Merging Knockout and Round-Robin Tournaments: A Flexible Linear Elimination Tournament Design

03/22/2022

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by   Kaan Gokcesu, et al.

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We propose a new tournament structure that combines the popular knockout tournaments and the round-robin tournaments. As opposed to the extremes of divisive elimination and no elimination, our tournament aims to eliminate the participants as linearly as possible as a form of subtractive elimination. Our design is flexible in the sense that it can be adapted to any number of players N and any number of matches M. Our design satisfies many properties that are desirable for a tournament to select a winner and can be adapted to rank all the participating players.