A tournament is a com various teams in a ing to a fixed re eee Schedule where a is @ Types of Tournament “ , There are four of main tourname: which are listed below— a 1. Knock-out tournament 2. League or Round Robi yin te 3. Combination coumaniedie a8 4. Challenge tournament, (1) Knock-out Tournai iimi- nation Tournaments ee @ In this type of tournament, the team which is defeated once, gets eliminated immediately and will not be given another chance to play. @ Only the victorious or winner team play with each other untill one team emerges as a winner. @ It is quickest way of determining the winner. @ Knock-out tournament is of two types— 1. Single knock-out tournament. 2. Double knock-out tournament. @ In single knock-out tournament any team once defeated is eliminated. @ In double knock-out tournament a team is eli- minated only after it has suffered two defeats. @ The disadvantage of such tournaments is that good teams may clash in first round and does not reach finals. (2) League or Round Robin Tourna- ment © in League or Round Robin Tournament, eve" ry team plays with every other participating team irrespective of the victory or defeat. @ League tournament is of two types— 1. Single League 2. Double League @ In single league tournament each team plays with every other team only OR ‘ott © Insuch tournament, number o NON = 1 sy’ stands for age Nine D where pletion held among supposed to play two match other participating team. Total number of maths fb played wil by NN-1). ao a © For example—Iif 8 teams are participating in tournament, total number of matches to be played will be 8(8 - 1) =8x7=56 s (3) Combination Tournament @ This type of tournament is usually conducted whenever matches shall be played among the teams belonging to for away places and the number of teams is larger or when larger number of teams compete for a particular game. © Then the teams may be divided into few groups. © The teams belonging to the concemed group play among themselves either on knock-out or Teague basis and decide the winner of the group. © Thereafter, the group winner play among themselves again either on knock-out or league basis and decide the champion. © Similarly, a big city or a District or a State or ‘a Country may be divided into few zones. @ The teams of each zone compete among themselves and decide a winner and then the final winner compete among themselves to decide the champion. @ This type of tournament is highly recommen- ded for conducting the Inter-school/College Tournaments in a District/University to save time and money. si aE (4) Challenge Tournament © Challenge tournaments are organised vidual games. cBye is a sort of privilege to a team. @ Ateam i it Piao pa egress Spa © “Bye” becomes a necessity when number of Participating teams is not in power of two. e “Bye’ brings the number of teams to power of 2 in succeeding rounds and it is easier to draw fixtures. @ Number of byes is decided as follows — For examples—If total number of teams participating in a tournament is 15, number of byes can be calculated as follows— Total number of teams = 15 Next highest power of two = 16 Hence, number of byes = 16~15 =1 Thus, 16 total number of teams is 15, number of byes will be 1. © If number of team is 11, the member of byes will be next highest power of two-total number = 16-11 =5 Fixture for Eleven Teams Total number of teams = 11 Number of teams in the first group ajetele moo quis Number of team in second group i- 2 Total number of byes = 16~11=5 Number of byes of first group 6 > Meaning of Seeding System 4. Bye jon Winner 6. Second Group 7. Bye | winner sane ae Winner: }wvinner i bit 11. Bye Seeding means sorting out of the st teams and fitting them in the fixture so th they do not clash in earlier rounds. on It has been seen that many times, teams play in the early rounds and tively weak teams reach the finals. Seeding system is being used to fault. Seeding teams are equally di groups. Generally, byes are given to. Seeding system is useful only it of all the teams is