Fixtures & its procedures

When we follow a tournament, most of us back a particular team or player and hope they win. Every win carries a team into the next round, and after a fixed series of matches one team or player is finally crowned the champion. You may also have noticed that in some tournaments a team is knocked out the moment it loses a single match, while in others a team stays in the competition even after a defeat. Why does this happen? The answer is that different tournaments use different kinds of fixtures, chosen according to the time available, the cost, the manpower, the level of the event and the interest it needs to generate. …