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On Knock-Out Tournaments

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

P. Capell  and
T. V. Narayanan
P. Capell
Affiliation:
University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta
T. V. Narayanan
Affiliation:
University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta
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We define, as in [2], a random knock-out tournament with n players as a vector (m1, m2, …, mk) of positive integers satisfying

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On the first round of the tournament 2m1 players, chosen at random, are paired off randomly; the remaining n — 2m1 players have a "bye". The m1 losers are knocked out, leaving a tournament n—m1 players with vector (m2, m3, …, mk).

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Research Article
Information
Canadian Mathematical Bulletin , Volume 13 , Issue 1 , March 1970 , pp. 105 - 109
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Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1970

References

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