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Example of a round-robin tournament with 10 participants. A round-robin tournament or all-play-all tournament is a competition format in which each contestant meets every other participant, usually in turn. [1] [2] A round-robin contrasts with an elimination tournament, wherein participants are eliminated after a certain number of wins or losses.
In a round-robin tournament, all playoff contenders play each other an equal number of times, usually once or twice (the latter is often called a "double round robin"). This is a common tournament format in association football. In the FIFA World Cup, teams are organized into eight pools of four teams, with each team playing the other three ...
This may be a full match or a reduced format such as a penalty shootout or speed chess. If there are more than two tied competitors in a 2-competitor game, the play-off may be a round-robin or knockout tournament, as in the 1992–93 League of Ireland. Instead of a playoff, the original matches may provide the tie-breaker criteria: head-to-head
The Page playoff is used by the Bowls Premier League in Australia, in a slightly modified format. Before the four teams play in a Page bracket, the fourth and fifth place teams from the round robin play each other in an elimination game, with the loser being eliminated and the winner moving on to play the third place team in the main Page bracket.
Twelve teams play in a round-robin format, with seven matches at home and seven away, although the second round (called "Super Round") will be played at AAMI Park, Melbourne. The fourteen games include eleven regular round-robin matches against the other participating teams and three additional "rivalry" games, in which they play another team ...
The competition format remained the same from the previous season , with an extra regular season round and the finals series being the major changes, [5] alongside the fixture list and afternoon fixture times. [6] Eleven teams play in a round-robin format, with seven matches at home and seven away, and two byes. [5]
The Marquette men's basketball team announced a four-team round-robin to open the 2024-25 season, with three schools heading to town beginning Nov. 4.
The division semifinals was changed to a double round-robin format within the division, with the top three teams from each division qualifying (each team played four games). Following the round-robin games, the top two teams qualified for the best-of-three division finals, followed by the best-of-seven finals.