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2. Single-elimination tournament - Wikipedia

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   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 ...

3. Mercy rule - Wikipedia

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   Mercy rule. A mercy rule, slaughter rule, knockout rule, or skunk rule ends a two-competitor sports competition earlier than the scheduled endpoint if one competitor has a very large and presumably insurmountable scoring lead over the other. It is called the mercy rule because it spares further humiliation for the loser.

4. Tie (draw) - Wikipedia

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   A draw or tie occurs in a competitive sport when the results are identical or inconclusive. Ties or draws are possible in some, but not all, sports and games. Such an outcome, sometimes referred to as deadlock, can also occur in other areas of life such as politics, business, and wherever there are different factions regarding an issue.

5. Match fixing - Wikipedia

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   Match fixing. In organized sports, match fixing (also known as game fixing, race fixing, throwing, or more generally sports fixing) is the act of playing or officiating a contest with the intention of achieving a predetermined result, violating the rules of the game and often the law. There are many reasons why match fixing might take place ...

6. Unofficial Football World Championships - Wikipedia

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   The Unofficial Football World Championships (UFWC) is an informal way of calculating the world's best international association football team, using a knock-out title system similar to that used in professional boxing. [1]

7. Sudden death (sport) - Wikipedia

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   Sudden death (sport) In a sport or game, sudden death (also sudden-death, sudden-death overtime, or a sudden-death round) is a form of competition where play ends as soon as one competitor is ahead of the others, with that competitor becoming the winner. Sudden death is typically used as a tiebreaker when a contest is tied at the end of ...

8. Playoffs - Wikipedia

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   Playoffs are used throughout Australia in Australian rules football to determine the premiership. The term finals is most commonly used to describe them. In each league, between four and eight teams (depending on league size) qualify for the finals based on the league ladder at the end of the season.

9. Round-robin tournament - Wikipedia

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   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.