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How to Design a Stable Serial Knockout Competition

Frits Spieksma, Rudi Pendavingh, Roel Lambers

We investigate a new tournament format that consists of a series of individual knockout tournaments; we call this new format a Serial Knockout Competition (SKC). This format has re…

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Integer Programming Models for Round Robin Tournaments

Jasper van Doornmalen, Christopher Hojny, Roel Lambers +1

Round robin tournaments are omnipresent in sport competitions and beyond. We propose two new integer programming formulations for scheduling a round robin tournament, one of which…