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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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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Do tennis players require the permission of their country to participate in tournaments?
Do tennis players need the permission of the governing body of tennis in their respective countries to participate in Grand slams and open competitions? Are the players under the jurisdiction of these ...
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How can a top seed in a tennis tournament be a qualifier?
I have noticed in this tournament (it is ITF Futures level) that the player, who is No. 1 seed in the main draw, also played qualification. (It shows that he was given wild card for qualifying.)
How ...
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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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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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What is MVP award in IPL?
What is MVP award in IPL? How is it calculated?
I see the list of award leaders from here. But I can't understand how is it calculated?
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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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How do tennis players get into tournaments?
In tennis, I know there are multiple ways to enter a tournament (if there are more, I've never heard of them):
direct entry
wildcard
qualifying
How does a player get in using these methods? I'm ...
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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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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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Why don't any USA professional leagues use promotion/relegation?
Promotion/relegation is a competition format that is often used in many countries for professional leagues as a way to have many teams participate and yet not dilute the top level of play, by only ...
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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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How changing tennis balls influence players using serve and volley?
I have heard on several occasions from TV commentators that the tennis balls are now faster, which means that serve and volley, once typical for grass court, is much less common nowadays. I have also ...
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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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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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When does an English Premier League season start and end?
I am getting more and more into football (soccer, here in the United States) and I was wondering what the season schedule is for the English Premier League regular season. Is it more aligned to ...
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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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How to prepare knockout fixtures? [closed]
Given the list of participants with seedings, how do I prepare the draw/fixtures? Is there a standard way of doing it or are there multiple variants?
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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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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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Different Quality of Shuttlecock for World Championship/Olympics
Why does the BWF/IOC choos an even higher quality shuttlecock, that may only be used during international events like the World Championship and the Olympics?
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All England wins for Lee Chong Wei?
How many times has Lee Chong Wei won the men's singles in the All England Badminton Championships?
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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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Why is there no ATP Masters series 1000 event on grass courts?
The ATP Masters series 1000 is the premier event in Men's tennis after the 4 Grand Slams.
1000 signifies the ranking points earned by the winner.
There are a total of 9 Masters 1000 events throughout ...
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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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Rules for Orange and Purple Caps in IPL
In IPL, Orange and Purple caps are awarded to the highest run scorer and highest wicket taker.
I have three questions on this topic.
If more than one player has equal stats (highest runs or wickets),...
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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 seeding logic for the March Madness play-in (First Four) teams? [duplicate]
So, you'd think that the "First Four" teams would be considered the worst teams in the NCAA Tournament. They have to play themselves into the bracket a couple days before the real tourney starts.
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Who was the quickest player in the English Premier League in 2014?
There are some rapid players in the premier league but who is the quickest as of now (2014)? And how fast are they?
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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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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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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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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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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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Why was the sponsors logo was missing?
On 27 February 2014, while watching the Asia cup match between India VS Bangladesh I noticed a that the shirts worn by Indian team players didn't have a sponsors logo on the chest portion, even though ...
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What is the destination of the used tennis balls from tournaments?
During the tennis tournaments, every 7 games the balls are changed.
What is the destination of those used balls? I think there were a lot of balls every tournaments of that
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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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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 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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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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Are there any size limits on the squad size for international cricket match series?
I often see the cricket team squads for a tournament/series contain 15 players. From those 15, playing eleven would be sorted for each match.
But, for the India's tour of South Africa 2013, Indian ...
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How is the Net Run Rate calculated in ICC World Twenty 20 events?
I have some doubts regarding net run rate in the ongoing ICC world twenty 20 2014 event.It takes a while to read so please don't hesitate and give me a solution regarding this.
My doubt is that in ...
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What rules determine whether a player can play for a team in the CLT20?
Most of the current T20 leagues around the world are very new and the playing rosters are typically not settled; players change teams a lot between seasons. In addition, many players play in a lot of ...
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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.
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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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