elimination tournament
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- noun
- /ɪˌlɪməˈneɪʃən ˈtʊrnəmənt/
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torneo de eliminación
- When all the fighters come forward and they have a best two-out-of-three elimination tournament.
- a double elimination tournament
- a single elimination tournament
Examples
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Why wasn't it just a double elimination tournament, so you have the incentive to win every match?
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Now we have our final fight in our elimination tournament.
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This is a double elimination tournament.
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This is a double elimination tournament.
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And since they stripped you of your title ... they're having this elimination tournament ... to think of a new champion.
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The final game will determine the champion of the elimination tournament after weeks of intense matches.
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In an elimination tournament, each player who loses a match is knocked out of the competition.
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This year, the school is organizing an elimination tournament for students interested in chess.
Synonyms
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A sports event where teams or players play several games to decide the winner
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A sports competition where players or teams compete to win
Antonyms
How Decisive
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a tournament in which participants who lose are removed in successive rounds' is directly and compositionally built from 'elimination' (removal) + 'tournament' (competitive event with rounds). This is a straightforward, cross-linguistically common compound noun pattern, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
Elimination tournament comes from the simple image of players being removed after they lose: the word elimination means to be 'taken out' and tournament means a contest. So the phrase shows a competition where losers leave each round until only one winner remains.