2020 Brisbane International – Doubles
Nicole Melichar and Květa Peschke were the defending champions but chose to compete with different partners. Melichar partnered Xu Yifan, but lost in the quarterfinals to Ashleigh Barty and Kiki Bertens. Peschke partnered Demi Schuurs, but lost in the first round to Darija Jurak and Alicja Rosolska.


2020 Brisbane International – Doubles
Hsieh Su-wei and Barbora Strýcová won the title, defeating Barty and Bertens in the final, 3–6, 7–6(9–7), [10–8].


2020 Brisbane International – Singles
Karolína Plíšková was the defending champion and successfully defended her title, defeating Madison Keys in the final, 6–4, 4–6, 7–5. Plíšková won the title after saving a match point Naomi Osaka had against her in the semifinals.


2020 Brisbane International – Singles, Seeds
The top two seeds received a bye into the second round.


2020 Brisbane Lions season
The 2020 season is the 24th season in which the Brisbane Lions have participated in the VFL/AFL.


2020 Brisbane Lions season, Impact of COVID-19 pandemic
The 2020 season was disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic, which was formally declared a pandemic on 11 March 2020, eight days prior to the scheduled start of the AFL premiership season and 18 days prior to the final round of the AFL season.


2020 Brisbane Lions season, Impact of COVID-19 pandemic, AFL
Prior to the commencement of the season, the fixture was shortened from 22 matches per team to 17, under the expectation that matches would be forced to stop at the peak of the disease.


2020 Brisbane Lions season, Impact of COVID-19 pandemic, AFL
The season commenced on 19 March as originally scheduled, but the introduction of restrictions (and later of formal quarantines) on interstate travel, resulted in suspension of the season after round one. During that round, matches were played in empty stadiums for the first time in the league's history.


2020 Brisbane Lions season, Impact of COVID-19 pandemic, AFL
Throughout the season, matches were played for a shortened length of 16 minutes plus time on per quarter, instead of 20 minutes plus time on. This was originally done at the start of the season, in the hope that playing shorter games could facilitate more frequent games than weekly, maximising the games which could be played before the anticipated suspension of the season. Though the initial run of games lasted just one week, the shortened game time was retained after the season's resumption to allow make-up games to be more easily scheduled between rounds when matches were postponed or refixtured.


2020 Brisbane Lions season, Impact of COVID-19 pandemic, AFL
On 15 May, as most states began easing restrictions, the league's plan to resume the season was announced: clubs began non-contact training from 18 May, and full contact training from 25 May, ahead of resuming competitive matches from 11 June, with the revised fixture released gradually throughout the year, and changing regularly and often at short notice when the situation forced it.


2020 Brisbane Lions season, Impact of COVID-19 pandemic, AFL
The sizes of allowable crowds changed as the season progressed, with early season Queensland and New South Wales crowds limited to only a few hundred, while half crowds were allowed in the largely virus-free Western Australia from Round 7.


2020 Brisbane Lions season, Impact of COVID-19 pandemic, AFL
Following a virus outbreak in Melbourne in June, Richmond's base of operations was relocated to the Gold Coast, alongside all nine other Victorian clubs. The club played the remainder of their home games in the state, other than when travelling to other virus-free locations.


2020 Brit Awards
The 2020 Brit Awards were held on 18 February 2020 at the O2 Arena in London. It was the 40th edition of the British Phonographic Industry's annual pop music awards. On 27 November 2019, Jack Whitehall was announced as the host for the third year running.


2020 Brit Awards
In December 2019, it was announced that BBC Radio 1 host Alice Levine would be hosting the BRITs Are Coming Nominations Launch Show on 11 January 2020. The show was broadcast on ITV.


2020 Brit Awards, Category revamp
The British Phonographic Industry has "revamped" the award categories for this year's ceremony. Several award categories have been renamed and abolished, reducing the number of awards from thirteen to nine. The Brit Awards will no longer be supporting fan voting and will aim to start "giving artists' complete artistic control over their performances". Brits Committee chairman David Joseph stated "Most importantly we will be putting creativity, British culture and exceptional performances at the heart of the show to make Brits night a world class celebration."


2020 Brit Awards, Category revamp, Abolished categories
As of 18 February 2020, The British Phonographic Industry has abolished the following awards:


2020 Brit Awards, Category revamp, Renamed categories
As of 18 February 2020, The British Phonographic Industry has renamed the following awards:


2020 Brit Awards, Controversy
Following the launch show, the Brits were castigated for having male-dominated nominations on the main and gender-neutral categories. The nominations for Album of the Year, Best Group and Best New Artist were almost entirely dominated by male solo artists, except for Mabel who was nominated for the latter, and international singers Normani and Miley Cyrus, who both were up for Song of the Year for their collaborations with Sam Smith and Mark Ronson.


2020 Britcar Endurance Championship
The 2020 Britcar Endurance Championship (known for sponsorship reasons as the 2020 Dunlop Endurance Championship) was a motor racing championship for GT cars, touring cars and sportscars held across England. The championship's field consists of varying types of cars from sportscar to GT and touring cars that compete in four classes, depending on horsepower, momentum, etc. It was the 19th season of a Britcar championship, the 9th run as the Britcar Endurance Championship, and the 5th run as the Dunlop Britcar Endurance Championship.


2020 Britcar Endurance Championship
It was the first Dunlop Endurance Championship run without Class 5 and below, after the formation of the Britcar Trophy Championship. The season began on 11 July at Croft Circuit and ended on 1 November at Snetterton Circuit. There was also a non-championship round at the Spa-Francorchamps in support of the 2019-20 FIA World Endurance Championship, where Endurance category competitors will participate in two races with the Trophy Category cars.


2020 Britcar Endurance Championship
Danny Harrison and Jem Hepworth won the overall and Class 1 championships, reigning champions Paul Bailey and Andy Schultz, along with Ross Wylie won Class 2, Dave Benett and Marcus Fothergill won the Class 3 championship and Luke Davenport, Mark Davenport and Marcos Vivian won the Class 4 championship.


2020 Britcar Endurance Championship, Calendar
The opening rounds of the championship at Donington Park were scheduled to be held on 10 April 2020. The season includes a non-championship round at Spa-Francorchamps postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Spa-Francorchamps round was moved to 15 August.


2020 Britcar Endurance Championship, Teams and drivers
Cars are assigned classed based on speed, horsepower, momentum, equipment fitted to the car and the car's model;Class 1: GT3, prototype carsClass 2: GT4, cup (one-make series) carsClass 3: Cup (one-make series) carsClass 4: GT4, cup and TCR cars


2020 Britcar Endurance Championship, Teams and drivers, Entries that didn't participate
These entries were previously announced to compete in the 2020 season but couldn't due to the 2019-20 coronavirus pandemic.


2020 Britcar Endurance Championship, Results, Overall championship standings
† – Drivers did not finish the race, but were classified as they completed over 60% of the race distance and were awarded half points.


2020 Britcar Endurance Championship, Results, Class championship standings
† – Drivers did not finish the race, but were classified as they completed over 60% of the race distance and were awarded half points.


2020 Britcar Trophy Championship
The 2020 Dunlop Trophy Championship was a motor racing championship for production cars held across England. The Trophy championship was created specifically for production vehicles as a Britcar championship separate from the much faster GT and Touring Cars of the Endurance Championship. It is the 19th season of a Britcar championship and the 1st Britcar Trophy Championship season.


2020 Britcar Trophy Championship
2020 was the inaugural season of the Britcar Trophy Championship. The season began on 11 July at Croft Circuit and ended on 1 November at Snetterton Circuit. All rounds took place on the same weekend as the Britcar Endurance Championship rounds. There was also a non-championship round at the Spa-Francorchamps in support of the 2019-20 FIA World Endurance Championship, where the Trophy category competitors participated in two races with the Endurance Category cars.


2020 Britcar Trophy Championship
The championship included Class 5, 6 and 7 cars. The Michelin Clio Cup Series also joined the Britcar Trophy Championship grid for the inaugural season with the Clio cars having a separate class but still eligible to compete for the overall championship title.


2020 Britcar Trophy Championship
Oliver Smith won the Class 6 championship and overall Trophy title with 191 points, Johnathan Barrett won the Class 7 championship and was second overall with 188 points and Charlie Campbell and Rob Smith won the Class 5 championship and were third overall with 177.5 points. The Clio class champions were Aaron and Steve Thompson with 137.5 points.


2020 Britcar Trophy Championship, Calendar
The planned opening round at Donington Park, to be held on 10 April 2020, was eventually cancelled due to the pandemic. The non-championship round at Spa-Francorchamps was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. and moved to 15 August. The revised championship was contested over 9 races at 5 rounds, with best 7 results counting.


2020 Britcar Trophy Championship, Teams and drivers, Entries that didn't participate
These entries were previously announced to compete in the 2020 season but couldn't due to the 2019-20 coronavirus pandemic.


2020 Britcar Trophy Championship, Results, Overall championship standings
† – Drivers did not finish the race, but were classified as they completed over 60% of the race distance and were awarded half points.


2020 Britcar Trophy Championship, Results, Class championship standings
† – Drivers did not finish the race, but were classified as they completed over 60% of the race distance and were awarded half points.


2020 British Academy Scotland Awards
The 30th British Academy Scotland Awards were held on 8 December 2020 online, honouring the best Scottish film and television productions of 2019. The nominations were announced by Edith Bowman on 21 October 2020.


2020 British Academy Television Awards
The 2020 British Academy Television Awards were held on 31 July 2020, hosted by British director and comic actor Richard Ayoade.


2020 British Academy Television Awards
The nominations for the jury awards were announced on 4 June 2020, whilst the nominees for the audience award, "Virgin TV's Must-See Moments", were announced on 3 June 2020. The End of the F***ing World, Stath Lets Flats and Chernobyl each won two awards, with The End of the F***ing World taking home the Best Drama mask and Stath Lets Flats winning Best Scripted Comedy. In the news coverage awards, ITV won two masks.


2020 British Academy Television Awards
The 2020 British Academy Television Craft Awards had been held on 17 July 2020. Both ceremonies were held during the COVID-19 pandemic with social distancing practices. The Craft Awards event was entirely virtual, while much of the Television Awards ceremony was connected by video call, though it was hosted and presented from an audience-less Television Centre in London. Combining wins from both events, Chernobyl set a new record for total BAFTA wins in one year, taking home nine masks from fourteen nominations. The Special Award was presented to Idris Elba.


2020 British Academy Television Awards, Programmes with multiple nominations
The following is a list of programmes and networks with multiple nominations at both the 2020 British Academy Television Awards and the 2020 British Academy Television Craft Awards.


2020 British Academy Television Awards, Most major wins
The following is a list of programmes and networks with multiple wins at both the 2020 British Academy Television Awards and Television Craft Awards.


2020 British Academy Television Awards, Ceremony
Nominations for the 2020 British Academy Television Awards were announced on 4 June 2020. Fleabag, Chernobyl, Giri/Haji and The Crown had the most nominations. The ceremony had originally been scheduled for 17 May 2020; though it was postponed, the qualification dates for eligible programming were not changed. Krishnendu Majumdar, the chair of BAFTA since June 2020, gave an announcement that it was important to celebrate the importance of television during the COVID-19 pandemic.


2020 British Academy Television Awards, Ceremony
The ceremony was held on 31 July 2020 from 19:00 BST, the first major award show since the start of the pandemic. It was hosted by Richard Ayoade from a studio in Television Centre, London. Several performers presented individual awards in-studio, while other presenters and all the winners and nominees contributed over video either live or pre-recorded. This led to the interesting acceptance speech of Naomi Ackie, whose immediate reaction was to text people while live on video call – something for which she was humorously berated by presenter Himesh Patel.


2020 British Academy Television Awards, Ceremony
Other presenters at the ceremony included Aisling Bea, Greg Davies, Stacey Dooley, Jessica Hynes, Daisy Edgar-Jones, Jeff Goldblum, Ruth Madeley, Paul Mescal, Chris O'Dowd, Billy Porter, Michael Sheen, Nina Sosanya, David Tennant, Kermit the Frog, and Miss Piggy. Tim Minchin composed and performed an original comedy musical number to open the ceremony and performed the song Carry You (from the TV series Upright) for the end credits. An hour-long pre-show hosted by Tom Allen had been streamed on social media prior to the ceremony. Rotten Tomatoes' editorial on the event wrote that the ceremony "held all the drama of regular awards shows, regardless of location, mostly due to some big surprises".


2020 British Academy Television Awards, Ceremony
Surprise results included both the Best Drama and Best Scripted Comedy winners: The End of the F***ing World won drama over favourite The Crown (both Netflix), while Stath Lets Flats (Channel 4) won comedy instead of the much-celebrated Fleabag (BBC Three). Additionally, Phoebe Waller-Bridge lost Best Female Comedy Performance to her Fleabag co-star Sian Clifford. The two Fleabag stars watched the ceremony together at Waller-Bridge's house but separated on video for their nominations to prevent audio feedback. After Clifford won the award, Waller-Bridge presented her with a statuette of the "Godmother", an item in the show.


2020 British Academy Television Awards, Ceremony
During her acceptance speech, Clifford confirmed that the jury discussions for the year's awards were also done via video calls, and – speaking in the virtual backstage after winning – Clifford joked with Allen about the BAFTA award, a mask, being used as a facemask in public. Fleabag won only one award from the four for which it was nominated.


2020 British Academy Television Awards, Ceremony
The HBO/Sky Atlantic drama Chernobyl won for two of its three nominations, having won many awards in the BAFTA Television Craft Awards held virtually earlier in the month. The two wins on top of seven at the Craft Awards increased the show's BAFTA total to a new record of nine in one year. The Best Actor winner for his role in Chernobyl, Jared Harris, said to reporters in the 'backstage' video call after his win: "[it is] incredibly generous of BAFTA, to award that many.


2020 British Academy Television Awards, Ceremony
I mean, one of the things that I've noticed about the BAFTA awards over the years is, they're pretty judicious about spreading the love". The Best Soap and Continuing Drama award was won by Emmerdale, with its executive producer Jane Hudson saying in her acceptance speech that all the soaps deserved recognition as they had already restarted shooting by the summer of 2020. As Best Actress, Glenda Jackson won her second BAFTA, having taken home her first over 25 years ago.


2020 British Academy Television Awards, Ceremony
Other winners were notably diverse, with first-time winners Will Sharpe and Naomi Ackie being named Best Supporting Actor and Actress, respectively. The BAFTA Special Award was presented to Idris Elba for his contributions in creating opportunities in the industry; the award was introduced by Taraji P. Henson, Matthew McConaughey, Ruth Wilson, and Grace Fori-Attah.


2020 British Academy Television Awards, In Memoriam
Sydney Lotterby, who died a few days before the ceremony, was not included in the montage but was named by Ayoade afterwards. The In Memoriam segment covered deaths in the 15 months since the last ceremony. A further "In Memory Of..." list, including international figures, was included on the BAFTA website.


2020 British Academy Television Craft Awards
The 21st Annual British Academy Television Craft Awards are presented by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) and were held on 17 July 2020.


2020 British Athletics Championships
The 2020 British Athletics Championships (known for sponsorship reasons as the Müller British Athletics Championships) was the national championship in outdoor track and field for athletes in the United Kingdom. The championship took place on 4–5 September 2020, having been postponed from June 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.


2020 British Athletics Championships, Background
The championship was originally scheduled for 20–21 June 2020, but in April 2020 it was postponed until 8–9 August due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In June 2020, the event was postponed again, to 4–5 September 2020. The championship was held at the Manchester Regional Arena, as part of a three-year agreement to hold the event in Manchester from 2020 to 2022; from 2008–2019, the championships had been held at the Alexander Stadium in Birmingham. The entire event was held behind closed doors, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The stadium contained cardboard cut outs of some fans. The event was originally intended as a qualifying event for the 2020 Summer Olympics. After the Olympics were postponed until 2021, the 2021 Championships were used as the Olympic qualifying event.


2020 British Athletics Championships, Background
Almost 500 athletes competed at the championship. Notable athletes missing from the championship included Dina Asher-Smith, Mo Farah, Katarina Johnson-Thompson, and Laura Muir. Farah instead competed at the Diamond League event in Brussels, where he broke the one hour run world record. Muir instead competed in the World Athletics Continental Tour's Kamila Skolimowska Memorial event in Poland, where she won the 1500 metres race.


2020 British Athletics Championships, Highlights
In the men's pole vault event, Harry Coppell broke the British national record by clearing a height of 5.85m. In the women's 3,000 metres steeplechase, Aimee Pratt set a record time at the British Athletics Championships. On 5 September, seven stadium records were set during the Championships. Hannah Taunton set the world record in the 5,000 metres T20 event, and Aimee Pratt set the year's fastest time in the 3000m steeplechase event.


2020 British Athletics Championships, Highlights
The men's 800 metres event was won by Daniel Rowden in a sprint finish with Jake Wightman, who finished second. Holly Bradshaw won her eighth British pole vault title. In the absence of Dina Asher-Smith, 22-year old Imani-Lara Lansiquot won the women's 100 metres race, which was her first British title.


2020 British Champions Series
The 2020 British Champions Series, sponsored by QIPCO, was the 10th edition of the horse racing series comprising 35 of the UK's top flat races.


2020 British Champions Series
The series was scheduled to begin with the 2,000 Guineas at Newmarket on 2 May, however the Guineas Festival was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, with the 2,000 and 1,000 Guineas races postponed until 6 and 7 June, respectively. The series began with the Coronation Cup at Newmarket (moved from Epsom) on 5 June. The Epsom Derby and Oaks, scheduled to be held in early June, were postponed until July. The Lockinge Stakes at Newbury was cancelled.


2020 British Champions Series
The series concluded with British Champions Day at Ascot on 17 October.


2020 British Champions Series, Results
The series was split into five categories: Sprint, Mile, Middle Distance, Long Distance and Fillies & Mares. Each category included seven races.


2020 British Columbia Scotties Tournament of Hearts
The 2020 Scotties BC Women's Curling Championship, the provincial women's curling championship for British Columbia, was held from January 28 – February 2 at Western Financial Place in Cranbrook, British Columbia. The winning Corryn Brown rink represented British Columbia at the 2020 Scotties Tournament of Hearts in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan and finished with a 5–6 record. The event was held in conjunction with the 2020 BC Men's Curling Championship, the provincial men's championship.


2020 British Columbia Scotties Tournament of Hearts
Corryn Brown won her first British Columbia Scotties Tournament of Hearts with a steal in the extra end to defeat the Sarah Wark rink.


2020 British Columbia general election
The 2020 British Columbia general election was held on October 24, 2020, to elect members of the Legislative Assembly to serve in the 42nd parliament of the Canadian province of British Columbia. The incumbent New Democratic Party of British Columbia won a majority government, making John Horgan the first leader in the history of the British Columbia New Democratic Party to win a second consecutive term as Premier. The incoming Legislature marks the first time the NDP commanded an outright majority government in BC since the 1996 election, as well as the first province-wide popular vote win for the party since 1991.


2020 British Columbia general election
Horgan called a snap election on September 21, 2020, the first early election in the province since the 1986 election. Horgan portrayed the call for an early election as required for stability given the fact that the BC NDP was governing with a minority of seats in the Legislative Assembly, but his decision was criticized by both the NDP's confidence and supply partner, the British Columbia Green Party, and the province's Official Opposition, the British Columbia Liberal Party, as opportunistic.


2020 British Columbia general election
Liberal leader Andrew Wilkinson resigned two days after the election, but remained as leader until November 23.


2020 British Columbia general election, Background
This election took place under first-past-the-post rules, as proportional representation had been rejected with 61.3% voting against it in the 2018 referendum.


2020 British Columbia general election, Background
Section 23 of British Columbia's Constitution Act provides that general elections occur on the third Saturday in October of the fourth calendar year after the last election. The fixed election date was previously set for the second Tuesday in May — tentatively making the next election date May 12, 2021; but the BC NDP passed legislation in 2017 amending the section of the constitution pertaining to the set election day. The same section, though, makes the fixed election date subject to the Lieutenant Governor's prerogative to dissolve the Legislative Assembly as he or she sees fit (in practice, on the advice of the Premier or following a vote of non-confidence).


2020 British Columbia general election, Background
This prerogative was exercised on September 21, 2020, when Premier John Horgan called a snap election, thus dissolving the 41st Parliament. The writ of election was issued the same day, commencing a 32-day campaign. This was the first election in BC in nearly two decades to not have been held on the fixed date, following four successive elections which had adhered to fixed-date legislation under amendments to the Constitution Act introduced by the Liberal government under Gordon Campbell and passed shortly after the Liberals came into power subsequent to the 2001 election. It was also the first time a BC government had gone to the polls before the expiration of its mandate since the Social Credit government under Bill Vander Zalm called an early election in 1986.


2020 British Columbia general election, Background
This election was the second Canadian provincial election held during the COVID-19 pandemic, after the September 2020 election in New Brunswick – also a snap election. Due to the pandemic, more than 720,000 people requested mail-in ballots. Elections BC expected that 35 to 40 percent of ballots would be sent by mail, compared to 1 percent historically. Advance voting took place between October 15 and 21, with more than 681,000 people voting ahead of the election date.


2020 British Columbia general election, Background
Due to the significant increase in mail-in voting, the full results of the election were not known until November 8; the results of the judicial recount held in one constituency, West Vancouver–Sea to Sky, were only known on November 17.


2020 British Columbia general election, Background
The election occurred only three years and five months after the 2017 election and during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada. By the terms of the confidence and supply agreement that had been struck between the NDP and the Green Party, the NDP had been barred from calling a snap election and from holding an election before the fixed date.


2020 British Columbia general election, Background
The premier defended his decision to call an early election, claiming that the province needed the government to have a strong mandate and stability to deal with the challenges of the pandemic for the coming years; the governing New Democrats did not have a majority of seats in the legislature, relying on confidence and supply from the Greens for a slim combined majority. An Ipsos poll conducted for Global News and radio station CKNW found that 46 percent of people disapproved of the snap election call, while 32 percent approved. Horgan and the BC NDP had been enjoying popularity in the polls during the summer and throughout the pandemic.


2020 British Columbia general election, Campaign
On September 21, 2020, the BC NDP chose Nathan Cullen, a longtime party member and former member of Parliament for the federal NDP, to be the New Democratic candidate in the riding of Stikine, which is located in northwestern BC and was previously represented by Doug Donaldson.


2020 British Columbia general election, Campaign
Cullen, a white man, was nominated after the NDP attempted, but failed, to find a person wanting to run who was a person from an "equity-seeking" group, such as a woman or Indigenous person; the party's policy required that a vacancy left by a male MLA not running for re-election must be filled by a person from these groups. Annita McPhee, an Indigenous woman of the Tahltan Nation who had served as president of the Tahltan Central Government, previously declared her intention to become the NDP candidate, but was not considered by the NDP. The NDP said that McPhee's application contained invalid signatures, and Cullen was nominated before the paperwork problem could be resolved. According to a party official, McPhee had indicated that she did not want to be associated with the NDP following the 2019 federal election, which was denied by McPhee.


2020 British Columbia general election, Campaign
On September 28, BC Liberal leader Andrew Wilkinson promised a one-year tax holiday on the 7% provincial sales tax, at an estimated cost of $6.9 billion, and to thereafter set it to 3% for the following year, at an estimated cost of $3.9 billion, saying that it would stimulate the economy.


2020 British Columbia general election, Campaign
On September 30, NDP leader John Horgan promised to improve conditions at long-term care homes, at a cost of $1.4 billion.


2020 British Columbia general election, Campaign
The NDP filed a complaint to Elections BC against Liberal candidate Garry Thind, accusing him of violating the Elections Act by attempting to collect voters' information in order to provide them with a ballot.


2020 British Columbia general election, Campaign
On October 4, the BC Liberals announced that they would pause the transition in Surrey from an RCMP force to a local police department, and that they would hold a referendum of whether the city's switch to a local police department should be reversed.


2020 British Columbia general election, Campaign
On October 8, the NDP announced that they would commit to building, contingent on contributions from the federal government, the entire 16-kilometre (9.9 mi) SkyTrain Expo Line extension to Langley Centre by 2025.


2020 British Columbia general election, Political parties, Major parties, Liberal
The British Columbia Liberal Party is a centre-right party led by Andrew Wilkinson. In the previous election, it won 43 seats but was reduced to 41 at dissolution. In the 41st Parliament, the BC Liberals served as the Official Opposition after briefly forming a minority government under then-premier Christy Clark, which was defeated on a confidence vote held 2 months after the 2017 British Columbia general election. The party ran candidates in all 87 ridings.


2020 British Columbia general election, Political parties, Major parties, New Democratic
The British Columbia New Democratic Party (NDP) is a social democratic centre-left party led by John Horgan. It had 41 seats in the outgoing Legislative Assembly and governed BC with a minority government. The party entered a confidence and supply agreement with the Greens following the previous election, allowing the NDP to form government despite being the party with the second-largest share of seats. It ran candidates in all 87 ridings.


2020 British Columbia general election, Political parties, Major parties, Green
The Green Party of British Columbia is led by Sonia Furstenau. It won 3 seats in the previous election but had been reduced to 2 seats by the time the 2020 election was called. The Green Party supported the minority NDP government by providing confidence and supply. It ran candidates in 74 out of the 87 ridings.


2020 British Columbia general election, Political parties, Minor parties, Christian Heritage
The Christian Heritage Party of British Columbia (CHP) is led by Laura-Lynn Tyler Thompson. It ran candidates in 5 ridings.


2020 British Columbia general election, Political parties, Minor parties, Communist
The Communist Party of British Columbia (Comm.) is led by Timothy Gidora. It ran candidates in 5 ridings.


2020 British Columbia general election, Political parties, Minor parties, Conservative
The Conservative Party of British Columbia (Con.) is led by Trevor Bolin. It ran candidates in 19 ridings.


2020 British Columbia general election, Political parties, Minor parties, Libertarian
The British Columbia Libertarian Party (Ltn.) is led by Donald Wilson. It ran candidates in 25 ridings.


2020 British Columbia general election, Political parties, Minor parties, Rural
The Rural BC Party is led by Jonathan Van Barneveld. It ran a candidate in 1 riding.


2020 British Columbia general election, Political parties, Minor parties, Vision
The BC Vision party is led by Jagmohan Bhandari. It ran candidates in 3 ridings.


2020 British Columbia general election, Political parties, Minor parties, Wexit
Wexit BC became a registered party with Elections BC in 2020. Its leader is Lee Smith. It ran candidates in 2 ridings.


2020 British Columbia general election, Political parties, Independents
Along with the parties above, 24 individuals ran as independent candidates across 22 ridings.


2020 British Columbia general election, Results
These are the final results, which include mail-in and absentee ballots.


2020 British Columbia general election, Student Vote results
Student votes are mock elections that run parallel to actual elections, in which students not of voting age participate. They are administered by Student Vote Canada. Student vote elections are for educational purposes and do not count towards the results. There were ties in two constituencies, Kelowna—Lake Country (BC Green and BC NDP) and Shuswap (BC Liberal and BC NDP), which were both counted twice.


2020 British Figure Skating Championships
The 2020 British Figure Skating Championships were held from 26 November to 1 December 2019 at the IceSheffield in Sheffield. BBC Sport provided live coverage throughout the competition. Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dance at the senior, junior, and novice levels. The results were among the criteria used to determine international assignments.


2020 British Figure Skating Championships, International team selections, World Championships
The 2020 World Championships were scheduled to be held in Montreal, Quebec, Canada from 16 to 22 March 2020. However, the competition was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.


2020 British Figure Skating Championships, International team selections, European Championships
The 2020 European Championships were held in Graz, Austria from 20 to 26 January 2020.


2020 British Figure Skating Championships, International team selections, World Junior Championships
The 2020 World Junior Championships were held in Tallinn, Estonia from 2–8 March 2020.


2020 British GT Championship
The 2020 British GT Championship (known for sponsorship reasons as the 2020 Intelligent Money British GT Championship) was the 28th British GT Championship, a sports car championship promoted by the Stéphane Ratel Organisation (SRO). The season began on 2 August at Oulton Park and finished on 8 November at Silverstone, after nine races held over seven meetings.


2020 British GT Championship, Calendar
The season opened at Oulton Park on 2 August and ended at Silverstone on 8 November.


2020 British GT Championship, Race Results
Bold indicates overall winner for each car class (GT3 and GT4).


2020 British GT Championship, Championship Standings, Teams' Championship
1 — Car No. 33 entered as Team Tegiwa and Car Nos. 42 and 43 entered as Century Motorsport. 2 — The No. 19, No. 20 & No. 22 Balfe Motorsport cars were ineligible to score points as they weren't full season entries. 3 — The No. 11 2 Seas Motorsport car was ineligible to score points as it is not a full season entrant. 4 — The No. 3 Jenson Team Rocket RJN car was ineligible to score points as it is not a full season entrant. 5 — The No. 68 & No. 77 Optimum Motorsport cars were ineligible to score points as they weren't full season entries. 6 — The No. 16 & No. 17 Team Parker Racing cars were ineligible to score points as they weren't full season entries.


2020 British Grand Prix
The 2020 British Grand Prix (officially known as the Formula 1 Pirelli British Grand Prix 2020) was a Formula One motor race held on 2 August 2020 at the Silverstone Circuit in Silverstone, United Kingdom. It was the fourth round of the 2020 Formula One World Championship. The event was the seventy-first running of the British Grand Prix as part of the World Championship since 1950. The race was the first of two consecutive Formula One races at Silverstone with the 70th Anniversary Grand Prix following a week later. The defending race winner from the 2019 event, Lewis Hamilton, won the Grand Prix, his third consecutive win of the 2020 season, and Mercedes' fourth.


2020 British Grand Prix, Background, Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic
The opening rounds of the 2020 championship were heavily affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. Several Grands Prix were cancelled or postponed after the planned opening round in Australia was called off two days before the race was due to take place; prompting the FIA to draft a new calendar. The British Grand Prix was originally intended to be held on 19 July. When the calendar was redrafted following the pandemic the Hungarian Grand Prix and British Grand Prix had swapped dates with Hungary moving to 19 July and Silverstone taking the 2 August date, the originally planned date of the Hungarian race.


2020 British Grand Prix, Background, Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic
Although there had been doubts over whether Silverstone would be able to host Formula One races due to quarantine measures proposed by the British government; Boris Johnson, the Prime Minister, said in a statement that he believed Formula One should be given an exemption. In the end, the British Government did give approval for Formula One to be held at Silverstone. Before the races took place Northamptonshire Police reiterated the importance of fans staying away from Silverstone for public health reasons during the two Grands Prix weekends, and warned that strict measures would be in place to stop unauthorised persons from entering the circuit.


2020 British Grand Prix, Background, Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic
The addition to the calendar of the 70th Anniversary Grand Prix on 9 August, also at Silverstone, marked the first time in twenty-seven years the United Kingdom had hosted two Formula One races in the same season. The last season to have two British races in a season prior to this was the 1993 season, when Donington Park hosted the European Grand Prix and Silverstone hosted the British Grand Prix. It was later revealed that Silverstone offered to hold as many as 12 races in total during the season. Both the British Grand Prix and the 70th Anniversary Grand Prix were held behind closed doors.


2020 British Grand Prix, Background, Championship standings before the race
After the third round at the 2020 Hungarian Grand Prix, defending champion Lewis Hamilton, on 63 points, led the championship by five points over his teammate Valtteri Bottas, with Max Verstappen a further 25 points behind. Defending Constructors' Champions Mercedes, with 121 points, led the championship from Red Bull, who had 55. McLaren sat 14 points behind Red Bull in third, and were only one point ahead of fourth-placed Racing Point, who had 40 points, while Ferrari sat 5th on 27 points. Williams were the only team without a point, heading into the race.


2020 British Grand Prix, Background, Entrants
The initial driver and team race entry list was identical to the season entry list with no additional stand-in drivers for practice or the race. However, this changed following a positive COVID-19 test for Racing Point driver Sergio Pérez who was ruled out of the Grand Prix. He was replaced by Nico Hülkenberg.


2020 British Grand Prix, Background, Tyre choices
Pirelli brought the C1, C2, C3 compound tyres for use in the race, the hardest three compounds available. However, the 70th Anniversary Grand Prix, which was also held at Silverstone the following weekend, used the C2, C3 and C4 selection instead. This aimed to not only create strategic differences between the two races, but also to force the teams to fully make use of practice time on the second weekend, instead of relying on data from the previous week. The idea was instituted after the Mercedes team rejected an alternate plan, for a reverse starting grid to be run on the second weekend.


2020 British Grand Prix, Practice
Red Bull's Max Verstappen set the fastest time of the first practice session on Friday, followed by the Mercedes of Lewis Hamilton and the Racing Point of Lance Stroll. Nico Hülkenberg, in his first practice session on his return to the sport, set the ninth fastest time. During the session, Alfa Romeo's Antonio Giovinazzi spun at turn 13 and scattered gravel and tyre debris onto the track, causing the session to be red-flagged for 12 minutes whilst the track was cleared. He was investigated and later issued a warning by the race stewards for failing to safely return to the pit lane. Sebastian Vettel was unable to complete any timed laps after his Ferrari suffered an intercooler issue early in the session.


2020 British Grand Prix, Practice
Stroll set the fastest time of the second Friday practice session, followed by the Red Bull of Alexander Albon and the Mercedes of Valtteri Bottas. This session was also red-flagged after Albon spun at turn 15 and collided with the barriers. He was taken to the circuit's medical centre but was later declared fit. Vettel was again forced to miss practice time when a pedal issue restricted his running.


2020 British Grand Prix, Practice
Bottas set the fastest time of Saturday morning practice, followed by Hamilton and Verstappen. Albon was forced to miss most of the session with electrical issues, and Vettel continued to suffer brake pedal problems which curtailed his running on Friday.


2020 British Grand Prix, Qualifying, Q1 and Q2
Although there was a 60% chance of rain before qualifying, all three parts would prove to be dry. In Q1 (the first part of qualifying), Nicholas Latifi spun on his last lap, exiting the slow turn 7 (Luffield); his earlier time was only good enough for last place. His Williams teammate George Russell was investigated by the stewards for not slowing down under the consequent yellow flags - he received a five-place grid penalty. In the end, the five drivers eliminated in Q1 were Kevin Magnussen, Antonio Giovinazzi, Kimi Räikkönen, Romain Grosjean, and Latifi - as both Giovinazzi and Raikkonen failed to make it out of Q1, Alfa Romeo remained the only team to not reach Q2 (the second part of qualifying) in 2020.


2020 British Grand Prix, Qualifying, Q1 and Q2
Two different strategies were used in Q2, with both the Mercedes, Red Bulls, Racing Points and one of the Ferraris – that of Charles Leclerc – trying to get into Q3 (the third part of qualifying) on the more race-suitable medium compound tyre, and the other teams using the soft compound due to the top ten qualifiers having to start on the tyre used in Q2. Early on in the session, world championship leader Lewis Hamilton spun at turn 7; red flags were soon waved, since Hamilton had brought gravel back onto the track with him.


2020 British Grand Prix, Qualifying, Q1 and Q2
After the session resumed, Hamilton and his Mercedes teammate Valtteri Bottas set times a second clear of the rest of the field. Not all those using the medium tyres succeeded in reaching Q3 - Alexander Albon of Red Bull and Racing Point's replacement driver Nico Hülkenberg both failed to do so. Lance Stroll in 10th and Pierre Gasly in 11th set the same time, but since Stroll set it first, the latter in his AlphaTauri was consigned to going out in Q2. At the end of the session, the drivers eliminated were Gasly, Albon, Hulkenberg, Daniil Kvyat, and Russell.


2020 British Grand Prix, Qualifying, Q3
As the cars were being sent out, there was an incident in the pitlane between Leclerc, Stroll, and Daniel Ricciardo, with Stroll complaining that Ferrari had released their driver in an unsafe manner - the stewards, after investigating the matter, decided no further action was necessary. In the first set of laps, Hamilton broke the lap record with a 1:24.616, with his teammate 0.15 seconds adrift. Hamilton then broke his own lap record a few minutes later, recording a 1:24:303 to secure pole position, and Bottas achieved second place, 0.3 seconds back. Max Verstappen, one of the last to cross the line, was third fastest, over a second behind pole position. The rest of the top 10 were: Leclerc, Lando Norris, Stroll, Carlos Sainz Jr., Ricciardo, Esteban Ocon, and Sebastian Vettel.


2020 British Grand Prix, Qualifying, Q3
The pole position was Hamilton's 91st overall, and his seventh around the Silverstone circuit.


2020 British Grand Prix, Race, Pre-race ceremonies
A 'fight against racism' ceremony was held on the track before the race. All 20 of the drivers were out in formation directly in front of the grid, all displaying anti-racism messages on their t-shirts, and with some taking the knee and others standing, as video messages of their support for the anti-racism message were played.


2020 British Grand Prix, Race, Pre-race ceremonies
Following the singing of the national anthem ("God Save The Queen"), there was a flyover by a Spitfire with the message "Thank you NHS" painted on the underside of its wings, and accompanied by applause from those present, in recognition of the work done by the UK's public health services in the fight against the COVID-19 epidemic.


2020 British Grand Prix, Race, Race report, Pre-race
The Racing Point team was unable to start Nico Hülkenberg’s power unit in the garage, forcing him out of the race prior to the formation lap. This was determined to have been caused by a clutch bolt having sheared off in the drivetrain and, where the bolt jammed, the engine was prevented from turning over.


2020 British Grand Prix, Race, Race report, Early laps
Lewis Hamilton led from pole position at the race start. On the opening lap, Carlos Sainz Jr. and Daniel Ricciardo, starting seventh and eighth respectively, both made up two places by passing Lando Norris and Lance Stroll. 12th-placed Kevin Magnussen hit a kerb at the inside of turn 17, running wide. Alexander Albon then attempted to overtake Magnussen at turn 18, the two cars collided and Magnussen was sent through the gravel and into the barriers. He was uninjured and the safety car was deployed in order to recover his Haas. Albon was later issued a five-second time penalty after the race stewards deemed him responsible for the collision.


2020 British Grand Prix, Race, Race report, Early laps
Racing resumed on lap six. At the end of the lap, Albon became the first driver to make a pit stop to change from medium to hard-compound tyres. On lap 12, 12th-placed Daniil Kvyat spun at turn 10 as a result of a right-rear tyre failure and crashed heavily into the barriers on the outside of turn 11. Kvyat walked away from the accident and the safety car was deployed whilst his car was recovered. All drivers except Albon and Romain Grosjean made pit stops during the safety car period, allowing Grosjean to jump to fifth place. The order of the top 10 was now Hamilton, Valtteri Bottas, Max Verstappen, Charles Leclerc, Grosjean, Sainz, Ricciardo, Norris, Stroll and Sebastian Vettel, who had passed Esteban Ocon in the pits after the Renault suffered a slow pit stop.


2020 British Grand Prix, Race, Race report, Mid-race
The second safety car period ended on lap 19. Shortly after the restart, Vettel fell back behind Ocon, and Norris passed Ricciardo for seventh place. Grosjean was soon overtaken by both McLarens, and was shown the black-and-white flag for unsportsmanlike conduct after being judged to have defended too aggressively from Sainz. 14th-placed Albon made a second pit stop on lap 30, the first driver to do so, serving his time penalty and changing to soft-compound tyres. Antonio Giovinazzi was issued a five-second time penalty on lap 36 for speeding under safety car conditions.


2020 British Grand Prix, Race, Race report, Mid-race
On the same lap, Grosjean fell to ninth place having been passed by Ricciardo and Stroll. He was again investigated for moving too aggressively whilst defending from Ricciardo, but no action was taken. He made his first pit stop at the end of the lap, falling to the back of the field. On lap 38, Vettel dropped out of the points positions after being passed for 10th place by Pierre Gasly. Ocon passed Stroll for eighth place on lap 46.


2020 British Grand Prix, Race, Race report, Closing laps
In the closing laps Bottas, who had been running closely behind teammate and race leader Hamilton for the entire race, began to fall back, complaining of poor visibility due to vibrations. Sainz also reported a similar issue over the radio. Kimi Räikkönen, last of the running cars in 17th place, suffered a front wing failure on lap 48 and returned to the pits for a replacement. On the following lap, Gasly passed Stroll for ninth place and Ricciardo overtook Norris for sixth. With three laps to go, Bottas' front-left tyre delaminated.


2020 British Grand Prix, Race, Race report, Closing laps
After passing Bottas for second place, Verstappen made use of the gap to Leclerc in third and pitted for fresh tyres to safeguard against suffering a tyre failure himself and in an attempt to claim the fastest lap of the race. Bottas slowly completed his lap to return to the pits, changed tyres and emerged in 12th place.


2020 British Grand Prix, Race, Race report, Closing laps
With two laps to go, Albon, who had worked his way up from the back of the field and was promoted to 10th place by Bottas' pit stop, passed Stroll for ninth place. At the same time, fourth-placed Sainz suffered a front-left tyre failure. He returned to the pits and eventually fell to 14th place by the finish line. After Bottas' puncture, race leader Hamilton was warned over the radio to preserve his tyres. However this proved to be too late as, at turn eight on the final lap, Hamilton became the third driver to suffer a front-left failure. At this point, Hamilton had gained a lead of over 30 seconds after Verstappen's precautionary pit stop, although this gap rapidly fell as Hamilton slowly completed the lap.


2020 British Grand Prix, Race, Race report, Closing laps
Verstappen could only close the gap to six seconds by the finish line, and Hamilton took the chequered flag to claim his third consecutive victory of the season, 87th career win and his seventh at the British Grand Prix. Verstappen finished second and succeeded in claiming the fastest lap, with Leclerc completing the podium. Ricciardo and Norris finished fourth and fifth, with Ocon claiming his best finish since the 2018 Italian Grand Prix in sixth. Gasly, Albon, Stroll and Vettel rounded out the points positions.


2020 British Grand Prix, Race, Race report, Post-race
On his lap 12 accident, Kvyat claimed that he was "very, very distract[ed]" as issues with his car required him to change settings on his steering wheel immediately prior to the crash. AlphaTauri team principal Franz Tost suggested that Kvyat's accident may have been down to a tyre puncture. Red Bull defended their decision to pit Verstappen in the closing laps, raising the possibility that he could have suffered the same tyre failure as the Mercedes drivers.


2020 British Grand Prix, Race, Race report, Post-race
The tyre failures near the end of the race were investigated by Pirelli (the tyre supplier) and the FIA (the governing body) after the race. The company stated that the tyre failures were generated by two different causes: firstly, the 'extremely long' stints the cars were running on the demanding Silverstone circuit; and secondly, the increased pace of the 2020 cars which maximised the forces on the tyres, with the most stress on the front-left.


2020 British Grand Prix, Race, Race report, Post-race
Renault also protested the legality of the Racing Point RP20's brake ducts for a third race in succession. The protest was upheld with Racing Point being reprimanded but the team and drivers allowed to keep their results.


2020 British Indoor Athletics Championships
The 2020 British Indoor Athletics Championships was the national indoor track and field competition for British athletes, held on 22 and 23 February 2020 at the Emirates Arena in Glasgow, Scotland.


2020 British National Track Championships
The 2020 British National Track Championships are a series of track cycling competitions. The National Track Championships (excluding certain events) were held from 24 to 26 January 2020 at the Manchester Velodrome. They are organised and sanctioned by British Cycling, and are open to British cyclists. The championships are sponsored by HSBC.


2020 British National Track Championships
The Derny, Omnium, Madison and Tandem events will take place at various venues throughout the year.


2020 British Rally Championship
The MSA British Rally Championship is a rallying series run over the course of a year, that comprises six tarmac and gravel surface events. 2020 was to be the 62nd season of the series. The season began in the forests of Wales on 8 February and was due to conclude on 19 September in Southern Scotland.


2020 British Rally Championship, Series cancellation
On 9 June 2020, due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic organisers of the British Rally Championship took the decision to cancel the 2020 championship. The coronavirus pandemic continued to spread leading to a number of events being cancelled with round 1, the Cambrian Rally,  being the only event to take place.


2020 British Rally Championship, 2020 calendar
The 2020 championship was to be contested over five rounds in six different territories England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, Ireland and Belgium and was to be held on both tarmac and gravel surfaces.


2020 British Rally Championship, 2020 calendar
West Cork RallyRally Tendring & ClactonUlster RallyGalloway Hills RallyWales Rally GB


2020 British Rally Championship, 2020 calendar
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic the organisers of the West Cork Rally, the Rally Tendring & Clacton, the Ulster Rally  and the Galloway Hills Rally  announced that the events would be cancelled. The reserve event, the Wales Rally GB was also cancelled.


2020 British Rally Championship, 2020 calendar
The Ypres Rally due to take place in June was postponed until November, but on 30 October the rally was cancelled due to evolution of the virus cases in Belgium.


2020 British Speedway Championship
The 2020 British Speedway Championship was the 60th edition of the British Speedway Championship. The competition was cut short due to the coronavirus pandemic, with the semi-finals being cancelled. The final was originally set to take place at Ipswich with limited fans in attendance, however it was later switched to the National Speedway Stadium in Manchester. due to bad weather Defending champion Charles Wright decided not to defend his title.


2020 British Speedway Championship
The final was won by Australian Rory Schlein, who rode under an ACU (British) licence. He beat Richard Lawson and former three-time world champion Jason Crump, who also rode under an ACU (British) licence, in the final.


2020 British Speedway Championship, Results, The Final
m - exclusion for exceeding two minute time allowance •  t - exclusion for touching the tapes •  x - other exclusion •  e - retired or mechanical failure •  f - fell •  ns - non-starter •  nc - non-classify


2020 British Speedway Championship, Results, The Final
Dan Thompson replaced Edward Kennett in the meeting. Chris Harris was a non starter in his first ride. Josh Bates retired in his first two rides. Dan Thompson retired in his first ride. Ritchie Worrall fell in the semi final whilst in second place.


2020 British Superbike Championship
The 2020 British Superbike Championship season was the 33rd British Superbike Championship season. Because of a late season start caused by the global pandemic, all races were run behind closed doors and the playoff was abolished.


2020 British Superbike Championship, Championship standings, Riders' championship
Points are awarded to the top fifteen finishers. A rider has to finish the race to earn points.


2020 British Touring Car Championship
The 2020 Kwik Fit British Touring Car Championship (commonly abbreviated as BTCC) was a motor racing championship for production-based touring cars held across England and Scotland. The championship featured a mix of professional motor racing teams and privately funded amateur drivers competing in highly modified versions of family cars which are sold to the general public and conform to the technical regulations for the championship. The 2020 season was the 63rd British Touring Car Championship season and the tenth season for cars conforming to the Next Generation Touring Car (NGTC) technical specification. The Championship was won by Ashley Sutton.


2020 British Touring Car Championship, Race calendar
The revised championship calendar was announced by the championship organisers on 27 April 2020. All races will be held in the United Kingdom. Original calendar was announced on 16 June 2019, but was revised due to the COVID-19 pandemic.


2020 British cabinet reshuffle
Boris Johnson carried out the first significant reshuffle of his majority government on 13 February 2020. Following the December 2019 general election, there was considerable speculation that Johnson was planning a major reshuffle of the Cabinet, to take place after the United Kingdom's official withdrawal from the European Union on 31 January 2020. There were reports that up to a third of the Cabinet would be dismissed, Whitehall departments abolished and civil servants replaced by policy experts. The anticipated reshuffle was nicknamed "The St Valentine's Day Massacre" in the press, due to its proximity to St Valentine's Day, the name being a reference to the 1929 gangland shooting in Chicago.


2020 British cabinet reshuffle
Johnson formed his first ministry on 24 July 2019, following his election as Leader of the Conservative Party and subsequent appointment as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. In September 2019, he carried out small reshuffles in response to the resignations of two Cabinet ministers (Jo Johnson and Amber Rudd). After the Conservative Party's victory in the 2019 general election, Johnson's only change had been to fill the position left vacant by Alun Cairns' resignation in the previous month.


2020 British cabinet reshuffle
On 13 February 2020, Johnson reshuffled the government. Five Cabinet ministers were sacked, including the Northern Ireland Secretary Julian Smith, a decision that was criticised by several politicians and commentators following Smith's success in restoring the devolved Northern Ireland Executive under the terms of the New Decade, New Approach agreement. Chancellor of the Exchequer Sajid Javid resigned from the Cabinet after refusing Johnson's demand that he dismiss his advisers.


2020 British cabinet reshuffle
This was the last major cabinet reshuffle before the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom, and was followed by the most recent 2021 reshuffle.


2020 British cabinet reshuffle, Reaction, Dismissal of Julian Smith
The decision to dismiss Julian Smith as Secretary of State for Northern Ireland was criticised by a number of prominent political figures in Northern Ireland, including SDLP leader Colum Eastwood who described the move as showing "dangerous indifference" by the Prime Minister. Smith had been widely seen as instrumental in securing a cross-party deal to restore the Northern Ireland Executive, the New Decade, New Approach agreement, after three years without a devolved government in Stormont. Tributes to Smith's tenure as Northern Ireland Secretary were paid by NI First Minister Arlene Foster and Taoiseach Leo Varadkar. Both praised him for his role in ending the political deadlock in the country.


2020 British cabinet reshuffle, Reaction, Dismissal of Julian Smith
Many political commentators expressed their surprise at Smith's dismissal, given his perceived success during his time as Secretary of State for Northern Ireland. Some suggested that Smith's testimony to the Northern Ireland Affairs Select Committee in October 2019, in which he described a potential no-deal Brexit as being "a very, very bad idea for Northern Ireland", had influenced the decision to remove him from his position. Stephen Bush, political editor of the New Statesman, speculated that the consequence of Johnson's removal of Smith would be the destabilisation of the new power-sharing agreement and increased difficulty in negotiating the details of the "New Protocol".


2020 British cabinet reshuffle, Reaction, Resignation of Sajid Javid
Tensions between 10 Downing Street and the Treasury had come to a head in August 2019, when the Prime Minister's Chief Special Adviser Dominic Cummings dismissed one of Chancellor Sajid Javid's aides, Sonia Khan, without Javid's permission and without informing him. It was alleged that, during her dismissal, Cummings "went outside No 10 and asked an armed officer to enter the building and escort Khan off the premises." In November 2019, following questions of a rift between the two men, Johnson gave his assurance that he would retain Javid as Chancellor after the 2019 general election.


2020 British cabinet reshuffle, Reaction, Resignation of Sajid Javid
However, in the weeks leading up to the reshuffle, a number of briefings in the press had suggested that a new economic ministry led by Rishi Sunak might be established, to reduce the power and political influence of the Treasury. Sunak was considered to be a Johnson loyalist, seen as the "rising star" minister who had ably represented the Prime Minister during the 2019 election debates. By February 2020, it was reported that Javid would remain in his role as Chancellor and that Sunak would stay on as Chief Secretary to the Treasury, in order to "keep an eye" on Javid.


2020 British cabinet reshuffle, Reaction, Resignation of Sajid Javid
On 13 February 2020, the day of the reshuffle, Javid resigned as Chancellor of the Exchequer, following a meeting with the Prime Minister. During the meeting, Johnson had offered to allow Javid to keep his position on the condition that he dismiss all his advisers at the Treasury and replace them with ones selected by 10 Downing Street. Upon resigning, Javid told the Press Association that "no self-respecting minister would accept those terms".


2020 British cabinet reshuffle, Reaction, Resignation of Sajid Javid
The Chancellor's resignation had been unexpected, given Johnson's commitment to keep him in the Cabinet and recent reports that a rival finance ministry would not be created. Robert Shrimsley, chief political commentator of the Financial Times, warned that the Prime Minister's handling of his relationship with Javid could damage the government. He argued that "good government often depends on senior ministers – and the chancellor in particular – being able to fight bad ideas. Mr Johnson's cabinet has just seen the price of defiance".


2020 Brownlow Medal
The 2020 Brownlow Medal was the 93rd year the award was presented to the player adjudged the best and fairest player during the Australian Football League (AFL) home-and-away season. Lachie Neale of the Brisbane Lions was the winner, with 31 votes.


2020 Brownlow Medal, Leading vote-getters
* The player was ineligible to win the medal due to suspension by the AFL Tribunal during the year.


2020 Brownlow Medal, Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic which caused the season to be suspended for nearly three months, the regular season was reduced from 23 rounds to 18 rounds, with each team playing each other once as well as having a bye round.


2020 Brownlow Medal, Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic
In September, it was announced that the Brownlow Medal count would be held as a virtual event, with joint functions held on the Gold Coast, Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth, but not at the Crown Palladium as had been the case since 2003.


2020 Brownlow Medal, Voting procedure
The three field umpires (those umpires who control the flow of the game, as opposed to goal or boundary umpires) confer after each match and award three votes, two votes, and one vote to the players they regard as the best, second-best and third-best in the match, respectively. The votes are kept secret until the awards night, and they are read and tallied on the evening.


2020 Brunei Super League
The 2020 Brunei Super League was the seventh season of the Brunei Super League, the top Bruneian professional league for association football clubs, since its establishment in 2012. The season began on 28 January.


2020 Brunei Super League
This season saw the expansion of the league to 16 teams, who were selected through a vetting process. All ten teams from the previous campaign were retained, including Najip FC who are now called BAKES FC. Meanwhile, teams from the 2018-19 Brunei Premier League are DPMM FC II, Tabuan FC, BSRC FC, Panchor Murai FC and Rimba Star FC. Kuala Belait FC were also included as winners of the Belait District football tournament. Shortly after the announcement of the teams, Lun Bawang FC was replaced by Jerudong FC.


2020 Brunei Super League
On 13 March, the NFABD announced that the league would be suspended indefinitely, due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.


2020 Brunei Super League
On 19 September, NFABD announced the cancellation of the league.


2020 Brunei Super League, Foreign Players
Note: MS ABDB (Royal Brunei Armed Forces), MS PPDB (Royal Brunei Police Force) and Tabuan (Brunei national under-21 football team) do not field foreigners


2020 Brussels Cycling Classic
The 2020 Brussels Cycling Classic was the 100th edition of the Brussels Cycling Classic road cycling one day race. It was held on 30 August 2020 as a 1.Pro event as part of the 2020 UCI Europe Tour and the 2020 UCI ProSeries.


2020 Brussels Cycling Classic, Teams
Eight UCI WorldTeams, ten UCI ProTeams, and two UCI Continental teams made up the twenty teams that participated in the race. Most teams entered seven riders; however, Arkéa–Samsic and Deceuninck–Quick-Step entered six each, while AG2R La Mondiale and Nippo–Delko–One Provence entered five each. Of the 134 riders who started the race, only 112 riders finished.


2020 Bryant Bulldogs football team
The 2020 Bryant Bulldogs football team represents Bryant University in the 2020–21 NCAA Division I FCS football season. They are led by second-year head coach Chris Merritt and play their home games at Beirne Stadium. They play as a member of the Northeast Conference.


2020 Bryant Bulldogs football team, Previous season
The Bulldogs finished the 2019 season 4–8, 3–4 in NEC play to finish tied for fourth place.


2020 Bryant Bulldogs football team, Schedule
Bryant had games scheduled against Fordham (September 5), Rhode Island (September 12), Brown (September 19), and Robert Morris (November 7), which were later canceled before the start of the 2020 season. Merrimack was added as a replacement for the canceled Robert Morris game on July 15.


2020 Buckle Up in Your Truck 225
The 2020 Buckle Up in Your Truck 225 presented by Click It or Ticket was the 7th stock car race of the 2020 NASCAR Gander RV & Outdoors Truck Series season, and the 10th running of the event. The race was held on Saturday, July 11, 2020 in Sparta, Kentucky at Kentucky Speedway, a 1.5 miles (2.4 km) permanent D-shaped oval racetrack. The race was shortened from 150 laps to 71 due to rain during the race.


2020 Buckle Up in Your Truck 225
Sheldon Creed of GMS Racing would win the 2nd stage, and rain would stop the race before the green for the final stage, making him the winner, garnering the first ever win of his career. To fill out the podium, Ben Rhodes and Matt Crafton, both from ThorSport Racing, would finish 2nd and 3rd, respectively.


2020 Buckle Up in Your Truck 225, Background
Kentucky Speedway is a 1.5-mile (2.4 km) tri-oval speedway in Sparta, Kentucky, which has hosted ARCA, NASCAR and Indy Racing League racing annually since it opened in 2000. The track is currently owned and operated by Speedway Motorsports, Inc. and Jerry Carroll, who, along with four other investors, owned Kentucky Speedway until 2008. The speedway has a grandstand capacity of 117,000. Construction of the speedway began in 1998 and was completed in mid-2000. The speedway has hosted the Gander RV & Outdoors Truck Series, Xfinity Series, IndyCar Series, Indy Lights, and most recently, the NASCAR Cup Series beginning in 2011.


2020 Buckle Up in Your Truck 225, Background
The race was held without fans in attendance due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.


2020 Buckle Up in Your Truck 225, Starting lineup
The starting lineup was based on a random draw. Brett Moffitt of GMS Racing was drawn to start on pole for the event.


2020 Bucknell Bison football team
The 2020 Bucknell Bison football team represents Bucknell University in the 2020–21 NCAA Division I FCS football season. They are led by second-year head coach Dave Cecchini and play their home games at Christy Mathewson–Memorial Stadium. They play as a member of the Patriot League.


2020 Bucknell Bison football team
On July 13, 2020, the Patriot League announced that it would cancel its fall sports seasons due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The league announced a spring schedule on February 5, with the first games set to be played on March 13.


2020 Bucknell Bison football team, Schedule
Bucknell had games scheduled against Penn on September 19, Princeton on September 19, and Cornell on October 3, which were all later canceled before the start of the 2020 season.


2020 Budapest Formula 2 round
The 2020 Hungaroring FIA Formula 2 round was a pair of motor races involving Formula 2 cars that took place on 18 and 19 July 2020 at the Hungaroring in Mogyoród, Hungary. The event was the third round of the 2020 FIA Formula 2 Championship and ran in support of the 2020 Hungarian Grand Prix.


2020 Budapest Formula 3 round
The 2020 Hungaroring FIA Formula 3 round is a motor racing event scheduled to be held on 18 and 19 July 2020 at the Hungaroring in Mogyoród, Hungary. It is the third round of the 2020 FIA Formula 3 Championship, and will run in support of the 2020 Hungarian Grand Prix.


2020 Budapest Formula 3 round, Classification, Qualifying
The Qualifying session was scheduled to take place on 17 July 2020 at 14:00 local time, however, due to excessive surface water on the track from the rain, the session was stopped after spins from Lirim Zendeli and Liam Lawson at turn 8. As a result, the FIA announced the session would not be restarted. Qualifying was, therefore, rescheduled to 19:05 local time.


2020 Buffalo Bandits season
The Buffalo Bandits are a lacrosse team based in Buffalo, New York playing in the National Lacrosse League (NLL). The 2020 season is their 29th season in the NLL. 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 Buffalo Bandits season, Regular season, Final standings
x: Clinched playoff berth; c: Clinched playoff berth by crossing over to another division; y: Clinched division; z: Clinched best regular season record; GP: Games PlayedW: Wins; L: Losses; GB: Games back; PCT: Win percentage; Home: Record at Home; Road: Record on the Road; GF: Goals scored; GA: Goals allowedDifferential: Difference between goals scored and allowed; GF/GP: Average number of goals scored per game; GA/GP: Average number of goals allowed per game


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


2020 Buffalo Bills season
The 2020 season was the Buffalo Bills' 61st as a franchise, 51st in the National Football League, the sixth full season under the ownership of Terry and Kim Pegula and fourth under the head coach/general manager tandem of Sean McDermott and Brandon Beane.


2020 Buffalo Bills season
After acquiring players such as Stefon Diggs, Mario Addison, and A. J. Klein during the offseason, the Bills offense, led by quarterback Josh Allen, took another step forward, scoring a franchise-record 501 points and leading the Bills to 13 wins in the regular season, and their first playoff wins and first AFC Championship appearance of the 21st century.


2020 Buffalo Bills season
The Bills began the season strong with a 4–0 start, their first since 2008. Despite two straight losses afterwards, the Bills won 9 of their final 10 games, with their only loss during that span being the "Hail Murray" game against the Arizona Cardinals, to finish on a six-game winning streak with a 13–3 record, improving on their 10–6 record from 2019 and tying the franchise record set in the Super Bowl seasons of 1990 and 1991.


2020 Buffalo Bills season
In addition to returning to the playoffs for the third time in four years after previously going 17 consecutive seasons without a playoff appearance, the team won the AFC East division title for the first time since 1995 (during the Marv Levy/Jim Kelly era) after a 48–19 win over the Denver Broncos in Week 15, becoming only the second team other than the 2008 Miami Dolphins to win the division over the New England Patriots since 2002.


2020 Buffalo Bills season
Not only did they sweep the Patriots for the first time since 1999, but the Bills swept their entire division for the first time in franchise history. They also qualified for the playoffs in consecutive years for the first time since 1998 and 1999 (during the Wade Phillips/Doug Flutie era), which was also the last time the Bills had back-to-back double-digit-win seasons.


2020 Buffalo Bills season
The Bills began their playoff run in the Wild Card Round against the Indianapolis Colts, winning 27–24 for their first playoff victory since 1995. After this, they defeated the Baltimore Ravens 17–3 in the Divisional Round, advancing to their first AFC Championship Game since 1993, where they faced the defending Super Bowl champion Kansas City Chiefs, who they coincidentally faced in their last AFC Championship Game appearance. The Bills would lose 38–24.


2020 Buffalo Bills season, Final roster
Rookies in italics53 active, 7 inactive, 16 practice squad (+1 exempt)


2020 Buffalo Bills season, Preseason
The Bills' preseason schedule was announced on May 7, 2020, but was later cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.


2020 Buffalo Bills season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 1: vs. New York Jets
Buffalo handily won after racing to a 21–0 second quarter lead. Quarterback Josh Allen surpassed 300 passing yards for the first time in his career—throwing for 312, to be exact—and rushed 14 times for 57 yards as newly acquired receiver Stefon Diggs made his debut with the team. The defense largely shut down the Jets' offense aside from a field goal, a 69-yard touchdown pass from Sam Darnold to Jamison Crowder and a garbage-time touchdown in the fourth quarter, though rookie kicker Tyler Bass struggled in his debut, missing two of his four field goal attempts.


2020 Buffalo Bills season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 2: at Miami Dolphins
In a back-and-forth affair against the rival Dolphins and former Bills quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick, Josh Allen sealed the game for the Bills with two fourth-quarter touchdown passes to rookie Gabriel Davis and John Brown, respectively, as the defense was playing without starting linebackers Tremaine Edmunds and Matt Milano. Stefon Diggs also caught his first touchdown as a Buffalo Bill, which occurred during a power outage at Hard Rock Stadium in the second quarter that temporarily prevented CBS from airing the game. With the win, Buffalo improved to 2–0, as Allen threw for a career-high in passing yards with 415.


2020 Buffalo Bills season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 3: vs. Los Angeles Rams
Buffalo raced to a 28–3 lead in the middle of the third quarter, but after a pass from Josh Allen to TE Tyler Kroft was controversially ruled an interception for Los Angeles as Rams DB John Johnson III grabbed the ball moments after Kroft caught it, the Rams stormed back with five scoring drives to erase the deficit and take the lead in the fourth quarter.


2020 Buffalo Bills season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 3: vs. Los Angeles Rams
Allen would nonetheless lead a game-winning drive in the final four minutes of the game, including three crucial passes to WR Cole Beasley, capping it off with a touchdown pass to Kroft following a defensive pass interference call on Darious Williams on 4th and 9. With the win, not only did Buffalo start 3–0 for the second year in a row, but for the third week in a row, Allen threw for over 300 yards.


2020 Buffalo Bills season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 4: at Las Vegas Raiders
Buffalo scored on the opening drive of the game when Josh Allen found a wide open Gabriel Davis for a 26-yard touchdown. The Bills would not lose the lead for the remainder of the game, with Allen continuing his hot start to the season. Late in the second quarter, Allen scrambled and found Stefon Diggs for a 9-yard gain, but took a big hit from Raiders DE Arden Key, resulting in an injury to his left shoulder.


2020 Buffalo Bills season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 4: at Las Vegas Raiders
He would return, however, and score on a 1-yard quarterback sneak, along with 136 yards passing in the second half, with his longest being a 49-yard throw to Diggs. Buffalo would win and go to 4–0 for the first time since 2008 (the team started 4-0 that season before losing nine of their final 12 games).


2020 Buffalo Bills season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 5: at Tennessee Titans
Due to a COVID-19 outbreak within the Titans organization, the game was at first postponed from Sunday to the following Tuesday, marking the first time since 2010 that an NFL regular-season game was played on a Tuesday. In a battle of unbeaten teams, the Bills, missing starters such as Matt Milano, John Brown, Quinton Spain and Tre'Davious White, were unable to contain Titans quarterback Ryan Tannehill, who scored four overall touchdowns on the Bills defense. To make matters worse, three turnovers by Buffalo allowed for short fields and quick touchdowns for the Titans. With their first loss of the season and first loss to Tennessee since 2012, the Bills fell to 4–1.


2020 Buffalo Bills season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 6: vs. Kansas City Chiefs
Despite holding the high-powered Kansas City offense to 13 points in the first half of a rain-soaked game postponed from the previous Thursday (due to the Titans game being pushed back to the previous Tuesday), the Bills defense was not able to contain Chiefs rookie RB Clyde Edwards-Helaire, who led Kansas City to 245 rushing yards, while the Bills offense was bottled up for the most part, despite numerous pass-interference penalties called on the Chiefs secondary and two Josh Allen TD passes to Diggs and Beasley.


2020 Buffalo Bills season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 6: vs. Kansas City Chiefs
A missed field goal by the Bills at the end of the first half proved costly, as the Chiefs were able to go up by two scores with a late field goal, preventing a potential game-winning drive by the Bills. Instead, Allen was intercepted on the final drive with 1:20 remaining, sealing the win for the Chiefs. With the loss, Buffalo fell to 4–2.


2020 Buffalo Bills season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 7: at New York Jets
In a rematch from Week 1, New York jumped to an early 10–0 lead following a strip-sack of Allen by Jets linebacker Tarell Basham, but the Bills would score 18 unanswered points, all field goals by Tyler Bass, who went 6-of-8 with his field goals on the day, to win an ugly game. The Bills moved the ball well outside the red zone and were never forced to punt. Despite early struggles, Buffalo's defense was outstanding after halftime, allowing just 4 total yards to the Jets offense in the second half.


2020 Buffalo Bills season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 7: at New York Jets
Buffalo improved to 5–2 with the win, snapping a two-game losing streak and sweeping the Jets for the first time since 2015 (former head coach Rex Ryan's first season with Buffalo after six seasons with the Jets; the Bills won both meetings that year 22–17, with the latter meeting eliminating the Jets from the playoffs). The Bills also became the first team since 1941 with no touchdowns and also no punts in a game.


2020 Buffalo Bills season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 8: vs. New England Patriots
In a windy game, both the Bills and Patriots opted for run-heavy offensive attacks, with both teams nearing 200 overall rushing yards apiece, as Bills rookie RB Zack Moss rushed for the first two touchdowns of his career. Played down to the wire, the game was decided when DT Justin Zimmer forced Patriots QB Cam Newton to fumble in the red zone as New England was driving to either tie the game or take the lead on its final drive.


2020 Buffalo Bills season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 8: vs. New England Patriots
With the win, not only did Buffalo improve to 6–2 with a 1.5-game lead over Miami for the division lead, but achieved its first win over the Patriots since 2016 and first at home since 2011. It was also the first career win over the Patriots for both head coach Sean McDermott and QB Josh Allen.


2020 Buffalo Bills season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 9: vs. Seattle Seahawks
Thanks to an emotionally charged performance from Josh Allen, whose grandmother, Patricia, passed away the previous night, not only did the Bills improve to 7–2 on the season, their strongest record after nine regular season games since 1993, but the team also notched their first victory over the Seahawks since 2008, their first win over a Pete Carroll-coached team since 1999 (when Carroll coached the New England Patriots before being replaced by Bill Belichick the following season) and the most points scored by the Bills in a game since defeating the San Francisco 49ers 45–16 in 2016.


2020 Buffalo Bills season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 10: at Arizona Cardinals
In a back-and forth game in which the Bills were up 23–9 in the third quarter but then allowed 3 consecutive Cardinals scores, the Bills would go down the field to score with 0:34 remaining on a 21-yard Stefon Diggs touchdown pass from Josh Allen, taking a late 30–26 lead.


2020 Buffalo Bills season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 10: at Arizona Cardinals
However, the Cardinals would go down and respond with a score of their own, a 43-yard pass Hail Mary touchdown with Kyler Murray connecting with DeAndre Hopkins with just 0:02 remaining to give the Cardinals the 32–30 win, dropping the Bills to 7-3 heading into the bye week (it would be the team's last loss of the 2020 regular season).


2020 Buffalo Bills season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 12: vs. Los Angeles Chargers
Despite suffering three turnovers (each in the fourth quarter) and a knee injury Josh Allen sustained in the second quarter, the Bills held on to win, stifling rookie QB Justin Herbert and the Chargers' offense for much of the game. With the win, Buffalo improved to 8–3 and handed Los Angeles its first loss by more than a touchdown of the season.


2020 Buffalo Bills season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 12: vs. Los Angeles Chargers
This was also the Bills' first win over the Chargers since 2008 and their first win over the Chargers as a Los Angeles-based team since 1960, in addition to being the first Bills–Chargers matchup since 2002 without QB Philip Rivers on the Chargers' roster (Rivers joined the Indianapolis Colts roster in the offseason).


2020 Buffalo Bills season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 13: at San Francisco 49ers
This game was played at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona instead of the 49ers' home stadium, Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara, California, due to COVID-19 cases in Santa Clara County, California. In the Bills' return to the site of the Hail Murray play three weeks earlier, Josh Allen and Cole Beasley led the offense in an effective showing, while the defense kept a stout 49ers rushing offense in check for the most part with linebacker Matt Milano returning from injured reserve.


2020 Buffalo Bills season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 13: at San Francisco 49ers
With the win, not only did Buffalo improve to 9–3, but the team also earned its first win on Monday Night Football since 1999. The team also clinched its second winning season in a row, the first time since 1998-1999. The win over their final NFC West opponent also meant that the Hail Murray play cost the Bills a season sweep of the NFC West.


2020 Buffalo Bills season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 14: vs. Pittsburgh Steelers
"Let them do all the talking, all the (expletive) dancing. We (expletive) work."


2020 Buffalo Bills season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 14: vs. Pittsburgh Steelers
Josh Allen's pre-game speech regarding Steelers WR JuJu Smith-Schuster's antics


2020 Buffalo Bills season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 14: vs. Pittsburgh Steelers
The Sunday Night Football matchup was a repeat from Week 15 of the 2019 season, when the Bills traveled to Pittsburgh and won 17–10 to clinch a playoff berth. This time around, Buffalo hosted the Steelers, and once again got their tenth win of the season to start 10-3 for the first time since 1991. After a scoreless first quarter, Pittsburgh scored first with Ben Roethlisberger completing a 19-yard TD pass to James Washington in the second quarter.


2020 Buffalo Bills season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 14: vs. Pittsburgh Steelers
The Bills then scored on a field goal drive and a 51-yard pick six of Roethlisberger by Taron Johnson to go up 9–7 at halftime, a lead they would never relinquish. The Bills added two third-quarter touchdowns from Allen to Diggs and Gabriel Davis respectively to prevail, 26–15.


2020 Buffalo Bills season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 14: vs. Pittsburgh Steelers
With the win, not only did the Bills match their win total from the previous season and defeat the Steelers at home for the first time since 1999 , but Josh Allen also passed Jim Kelly for most total touchdowns in a single season in team history, while Stefon Diggs tied Eric Moulds' record of 100 receptions in a single season.


2020 Buffalo Bills season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 15: at Denver Broncos
A 48–19 blowout victory in Denver was the Bills' fourth straight double-digit win, and their first win by more than two scores since Week 12 of 2019 (incidentally also against the Broncos). Their 48 points scored was the greatest number of points scored by the Bills since scoring 49 against the Bengals in Week 11 of 2010. It was also their first road win over the Broncos since 2008.


2020 Buffalo Bills season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 15: at Denver Broncos
With the dominant win, the Bills not only clinched their third playoff berth in four seasons after having previously missed the playoffs for 17 consecutive seasons, but also won the AFC East division for the first time since 1995. Josh Allen joined Drew Bledsoe in 2002 as the only quarterbacks in franchise history to surpass 4,000 passing yards in a season.


2020 Buffalo Bills season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 16: at New England Patriots
After a close first quarter, in which the Bills were leading 10–9 following a 9-yard Cam Newton touchdown run, the Bills offense scored 28 unanswered points en route to a 38–9 blowout victory on the final Monday Night Football game of the season, sweeping the Patriots for the first time since 1999 and clinching their first 12-win season since 1993. The win extended the Bills' streak of double-digit wins to five games. Josh Allen passed Jim Kelly's franchise record for most passing touchdowns in a single season with 34, while Stefon Diggs surpassed Eric Moulds for the franchise single-season receiving yards record.


2020 Buffalo Bills season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 17: vs. Miami Dolphins
In a rematch from Week 2, the Bills closed out the regular season hosting the Dolphins, who needed a win to make the playoffs. The Dolphins were forced to start rookie QB Tua Tagovailoa, as Ryan Fitzpatrick tested positive for COVID-19. Unfortunately for the Dolphins, Tagovailoa had his worst performance of the season, as he had three interceptions (one of which was returned for a TD by Bills CB Josh Norman), despite passing for a career-high 361 yards.


2020 Buffalo Bills season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 17: vs. Miami Dolphins
QB Josh Allen threw for 224 yards, three TDs and a first quarter interception, with two of those TDs going to WR Isaiah McKenzie, who also returned a punt 84 yards for a TD in the second quarter. Despite Allen being replaced in the second half by Matt Barkley, the Bills continued their dominating performance of the previous five weeks. They extended their streak of double-digit wins to six games by scoring a season-high 56 points, the second-most points in a single game in franchise history (they scored 58 against the Dolphins in 1966).


2020 Buffalo Bills season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 17: vs. Miami Dolphins
Despite only playing for one half, Josh Allen still broke the single season record for most passing yards by a QB in franchise history. Meanwhile, Stefon Diggs became the first wide receiver in NFL history to lead the league in both receptions and receiving yards in his first season with a new team.


2020 Buffalo Bills season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 17: vs. Miami Dolphins
With the 56–26 victory, the Bills finished 13-3 for the franchise's best season since 1991, swept all three divisional opponents for a 6–0 record within the division for the first time in franchise history, and clinched the #2 seed in the playoffs (although they would not get a first-round bye because of the expanded playoff format).


2020 Buffalo Bills season, Postseason, Game summaries, AFC Wild Card Playoffs: vs. (7) Indianapolis Colts
In their fourth consecutive playoff game against the AFC South dating back to 1999, and what would end up being Colts quarterback Philip Rivers' final NFL game, the Bills held on despite a fourth quarter comeback by the Colts to win their first playoff game since 1995. In his first playoff win, Josh Allen threw for 2 touchdowns and 324 passing yards, and scored another rushing touchdown. Dawson Knox and Stefon Diggs caught a touchdown each. Tyler Bass kicked a 54-yard field goal, a new rookie playoff record. Allen became the first QB in NFL history to throw for 300+ yards, run for 50+ yards and complete at least 70% of his passes in a playoff game. The game was also coach Sean McDermott's first playoff win as head coach.


2020 Buffalo Bills season, Postseason, Game summaries, AFC Divisional Playoffs: vs. (5) Baltimore Ravens
After four consecutive playoff games against the AFC South dating back to Music City Miracle in 1999, the Bills finally played a team from another division in the playoffs for the first time since 1998. In a windy game which saw three missed field goals in the first half alone (two by the league's best kicker in Justin Tucker and one by Bills rookie Tyler Bass), the Bills scored the first touchdown of the game in the third quarter on a three-yard pass from Josh Allen to Stefon Diggs to take a 10–3 lead.


2020 Buffalo Bills season, Postseason, Game summaries, AFC Divisional Playoffs: vs. (5) Baltimore Ravens
The Ravens then drove to the Bills' 9 yard line, where quarterback Lamar Jackson threw the first end-zone interception of his career to Bills cornerback Taron Johnson, which was returned 101 yards for a touchdown, tied for the longest pick-six in NFL playoff history, to expand the Bills' lead to 17–3. Jackson then suffered an injury on the next series, and was unable to return. Although the Bills offense was held scoreless for the rest of the game, Ravens backup quarterback Tyler Huntley was unable to complete a comeback, sealing the 17–3 win for the Bills to advance to their first AFC Championship since 1993.


2020 Buffalo Bills season, Postseason, Game summaries, AFC Championship: at (1) Kansas City Chiefs
This was the third AFL/AFC championship game between the two teams. Kansas City won the 1966 AFL Championship game to advance to Super Bowl I, while Buffalo bested the Chiefs in the 1993 AFC Championship game to advance to Super Bowl XXVIII, its fourth in a row. Despite taking a 9–0 lead in the first quarter, the Bills offense was ineffective in the red zone, and on defense, they were unable to contain the Chiefs offense for the remainder of the game.


2020 Buffalo Bills season, Postseason, Game summaries, AFC Championship: at (1) Kansas City Chiefs
After giving up three consecutive touchdowns in the second quarter, the Bills scored a field goal to go into halftime down 12–21. The Chiefs momentum continued into the second half with two more scoring drives, while the Bills settled for another field goal. In the fourth quarter, Allen's pass intended for receiver John Brown was tipped and intercepted, leading to the Chiefs' final touchdown of the night.


2020 Buffalo Bills season, Postseason, Game summaries, AFC Championship: at (1) Kansas City Chiefs
The Bills followed up with a scoring drive on a Josh Allen touchdown pass to Isaiah McKenzie, followed by an unsuccessful two-point attempt, and a successful onside kick recovery leading to a field goal. The Chiefs recovered the Bills' next onside kick and were able to drive to the Bills' 15-yard line and run out the clock, ending the Bills' hopes for a comeback victory.


2020 Buffalo Bulls football team
The 2020 Buffalo Bulls football team represented the University at Buffalo in the 2020 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Bulls were led by sixth-year head coach Lance Leipold and played their home games at the University at Buffalo Stadium as members of the East Division of the Mid-American Conference. In a limited season, which was initially canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic before being reinstated, the Bulls finished the season 6–1, 5–0 in MAC play to win the East Division. They lost to Ball State in the MAC Championship. They received an invite to the Camelia Bowl where they defeated Marshall.


2020 Buffalo Bulls football team
Following the season and the Les Miles' firing at Kansas, Leipold left the team and was named the Jayhawks' new head coach on April 30, 2021. A few days later, the school named Michigan co-defensive coordinator Maurice Linguist the team's new head coach.


2020 Buffalo Bulls football team, Previous season
The Bulls finished the 2019 season 8–5, 5–3 in MAC play to finish in a three-way tie for second place in the East Division, losing the tiebreakers to Kent State and Ohio. The Bulls were invited to the Bahamas Bowl, where they defeated Charlotte for their first bowl game win in program history.


2020 Buffalo Bulls football team, Season recap
The Bulls played their first game of 2020 against Northern Illinois in Dekalb, Illinois, on November 4 after a delayed start to the season due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Jaret Patterson ran for 137 yards including for two touchdowns. Quarterback Kyle Vantrease recorded his first two touchdowns of the season with a rushing touchdown and a passing touchdown to Antonio Nunn. The Buffalo defense scored 3 touchdowns on their own with 2 fumble recoveries returned for touchdowns by Tim Terry Jr. and Isaiah King and an interception returned for a touchdown by Kadofi Wright en route to the Bulls 49–30 win.


2020 Buffalo Bulls football team, Season recap
The Bulls home opener at UB Stadium occurred six days later against the Miami Redhawks. Kevin Marks Jr. ran for 109 yards compared to Jaret Patterson's 73, but with Patterson rushing for 2 touchdowns. Kyle Vantrease completed 4 touchdown passes as Buffalo defeated Miami 42–10. Buffalo received 1 vote in week 12's AP Poll, their first vote received in the poll of the season.


2020 Buffalo Bulls football team, Season recap
A week later Buffalo went back on the road traveling to Doyt L. Perry Stadium in Bowling Green, Ohio, to take on the Bowling Green Falcons. Jaret Patterson erupted for 301 yards while scoring 4 touchdowns on 31 carries with fellow Buffalo running back Kevin Marks Jr. and quarterback Kyle Vantrease also recording a rushing touchdown each in Buffalo's 42–17 win in Bowling Green. Buffalo received 3 votes in week 13's AP Poll.


2020 Buffalo Bulls football team, Season recap
The Bulls played their first Saturday game of the season on November 28 against Kent State at UB Stadium. Jaret Patterson rushed for over 400 yards, coming within striking distance of breaking the FBS record for most yards rushed for in a game. He scored 8 touchdowns which tied the record for most FBS touchdowns by one player in a single game. Patterson's massive performance was done on only 36 carries throughout the game, with teammate Kevin Marks Jr. also getting 16 carries and recording 2 rushing touchdowns on his own. Patterson's impressive performance against Kent State earned him national attention and calls for him to be added to the watchlist for the Heisman Trophy. Buffalo defeated Kent State 70–41 and received 56 votes in week 14's AP Poll, coming within striking distance of a national ranking.


2020 Buffalo Bulls football team, Season recap
The following week, Buffalo was slated to play the Ohio Bobcats, but because of a COVID-19 outbreak on the Ohio football team, the game was canceled. Nevertheless, Buffalo increased their share of the vote in the AP Poll to 145, good for a No. 24 ranking in the poll. This was the first national ranking in Buffalo football program history.


2020 Buffalo Bulls football team, Season recap
Buffalo finished off their regular season on December 12 against Akron at UB Stadium. Jaret Patterson was sparsely used against Akron, receiving the entire second half of the game off. Patterson and Marks Jr. each recorded 2 rushing touchdowns each as Buffalo defeated Akron 56–7 and finished the regular season undefeated at 5–0. The Bulls once again increased their share of the vote in the AP Poll up to 186, good to jump up a position in the poll to No. 23.


2020 Buffalo Bulls football team, Schedule
Buffalo originally had a game scheduled against Ohio State, but it was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Buffalo played a regular season consisting of games against MAC teams only.


2020 Buffalo Bulls football team, Rankings
In week 12, Buffalo received votes in the AP Poll for the first time since the 2018 season. They were nationally ranked for the first time in program history when the week 15 poll was released, ranked at No.24 in the AP Poll. The following week they were raised to No. 23.


2020 Bulgarian Basketball Cup
The 2020 Bulgarian Basketball Cup was the 66th edition of the annual cup tournament in Bulgaria. It is managed by the Bulgarian Basketball Federation and was held in Sofia, in Universiada Hall. The competition started at 6th of February 2020, with the quarterfinals and ended with the Final on February 9, 2020.


2020 Bulgarian Basketball Cup, Qualified teams
The first eight teams qualified after the first stage of the 2019-20 NBL regular season .