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Philip Francis Fuerte

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TOURNAMENT

2 TOURNAMENT FORMATS

3 BYES and SEEDING

 TOURNAMENT

A tournament is a competition held among different teams in a

particular game or sport according to a fixed schedule where a
winner is decided.

A tournament is a competition involving a relatively large

number of competitors, all participating in a sport or game
 TOURNAMENT FORMATS

• Single Elimination Tournament

• Double Elimination Tournament
• Triple Elimination Tournament
• Round Robin
• 3 Game Guarantee Tournament
• Consolation Tournament
 Single Elimination

The single elimination format is by far the easiest to organize.

The name says it all, if a team loses one time they are out of the
tournament. This type of tournament works best if you have a
large number of teams and a short time frame. Single
elimination tournaments don't work well for "matches" that are
very short in time.
 Double Elimination

The double elimination tournament is my favorite format, and along with single
elimination is the most popular. To be eliminated from this type of tourney, a
team or player must lose two times. There is a winner's bracket and a loser's
bracket, everyone starts in the winner's bracket. Upon defeat they will move to
the loser's bracket where they will battle their way to play in the championship
match, which they must defeat the winner's bracket champion twice.
 Triple Elimination

Not quite as popular as the Single and the Double, the triple elimination format is
good to add to you arsenal if you are looking to add a few extra matches for the
participants. Just as with the other two, Triple Elimination simply means that a team
or player needs to lose 3 times in order to be eliminated from the tournament. When
a team loses in the winner's bracket they will drop to loser's Bracket 1, when they
lose there they will drop to loser's bracket 2. If beaten in loser's bracket 2 they are
eliminated from the tournament.
 Round Robin

The Round Robin Tournament is fairly popular and simply

means that every team will play every other team in the
tournament one time. This allows for a wide variety of
opponents, and as opposed to an elimination tournament the
teams can see how they match up with all teams.
 Round Robin

Based on the number of participants, the round robin format

can be broken up into "pools". A pool is a group of teams
that will play round robin and the winner of each pool will
usually face off in a championship tournament.
 Round Robin

Computing for the number of games to be played in a single

round robin

Games = N x (N-1)/2
where N is the number of teams
 3 Game Guarantee

The 3 Game Guarantee format is popular in the Softball world as it allows teams
traveling from far distances to be assured they are getting in enough games to
make it worth their time and money. Each team will play a minimum of 3 games,
the format is similar to double elimination. There is a winner's bracket and a
loser's bracket, the main difference being teams that lose their first two games
will get to play an extra game in the loser's bracket in order to assure everyone
gets to play at least 3 games.
 Consolation Tournament

Consolation tournaments are very popular in the wrestling world. There

are quite a few variations to the consolation brackets, but the basic idea
behind them is the same. When a team wins in the first round they
move/stay in the winner's bracket for the duration of the tournament
and will be playing for the overall championship. When a team loses in
the first round they will be moved to the
 Consolation Tournament

Consolation Bracket where they will have no chance of winning the

tournament, but instead be competing for the consolation
championship. Some Consolation Brackets will also have the losers of
later rounds of the winner's bracket drop down to the consolation
bracket to compete for the consolation championship.
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The longest videogame marathon is 138 hr 34 sec and was

achieved by Carrie Swidecki (USA), who played Just
Dance 2015 (Ubisoft, 2014), at Otto's Video Games and
More, in Bakersfield, California, USA, from 11 to 17 July
2015.
 BYES

Any time a single elimination or double elimination

tournament is not a "Power of 2", or for those that are not
mathematicians, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, or 256 players/teams,
byes must be awarded. A bye simply means that a team does
not have to participate in the first round of the tournament,
but instead gets a free pass to the second round.
 NUMBER OF BYES

3 Teams = 4 minus 3(1 bye)

5 Teams = 8 minus 5(3 byes)
9 Teams = 16 minus 9(7 byes)
20 Teams = 32 minus 20(12 byes)
 Seeding

A seed is a competitor or team in a sport or other

tournament who is given a preliminary ranking for the
purposes of the draw. Players/teams are "planted"
into the bracket in a manner that is typically intended
so that the best do not meet until later in the
competition, usually based on regular season record.
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