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Structure
Tournaments can be divided into any number of sections. Participants are stored
in the tournament start list from which then can be copied (or drag and
dropped) into particular section's list. Same participants can play in any
number of of sections.
An example of a very complex tournament structure supported by League Watch is
the World Cup in Football (Soccer). Each of the dozens of preliminary groups,
elimination pools in the finals as well as the final 16-team knock-out stage
would all be represented as sections in League Watch.
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Individual Events
Individual participants
(players) are grouped in 1 or more sections.
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Team Events
Teams are grouped in 1 or
more sections. Depending on the sport, the results
are either entered at the team level or are
derived from the individual scores.
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| Systems
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Knock-out (elimination)
This system is used to rapidly find
the best player in a large pool of participants.
This is achieved by eliminating losers of each
match from the tournament.
The Grand Slam
tennis tournaments use a 7-round knock-out system
with 128 players participating.
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Multi-Round Round-Robin
The same as round-robin except that
everyone plays everyone more than once. For
example, in a double round-robin, the same two
players will play each other twice with the
reversed home venue. Examples of double round
round-robin tournaments include the major European
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Swiss
A
special pairing system suitable for tournaments
with a large number of participants without
eliminating any players in the process.
It is
very popular in chess and other board games.
An example of a Swiss tournament is a FIDE
World Championship in chess.
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Round-Robin
Every participant plays every other
participant. The system requires N-1 rounds of
play for N participants. There are a few
algorithms available that can be used to generate
correct round-robin pairings that, in particular,
allow for optimal alternation of home and away
games.
Preliminary pools in the Football
(Soccer) World Cup are examples of round-robin
tournaments.
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Views |
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Cross Table
Shows all results in a single
2-dimensional table where participant
names/numbers are shown on horizontal and vertical
axis. This view is particularly useful in
round-robin tournaments.
A special version of
the cross table called progress table is
implemented for Swiss tournaments. The progress
table shows participants on the vertical axis and
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Start List
Displays the list of participants
(total or per section), allows sorting by various
criteria and multiple selections for copying
purposes. Supports drag and drop operations from
other participant lists and master
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Standings
Shows the accumulated points of the
participants. The actual content of this view
depends on the sport. In a football tournament,
apart from the points it may display goals scored
for and aginst each team. In a tennis event it may
show sets won and lost. As all other tabular
views, the standings view can be sorted by
clicking on column headers. For example, in a
football tournament, you can order the view by a
number of goals conceded in away matches, if you
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Round Results
Displays pairings and results. This
view can sorted by round (default), date or any
column shown. Pairs (matches) can be added by
dragging and dropping participants from the Start
List view.
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More about features |
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If you are upgrading from Swiss Perfect or want to know about our plans
for new features check out the feature comparison chart.
 Some
of the features discussed here are illustarted on the
screenshots page.
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