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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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    The World Chess Championship decided in 2005 and in 2007 on an eight-player double round-robin tournament where each player faces every other player once as white and once as black. In a more extreme example, the KBO League in baseball plays a 16-fold round robin, with each of the 10 teams playing each other 16 times for a total of 144 games ...

  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. Double-elimination tournament - Wikipedia

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    Double-elimination tournament. A double-elimination tournament is a type of elimination tournament competition in which a participant ceases to be eligible to win the tournament 's championship upon having lost two games or matches. It stands in contrast to a single-elimination tournament, in which only one defeat results in elimination.

  6. Group tournament ranking system - Wikipedia

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    In a group tournament, unlike a knockout tournament, there is no scheduled decisive final match. Instead, all the competitors are ranked by examining the results of all the matches played in the tournament. Typically, points are awarded for each match, [n 1] with competitors ranked based either on total number of points or average points per match.

  7. Brawling fans in stands delay start of Argentina-Brazil World ...

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    Both teams lost their previous games in the 10-team round-robin competition. The rivalry between Brazil and Argentina started at the club level and grew after the Argentinians won their first ...

  8. 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).

  9. French team Orient Express eliminated from America's Cup ...

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    The French boat finished last after the round-robin regattas and will not move on to the four-team playoffs that begin on Saturday. Orient Express ended with a 1-7 record.