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On Knock-Out Tournaments

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

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 (m 1, m 2, …, m k ) 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 m 1 losers are knocked out, leaving a tournament n—m 1 players with vector (m 2, m 3, …, m k ).

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