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A tournament is a competition involving a relatively large number of competitors, all participating in a single sport or game. More specifically, the term may be used in either of two overlapping senses:

  1. One or more competitions held at a single venue and concentrated into a relatively short time interval. Some game clubs focus on preparing members for such tournaments. Chess clubs, for instance, frequently employ similar ranking systems, chess clocks, and etiquette to those used in chess tournaments.
  2. A competition involving multiple matches, each involving a subset of the competitors, with the overall tournament winner determined based on the combined results of these individual matches. These are common in those sports and games where each match must involve a small number of competitors: often precisely two, as in most team sports, racket sports and combat sports, many card games and board games, and many forms of competitive debating. Such tournaments allow large numbers to compete against each other in spite of the restriction on numbers in a single match.

These two senses are distinct. All golf tournaments meet the first definition, but while matchplay tournaments meet the second, strokeplay tournaments do not, since there are no distinct matches within the tournament. In contrast, football (soccer) leagues like the FA Premier League are tournaments in the second sense, but not the first, having matches spread across many stadia over a period of up to a year. Many tournaments meet both defintions; for example, the Wimbledon tennis championship.

A tournament-match (or tie or fixture or heat) may involve multiple game-matches (or rubbers or legs) between the competitors. For example, in the Davis Cup tennis tournament, a tie between two nations involves five rubbers between the nations' players. The team that wins the most rubbers wins the tie. In the later rounds of UEFA Champions League of football (soccer), each fixture is played over two legs. The scores of each leg are added, and the team with the higher aggregate score wins the fixture.

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this is why I don't play tournaments... I can't make hands. Cash games I can just 3 bet like a monkey and make a profit
predator314 (predator314) Sat, 07 Nov 2009 03:35:10 -0000
this is why I don't play tournaments... I can't make hands. Cash games I can just 3 bet like a monkey and make a profit
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PembrokeNews (Pembroke News) Sat, 07 Nov 2009 03:24:49 -0000
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@GraceLindsay you have way too many drinking tournaments. that aint fair
Koofee (Eric Kofman) Sat, 07 Nov 2009 03:22:39 -0000
@GraceLindsay you have way too many drinking tournaments. that aint fair
Going to bed early. Tomorrrow's a big day! Soccer tournaments! :Ñ Go Inferno!
Frances_Dee (Frances Felipe) Sat, 07 Nov 2009 03:21:07 -0000
Going to bed early. Tomorrrow's a big day! Soccer tournaments! :Ñ Go Inferno!
college stufffff for these tournaments. :D
rach14 (Rachel Burton) Sat, 07 Nov 2009 03:12:51 -0000
college stufffff for these tournaments. :D
@goldenc88 damn that's awesome. I wonder if my cousin ever played your dad cause I know he used to do all those tournaments. he quit tho
CyclopsCaliberX (Alex Stein) Sat, 07 Nov 2009 03:06:22 -0000
@goldenc88 damn that's awesome. I wonder if my cousin ever played your dad cause I know he used to do all those tournaments. he quit tho

 
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