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  2. Bye (sports) - Wikipedia

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    The Australian Football League, which comprises an even number of clubs, gives each club a bye week in mid-season [a], as well as a bye the week before the finals. In 1915, 1919 to 1924, 1942 and 1943, 1991 to 1994 and 2011, when there were an odd number of clubs competing, each club was given two byes.

  3. Badminton - Wikipedia

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    Badminton is a racquet sport played using racquets to hit a shuttlecock across a net.Although it may be played with larger teams, the most common forms of the game are "singles" (with one player per side) and "doubles" (with two players per side).

  4. Field dominance - Wikipedia

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    In video engineering, field dominance refers to the choice of which field of an interlaced video signal is chosen as the point at which video edits or switches occur. There are two main choices for field dominance: odd or even. With odd field dominance the edit or switch occurs at the start of the odd field.

  5. Chō-han - Wikipedia

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    The game uses two standard six-sided dice, which are shaken in a bamboo cup or bowl by a dealer. The cup is then overturned onto the floor. Players then place their wagers on whether the sum total of numbers showing on the two dice will be "Chō" (even) or "Han" (odd). The dealer then removes the cup, displaying the dice.

  6. Glossary of cue sports terms - Wikipedia

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    The following is a glossary of traditional English-language terms used in the three overarching cue sports disciplines: carom billiards referring to the various carom games played on a billiard table without pockets; pool, which denotes a host of games played on a table with six pockets; and snooker, played on a large pocket table, and which has a sport culture unto itself distinct from pool.

  7. Odds and evens - Wikipedia

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    Odds and evens may refer to: . Odds and evens (hand game), a two-player guessing game using fingers Odds and evens (patience), a solitaire variant of the card game Royal Cotillion

  8. Scoring system development of badminton - Wikipedia

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    In 2002 the International Badminton Federation (BWF), concerned with the unpredictable and often lengthy time required for matches, decided to experiment with a different scoring system to improve the commercial and especially the broadcasting appeal of the sport [citation needed]. The new scoring system shortened games to seven points and ...

  9. Round-robin tournament - Wikipedia

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    For an even number or an odd number of competitors, Schurig [20] builds a table with / vertical rows and horizontal rows. Then he populates it starting from the top left corner by repeating the sequence of numbers from 1 up to n − 1 {\displaystyle n-1} .