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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 ...
The 2024 Continental Classic (C2) was a professional wrestling round-robin tournament hosted by the American promotion All Elite Wrestling (AEW). The second annual edition of the AEW Continental Classic began on the Thanksgiving Eve episode of Wednesday Night Dynamite on November 27, 2024, and culminated at the Worlds End pay-per-view (PPV) event on December 28, 2024.
The first-round winners proceed into the W bracket and the losers proceed into the L bracket. The W bracket is conducted in the same manner as a single-elimination tournament, except that the losers of each round "drop down" into the L bracket. Another method of double-elimination tournament management is the Draw and Process.
In the NFL's dynamic playoff bracket, that means a date with the No. 1-seeded Chiefs is up next. That leaves the Baltimore Ravens and Bills as the other two teams remaining in the AFC.
A standard round-robin tournament is used, in which all teams play each other once. Because the number of total games increases quadratically with respect to the number of teams, scheduling too many teams will result in an unwieldy number of games, particularly when there are a limited number of playing surfaces (championship curling arenas usually only have four or five sheets).
Here's a look at the NFL playoff bracket – and the matchups for Super Wild Card Weekend – as the league's regular season winds to a close in Week 18. AFC wild card matchups 1.
The name of group m in round n. For each round, every set of four teams is classified as a group. RD n-seed m: The seed of team m in round n. For round 1, this value defaults to the conventional seed allocation for tournaments. If omitted, the cell is hidden. To hide seeds for round 1, the value must be explicitly set to be empty. m is the zero ...