Questions tagged [tournaments]
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Besides 2023-24 AFC Champions League are there any tournaments with this kind of group stage?
When the total number of teams is 2^n (e.g. 32), there is no problem. Because when two top teams in each group promote to the next round we will have two teams for the final match.
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Why are tennis cometitions called 'open'?
There are plenty of tennis competitions named 'open' such as the French Open, Australia Open, or Mexico Open.
Is there any particular reason for this naming?
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Why does the England football team not have their own anthem?
During the Commonwealth Games, England, Ireland, Wales, and Scotland all have their own national anthem. Why is it that when playing football, all the other countries play their national anthem, but ...
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what is the difference between series and tournament in tennis?
I am working on the ATP tennis matches dataset and I have a series column which contains International, ATP250, Grand Slam etc... and a tournament column which contains Wimbledon, Lyon Open etc...
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Qualifying criteria to an ATP tournament
How many ATP points, or what ATP ranking, does a player need to participate in the qualification of an ATP 250 tournament?
The rules do not seem clear on this point.
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Double elimination Pool Tournament [duplicate]
How do I set up a double elimination tournament with 18 participants. I can never get it to come out even.
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Why are trophies awarded when the tournament gets cancelled?
On the day each NCAA basketball conference tournament was cancelled, (both for men and women), there was a small ceremony where one team won the trophy for their respective conference. I am assuming ...
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Scheduling HS Brackets with Spring Break conflicts
I'm looking at a non-professional multi-school tournament starting soon with a major issue, that being Spring Break. Many of the schools don't have the same Spring break, and some of the schools will ...
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Single Elimination Blind Draw Bracket with # of Teams != 2^n
I'm looking for an unbiased (hence the "Blind Draw") way of creating a single-elimination tournament bracket, but with a little twist. The number of teams I have will not be equal to 2^n. As a matter ...
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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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Abbreviations on tennis tournaments [closed]
Abbreviations on tennis tournamentss. I know LL (lucky loser), SE (special exempt) , PR (protected), W (wild card), Q (qualifier), but now there is (O) appearing next to names. What is (O) qualifying ...
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Group Stage Qualification Conundrum
We've had a bit of a situation in a tournament and I just wondered how other people would have solved it. See attached image for details. We had 3 teams who were very equal on many/all of the ...
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Design a tournament that avoids byes
I'm designing a football (soccer) tournament for youth sides, and there are nine teams playing. When this was done before, byes were given to 7 teams, in a single elimination tournament. This is ...
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Can several games start at the same time in one tournament?
In professional tournaments/championships and across sports, can different games be started at the same time?
When or why would the organisers do that?
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Del Potro is ahead of Federer in the Race to London, but Federer is the one having qualified
After the US Open Federer has clinched his spot for the ATP Finals and Del Potro hasn't (see the news here). However, Del Potro has more points than Federer in the Race to London. How can this be? ...
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What were the results of the 2012 European Junior Weightlifting Championships 85kg A Class?
I'm looking for the list of names and scores for the competitors in the 2012 European Junior Weightlifting Championships 85kg A Class
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmAEMcSGiPo
I managed to reverse ...
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Are ballroom dance competitions just for trophies only?
I visited several dancesports web sites, such as the 2018 New England Dancesports Championships, and I only see entry fees mentioned.
There is no mention of any prizes. What are the prizes? Are ...
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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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Are there additional conditions for qualifying to WTA Finals other than race rankings?
The Wikipedia article on 2017 WTA Finals1 has some brief explanation of how qualification for this tournament works. Based on the description given there it seems that simply the top players in the ...
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How is the "best loser" determined in football?
We have played a 7-team competition, all seven teams met, we eliminated the team with the lowest points. After that the remaining six teams played knock out games and the three winning teams will go ...
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US Open 2017 - draw movements after Murray's withdrawal
At the 2017 US Open, Murray (seed 2) withdrew 2 days before the tournament began, but 2 days after the draw had been posted. After his withdrawal the draw was changed with the following movements:
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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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Drawing knockout(single elimination) fixtures
Okay so everyone, how can I draw a knockout fixture of matches of 24 teams? As the number of teams are even so there has to be no bye given. Also I do not require any seeding. Can someone please come ...
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Why are there wildcards for players which could get direct entry into a tournament?
I have noticed that occasionally some players enter tournament via wild card, despite the fact that they have sufficient ranking for direct entry into tournament, sometimes even to be seeded. To list ...
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Do high ranked players need wild card to play a Challenger tournament?
I have noticed that Benoit Paire plays this week challenger tournament in Sophia Antipolis and he is listed among players who received wildcard. Paire is currently No. 40 in ATP rankings.
Does a ...
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Elimination system where both opponents can lose
Is there any tournament system that deals with the fact that both opponents can lose? Or is there an easy, non-complicated and fair way of modifying an elimination-like system to deal with it?
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Have two players ever played twice on the same tournament in tennis?
It sounds impossible, but I just noticed a very weird fact that caught my eye and interest.
Tomorrow (13th February) starts the main draw of ATP 500 Abn Amro World Tennis Tournament in Rotterdam.
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How do I schedule 12 teams in a championship where 3-4 teams play at the same time in a round, while allowing 1 loss to still be the champion?
I have a game where there are 12 teams. One round is where 3-4 teams play at the same time and only one team wins.
I'm looking for how to put a schedule for all the rounds needed to determine the ...
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Do managers select their kick takers after learning which team will shoot first?
From a game theory perspective, I'm trying to find the optimal strategy for selecting penalty kick takers. Anecdotally (and I hope to quantify this relationship later) I've heard that it's always ...
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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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What does data about kWh in the French Open "shots of the day" videos mean?
The French Open publishes on its YouTube videos with "shots of the day" - the most impressive plays from a particular day at the tournament.
At the end of the point, an information about kWh is shown....
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Is there an ATP 1000 that can end without a tie-break? Why not?
Is there an ATP 1000 that can end without a tie-break? Why not?
It seems unfair to end with a tie break.
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Why are Gabon playing in the African Cup of Nations 2017 qualifiers when they're hosts and how will group I work?
I recently saw Sierra Leone beat Gabon in the qualifying competition for the African Cup of Nations 2017. Gabon and Sierra Leone are in qualifying group I.
But Gabon are the hosts of AfCON 2017, so ...
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Who is eligible to play in junior tennis tournaments?
This is a quote from Wikipedia article on junior tennis (emphasis mine). I will also add a link to the current revision - in case the article changes in the future.)
Junior tennis refers to tennis ...
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Ranking from which week are used to decide who qualifies for ATP/WTA finals?
I know that race rankings, i.e. points only from this calendar year, are used to decide players at year end ATP/WTA championships.
My question is whether the rankings just one week before the finals ...
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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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Five a side tournament - awarding bye's in a partial round robin
I help to run a five-a-side tournament with my scout group; we tend to have around 40 teams which split across 4 age groups. We can't run full round-robins at the group stage, so instead we run 4 ...
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How are doubles seeds calculated?
For singles, the seeding in the tournaments is rather straightforward: We simply look at the rankings and the players with top 8 (or 16 or 32) rankings are seeded.
However, for doubles competition we ...
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Which edition of rankings is used for which purpose on Grand Slam tournaments?
Rankings are used for several purposes:
Players in entry list for main draw and for qualification are ordered based on ranking. In entry list a cut-off is made to decide which players go directly ...
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How is lucky loser decided in WTA tournaments?
Lucky loser used to be chosen as the highest ranked players among unsuccessful finalist of qualifying competition. Not so long ago ATP changed this rule in such way that lucky loser is chosen randomly ...
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In table tennis what is the largest ITTF tournament event of the year?
Just started watching more table tennis with the use of ITTV. In sports, there are many competitions that muster the best athletes in the world: world series, superbowl, the olympics, tour de france, ...
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What are restrictions for junior tennis players on number of senior tournaments?
Recently in a discussion I have heard that young players can only enter a limited number of senior tournaments. The number depends on the age of the player. (This information was mentioned in an ...
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What does "Race to X" mean?
A local pool hall features weekly 8-ball and 9-ball double-elimination tournaments, and the different tournaments are described as:
Race to 4
Race to 4/3
Race to 2
What do these terms mean?
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What was format of tennis year-end championships in the past?
I wonder how the rules and format of the year-end championship in the ATP tour and WTA tour evolved.
For example I notice that in 1985 men played knock-out tournament, whereas in 1986 the semifinalist ...
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How does a double elimination bracket work?
I know that a double elimination bracket operates like two single eliminations: there is a "winners" upper bracket and a "losers" lower bracket.
My requirements
I need a logic for the Losers bracket ...
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What are the main differences between Challengers and Futures tournaments?
What are the main differences betwwen Challengers and Futures tournaments.
Do conditions under which players may enter them differ? Are there differences in the way points are calculated in the ...
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Why are "walkovers" allowed in tennis tournaments?
Stan Wawrinka got a "walkover" in the third round of the U.S. open when his opponent had to withdraw from the match.
We're not talking about a situation where a player was, say, injured mid-match, ...
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How to draw a fixture of knockout tournament for 21 teams using quarter method
While giving byes on 4 quarter based knockout basis tournament for 21 teams, 1 quarter will have 3 byes but with that there is difficulty having proper pairing of the matches.
So, How can I draw a ...
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Is it possible to enter junior tournament based on ATP/WTA rankings?
Many players who are still eligible to play as juniors already enter enter senior tournaments. It is not uncommon to see, that some player plays qualifying at Grand Slam tournament and if they do not ...
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What does "grade" means for junior tennis tournaments?
When I look at calendar of junior tournaments on the ITF website, I see that each tournaments are given some kind of category: They are marked, for example, as Grade 1, ..., Grade 5, Grade B2, Grade A....
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