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    What is a 'round-robin tournament' and why this name?


    pollucci19

    		Round robin is a contest where each competitor will play each other at least once. A loss does not necessarily mean elimination.
    Origin is probably from 17th century France where the term was ‘ruban rond’. This was system where government officials signed grievance petitions by placing ribbons in a circle. This way it was difficult to tell who signed first at the risk of being beheaded.

    http://www.phrases.org.uk/bulletin_board/12/messages/133.html



    May 12 08, 11:03 PM
    gentlegiant17

    		The term round-robin is also very common in system architecture, e.g. in redundancy and load-balancing models where a certain client works with more than one server.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Round-robin_scheduling

    [Link added -- Zb]

    May 13 08, 12:03 AM
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