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  2. Round-robin tournament - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. 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 ...

  4. Playoff format - Wikipedia

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    The Big East men's basketball tournament used this format in a 16-team, five-round format. The PBA Tour uses a four-player, three-round format (sometimes a five-player, four-round format). College leagues in the Philippines use this format (four teams, three rounds) only if there is an undefeated team, and if there are seven teams or more ...

  5. Setting 12-team playoff bracket not the same as ranking top ...

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    The new format: The CFP's five highest-ranked conference champions and its next seven highest-ranked teams overall make the playoff. If you look at the current AP Top 25 using this format, the top ...

  6. 2025 Super Rugby Pacific season - Wikipedia

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    Eleven teams play in a round-robin format, with seven matches at home and seven away, and two byes. [3] The fourteen games include teams playing four teams twice, with a focus on "rivalry match-ups", and the six remaining teams once. [ 3 ]

  7. NBA playoffs - Wikipedia

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    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.

  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. 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 ...