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RE: Brainsteem Mathematics Challenges - Drawn Matches
Hi, thanks for the comment. But football tournaments do not take place with games in that order. Usually there is a first round of 3 games involving all 6 teams - the teams are shuffled and play round 2, and so on until round 5. Like the World Cup or even the Premier League.
This question was adapted from, if I recall, an Argentinian mathematics competition, and the original question also assumes that people know how such tournaments take place. Perhaps because it is a footballing nation.
Football = soccer
:-)
Rats! I keep enough tabs on sports that I knew of the simultaneous matches and why they're done that way (one obvious reason would be to make match-fixing for the benefit of outside bettors more difficult). I guess that the soccer powers don't appreciate schedule-fixing either, even if it's in the name of math. :P