Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
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 ...
A single-elimination, knockout, or sudden-death tournament is a type of elimination tournament where the loser of each match-up is immediately eliminated from the tournament. Each winner will play another in the next round, until the final match-up, whose winner becomes the tournament champion (s). Each match-up may be a single match or several ...
Bracket (tournament) The partially-completed bracket for a 16-player single-elimination tournament. The quarterfinals have been completed, and the semifinals will be Lisa vs. Ernie, and Andrew vs. Robert. The final will be between the two semifinal winners. A bracket or tournament bracket is a tree diagram that represents the series of games ...
In most games, a draw is an allowable outcome. League competitions using the common three points for a win system award a single point to both teams for a drawn match. However in some competitions, primarily knock-out tournaments, it is necessary to resolve a victor.
Tournament. A tournament is a competition involving at least three competitors, all participating in a sport or game. More specifically, the term may be used in either of two overlapping senses: One or more competitions held at a single venue and concentrated into a relatively short time interval. A competition involving a number of matches ...
The number of teams offered a bye is generally designed to ensure that the next round consists of a power-of-two number of teams so the tournament can proceed as a simple single-elimination tournament from that round onward. If the byes are all single first-round byes into the second round of a tournament, the number of byes required is the ...
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.
Major League Baseball (MLB) has used a best-of-seven format for the League Championship Series since 1985, and for the World Series between 1905 and 1918, and since 1922. [f] MLB uses the "2–3–2" format. The National Basketball Association (NBA) uses a "2–2–1–1–1" format for all playoff rounds including the Finals.