Slightly off balance in a tourney (5)
I believe the answer is:
atilt
'slightly off balance in' is the definition.
Both the definition and answer are adjectives. Perhaps there's a link between them I don't understand?
'a tourney' is the wordplay.
'tourney' becomes 'tilt' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'a'+'tilt'='ATILT'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for atilt that I've seen before include "Leaning over and nearly falling" , "Listing" , "not quite horizontally" , "Inclined" , "Pulled tight" .)