Lesson 2 of 3 · Knockout rounds
Seed path
Games and Tournaments · for IPMAT Indore, IPMAT Rohtak and JIPMAT
The exam method
- Upset minimum. a seed s meets only worse seeds until the field has fewer players than s; every later win is an upset.
Worked examples
Example 2Easy
128 players, no upsets: who plays seed 4 in the quarter-final? Solution: seed 5. The quarter-final field is seeds 1-8, paired 1-8, 2-7, 3-6, 4-5.
Example 3Easy
Seed 28 wins a 128-player knockout. Minimum upsets? Solution: 5. Rounds 3 to 7 have better-seeded opponents.
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