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  2. Swiss-system tournament - Wikipedia

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    Swiss-system tournament. A Swiss-system tournament is a non-eliminating tournament format that features a fixed number of rounds of competition, but considerably fewer than for a round-robin tournament; thus each competitor (team or individual) does not play all the other competitors. Competitors meet one-on-one in each round and are paired ...

  3. Round-robin tournament - Wikipedia

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    Round-robin tournament. 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.

  4. Tie-breaking in Swiss-system tournaments - Wikipedia

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    The system is the main tie-breaking system in round robin tournaments, but is also used in Swiss tournaments. It is also called the Neustadtl score. What we call the Sonneborn-Berger system was not invented by Sonneborn or Berger, and it was not originally designed for tie-breaking. It was invented by Oscar Gelbfuhs about 1873 to be used as a ...

  5. Round-robin scheduling - Wikipedia

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    A Round Robin preemptive scheduling example with quantum=3. Round-robin (RR) is one of the algorithms employed by process and network schedulers in computing. [1] [2] As the term is generally used, time slices (also known as time quanta) [3] are assigned to each process in equal portions and in circular order, handling all processes without priority (also known as cyclic executive).

  6. Group tournament ranking system - Wikipedia

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    the sum of defeated opponents' scores plus half the sum of drawn opponents' scores; this method is especially common in round-robin chess tournaments; in chess or Go Swiss-system tournaments (which use Swiss pairing) it is used as a secondary tie-break criterion. Ties remaining after one of these criteria may be resolved by resorting to one of ...

  7. Round-robin voting - Wikipedia

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    Round-robin voting. Round-robin, paired comparison, or tournament voting methods, are a set of ranked voting systems that choose winners by comparing every pair of candidates one-on-one, similar to a round-robin tournament. [1] In each paired matchup, we record the total number of voters who prefer each candidate in a beats matrix.

  8. Speed networking - Wikipedia

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    In the Round Robin model, participants meet each other sequentially in random pairings. To facilitate movement of participants, the chairs in the room are often organized in two circles or facing rows of desks. The host opens the first round of meetings, usually with a bell or buzzer.

  9. Scheveningen system - Wikipedia

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    Scheveningen system. Final standings of Kings vs. Queens 2011, tournament under Scheveningen system. The Scheveningen system ([ˈsxeːvənɪŋə (n)] ⓘ) is a method of organizing a chess match between two teams. Each player on one team plays each player on the other team. [1] The team with the highest number of games won is the winner.