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Players are not allowed to draw by agreement. The event is a 12-player round-robin, where every player plays once against every other player on the field. Players get 1 point for a win, 0.5 points for a draw, and 0 points for a loss. The player with the most points at the end of the last round wins the event.
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.
The tournament was a 12-player round robin, and utilized a mix of rapid and blitz time controls – 25 minutes for the first 20 moves, and 5 minutes for the remainder of the game. Due to the irregular time controls, several players lost on time, and the quality of the games was thought to have suffered as a result.
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 only exception is that one player is left over when there is an odd number of players. The player left over receives a bye: they do not play that round but are usually awarded the same number of points as for winning a game (ex: one point for a chess tournament). The player is reintroduced in the next round and will not receive another bye.
Players receive points based on their performance and the strength of the tournament. A player's final Circuit score is the sum of their seven best results of the year. [ 1 ] Fabiano Caruana scored the most points, and as winner of the 2024 Circuit qualified for the Candidates Tournament 2026 .
1970–71: All round robin (no groups), no semifinals or finals, the winner was decided based on round-robin standings. 1982–84: 12-player three-round single-elimination tournament (no round robin), the top four seeds received byes in the first round. 1985: 16-player four-round single-elimination tournament (no round robin), no byes.