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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).

  3. Playoff format - Wikipedia

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    The "stepladder", named because the bracket resembles a step ladder, is a variation of the single-elimination tournament; instead of the No. 1 seed facing the No. 16 seed in the first round, the bracket is constructed to give the higher seeded teams byes, where the No. 1 seed has bye up to the third (or fourth) round, playing the winner of game ...

  4. Bracket (tournament) - Wikipedia

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    Some North American professional post-season tournaments are single-elimination format. If a bye is required, the top seeded teams usually get the bye. There is usually no third place match to separate the third and fourth place teams.

  5. Hays Larks start 3-0 to earn bye in NBC World Series single ...

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    The official bracket has been set following Tuesday’s results, as elimination games begin at Eck Stadium on Wednesday. Hays Larks start 3-0 to earn bye in NBC World Series single-elimination bracket

  6. Column: MLB's playoff format is penalizing top seeds with all ...

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    The bye is a jarring change to the order of things. ... When the wild card was first introduced by MLB in 2012, the opening round was a single-elimination game between the fourth and fifth seeds.

  7. WNBA introduces new playoff format abolishing single ...

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    The WNBA Board of Governors voted to change its playoff format to eliminate single-elimination games and top-seeded byes beginning with the 2022 postseason, the league announced Thursday.

  8. Bye (sports) - Wikipedia

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    This is different from a double elimination format, in which a team has to lose both in the tournament and the repechage to be eliminated. The A-League Men also had bye rounds in the 2019-20 season and the 2024-25 season [15] due to an odd amount of teams being in the competition after expanding the amount of teams in

  9. NFL playoffs - Wikipedia

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    The National Football League (NFL) playoffs is the annual single-elimination tournament held to determine the league champion. The four-round tournament is held after the league's regular season.