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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 ...
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.
A standard round-robin tournament is used, in which all teams play each other once. Because the number of total games increases quadratically with respect to the number of teams, scheduling too many teams will result in an unwieldy number of games, particularly when there are a limited number of playing surfaces (championship curling arenas usually only have four or five sheets).
Basic points for a tournament are awarded depending on the tournament format: Swiss-system: Top 8 (within top half of ranking), ties included. Round-robin: Top 3 with ties (with the exception of the Candidates Tournament 2024 where points are awarded to all players). Knockout: Third round or later, up to 8 players. Points are awarded as follows:
The top two teams from each group advance to the knockout rounds of the World Cup. Here's what happens if there's a tie.
A tournament that has too many participants for a round-robin format is commonly conducted as a Swiss-system tournament. [29] This is the most common format for amateur events, and is also common at professional level. In the Swiss style, players are paired as far as possible with opponents having same or similar scores. [30]
With only nine league members in 1953–54, the NBA cut its postseason tournament field from eight teams to six (from 1954 through 1966, the period of eight to nine league members). Round robins were played in 1954, uniquely in NBA history—a three-team round robin among the three playoff teams in each division. From 1955 to 1966, the first ...