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Double Elimination Bracket Naming Convention
So I've been working on creating a tournament bracket, and have drawn up some diagrams for how it will be run. The tournament involves 16 players. The Winners bracket is currently labelled like so: (...
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What is the name of round-robins when teams play others an unequal number of times?
According to Wikipedia:
In a single round-robin schedule, each participant plays every other
participant once. If each participant plays all others twice, this is
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What's the English term for this double-elimination tournament variant?
I was looking at rules for a double-elimination tournament but it seems that I growned up where double-elimination tournaments are totally different from the rest of the planet.
The double-...
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Under which scenarios are using the term "double-elimination game" appropriate? [closed]
We're having a friendly debate, and can't come to a conclusion on whether or not the final game of a series (game 7 world series, game 7 NBA championship...etc) is ever referred to as a "double-...
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Is English the official language for international sport events?
There are specific languages official for every sports (i.e. soccer/cricketboxing) / sport events (olympics/world events/continental events)?
I think the mostly used is English, but what about for ...
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What is seedings in grouping the teams in cricket?
I've noticed in the T20 World Cup 2012, that India, Pakistan, Australia and South Africa were placed in the same group for the Super8 stage. All these teams have won all the league matches in the ...
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