets of tires to use across the day.


2020 Genesys 300, Background, Entry list
In May 2020, DragonSpeed revealed that it planned to prioritize an entry for the rescheduled Indianapolis 500, so that it could initially focus on its core European Le Mans Series operations. On June 2, Carlin withdrew its entry for the race in the #31, citing economic impacts of the pandemic in Europe.


2020 Genesys 300, Background, Entry list
All cars ran a Dallara safety tub utilizing the IndyCar mandated Universal Aero Kit 18. All cars also utilized Firestone tires.


2020 Genesys 300, Full Results, Practice
Practice ran on race day from 12:30 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. CT


2020 Genesys 300, Full Results, Qualifying
Qualifying was run on race day starting at 5 p.m. (ET)


2020 Genesys 300, Full Results, Race
Notes: Points include 1 point for leading at least 1 lap during a race, an additional 2 points for leading the most race laps, and 1 point for Pole Position.


2020 Genesys 300, Broadcasting, Television
Originally scheduled for NBCSN, it was announced on May 24 that the race would move to NBC, marking the first IndyCar Series event to air in primetime on network television in seven years. With 1.285 million viewers, it was the most-watched IndyCar Series event outside of the Indianapolis 500 since 2016.


2020 Genesys 300, Broadcasting, Television
The race was called at the track with Leigh Diffey doing play-by-play. Paul Tracy and Townsend Bell as analysts, with Marty Snider and Kelli Stavast reporting on pit lane.


2020 Genesys 300, Broadcasting, Radio
The race was carried by the IndyCar Radio Network. Mark Jaynes served as the chief announcer from WIBC Radio studios along with Davey Hamilton  as Driver Expert. Jake Query called the field down the backstretch from WIBC studios. Nick Yeoman was the sole pit reporter at the track.


2020 Gent–Wevelgem
The 2020 Gent–Wevelgem was a road cycling classic race that took place on 11 October 2020 in Belgium. It was the 82nd edition of Gent–Wevelgem and the eighteenth event of the 2020 UCI World Tour.


2020 Gent–Wevelgem
One of the Spring Classics, Gent-Wevelgem was originally scheduled for 29 March 2020, but was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Belgium. The race was rescheduled for 11 October 2020 as part of a new autumnal 'spring classics' season,  though it was only the Belgian races which were eventually held.


2020 Gent–Wevelgem, Route
The race organisers asked spectators to follow the race from home, and did not release details of the route to the public before the start of the race. Parts of the race due to pass through France were removed due to the worsening of the pandemic in France. The start times of the races were also adapted to avoid a clash with the 2020 Giro d'Italia. For the first time, the men's race started before the women's race.


2020 Gent–Wevelgem, Teams
All nineteen UCI WorldTeams and six UCI ProTeams made up the twenty-five teams that competed in the race. Though most teams entered the maximum of seven riders, Cofidis, Groupama–FDJ, and Team Sunweb entered only six, while Movistar Team entered only five. Only 95 of the 170 riders in the race finished.


2020 Gent–Wevelgem (women's race)
The ninth edition of the Gent–Wevelgem's women's race was held on Sunday 11 October 2020, rescheduled from the original date of 29 March 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In the rescheduled season, it was the eight event of the 2020 UCI Women's World Tour.


2020 Gent–Wevelgem (women's race), Route
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Belgium, the race organisers had asked spectators to follow the race from home and had not released any information on the course to the public before the race started. The start times of the races were also adapted to avoid a clash with the 2020 Giro d'Italia. For the first time, the men's race started before the women's race.


2020 Gent–Wevelgem (women's race), Teams
Eight UCI Women's WorldTeams and sixteen UCI Women's Continental Teams were to compete in the race. However, due to a positive covid-19 test in the team, Alé BTC Ljubljana decided to pull out of the race.


2020 Georgetown Hoyas men's soccer team
The 2020 Georgetown Hoyas men's soccer team represented the Georgetown University during the 2020 NCAA Division I men's soccer season and the 2020 Big East Conference men's soccer season. The regular season began on February 16, 2021 and is set to conclude on April 10. It was the program's 69th season fielding a men's varsity soccer team, and their 25th season in the Big East Conference. The 2020 season was Brian Wiese's 14th year as head coach for the program.


2020 Georgetown Hoyas men's soccer team, Effects of the Covid-19 pandemic
As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Big East postponed the fall sports, with the hope of playing in the spring.


2020 Georgetown Hoyas men's soccer team, Effects of the Covid-19 pandemic
On November 4, 2020, the NCAA approved a plan for college soccer to be played in the spring. The Big East announced their plans for the spring season in January 2021.


2020 Georgetown Hoyas men's soccer team, Squad, Roster
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


2020 Georgia Bulldogs baseball team
The 2020 Georgia Bulldogs baseball team represents the University of Georgia during the 2020 NCAA Division I baseball season. The Bulldogs play their home games at Foley Field as a member of the Southeastern Conference They are led by head coach Scott Stricklin, in his seventh year as head coach.


2020 Georgia Bulldogs baseball team, Previous season
The Bulldogs finished the 2019 season with a 46–17 record, compiling a 21–9 mark in the SEC. They lost in the Athens Regional during the 2019 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament.


2020 Georgia Bulldogs baseball team, Previous season, 2019 MLB Draft
The Bulldogs had eight players drafted in the 2019 MLB draft.


2020 Georgia Bulldogs baseball team, Schedule
*Rankings are based on the team's current ranking in the D1Baseball poll.


2020 Georgia Bulldogs football team
The 2020 Georgia Bulldogs football team represented the University of Georgia in the 2020 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Bulldogs played their home games at Sanford Stadium in Athens, Georgia and were led by fifth-year head coach Kirby Smart. For the first time since 2016, the Bulldogs did not win the Eastern Division of the Southeastern Conference (SEC), finishing second behind rival Florida.


2020 Georgia Bulldogs football team, Preseason, SEC Media Days
In the preseason media poll, Georgia was predicted to finish in second in the East Division behind Florida. Georgia received the second-most votes (tied with LSU) to win the SEC Championship Game.


2020 Georgia Bulldogs football team, Schedule
Georgia announced its 2020 football schedule on August 7, 2019.


2020 Georgia Bulldogs football team, Schedule
The Bulldogs had games scheduled against East Tennessee State, Georgia Tech, Louisiana–Monroe and Virginia, which were all canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This will be the first season since 1924 that the Bulldogs do not play Georgia Tech.


2020 Georgia Bulldogs softball team
The 2020 Georgia Bulldogs softball team represents the University of Georgia in the 2020 NCAA Division I softball season. The Bulldogs play their home games at Turner Softball Stadium.


2020 Georgia Bulldogs softball team, Previous season
The Bulldogs finished the 2019 season 42–19 overall, and 12–12 in the SEC to finish in a tie for sixth in the conference. The Bulldogs went 2–2 in the Minneapolis Regional during the  2019 NCAA Division I Softball Tournament.


2020 Georgia Bulldogs softball team, Preseason, SEC preseason poll
The SEC preseason poll was released on January 15, 2020.


2020 Georgia Bulldogs softball team, Schedule and results
*Rankings are based on the team's current ranking in the NFCA poll.


2020 Georgia Democratic presidential primary
The 2020 Georgia Democratic presidential primary was held on June 9, 2020. It is one of a series of primaries to select the Democratic nominee for the 2020 presidential election. It was originally planned for March 24, 2020, before being delayed to  May 19, 2020. On April 9, it was announced that the primary was rescheduled to June 9. The election coincided with primaries for Georgia's Class 2 Senate seat and Georgia's U.S. House of Representatives seats. The Georgia primary is an open primary which awarded 120 delegates to the 2020 Democratic National Convention, of which 105 are pledged delegates allocated on the basis of the results of the primary.


2020 Georgia Democratic presidential primary
The Associated Press declared Joe Biden the winner of the Georgia Democratic presidential primary. This primary, totaling from the March 24 and June 9 primaries, resulted in the highest Democratic presidential primary turnout ever.


2020 Georgia Democratic presidential primary, Procedure
Georgia was previously scheduled to be the only state voting on March 24, 2020, in the Democratic primaries, after secretary of state Brad Raffensperger announced the date of the primary on June 19, 2019. The move marked a departure from past years, shifting away from a contest on Super Tuesday (also dubbed the "SEC primary"); although its later date may diminish its influence, the Georgia primary's separation from other states on the primary calendar may also place it in a more influential position should the primary still be competitive by then.


2020 Georgia Democratic presidential primary, Procedure
Voting is expected to take place throughout the state from 7:00 a.m. until 7:00 p.m. In the open primary, candidates must meet a threshold of 15 percent at the congressional district or statewide level in order to be considered viable. The 105 pledged delegates to the 2020 Democratic National Convention will be allocated proportionally on the basis of the results of the primary.


2020 Georgia Democratic presidential primary, Procedure
Of the 105 pledged delegates, between 3 and 7 are allocated to each of the state's 14 congressional districts and another 14 are allocated to party leaders and elected officials (PLEO delegates), in addition to 23 at-large pledged delegates. These delegate totals do not account for pledged delegate bonuses or penalties from timing or clustering.


2020 Georgia Democratic presidential primary, Procedure
District-level delegates will be elected on May 23 (caucuses to be held online) (previously scheduled for March 28 or Sunday, March 29 (with discrepancies in the delegate selection plan)) and will then select the 14 pledged PLEO delegates on June 20 (previously scheduled for April 18). The state committee meeting will subsequently be held in Atlanta on Saturday, May 16, 2020, to vote on the 23 pledged at-large delegates to send to the Democratic National Convention. The 105 pledged delegates Georgia sends to the national convention will be joined by 15 unpledged PLEO delegates (9 members of the Democratic National Committee; 5 members of Congress, all of which are U.S. Representatives; and former president Jimmy Carter).


2020 Georgia Democratic presidential primary, Results
More than 200,000 votes were also cast by mail in the March 24 presidential preference primary before it was cancelled amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. These votes were not included in the official primary result, however they were separately counted. Voters who participated in the March 24 primary were able to vote again in the June 9 primary for all other offices.


2020 Georgia House of Representatives election
The 2020 Georgia House of Representatives elections took place on November 3, 2020 as part of the biennial United States elections. Georgia voters elected state representatives in all 180 of the state house's districts to the 156th Georgia General Assembly. State representatives serve two-year terms in the Georgia House of Representatives.


2020 Georgia House of Representatives election
Primaries were held on June 9, 2020, coinciding with primaries for U.S. President, U.S. Senate, U.S. House, Georgia House of Representatives, county and regional prosecutorial offices, and primary runoffs are scheduled for August 11, 2020, to determine which candidates will appear on the November 3 ballot.


2020 Georgia House of Representatives election
To reclaim control of the chamber from Republicans, the Democrats needed to net 16 seats. Democrats filed candidacies for 141 total seats in the State House, the highest number of Democratic candidacies for State House since the 1990s.


2020 Georgia House of Representatives election
Republicans retained control of the chamber with 103 seats, but suffered a net loss of 2 seats.


2020 Georgia Public Service Commission election
The 2020 Georgia Public Service Commission election was held on November 3, 2020, to elect two members to the Georgia Public Service Commission, concurrently with the presidential election as well as both a regular and special election to the U.S. Senate and elections to the United States House of Representatives and various state and local elections. While Republican incumbent appointee Jason Shaw defeated Democrat Robert Bryant for District 1, Republican incumbent Lauren "Bubba" McDonald was forced to a runoff against Democrat Daniel Blackman for District 4. While the runoff was initially scheduled for December 3, it was moved by Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to the January 5, 2021 runoff, alongside the runoff elections for both Senate seats.


2020 Georgia Public Service Commission election
This is the sixth runoff election held for a Public Service Commission seat since runoffs were first mandated by law in 1964, with the first runoff being held in 1992 alongside a U.S. Senate runoff and successive PSC runoffs having been held in 1998, 2006, 2008, and 2018.


2020 Georgia Public Service Commission election
Were he to win, Blackman would become only the second African American member on the Commission in its history, with Democrat David Burgess having served from 1999 until his defeat in a 2006 runoff by Republican Chuck Eaton; Burgess was also the last Democrat to serve on the commission, with McDonald having changed his party affiliation after first being elected. Blackman and McDonald previously ran against each other for District 4 in 2014.


2020 Georgia Public Service Commission election, Allegations of improper ballots
Bubba McDonald, the Republican incumbent in the race, won the January 5th runoff by 33,727 votes over Democratic challenger Daniel Blackman. The down-ballot race was an anomaly, due to Commissioner McDonald receiving more total votes than any other Republican on the runoff ballot. Republican Incumbents David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler both lost their respective races to Democratic challengers Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff. After the runoff election, Daniel Blackman alleged the race may have been missing from some ballots, after receiving reports from voters. While "Blackman trailed Republican incumbent Lauren “Bubba” McDonald by over 33,000 votes, or 0.74 percentage points, outside the margin where he’d be entitled to a recount," the Georgia Secretary of State opened an investigation into the matter.


2020 Georgia Public Service Commission election, Allegations of improper ballots
After the investigation, as stated in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, "Georgia election officials say they found no evidence that the Public Service Commission race was left off some ballots, and Democrat Daniel Blackman acknowledged Wednesday that he had lost to Republican Lauren “Bubba” McDonald."


2020 Georgia Public Service Commission election, Allegations of improper ballots
Walter Jones, the spokesman for the Georgia Secretary of State's office stated, “We have learned from 2018 to now — from Stacey Abrams to Donald Trump — that false claims and disinformation that an election has been stolen is dangerous to our democracy” In the same AJC article, it was mentioned that "Blackman never alleged the PSC election was stolen, saying he wanted to make sure that every vote was counted."


2020 Georgia Republican presidential primary
The 2020 Georgia Republican presidential primary took place on June 9, 2020, as one of 2 contests scheduled for that day in the Republican Party primaries for the 2020 presidential election.


2020 Georgia Southern Eagles baseball team
The 2020 Georgia Southern Eagles baseball team represented Georgia Southern Eagles in the 2020 NCAA Division I baseball season. The Eagles played their home games at J. I. Clements Stadium and were led by twentieth year head coach Rodney Hennon.


2020 Georgia Southern Eagles baseball team
On March 12, the Sun Belt Conference announced the indefinite suspension of all spring athletics, including baseball, due to the increasing risk of the COVID-19 pandemic.


2020 Georgia Southern Eagles baseball team, Preseason, Sun Belt Conference Coaches Poll
The Sun Belt Conference Coaches Poll was released sometime on January 30, 2020 and the Eagles were picked to finish third in the East Division and sixth overall in the conference.


2020 Georgia Southern Eagles baseball team, Schedule and results
*Rankings are based on the team's current ranking in the D1Baseball poll.


2020 Georgia Southern Eagles football team
The 2020 Georgia Southern Eagles football team represented Georgia Southern University during the 2020 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Eagles played their home games at Paulson Stadium in Statesboro, Georgia, and competed in the East Division of the Sun Belt Conference. They were led by third-year head coach Chad Lunsford.


2020 Georgia Southern Eagles football team, Previous season
The Eagles finished the 2019 season 7–6, 5–3 in Sun Belt play to finish in second place in the East division. The Eagles received an invitation to the Cure Bowl where they were defeated by Liberty 16–23.


2020 Georgia Southern Eagles football team, Preseason, Sun Belt coaches' poll
The Sun Belt coaches poll was released on August 25, 2020. Georgia Southern was picked to finish 2nd in the East Division with 36 total votes.


2020 Georgia Southern Eagles football team, Preseason, Preseason All-Sun Belt teams
The Eagles had five players selected to the preseason All−Sun Belt teams; three from the defense and two from special teams.


2020 Georgia Southern Eagles football team, Schedule
Georgia Southern had games against Boise State and Ole Miss, which were canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. They added a November game with Army on August 11. On October 7, the game against Appalachian State scheduled for October 14 was postponed to December 12 due to COVID-19 positive tests within the Mountaineers' football program.


2020 Georgia Southern Eagles softball team
The 2020 Georgia Southern Eagles softball team represented Georgia Southern University during the 2020 NCAA Division I softball season. The Eagles played their home games at Eagle Field at GS Softball Complex. The Eagles were led by third year head coach Kim Dean.


2020 Georgia Southern Eagles softball team
On March 12, the Sun Belt Conference announced the indefinite suspension of all spring athletics, including softball, due to the increasing risk of the COVID-19 pandemic. On March 16, the Sun Belt formally announced the cancelation of all spring sports, thus ending their season definitely.


2020 Georgia Southern Eagles softball team, Preseason, Sun Belt Conference Coaches Poll
The Sun Belt Conference Coaches Poll was released on January 29, 2020. Georgia Southern was picked to finish seventh in the Sun Belt Conference with 36 votes.


2020 Georgia Southern Eagles softball team, Schedule and results
*Rankings are based on the team's current ranking in the NFCA/ USA Softball poll.


2020 Georgia State Panthers baseball team
The 2020 Georgia State Panthers baseball team represented Georgia State University in the 2020 NCAA Division I baseball season. The Panthers played their home games at Georgia State Baseball Complex and were led by first year head coach Brad Stromdahl.


2020 Georgia State Panthers baseball team
On March 12, the Sun Belt Conference announced the indefinite suspension of all spring athletics, including baseball, due to the increasing risk of the COVID-19 pandemic.


2020 Georgia State Panthers baseball team, Preseason, Sun Belt Conference Coaches Poll
The Sun Belt Conference Coaches Poll was released sometime on January 30, 2020 and the Panthers were picked to finish sixth in the East Division.


2020 Georgia State Panthers baseball team, Schedule and results
*Rankings are based on the team's current ranking in the D1Baseball poll.


2020 Georgia State Panthers football team
The 2020 Georgia State Panthers football team represented Georgia State University (GSU) in the 2020 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Panthers were led by fourth-year head coach Shawn Elliott. This was the Panthers' eighth season in the Sun Belt Conference, third within the East Division, and 11th since starting college football. They played their home games at Center Parc Stadium.


2020 Georgia State Panthers football team, Schedule
Georgia State had games scheduled against Alabama, Murray State, and Charlotte which were canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.


2020 Georgia State Panthers softball team
The 2020 Georgia State Panthers softball team represented Georgia State Panthers in the 2020 NCAA Division I softball season. The Panthers played their home games at Robert E. Heck Softball Complex. The Panthers were led by tenth year head coach Roger Kincaid and were members of the Sun Belt Conference.


2020 Georgia State Panthers softball team
On March 12, the Sun Belt Conference announced the indefinite suspension of all spring athletics, including softball, due to the increasing risk of the COVID-19 pandemic. On March 16, the Sun Belt formally announced the cancelation of all spring sports, thus ending their season definitely.


2020 Georgia State Panthers softball team, Preseason, Sun Belt Conference Coaches Poll
The Sun Belt Conference Coaches Poll was released on January 29, 2020. Georgia State was picked to finish dead-last at tenth in the Sun Belt Conference with 18 votes.


2020 Georgia State Panthers softball team, Schedule and results
*Rankings are based on the team's current ranking in the NFCA/ USA Softball poll.


2020 Georgia State Senate election
The 2020 Georgia State Senate election was held on November 3, 2020. Georgia voters elected state senators in all 56 of the state senate's districts to the 156th Georgia General Assembly for two-year terms in the Georgia State Senate. The elections coincided with the 2020 United States presidential election, 2020 United States House of Representatives elections, 2020 Georgia House of Representatives election, and more.


2020 Georgia State Senate election, Results, District 39
Incumbent senator Nikema Williams resigned to run for Georgia's 5th congressional district, which John Lewis represented until his death. A special primary took place on November 3, 2020, and a runoff took place December 1, 2020. No Republican had filed to face Williams in the general election, so the special primary acted as the general election.


2020 Georgia Swarm season
The 2020 Georgia Swarm season is the 5th season of the Georgia Swarm, a lacrosse team based in Duluth, Georgia playing in the National Lacrosse League. The team was formerly based in Saint Paul, Minnesota and was known as the Minnesota Swarm. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the season was suspended on March 12, 2020. On April 8, the league made a further public statement announcing the cancellation of the remaining games of the 2020 season and that they would be exploring options for playoffs once it was safe to resume play.


2020 Georgia Swarm season, Regular season, Current 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


2020 Georgia Swarm season, Roster, Entry Draft
The 2019 NLL Entry Draft took place on September 17, 2019. The Swarm made the following selections:


2020 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team
The 2020 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team represented the Georgia Institute of Technology during the 2020 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Yellow Jackets were led by second-year head coach Geoff Collins. They played their home games at Bobby Dodd Stadium and competed as a member of the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC).


2020 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team
After finishing their season with a 3–7 record (3–6 in ACC play), the Yellow Jackets determined that they would not consider a bowl bid (the NCAA waived bowl eligibility requirements for the 2020–21 bowl season).


2020 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team, Previous season
The Yellow Jackets finished the 2019 season with a 3–9 record, 2–6 in ACC play, failing to earn bowl eligibility.


2020 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team, Preseason, Death of Bryce Gowdy
On December 30, 2019, Georgia Tech signee Bryce Gowdy, from Deerfield Beach, Florida, committed suicide by walking in front of a freight train. He died aged 17 and had received a full scholarship to play football at Georgia Tech, having signed on December 18.


2020 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team, Schedule, Spring game
The Yellow Jackets held spring practices until early March, when the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic forced the suspension of all NCAA activities. The Georgia Tech football spring game was scheduled to take place in Atlanta, GA on April 10, 2020, but was also canceled.


2020 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team, Schedule, Regular schedule
Georgia Tech had games scheduled against Gardner–Webb and Georgia, which were canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This became the first season since 1924 that the Yellow Jackets do not play Georgia.


2020 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team, Schedule, Regular schedule
The ACC released their schedule on July 29, with specific dates selected at a later date.


2020 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team, Schedule, Regular schedule
The above is the original schedule planned for 2020 before changes were made due to the coronavirus pandemic. (needs to be completed)


2020 Georgia's 5th congressional district special election
A special election filled the remainder of the term in the United States House of Representatives for Georgia's 5th congressional district in the 116th United States Congress. Incumbent Representative John Lewis, who was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in December 2019, died on July 17, 2020 during his 17th term.


2020 Georgia's 5th congressional district special election, Background
As established by the Constitution of Georgia, Governor Brian Kemp ordered a special election to fill out the remainder of Lewis's term for September 29, 2020. Since no candidate reached 50% on September 29, there was a special runoff election on December 1. This meant that the runoff election took place four weeks after the regular election for a full two-year term. The runoff winner would thus serve for just one month covering the holiday season.


2020 Georgia's 5th congressional district special election, Background
On July 20, 2020, the state Democratic Party announced that State Senator Nikema Williams would replace Lewis on the November ballot, which she won with over 300,000 votes (85%). Williams did not run in the special election to serve the remainder of Lewis's term.


2020 Georgian Cup
The 2020 Georgian Cup was a single elimination association football tournament which began in August 2020 and ended on 4 December 2020. The winner of the cup earned a place in the first qualifying round of the 2021–22 UEFA Europa Conference League.


2020 Georgian Cup
Saburtalo Tbilisi were the defending Georgian Cup champions after winning the final in the previous season over Locomotive Tbilisi by a score of 3–1.


2020 Georgian Cup, First round
Eighteen first round matches were played on 20–24 August 2020.


2020 Georgian Cup, Second round
Twelve second round matches were played on 24–30 August 2020.


2020 Georgian Cup, Third round
Eight third round matches were played on 17–21 September 2020.


2020 Georgian Cup, Quarter finals
Four quarter final matches were played on 26–27 September 2020.


2020 Georgian Cup, Semi finals
Two semi final matches were played on 8 November 2020.


2020 Georgian parliamentary election
Parliamentary elections were held in Georgia on 31 October and 21 November 2020 to elect the 150 members of Parliament. The ruling Georgian Dream party led by Prime Minister Giorgi Gakharia won re-election for a third term in office, making it the first party in Georgian history to do so. The election also saw a record number of opposition parties elected to parliament.


2020 Georgian parliamentary election
The opposition boycotted the second round of the elections and called on voters to abstain; turnout in the second round was subsequently only 26.29%.


2020 Georgian parliamentary election, Electoral system
In the previous election, 150 members of Parliament were elected by two methods; 77 were from a single nationwide constituency using closed list proportional representation with a 5% electoral threshold which was to be lowered to 3% for the 2020 election. The other 73 were elected in single-member constituencies using two-round system, in which candidates had to receive over 50% of the valid vote to win in the first round. A second round was held between the top two candidates if there was no winner in the first round.


2020 Georgian parliamentary election, Electoral system, New electoral law
In June 2019, Georgian Dream announced plans to change the electoral system to full party-list proportional representation without an electoral threshold. Despite being supported by opposition parties, the legislation failed to be passed as only 101 of the 150 MPs voted in favour, fewer than the required 75% to change the electoral law.


2020 Georgian parliamentary election, Electoral system, New electoral law
After the failure of the proposed amendments to be passed with the 75% of votes from parliamentary deputies, the government and the opposition held several rounds of talks, and in early March 2020, a memorandum of understanding was issued from all the parties of the political spectrum. The new electoral law stipulates that 120 deputies will be elected via proportional representation, while another 30 will be elected from single-member constituencies. The constituencies will be drawn according to the instructions given by the Venice Commission, and the Georgian judiciary. For proportional representation seats, the electoral threshold is 1%.


2020 Georgian parliamentary election, Electoral system, New electoral law
For single-member constituencies, a candidate will gain the status of a parliamentary deputy if they gain 50% of votes in the first round. If that does not happen, the top two candidates will take part in a run-off whose winner will be elected. The US Embassy at Tbilisi lauded these agreements, as did leading European diplomats who have desired the 2020 elections to be free and transparent. No party can obtain a majority of seats without getting at least 40% of votes from the electorate.


2020 Georgian parliamentary election, Electoral system, New electoral law
In its first hearing on 21 June, Georgian parliament passed the electoral reforms. 136 MPs voted for these reforms, while 5 MPs voted against. On second reading of the bill, 115 MPs voted for the reforms, while 3 voted against and 1 abstained. The opposition United National Movement and European Georgia did not participate in the voting, as they demanded release of opposition figures i.e. Giorgi Rurua.


2020 Georgian parliamentary election, Electoral system, New electoral law
On 29 June 2020, the electoral reforms were adopted by the Georgian Parliament, with 117 out of 142 members voting in support for the reforms. U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo welcomed these electoral reforms, calling on the Parliament and officials to respect the will of the people.


2020 Georgian parliamentary election, Electoral system, Further changes to the election code
The Georgian parliament passed further electoral reforms; however, the ultimate constitutional changes came from OSCE-ODIHR suggestions to the existing electoral code rather than the negotiations between the government and opposition. These include the regulation of election ads, the involvement of non-government entities in the electoral process, the regulation of the publication of opinion polls, and introducing a gender quota of 25%. The quota will remain intact till 2028. No fewer than one in three candidates in each party must belong to other gender. 94 MPs supported these reforms, while European Georgia and UNM boycotted the vote. The US embassy praised the reforms, though voiced concerns over the remaining gaps in the electoral legislation, including lack of transparency in selecting Election Commission Members, dispute resolution, voter intimidation and providing for alternative channels to campaign during the COVID-19 pandemic.


2020 Georgian parliamentary election, Pre-election  period and campaign
Ahead of the elections, UNM, European Georgia, Labour Party, and New Georgia formed an alliance. On 19 June 2020, they announced a joint slate of six candidates, who will compete in elections in Tbilisi. Newly formed party Lelo for Georgia  refused to join the alliance. Analysts say that although Georgian Dream suffered a dip in popularity in the aftermath of crackdowns on the 2019-2020 anti-corruption protests, its relatively successful handling of the COVID-19 pandemic has led to a boost in popularity .


2020 Georgian parliamentary election, Pre-election  period and campaign
Problems soon began to emerge in the alliance. Leader of the Citizens Party Aleko Elishasvili left the alliance, accusing the opposition of acting in their own self-interests, and espousing pro-Russian views. The opposition, in turn, accused Elishasvili of trying to ruin the alliance's unity.


2020 Georgian parliamentary election, Pre-election  period and campaign
By 19 June 2020, the opposition alliance consisted of 31 political parties.


2020 Georgian parliamentary election, Pre-election  period and campaign
The opposition Girchi Party said that if it enters parliament, it will give away Tesla cars to voters who turn out in elections via lottery. They said that they would purchase the cars with the state funding awarded to parliamentary parties.


2020 Georgian parliamentary election, Pre-election  period and campaign
On 4 September 2020, the election commission said that 66 parties had successfully registered to run in the 2020 election.


2020 Georgian parliamentary election, Conduct
Al Jazeera correspondent Robin Forestier-Walker reported that most voters were able to cast their ballots "safely and freely", although there were incidences of violence. The OSCE Parliamentary Assembly stated that "elections were competitive", while also reported "pervasive allegations of pressure on voters and blurring of the line between the ruling party and the state". The United States embassy in Georgia, commenting on the OSCE statement, said: "We call on all parties to address these deficiencies in advance of the second round and in future elections. These efforts to corrupt the electoral process through voter intimidation, vote buying, interfering with ballot secrecy, blurring of party and official activities, and violence against election observers and journalists, while not sufficient to invalidate the results, continue to mar Georgia’s electoral process and are unacceptable."


2020 Georgian parliamentary election, Results
Four exit polls showed ruling Georgian Dream leading in the elections. An exit poll conducted by Imedi TV showed Georgian Dream leading with 55% of votes, while according to polls conducted by Rustavi 2 showed GD securing 52.26% of votes cast. Mtavari Arkhi and Formula TV consecutively showed the party winning 41% and 46% of votes. Shortly after, Georgian Dream declared victory. However, the opposition refused to concede defeat and claimed that they had secured enough votes to form a coalition government. UNM leader David Kirtadze said, "This is not a real picture."


2020 Georgian parliamentary election, Aftermath
Following the first round, protests were held in Tbilisi, with around 45,000 people attending a protest on 8 November that was eventually broken up with water cannons.


2020 Georgian parliamentary election, Aftermath
Eight opposition parties stated that they would not attend parliamentary sittings. On 3 November 2020, all Georgian opposition parties signed a joint statement renouncing their seats in the parliament until the parliamentary elections (which they consider null and void) are repeated.


2020 German Athletics Championships
The 2020 German Athletics Championships was the 120th edition of the national championship in outdoor track and field for Germany. It was held on 8 and 9 August at the Eintracht-Stadion in Braunschweig. It was due to serve as the selection meeting for Germany at the 2020 Summer Olympics and 2020 European Athletics Championships, which were both postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The national athletics championship had been due to be held at the same time fifteen other national championship events as part of Die Finals 2020.


2020 German Athletics Championships
The track and field events were originally scheduled for 6 and 7 June, but were delayed due to restrictions in relation to the pandemic. The pole vault was originally scheduled for 4 June in a separate event in the city centre, but was also postponed until August and was ultimately held within the stadium. A total of 477 athletes competed across 34 events. The only other national championships to go ahead that year were the German Cross Country Championships (which preceded the pandemic restrictions) and the combined track and field events, which were held without an audience.


2020 German Athletics Championships
The interruption to track and field training and competition that year resulted in the absence of several prominent athletes and lower standards of performance at the event.


2020 German Athletics Championships, Championships
As usual, due to time or organizational reasons, various competitions were not held as part of the main event in Braunschweig. An independent German Relay Championships was scheduled with a full event programme for the first time, but that (like many other competitions) was abandoned.


2020 German Darts Championship
The 2020 German Darts Championship was a PDC European Tour event on the 2020 PDC Pro Tour. The tournament took place at Halle 39, Hildesheim, Germany. It featured a field of 48 players and £140,000 in prize money, with £25,000 going to the winner. It was the second event on the 2020 European Tour.


2020 German Darts Championship
Daryl Gurney was the defending champion after defeating Ricky Evans 8–6 in the final of the 2019 tournament, but he lost 6–2 to Danny Noppert in the quarter-finals.


2020 German Darts Championship
Devon Petersen won his first PDC title, beating Jonny Clayton 8–3 in the final, which also meant he became the first player from Africa to win a PDC ranking title outside of Africa.


2020 German Darts Championship, Prize money
This is how the prize money is divided, with the prize money being unchanged from the 2019 European Tour:


2020 German Darts Championship, Qualification and format
The tournament used the qualifiers from the 2020 European Darts Grand Prix, which was planned to be held in March as the second tournament of the 2020 tour but was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.


2020 German Darts Championship, Qualification and format
The top 16 entrants from the PDC ProTour Order of Merit on 4 February automatically  qualify for the event and will be seeded in the second round.


2020 German Darts Championship, Qualification and format
The remaining 32 places go to players from four qualifying events and to two invitees – 24 from the Tour Card Holder Qualifier (held on 14 February), two from the Associate Member Qualifier (held on 24 September), two from the Host Nation Qualifier (held on 24 September), one from the Nordic & Baltic Associate Member Qualifier (held on 12 October 2019), and one from the East European Associate Member Qualifier (held on 8 February).


2020 German Darts Championship, Qualification and format
The two highest ranked German players on the Pro Tour Order of Merit on the cut-off date of 4 February also qualified.


2020 German Darts Championship, Qualification and format
From 2020, all Tour Card holders will enter into one qualifier instead of two separate ones for the UK and Europe. For this tournament, Daniel Larsson qualified as the Nordic & Baltic qualifier, even though he won a PDC Tour Card at 2020 Q-School, as this was due to the qualifying event taking place before Q-School.


2020 German Darts Championship, Qualification and format
Niels Zonneveld & Simon Stevenson withdrew prior to the draw and were replaced with additional Host Nation Qualifiers.


2020 German Football League
The 2020 German Football League season was the planned 42nd edition of the top-level American football competition in Germany.


2020 German Football League
The regular season was expected to start on 25 April and was expected to end on 6 September 2020, followed by the play-offs. Due to the coronavirus pandemic, the start of the season was first postponed, and later completely cancelled. The season was expected to conclude with German Bowl XLII, which was planned to be held on 10 October 2020 in Frankfurt. Instead German Bowl XLII was held on October 9, 2021 to end the 2021 German Football League season.


2020 German Football League, Modus
During the regular season each club plays all other clubs in its division twice, home and away, resulting in each team playing 14 regular season games.


2020 German Football League, Modus
The best four teams in each division qualify for the play-offs where, in the quarter finals, teams from opposite divisions play each other, whereby the better placed teams have home field advantage. The first placed team plays the fourth placed from the other division and the second placed the third placed team. From the semi-finals onwards teams from the same division can meet again.


2020 German Football League, Modus
The eighth placed team in each division enter a two-leg play-off with the winner of the respective division of the German Football League 2, the second tier of the league system in Germany. The winners of this contest qualify for the GFL for the following season.


2020 German Indoor Athletics Championships
The 2020 German Indoor Athletics Championships (German: Deutsche Leichtathletik-Hallenmeisterschaften 2020) was the 67th edition of the national championship in indoor track and field for Germany. It was held on 22–23 February at the Arena Leipzig in Leipzig. A total of 24 events, 12 for men and 12 for women, were contested. It was to serve as preparation for the 2020 World Athletics Indoor Championships, which was postponed due to the COVID-19 outbreak in China before the German championships.


2020 German Indoor Athletics Championships
Several national championship events were staged elsewhere: combined events were held on 1–2 February in Leverkusen, relays were held on 16 February in Neubrandenburg, while racewalking events were hosted in Erfurt on 28 February.


2020 German Masters
The 2020 German Masters (also known as the 2020 BetVictor German Masters due to sponsorship) was a professional ranking snooker tournament that took place from 29 January to 2 February 2020 in the Tempodrom in Berlin, Germany. The tournament was the tenth ranking event of the 2019–2020 snooker season. It was the 14th edition of the German Masters, first held in 1995 as the 1995 German Open. The event featured a prize fund of £400,000 with £80,000 being given to the winner.


2020 German Masters
Kyren Wilson was the defending champion after defeating David Gilbert 9–6 in the 2019 final. He lost 4–5 to Zhao Xintong in the second qualifying round. The final was contested between the reigning world champion Judd Trump and Neil Robertson, who had won the preceding European Masters event. Trump won the final defeating Robertson 9–6. Trump's win was his 15th ranking title and fourth of the season.


2020 German Masters
This tournament was the last professional tournament for Peter Ebdon, who retired due to spine and neck degradation. Ebdon lost 4–5 in the first qualifying round to Matthew Stevens.


2020 German Masters, Format
The 2020 German Masters was a professional snooker tournament held at the Tempodrom in Berlin, Germany, between 29 January and 3 February 2020. This was the 13th edition of the German Masters tournament, being held since 2011, and previously between 1995 and 1998 as the German Open. It was the tenth ranking event of the 2019–20 snooker season following the European Masters and preceding the World Grand Prix. It was played as the best-of-nine-frames until the semi-finals, which were best-of-11-frames, followed by a best-of-17-frames final. The event featured 32 participants from the World Snooker Tour with two qualifying rounds which took place from 20 to 22 December 2019 in Barnsley, England.


2020 German Masters, Format, Prize fund
The event featured a total prize fund of £400,000 with the winner receiving £80,000. The event was the second of the "European Series" which included the European Masters, Snooker Shoot Out and Gibraltar Open all sponsored by sports betting company BetVictor. The player accumulating the highest amount of prize money over the four events received a bonus of £150,000. The breakdown of prize money for the tournament is shown below:


2020 German Masters, Tournament summary
The first round of the German Masters began on 29 January 2020. A commemorative cake in the shape of a snooker table was baked to celebrate the 10th edition of the event to be held in the Tempodrome. Four-time world champion John Higgins lost his first round match to world number 59 Robbie Williams 4–5. Three players completed a whitewash in the first round, with Sunny Akani, Michael Georgiou and Matthew Selt all winning 5–0. Scott Donaldson defeated 2019 UK Championship winner Ding Junhui 5–4. The win gave Donaldson enough ranking points to qualify for the 2020 World Grand Prix.


2020 German Masters, Tournament summary
In the second round, Georgiou defeated Akani 5–4. Akani continued playing on the practice tables for two days after his loss. European Masters finalist Zhao Xintong defeated 17th seed Gary Wilson 5–1. In a rematch of the 2018 final, 19th seed Graeme Dott played third seed Mark Williams, with Dott winning 5–2. World number two Neil Robertson completed a second straight whitewash over Elliot Slessor in the quarter-finals, having also defeated Mitchell Mann in the second round 5–0. Shaun Murphy defeated Xintong 5–3, Dott defeated Selt 5–2 and Trump defeated Georgiou 5–1.


2020 German Masters, Tournament summary
The first semi-final was played between Dott and Trump. With no more than one frame between the two, they tied at 4–4. However, Trump won frame nine with a break of 110 and won the match 6–4. The second semi-final was between Robertson and Murphy. Robertson won five frames in a row with breaks of 73, 136, 62, 53 and 129 to win 6–1. Robertson reached the final having lost only two frames in the previous four matches.


2020 German Masters, Tournament summary
The final was played between Neil Robertson and Judd Trump on 2 February 2020. This was the second time in the 2019–20 snooker season that the pair had met in a final, having done so at the 2019 Champion of Champions. If Robertson won the final, he would be guaranteed to win the European Series. It was held as a best-of-17 frames match, held over two sessions. Robertson won four of the first six frames, with Trump winning the final two frames of the first session to tie the match at 4–4.


2020 German Masters, Tournament summary
Trump restarted the match, winning a further two frames to lead 6–4. Robertson won frame 11, before Trump won frame 12 to lead 7–5 going into the interval. The pair shared the next two frames, before Trump won the match 9–6 with a break of 120 in frame 15. This was Trump's 15th career ranking event title, his fourth of the season.


2020 German Masters, Main draw
Below are the event's results from the last-32 stage to the final. Player names in bold denote match winners. Numbers in brackets denote player seedings.


2020 German Masters, Qualifying
Qualifying for the event took place between 20 and 22 December 2019 at the Barnsley Metrodome in Barnsley, England. There were two rounds of qualifying with matches being played as best-of-9 frames. Defending champion Kyren Wilson did not qualify for the event, after losing 4–5 to Zhao Xintong in the second round. Peter Ebdon played his last professional match in a first round loss to Matthew Stevens.


2020 German Masters, Century breaks, Main stage centuries
There was a total of 33 century breaks during the tournament. The highest was a 138 made by John Higgins in his first round win over Robbie Williams.


2020 German Masters, Century breaks, Qualifying stage centuries
There was a total of 77 century breaks during qualifying. The highest was a 143 made by Tom Ford in his second qualifying round match against Oliver Lines.


2020 German Open (table tennis)
The 2020 German Open was the first event of the 2020 ITTF World Tour. It took place from 28 January to 2 February in Magdeburg, Germany.


2020 Gettysburg hoax
In the summer of 2020, an image was spread around social media supposedly calling for a flag burning at Gettysburg National Cemetery organized by "antifa." This hoax event prompted online right-wing sympathizers to organize counter-protests in the Gettysburg area.


2020 Gettysburg hoax
Though the event propagated by the spoof page "Left Behind USA" at Gettysburg was removed from social media and discredited by authorities, it prompted an estimated 500 counter-protestors to show up to the Gettysburg area, many of them armed. Trent Somes, who was visiting a grave in the cemetery wearing a Black Lives Matter shirt, not protesting, was surrounded and aggressively questioned by around 50 counter-protestors while exiting the Gettysburg National Cemetery. Somes was removed from the cemetery by the United States Department of Homeland Security and the National Park Service.


2020 Gettysburg hoax
Jason Martz, acting public affairs officer for Gettysburg National Military Park, told The Washington Post “For his own safety, federal law enforcement made the decision to remove him, and he was escorted out of the cemetery." Somes filmed part of the encounter, including his interaction with police, and posted the video on his personal YouTube and Facebook accounts where it was spread around social media platforms. The Washington Post published the initial story in an investigative report on the hoax and the incident, where Somes was quoted and the video linked. The altercation received widespread, international media attention.


2020 Gettysburg hoax, Trent Somes
Somes was born into a military family, and grew up living across the world. His family moved to the Greater Pittsburgh Region in 2006 where Somes attended Penn-Trafford High School, graduating in 2017. Somes attended Washington & Jefferson College where he was a member of Beta Theta Pi, founded an interfaith campus organization, and obtained a BA in political science in 2020.


2020 Gettysburg hoax, Trent Somes
While in high school and college Somes was politically active and ran for Washington City Council in the Democratic primaries. Following his graduation he was hired at First United Methodist Church of Hanover, Pennsylvania to serve on the pastoral team while studying at Wesley Theological Seminary. At the time of the Gettysburg incident, Somes was a Novice in the Order of Saint Luke.


2020 Gettysburg hoax, Trent Somes
Somes later tweeted that he had been terminated from First United Methodist Church of Hanover for his support for black lives matter, though reinstatement had been offered he had returned to Wesley.


2020 Gettysburg hoax, Adam Rahuba
Following the incident, The Washington Post identified Adam Rahuba, 38, of the greater Pittsburgh area as the troll behind the Gettysburg hoax and others. Adam was a self-described democratic socialist and Bernie Sanders supporter. Rahuba also claimed responsibility for 911wasfunny.com, a Twitter account under the handle @joinantifa, fake posts regarding Trayvon Martin, and a 2017 controversy to vandalize Confederate monuments and to burn a Confederate flag in Gettysburg where at least one counter-protestor was injured by his own firearm. Rahuba told the Post, “I’ve found myself very annoyed with the rise of right-wing populism,” he said. “So I thought I’d do my own thing to push back against them.”


2020 Gettysburg hoax, Connection to 2021 storming of the United States Capitol
At least one person, Rachel Powell, known colloquially as the "Pink Hat Lady" or "Bullhorn Lady", who attacked Somes at Gettysburg has been identified in connections with the storming of the United States Capitol.


2020 Geylang International FC season
The 2020 season is Geylang International's 25th consecutive season in the top flight of Singapore football and in the Singapore Premier League. Along with the Singapore Premier League, the club will also compete in the Singapore Cup.


2020 Geylang International FC season, Transfers, Pre-season transfers, In
Note 1: Gilson Varela left the club before season start due to personal reason.


2020 Ghanaian general election
General elections were held in Ghana on 7 December 2020. Incumbent President Nana Akufo-Addo of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) was re-elected in the first round after securing a majority of the votes. Former President John Dramani Mahama says he will contest the results.


2020 Ghanaian general election
The NPP lost its majority in the parliament, winning just as many seats as the opposition NDC, resulting in a hung parliament with a single independent in the position of kingmaker.


2020 Ghanaian general election, Electoral system
The President of Ghana is elected using the two-round system, whilst the 275 members of Parliament are elected in single-member constituencies using first-past-the-post voting.


2020 Ghanaian general election, Electoral system
Eligible voters must be Ghanaian citizens who are at least 18 years old, although those declared insane are disenfranchised. Parliamentary candidates must be Ghanaian citizens at least 18 years old, and either be resident in their constituency or have lived there for at least five of the ten years prior to the election.


2020 Ghanaian general election, Campaign
In February 2019, former president John Mahama was confirmed as the candidate of the opposition National Democratic Congress. In December, incumbent president Nana Akufo-Addo announced that he intended to run for re-election as the New Patriotic Party (NPP) candidate. In June 2020, the NPP chose Akufo-Addo as its presidential candidate and Mahamudu Bawumia as its vice-presidential candidate. Mahama and Akufo-Addo previously ran against each other in both 2012 (with Mahama winning) and 2016 (with Akufo-Addo winning).


2020 Ghanaian general election, Campaign
All contesting political parties especially the NPP and NDC campaigned vigorously across the country despite fears that political activities such as rallies could increase the rate of spread of COVID-19 during the pandemic in Ghana.


2020 Ghanaian general election, Campaign
Following the death of Jerry Rawlings, first president of the Fourth Republic on 12 November 2020, most candidates decided to suspend their campaigns for a week out of respect to his memory.


2020 Ghanaian general election, Campaign, Filing of nomination papers for presidential candidates
At the close of the filing of nomination papers for the presidential election on 9 October 2020, seventeen persons had filed papers to stand for the elections. One of those who filed their papers on 5 October 2020 was the incumbent president, Nana Akufo-Addo. Each candidate was expected to pay a fee of GH¢100,000 to the Electoral Commission. Akwasi Addai Odike of the United Progressive Party claimed that there was a conspiracy by the NPP and the Electoral Commission to prevent him from filing his nomination papers. This was promptly denied by the chairman of the NPP, Peter Mac Manu.


2020 Ghanaian general election, Campaign, Filing of nomination papers for presidential candidates
However, the NDC questioned why presidential candidates were filing nomination papers when the Electoral Commission has not finalised the new voter's register to be used for this election. To the surprise of many, Jacob Osei Yeboah disclosed on 6 October, when he was expected to file his nomination papers, that he would instead be the running mate of Asiedu Walker.


2020 Ghanaian general election, Campaign, Final list of presidential candidates
Following the vetting of their papers, the Electoral Commission announced the final list of presidential candidates on 19 October 2020. Five people had been disqualified from standing for the election as there were various problems with their nomination documents. These include IT issues with their forms and some had been forwarded to the Criminal Investigation Department of the Ghana Police Service. Those disqualified include Kofi Koranteng and  Marricke Kofi Gane who are both Independent.


2020 Ghanaian general election, Campaign, Final list of presidential candidates
Akwasi Addae Odike of the United Progressive Party, Nana Agyenim Boateng of the United Front Party and Kwasi Busumbru of the People's Action Party were also not eligible. On 20 October 2020, the candidates balloted for the order in which they will appear on the ballot paper. The incumbent president, Nana Akufo-Addo will be the first on the list followed by John Mahama, a former president. The full list as on the ballot paper is below. Following this, one of the disqualified candidates, Nana Agyenim Boateng, leader of the UFP, took to court to seek redress and prevent the elections from going ahead but the Accra High Court found no grounds to grant this relief.


2020 Ghanaian general election, Campaign, Violence
On 8 December, a day after the elections there were reports of gunshots leading to the arrest of Nii Lante Vanderpuye the incumbent Member of Parliament (MP) for the Odododiodio constituency. The Ghana Police reported 5 deaths and 19 injuries during and after the election.


2020 Ghanaian general election, Parliamentary election
The Electoral Commission announced that following the creation of the Guan District in the Oti Region through the Guan District Local Government (Guan District Assembly) (Establishment) Instrument, 2020, people in this area will only be able to take part in the presidential election. This is because the Guan constituency had not yet been formally created.


2020 Ghanaian general election, Opinion polls
Ben Ephson of the Daily Dispatch newspaper conducted polls in the Greater Accra, Central and Western regions. He predicted that Akufo-Addo of the NPP will win the election with 52.6% of the votes while Mahama will obtain 45.7%. The Political Science Department of the University of Ghana polled 11,949 respondents and predicted that Akufo-Addo (NPP) will win 51.7% of the vote while Mahama wins 40.4%.


2020 Ghanaian general election, Opinion polls
An iPoll survey of 670 respondents predicted 48.7% of the votes for Mahama and 46.7% for Akufo-Addo implying that the election may go a second round as the winner has to have over 50% of the votes. The Governance Research Bureau predicted that Akufo-Addo will obtain 49.19% of the votes and Mahama 48.27% also implying a second round of elections may be needed.


2020 Ghanaian general election, Results
The total number of registered voters was 17,027,655. The Electoral Commission promised to declare the results of the election within 24 hours of the completion of voting. Some leaders of the NDC expressed their doubts about the commission being able to do so within the 24 hours time frame. In the late afternoon of 8 December the Electoral commission communicated that the declaration of the votes in 24 hours  which was supposed to take place at 5:00 pm which is exactly 24 hours of the closure of the election had been extended.


2020 Ghanaian general election, Results
The Commission in a statement explained that the extension was to ensure that collation of results at the constituency and regional collation centres across the country are accurate. On 9 December, incumbent Ghana President Nana Akufo-Addo was declared the winner after securing a majority of the votes needed to avoid a runoff.


2020 Ghanaian general election, Results, President
The declared results exclude the figures for the Techiman South as the results there are being contested. The Electoral Commissioner states that the results of this constituency alone will not change the outcome of the election. On 10 December 2020, the Electoral Commission issued a statement which revised figures for the Presidential election results while admitting that there had been some errors. A research group Research and Grant Institute of Ghana raised concerns about this and  the Coalition of Domestic Election Observers (CODEO) urged the commission to come out and clarify the errors properly instead of just issuing press releases.


2020 Ghanaian general election, Results, Parliament
There has been a long delay in declaring the final result in the parliamentary election. On 14 December, a week after voting was completed, the Electoral Commission announced that it was working on finalising the results for Sene West constituency.


2020 Ghanaian general election, Results, Petition
On 30 December 2020, the National Democratic Congress filed a petition at the Supreme Court challenging the results. On 4 March 2021 the Supreme Court unanimously dismissed the petition, stated that it lacked merit.


2020 Ghazanchetsots Cathedral shelling
The 2020 shelling of Ghazanchetsots Cathedral took place prior to the Battle of Shusha on 8 October, when the Holy Savior Cathedral (Armenian: Սուրբ Ամենափրկիչ մայր տաճար, romanized: Surb Amenap′rkich mayr tachar) of the city of Shusha, known as Ghazanchetsots Cathedral (Armenian: Ղազանչեցոց, Azerbaijani: Qazançı), was struck twice by missiles, resulting in the collapse of a part of the roof. Armenia accused the Azerbaijani Armed Forces over the shelling.


2020 Ghazanchetsots Cathedral shelling
Human Rights Watch confirmed that ”Azerbaijani forces attacked a church in the city of Shushi on October 8, 2020”, calling it a “possible war crime”, specifying that it was hit twice ”in what appears to be a deliberate targeting in violation of the laws of war”.


2020 Ghazanchetsots Cathedral shelling, History
The shelling took place on the 11th day of the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh war between Armenia and Azerbaijan, a continuation of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict over the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region dating from before the fall of communism. Shusha was held by the Republic of Artsakh, an ethnic Armenian polity since the First Nagorno-Karabakh War. In Azerbaijan, the loss of Shusha in 1992 was especially mourned as the city was the cultural centre of Azerbaijani poets, musicians, and composers.


2020 Ghazanchetsots Cathedral shelling, History
Prior to the war, the cathedral had been damaged in ethnic violence surrounding the 1920 Shusha massacre of Armenians and then used as storehouse in the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic and in the First Nagorno-Karabakh War, until Shusha fell to the Armed Forces of Armenia in 1992. The building was then restored in the 1990s by the Armenian Apostolic Church, which had built the church in the 1880s.


2020 Ghazanchetsots Cathedral shelling, Shelling
As reported by HRW: "On September 27, Azerbaijan launched a military offensive that escalated hostilities between Azerbaijan and Armenia and the de-facto authorities in Nagorno-Karabakh". It began air and ground attacks across a number of Nagorno-Karabakh cities and settlements, including the City on Shushi: "Several attacks on Shushi were reported in the first days of fighting. By early October, many of its residents had fled, though some civilians remained, including men, women, and children".


2020 Ghazanchetsots Cathedral shelling, Shelling
HRW and Amnesty International confirmed reports by the Armenian side  on the use of cluster munitions in populated areas of Shushi and other settlements of Kharabakh, resulting in civilian casualties. Intense shelling of civilian areas of the city was also reported by international media outlets: ”At daytime, when we had half an hour without an air-raid siren, for a change, we could see the damage. The missiles of the Azerbaijani army kept hitting apartment buildings and clearly civilian targets” reported the German Bild correspondent.


2020 Ghazanchetsots Cathedral shelling, Shelling
The Cultural House of Shushi was severely damaged by an Azerbaijani missile attack, according to media reports at the time of the attack, civilians were sheltered in the basement of the building.


2020 Ghazanchetsots Cathedral shelling, Shelling, Shelling of the cathedral
The first shell fell on the dome of the church on the evening of 8 October, severely damaging the interior. Local media reported that adults and children were sheltering inside the church when the first explosion occurred, but no-one was injured. Hours later, as journalists inspected the damage, a second shell struck the building. Two Russian journalists were wounded by the second strike; one, the editor-in-chief of Segodnya, was critically injured and underwent surgery in Stepanakert. An Armenian who accompanied the reporters was lightly injured.


2020 Ghazanchetsots Cathedral shelling, Shelling, Shelling of the cathedral
In its subsequent report HRW specified that "Multiple factors indicate that both attacks were directed at the church. The remnants found indicate that the weapons used were capable of being directed at a specific target".


2020 Ghazanchetsots Cathedral shelling, Response, Armenia
Armenia's Foreign Ministry issued an official statement describing it as "another crime of the military-political leadership of Azerbaijan... this action fully fits into its policy of Armenophobia developed for decades. Azerbaijan, which has completely annihilated the Armenian cultural heritage in Nakhichevan and in other parts of the historical homeland of the Armenian people, now throughout the ongoing military aggression against Artsakh is trying to deprive Armenians of Artsakh of their homeland and historical memory". They also stated that "With these actions Azerbaijan replicates the behavior of its newly acquired allies, infamous international terrorist organizations that are responsible for the destruction of numerous historical-cultural monuments in the Middle East". Artsrun Hovhannisyan, spokesman of the defence ministry of Armenia, blamed the shelling on "enemy Azerbaijan".


2020 Ghazanchetsots Cathedral shelling, Response, Armenia
According to Armenpress, Pargev Martirosyan, the bishop of the Diocese of Artsakh of which the cathedral is the episcopal see, compared the shelling with the actions of Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, saying "They are bombarding our spiritual values, when we are restoring and preserving mosques". Another priest at the cathedral said "I feel the pain that the walls of our beautiful cathedral are destroyed. I feel the pain that today the world does not react to what's happening here and that our boys are dying defending our Motherland".


2020 Ghazanchetsots Cathedral shelling, Response, Armenia
After the shelling, the Armenian cellist Sevak Avanesyan playing the damaged building. He played the piece "Stork" (Armenian: Krunk) by the Armenian composer Komitas, who was a victim of the Armenian genocide. The video was posted on October 12 on Armenia's official Twitter account, which according to Al-Jazeera, was a message that the cathedral's shelling by Azerbaijan was part and parcel of a centuries-old enmity of Turks towards Armenians.


2020 Ghazanchetsots Cathedral shelling, Response, Azerbaijan
Azerbaijan's Defense Ministry officially denied involvement, while the Azerbaijan state news agency claimed Armenia was behind the attack.


2020 Ghazanchetsots Cathedral shelling, Response, Azerbaijan
In an interview with BBC News journalist Orla Guerin, the President of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev, denied the church was a military target for his forces and claimed that the shelling was "either it was a mistake of our artillery or it was a deliberate provocation by Armenians themselves". Asked if the same mistake could have been made twice in one day, Aliyev said: "Why not? Have you seen the images of Azerbaijani mosques in the occupied territories? They're all destroyed. They keep pigs in our mosques. We do not attack civilians, unlike them." He also mentioned the 2020 Ganja ballistic missile attacks, blaming Armenia and denying attacking civilians in Stepanakert.


2020 Ghazanchetsots Cathedral shelling, Response, International
A statement released by the International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS), signed by Israel Charny, Yair Auron, Matthias Bjørnlund, Tessa Hofmann and others condemned intentional attacks of civilians and civilian infrastructures by Azerbaijani forces, describing the strikes on the church as "part of policy of the cultural genocide that the Azerbaijani government has been implementing over the past 30 years by systematically destroying the Armenian historical heritage."


2020 Ghazanchetsots Cathedral shelling, Response, International
Human Rights Watch's Europe and Central Asia director Hugh Williamson called on Azerbaijan to investigate the attacks: "It has been over a month since Azerbaijan has retaken control of Shushi and the government needs to waste no time in investigating the attacks and holding those responsible to account. Attacks such as these serve no military purpose and all parties should ensure these kinds of attacks are punished and otherwise prevented."


2020 Ghazanchetsots Cathedral shelling, Response, International
The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) wrote that they are "dismayed to learn that the Ghazanchetsots Cathedral was seriously damaged by fighting in Nagorno-Karabakh, and calls for the safeguarding of places of worship and religious sites, particularly amid the current violence."


2020 Ghazanchetsots Cathedral shelling, Response, International
US Congress Representative Frank Pallone condemned the attack in a post on his Twitter account: "The intentional targeting of civilian targets by Azeri forces, including the historic Ghazanchetsots Cathedral, is abhorrent and deserves international condemnation."


2020 Ghazanchetsots Cathedral shelling, Response, International
American composer Daniel Decker, who had given a concert in the building in 2017, lamented the destruction on Facebook, saying "This breaks my heart!"


2020 Ghazanchetsots Cathedral shelling, Response, International
In response to the urgent written question sent to the European Commission by Member of the European Parliament Loucas Fourlas, the High Representative/Vice-President Josep Borrell stated on behalf of the European Commission that the EU "deplores the destruction of religious and historic monuments in and around Nagorno-Karabakh, including damages to the Ghazanchetsots Cathedral, and underlines the importance of preserving and restoring the cultural and religious heritage".