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In a round-robin tournament, all playoff contenders play each other an equal number of times, usually once or twice (the latter is often called a "double round robin"). This is a common tournament format in association football. In the FIFA World Cup, teams are organized into eight pools of four teams, with each team playing the other three ...
The name of group m in round n. For each round, every set of four teams is classified as a group. RD n-seed m: The seed of team m in round n. For round 1, this value defaults to the conventional seed allocation for tournaments. If omitted, the cell is hidden. To hide seeds for round 1, the value must be explicitly set to be empty. m is the zero ...
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.
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Jessé de Forest's Round Robin from 1621. The term dates from the 17th-century French Rond ruban (round ribbon).This described the practice of signatories to petitions against authority (usually Government officials petitioning the Crown) appending their names on a document in a non-hierarchical circle or ribbon pattern (and so disguising the order in which they have signed) so that none may ...
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.
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The Sonneborn–Berger score is the most popular tiebreaker method used in Round Robin tournaments.However in contrast to Swiss tournaments, where such tiebreaker scores indicate who had the stronger opponents according to final rankings, in Round Robin all players have the same opponents, so the logic is a lot less clear-cut.