Tuesday, September 1, 2009

The Tournament...

A football tournament is being organized in a 'round robin' fashion, eg. every participating team plays a game against every other team once and only once...

This is not a loser out tournament...every team plays every other team one time.

If 78 games are played throughout the tournament, how many teams participated in the tournament?

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  1. In a round robin tournament in which each team plays a game against every other team once and only once, 13 teams would play in 13 brackets - each team would play 12 games because a team cannot play itself. Each team would skip one bracket. There would be six games in each bracket. Delaney Harrington

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