Electronic Journal of Differential Equations, Vol. 2019 (2019), No. 121, pp. 1-12. Title: Eventually competitive systems generated by perturbations Author: Lin Niu (Univ. of Science and Tech., Hefei, Anhui, China) Abstract: A dynamical system is called eventually competitive if it preserves a partial order in backward time only after some reasonable initial transient. We show that both regular and singular perturbations of a competitive irreducible vector field are at most eventually competitive rather than competitive. Submitted September 19, 2019. Published November 18, 2019. Math Subject Classifications: 34C12, 37C65. Key Words: Eventually cooperative systems; eventually competitive systems; regular perturbation; geometric singular perturbation; omega-limit sets.