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44 unusual facts about Round-robin tournament


1892–93 Ottawa Hockey Club season

The AHAC adopted a new round-robin format for the regular season, with the league winner to be the inaugural winner of the Stanley Cup.

1924 VFL season

Essendon finished on top of the finals ladder at the conclusion of the round-robin final series on the basis of its greater percentage.

1972 Copa Libertadores

The first phase had 19 teams divided into four round-robin groups of four and one group of three (defending champions Nacional received a bye to the second phase).

1979 World Netball Championships

The title was shared because there were no finals, the top 10 teams playing off in a round robin.

1984–85 Rugby Football League season

The increase of the Second Division to 20 teams meant that it would have taken 38 rounds to play out a full double round robin, which was considered too many matches, so a complicated fixture formula was used to reduce it to 28.

2004 Copa Perú

The first four stages are played as mini-league round-robin tournaments, except for third stage in region IV, which is played as a knockout stage.

2005 Campeonato Catarinense

Double round-robin, in which all teams from one group play home-and-away games against all teams within the group.

2007 Campeonato Catarinense

One round-robin, in which all teams from one group play games against all teams within the group.

2011 Davis Cup Africa Zone Group III

The ten nations were split into two pools and played in a round robin format.

2011 Davis Cup Americas Zone Group III

The eight teams were split into two groups and played in a round-robin format.

2011 Davis Cup Asia/Oceania Zone Group III

The eight teams were split into two groups and played round-robin.

2011 Davis Cup Asia/Oceania Zone Group IV

The eight teams were split in two groups and played in a round-robin format.

2013 Ligas Superiores del Peru

The tournaments will be played on a home-and-away round-robin basis.

2013 Peruvian Segunda División

The 2013 Segunda División, the second division of Peruvian football (soccer), the tournament was played on a home-and-away round-robin basis.

2013 World Ringette Championships

It was played in a round-robin series, with the top team claiming the President's Trophy.

2013–14 CEV Champions League

In each pool, the competition is organised on the basis of a double round-robin system.

ATP Challenger Tour Finals

Eight players are divided into two groups of four, and play three round-robin matches each against the other three players in their group.

Bad News Baseball

Instead, in the one-player mode the player's goal was to defeat every other team featured in the game in the order of their choosing in a round robin style.

Bay View Garden And Yard Society

Some of the Society’s member events and functions include annual plant exchanges, round robins at member’s homes, monthly group dining out, and tours of local greenhouses and botanical gardens.

Bryan Scott

The duo lost to Doug Flutie and Barenaked Ladies in the finals after competing against a host of other NFL players and recording artists in a round-robin competition.

C.A. Progreso

It was the only championship in the history of the Uruguayan league, using a single round robin format (13 games).

Commonwealth Bank Trophy

The Trophy was an eight-team, single division round-robin competition, based around a fourteen week season starting in May and ending in August.

Copa Peugeot Argentina de Tenis

Which follows round robin format, split into two groups, before a final between the group winners.

Cowboy Jimmy Moore

The second-place-saga started in 1951 at the two-week long, double-elimination, round robin format, World Championship tournament, held that year in Boston.

Dual Shock Wave

The tournament was contested in a round-robin format with two blocks of four teams, where a win was worth two points, a draw one point and a loss zero points.

Football in Greece

The teams finishing in second to fifth position qualify for a round-robin playoff, the winner of which will enter the Champions League at the Third Qualifying Round.

Forjando un Ídolo

The tournament was divided into two rounds, in the first round wrestlers were divided into groups of four for a round-robin style tournament where a wrestler scores points for winning matches or draws.

The tournament consisted of two rounds, first a round robin group round, with the top 2 in each of the four groups competing in an elimination tournament.

International Superstar Soccer 64

International Cup has the player competing against a range of teams from around the world in a round-robin tournament; World League is a series of 70 matches against every one of other teams in the game.

Jerry Umberger

There was initially a heavy reliance on American players to make up the contingent of competitors - and Umberger appeared at the 1994 and 1995 WDC World Championship, but did not progress beyond the initial round robin stage.

Luther Lassiter

These were round-robin tournaments, in which each player would be matched against the others in a single match, with each playing the same number of matches, and receiving a set number of points for each match won.

Masters Pro

The tournament was played in a round robin format instead of the usual knockout competition on each of the 5 occasions that it was played.

National Dodgeball League

As of 2013, the first three days (Thursday - Saturday) are dedicated to the amateur teams and consist of round-robin play, a seeded single-elimination tournament for each division, and the Last Dodgeballer Standing competition.

National Youth Leadership Training

For example, on the third day, there is a series of round-robin games and events that encourage team work, planning, and problem-solving.

NBA playoffs

The division semifinals was changed to a double round-robin format within the division, with the top three teams from each division qualifying (each team played four games).

Pebble Beach Golf Links

The final round on Sunday is played at Pebble Beach, but the first three rounds of pro-am play are contested in round-robin format at Pebble Beach and two other courses: currently Spyglass Hill Golf Course and Monterey Peninsula Country Club.

Round-robin tournament

Four pairs in the 2012 Olympics Women's doubles badminton having qualified for the next round, were disqualified for attempting to lose in the round robin stage to avoid compatriots and better ranked opponents.

Rugby League Atlantic Cup

Canada joined the competition, and the Cup was expanded from a single match into a three-game round robin tournament.

Shute Shield

The competition format currently involves an 18 week round-robin competition which is followed by a four week play-off series culminating in a grand final.

South shore league

The playoff format resembles a round robin format and teams that lose will be placed in a losers bracket and play other teams in the losers bracket to fill in the remaining two weeks of their schedule before their Thanksgiving Day game.

Tatsunoko Fight

In addition to normal versus mode, players may choose a round-robin-style team battle mode involving multiple characters, as well as a single-player story mode that resembles an arcade fighting game.

Tennis tour

A few tournaments, notably the season-ending championship, feature round-robin play where players play initially in a mini-league instead of in the typical single-loss elimination.

The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle

The captain and Charlotte become very close, and he says that if she ever sees anything suspicious, like a round-robin, a pact telling of an imminent mutiny, she must tell him.

Vin Gerard

This led to Gerard forfeiting his match with UltraMantis Black so he could concentrate on Kingston, and on October 30, Gerard defeated the previously undefeated Kingston via submission in the final round-robin match of the tournament.


1966 Davis Cup

India then fell to defending champions Australia in the Challenge Round which was the 1966 Davis Cup finals.

1983 Australian Drivers' Championship

Port Macquarie privateer Andrew Miedecke drove his RT4 to 3rd in the championship despite only deciding to race after watching Costanzo win the first round of the series in Adelaide on television.

2002–03 ABA Goodyear League

Crvena Zvezda finished top of the table in regular season, although the club didn't play its last round match against Maccabi, since the Israeli club didn't travel to Belgrade due to the state of emergency proclaimed following the March 2003 assassination of Serbian prime minister Zoran Đinđić.

2003–04 Luton Town F.C. season

January began with Luton beating Bradford City 2–1 in the FA Cup, ensuring the club reached the fourth round of the competition for the first time since the 1994–95 season.

2010 NCRHA Division I Collegiate Roller Hockey National Championships

The 2010 NCRHA Division I Collegiate Roller Hockey National Championships involved 21 schools playing in a round robin followed by a single elimination tournament to determine the national champion of NCRHA Division I college roller hockey.

2012 Dublin Senior Football Championship

UCD, Ballyboden St Enda's, Raheny, St Oliver Plunkett's-Eoghan Ruadh, Skerries Harps, St Vincent's, St Peregrine's, Kilmacud Crokes, Trinity Gaels, Na Fianna, Ballymun Kickham's, St Patrick's Palmerstown, Parnells, Templeogue Synge Street, St Brigid's and Lucan Sarsfields all went on to qualify for the winners section of the second round of the Dublin Championship.

2012 Melbourne Storm season

For the Round 12 clash with the Brisbane Broncos They wore a special silver V with purple camouflage jersey.

Alen Marcina

Marcina has never been capped by the Canadian national team although he missed New Zealand's round 21 match against Perth Glory at North Harbour Stadium due to a call up to a Canadian national team training camp.

Alexander Dimitrenko

The fight was stopped in the fifth round, giving Dimitrenko his fourth consecutive victory by T.K.O. and was the sixth title defense of his WBO Inter-Continental Heavyweight belt.

Anna Lapushchenkova

Her run of summer successes having improved her ranking sufficiently to afford her direct entry to a WTA Tour main draw for the first time, despite the fact that she had never succeeded in qualifying for one in five attempts, the young Russian came up against an inspired Nathalie Viérin in the first round of the Tier IV event at Portorož, Slovenia, and could only take one game from her in suffering a fairly comprehensive drubbing at her hands.

Art Edwards

They added Brian Blush, formerly of August Red, later in 1993 to round out their sound, and played their first gig in January 1994 leading off for Flathead at Long Wong's.

Atifete Jahjaga

On 7 April, she was elected President on the first round of voting by the Parliament; of 100 MPs present, 80 voted for Jahjaga and 10 cast a ballot for Suzan Novoberdali.

Bill Glasson

Trailing seven strokes behind the leader Larry Mize with 14 holes to play, Glasson made a 45-foot birdie putt on the 18th hole for a round of 66 to finish one stroke ahead of Mize and Corey Pavin.

Bravo November

One round ricocheted and hit Fortune's helmet at the attaching point for the Night Vision Goggles (NVG's) and smashed the visor.

Cephalopod attack

In 2003, the crew of a yacht competing to win the round-the-world Jules Verne Trophy reported being attacked by a giant squid several hours after departing from Brittany, France.

Corny Casanovas

The rapid fire release works well at first, but Larry and Shemp argue over who gets the next round, leading the rifle firing right at Moe's gluteus maximus.

David DeJesus

Three years later, he was drafted in the fourth round of the 2000 Major League Baseball Draft by the Kansas City Royals.

Demetris Christofias

The first round of the February 2008 presidential election, held on 17 February, saw a close result between the three leading candidates—Christofias, Ioannis Kasoulides of DISY, and the incumbent Tassos Papadopoulos—Christofias narrowly placing second with 33.3% of the vote, behind Kasoulidis with 33.5%.

Don Kikas

2005 saw Kikas in a new career phase as he managed to round up high profile musicians to record Viagem, a double-album in that presents a diverse range of styles from kizomba and zouk to the more traditional kazukuta and kilapanga and features singers such as Cape Verde's Tito Paris and Johnny Ramos as well as countryfellows Bonga and Deusa.

Dragunov sniper rifle

In 1962, the state armory in Izhevsk developed the Medved (Bear) rifle, initially chambered first in the 9x53mm cartridge and later in the 7.62x51mm NATO round for export.

Duke McKenzie

Both titles were relinquished when McKenzie won the IBF flyweight Title on 5 October 1988 with an 11th round knockout over Rolando Bohol.

Emitt Rhodes

Also in 2009, after many years of rumors as to the possibility of a new CD, Emitt once again entered the recording studios with a new band and all-new material, joined by the co-founder of The Grass Roots and The Merry-Go-Round drummer Joel Larson, co-founder and former bassist for Counting Crows, Matt Malley, and guitarists Jim Rolfe and Dan Mayer.

Ficus citrifolia

Ficus citrifolia is under strong selective pressure to flower and produce fruit year round due to its mutualistic relationship with its pollinating agaonid wasp.

Garney Henley

Henley was drafted in 1960 by the NFL's Green Bay Packers in the 15th round (173rd overall), but chose to head to Canada, and the Hamilton Tiger-Cats.

George Ewart Bean

He was an avid player of badminton and tennis, and once reached the third round at Wimbledon.

Giovanni Lapentti

The only tournament that he participated in and failed to reach the second round during 2005 was the Pacific Life Open in Indian Wells, where he lost to Kevin Kim.

Happy number

The contestants in the 2012 University Challenge final were asked to identify a sequence of numbers as happy primes in a picture round.

Hastings 1895 chess tournament

In round ten, the position on the right arose after a Giuoco Piano: 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.c3 Nf6 5.d4 exd4 6.cxd4 Bb4+ 7.Nc3 d5 8.exd5 Nxd5 9.0-0 Be6 10.Bg5 Be7 11.Bxd5!

Heaven Is Round the Corner

Heaven is Round the Corner is a 1944 British musical film directed by McClean Rogers with Will Fyffe, Leni Lynn, Leslie Perrins and Austin Trevor.

Idaho State Bengals football

The quarterback during the 12–1 championship season was Mike Machurek, a sixth round selection in the 1982 NFL Draft (154th overall); he spent several seasons with the Detroit Lions.

Irish Law Times

The journal is now published 20 times per year in Dublin, Ireland, by Thomson Round Hall.

Itbox

Presented by Noel Edmonds, the player must choose boxes and answer trivia questions to accumulate enough points to play a final cash round.

James Davison

After the Denver round he was dropped by the team for fellow Aussie Michael Patrizi.

Johanna Peña Álvarez

Johanna would return to the ring on March 19, 2004, fighting to a 6-round draw with Delia Gonzalez.

Julia Boserup

In 2011, she competed as a qualifier in the U.S. Open, losing in the first qualifying round to Bulgaria's Elitsa Kostova, 6-3, 6-4.

Kristinn Jakobsson

He then refereed a UEFA Cup second round match between Litex Lovech and Union Berlin at the end of October 2001.

Leung Chen Nam

He caused an upset by defeating experienced German darts player Andree Welge 4–1 in the preliminary round, before being beaten 0–3 in sets in the first round by England's Kevin Painter.

Lyman Good

On October 26, 2012, Good faced Michail Tsarev at Bellator 78 in the Semifinals winning via TKO due to punches in the second round.

Nissan Juke

A Nissan Juke driven by stunt-driver Terry Grant claimed a Guinness World Record when it was driven round the Goodwood Hill Course on two wheels in 2 minutes 55 seconds.

Pepe Oriola

He left the first round in Italy in a three way tie for first place in the Yokohama Trophy with Stefano D'Aste and Alex MacDowall, having started from the class pole position in race one.

Portuguese presidential election, 2006

The result was a victory in the first round for Aníbal Cavaco Silva of the Social Democratic Party candidate, the former Prime Minister, won 50.54 percent of the vote in the first round, just over the majority required to avoid a runoff election.

Roland Ratzenberger

But he got onto the grid for the next round at the TI Circuit in Aida, Japan, as his experience of the track from his touring car days meant he was the only driver in the race who had driven at the venue before.

Seal of Connecticut

The meaning of the motto was explained on April 23, 1775 in a letter stamped in Wethersfield, Connecticut: "We fix on our Standards and Drums the Colony arms, with the motto, Qui Transtulit Sustinet, round it in letters of gold, which we construe thus: God, who transplanted us hither, will support us".

Sixty-sixth session of the United Nations General Assembly

In the first round of voting, the General Assembly and the Security Council concurrently and independently elected Giorgio Gaja (Italy), Hisashi Owada (Japan), Peter Tomka (Slovakia), and Xue Hanqin (China), but the two organs were deadlocked between two African candidates for the fifth available seat.

Skynd

One evening the man was riding home from Ringsted, and as he passed the hill he saw a crowd of Hill-folk dancing round it.

Steve Renouf

Renouf's Wigan Warriors debut came in round four of the Challenge Cup against Whitehaven at Central Park.

Strong Rock Christian School

In the GHSA Class A Girls Soccer Tournament, Strong Rock beat Providence Christian Academy 3-2 in the first round, but lost to Pace Academy 1-3 in the semifinal.

Tam McManus

McManus scored his first competitive goal for Derry City on 16 July 2009, in their Europa League Second Qualifying Round first leg match away to Latvian side Skonto FC in a 1–1 draw.

Tiburon, California

Theodore Roosevelt's Great White Fleet was refueled there on its famous round-the-world cruise.