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Chapter
Chapter
20 Games and

Tournament

Section Level No. of Questions
Concept Applicator Very Easy 10

Concept Builder Easy 10
Concept Cracker Moderate 9

Concept Deviator Difficult 47

THEORY

Questions based on games & tournament is frequently asked in CAT and other aptitude test examination. In general
there are three types of questions on this topic:
(i) Questions based on Seed or Rank (Knockout tournament)
(ii) Questions based on scheduling of tournament or who won/lost against whom
(iii) Questions based on goals for /goals against etc.
Let us understand these types of questions and how to handle these type of questions.
Knockout Tournament: In these type of tournament generally (not necessarily) teams or player are
seed i.e ranked from top to bottom. Let us suppose 16 players are participating a knockout tournament
and these players are seeded or ranked from 1 to 16, then tournament is scheduled in 4 stages:
In stage 1:
Seed 1 will play with seed 16
Seed 2 will play with seed 15
Seed 3 will play with seed 14
Seed 4 will play with seed 13
Seed 5 will play with seed 12
Seed 6 will play with seed 11
Seed 7 will play with seed 10
Seed 8 will play with seed 9
i.e total 16/2 = 8 matches at this stage.
In general if a higher ranked (seeded) player play with a lower ranked player then higher ranked player should win but
if lower ranked player wins the tournament then we call it as an upset caused by the lower ranked player.
e.gin a match between seed 4 and seed 13, ideally seed 4 should win but if seed 13 wins the match then we call it as
an Upset caused by seed 13.
Now assume that there is no upset in stage 1 then stage 2 matches will be scheduled as below:
Stage 2: