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A special type of group tournament is the Round-robin tournament, in which each player plays against every other player. Usually each competitor finishes with an equal number of matches, in which case rankings by total points and by average points are equivalent at the end of the tournament, though not necessarily while it is in progress.
In the first round, five groups in two divisions were played, with the top teams advancing to the elite 16. In the Elite 16 phase, the teams will be placed in two groups of eight teams each. After a round-robin tournament, the top two teams in each group will advance to the 2025 BAL season. [2]
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.
Round-robin tournaments are also used in rugby union, curling and many amateur or lower-division basketball, football and hockey tournaments. In 1992, the Little League World Series went to a round-robin tournament in the first round, instead of single-elimination. In 2001, the tournament expanded to 16 teams and stayed with a round robin for ...
A standard round-robin tournament is used, in which all teams play each other once. Because the number of total games increases quadratically with respect to the number of teams, scheduling too many teams will result in an unwieldy number of games, particularly when there are a limited number of playing surfaces (championship curling arenas usually only have four or five sheets).
The winning Stacie Curtis rink represented Newfoundland and Labrador at the 2024 Scotties Tournament of Hearts in Calgary, Alberta where they finished seventh in Pool A with a 2–6 record. However, they did hand the first place team in Pool A, Alberta's Selena Sturmay their only loss in round robin play.
All four divisions engaged in a round-robin tournament where they played each team in their group and utilized the three points for a win system to determine teams able to advance to the single elimination, knockout stage. In the championship division, the two highest ranked teams from each group advanced to their knockout stage, with the third ...
Team Canada is represented by Team Rachel Homan, who won the 2024 Scotties Tournament of Hearts. [ 4 ] In a slight change in the qualification format from 2024, the final three teams in the field pre-qualified for the 2025 Scotties based on their 2023–24 Canadian Team Ranking Standings , which meant they bypassed the provincial qualifiers.