1. What are the types of tournament? Single Elimination Tournament Double Elimination Tournament Round Robin 2. Identify the types of tournament Single Elimination Tournament The single elimination format is by far the easiest to organize. The name says it all, if a team loses one time they are out of the tournament. This type of tournament works best if you have a large number of teams and a short time frame. Single elimination tournaments don't work well for "matches" that are very short in time. For example, an Arm-Wrestling Tournament, where a match takes just a few seconds. If participants are traveling to enter the tournament, they would like to be around for more than 3 seconds. Double Elimination Tournament The double elimination tournament is my favorite format, and along with single elimination is the most popular. To be eliminated from this type of tourney, a team or player must lose two times. There is a winner's bracket and a loser's bracket, everyone starts in the winner's bracket. Upon defeat they will move to the loser's bracket where they will battle their way to play in the championship match, which they must defeat the winner's bracket champion twice. Round Robin The Round Robin Tournament is fairly popular and simply means that every team will play every other team in the tournament one time. This allows for a wide variety of opponents, and as opposed to an elimination tournament the teams can see how they match up with all teams. Based on the number of participants, the round robin format can be broken up into "pools". A pool is a group of teams that will play round robin and the winner of each pool will usually face off in a championship tournament. 3. Differentiate the type of elimination Single Elimination A type of elimination that determines the winner by eliminating the loser in every match until there is one team left. It is the easiest and fastest way to declare a winner. This is best to use when the number of entries is large, when the time is short, or when the number of playing venue is limited. Double Elimination A type of elimination tournament in which a participant ceases to be eligible to win the tournament’s championship upon having lost two games or matches. It stands in contrast to a single-elimination tournament, in which only one defeat results in elimination. Its advantages are it selects more adequate winner, it maintains player motivation right up until the end, and a player or team must be beaten twice to be eliminated. But its disadvantages are it takes longer to run and it emphasizes elimination. Triple Elimination Not quite as popular as the Single and the Double, the triple elimination format is good to add to your arsenal if you are looking to add a few extra matches for the participants. Just as with the other two, Triple Elimination simply means that a team or player needs to lose 3 times in order to be eliminated from the tournament. When a team loses in the winner's bracket, they will drop to loser's Bracket 1, when they lose there, they will drop to loser's bracket 2. If beaten in loser's bracket 2 they are eliminated from the tournament.