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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.
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 Page playoff is used by the Bowls Premier League in Australia, in a slightly modified format. Before the four teams play in a Page bracket, the fourth and fifth place teams from the round robin play each other in an elimination game, with the loser being eliminated and the winner moving on to play the third place team in the main Page bracket.
This six team round robin format lasted until 1987, [10] when the field was expanded to a ten team round robin. During this time, the event was known as the Ontario Lassies from c. 1975 to 1982 following the sponsorship of Macdonald Tobacco, and then as the Ontario Scott Tournament of Hearts in 1982, following the sponsorship of Scott Paper ...
In association football, the term Hexagonal (known in English as The Hex [1]) was often used to refer to the final round of FIFA World Cup qualification among the six remaining teams in CONCACAF. [2] The six-team round robin format was used by CONCACAF since the 1998 FIFA World Cup qualification process, up until the 2018 tournament. For 2022 ...
Each team will play cross matches against the other group in a single round-robin format, where all matches will be played in best-of-threes. Accumulated results of teams in their respective groups will be used to determine a Winners group and a Losers group. The top three (3) teams in the winners group will directly advance to the playoffs ...
With the College Football Playoff field expanding to 12 teams, the CFP committee added first-round games at the site of the higher at-large teams to the new format. The vote to include eight more ...
This may be a full match or a reduced format such as a penalty shootout or speed chess. If there are more than two tied competitors in a 2-competitor game, the play-off may be a round-robin or knockout tournament, as in the 1992–93 League of Ireland. Instead of a playoff, the original matches may provide the tie-breaker criteria: head-to-head