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1 plays 2345
2 plays 345 because it has already played 1
3 plays 45 because it has already played 12
4 plays 5 because it has already played every body else
and 5 has played 1234and5
now every body has played each other and nobody has played twice
OR we could use the formula 5C2=5x4/2=10 where 5C2 means 5 choose 2.
Either 8 or 9 games. The 9th game is only necessary if the 8th game (the last team in the "winners" bracket against the last team in the "losers" bracket) is lost by the team with no previous losses. Since it is double elimination, a team must lose 2 games to be eliminated, and therefore the two teams will play one more time to decide the tournament winner.
The winner (and loser) of the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament will have played 6 games in the tournament.
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If you have 20 players in a tournament with single elimination, you will have to play 19 games...
The amount of players in a poker tournament varies from tournament to tournament. For example the poker games played in Vegas accommodate two to approximately sixteen people.
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There would be 21 games.
The answer is a total of 15 games.
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ItS 21 games
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10 games From concerned reader: if I am reading the question correctly, the answer of 10 games submitted is not accurate. However, let me clarify the question first. I believe that we are asking how many games must be played in total to determine one, and only one, winner of the entire tournament. Given that this is the correct interpretation of the question, the correct answer is that 19 games must be played to determine a singular winner of the tournament.
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