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In English, the round in which only eight competitors remain is generally called (with or without hyphenation) the quarter-final round; this is followed by the semi-final round, in which only four are left, the two winners of which then meet in the final or championship round. The round before the quarterfinals has multiple designations.
There is also one more system. Two teams are in lower-bracket round 1, two teams are in the upper-bracket quarter-finals and two teams are in the semi-finals. The winner of the upper and lower quarter-finals join the two semi-finalists in a single-elimination bracket.
The final will be between the two semifinal winners. A bracket or tournament bracket is a tree like bracket that represents the series of games played during a knockout tournament . Different knockout tournament formats have different brackets; the simplest and most common is that of the single-elimination tournament .
The quarter-finals take place across Wednesday 18 and Thursday 19 December ... the semi-finals are scheduled to take place on 6 January 2025 for the first leg and 3 February 2025 ... Before that ...
The first round will consist of seeds 5 through 12 playing one another at the home stadium of the better seeded teams, or another venue of their choice. Then, the quarter-final and semi-final games will consist of the New Year's Six bowl games, with a national championship game after that. [9] [10]
The following is a list of College Football Playoff games. For the 2014–15 through 2023–24 seasons, the semi-finals rotate between the Rose, Sugar, Cotton, Orange, Fiesta, and Peach Bowls, with each hosting a semi-final every third year. A standalone National Championship game is held roughly a week later.
The 1998–99 Knicks and the 2022–23 Heat are the only eighth-seeded teams to reach the NBA Finals; [29] [30] no eighth-seeded team has won the NBA championship as of 2024. In addition, the Heat are the first team to reach the Finals after qualifying for the play-in tournament. Six seventh-seeded teams have beaten a number 2 seeded team:
In the draws for semi-finals, there are no seedings, and teams from the same group or the same association can be drawn against each other. As the draws for the quarter-finals and semi-finals are held together before the quarter-finals are played, the identity of the quarter-final winners is not known at the time of the semi-final draw.