Physical Education · Ch 1 — Management of Sporting Events
Tournaments
Tournaments
A tournament is a series of games or matches played among players or teams to decide a winner. Tournaments let players display their skills, measure their own performance and stay motivated; they also draw people towards sport, make games popular and provide healthy entertainment.
Tournaments are classified mainly by how a team advances or is eliminated. The three formats described in the NCERT/CBSE Class 12 Physical Education syllabus are shown below.
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A classification tree diagram. The single box 'Tournament' at the top branches downward into the three tournament formats taught in this chapter: Knock-Out (a team is eliminated as soon as it loses a match), League or Round Robin (every team plays every other team and the winner is decided on points), and Combination (a mix of the knock-out and league formats, such as League-Knock-Out). The tree shows these three …
Knock-Out (Elimination) Tournament. Here a team keeps playing only as long as it keeps winning; a single defeat knocks it out of the competition. Because every match carries the fear of elimination, teams must give their best each time, which makes the matches intense and also saves a great deal of time and money. The fixtures are drawn by lot, so two strong teams can be paired against each other even in the very first round. This means a genuinely good team can be eliminated early, simply by chance or by an off day.
League or Round Robin Tournament. In this format every team plays every other team a fixed number of matches, decided before the tournament begins. Since each team gets an equal chance against all the others, the true winner emerges and a complete ranking of all teams can be prepared. The trade-off is that a league needs far more money, time and playing facilities than a knock-out, and it makes no provision for seeding strong teams. …