The number of total matches means nothing here; the winner doesn’t compete in every single contest, just once per round
As long as we're making the design of the tournament arbitrary, why not just have one giant round and then he only has to win once?
Because the design of the tournament isn’t arbitrary, the tweet literally says “1 on 1.”
It’s not surprising at all that if there were a royal rumble between the entire world then at the end of it there would be one winner. It is surprising that if there were a bracketed tournament between the whole world, it would only be 33 rounds.
You’re just making dumber and dumber arguments
It is surprising that if there were a bracketed tournament between the whole world, it would only be 33 rounds
Not true. Think about this in reverse. That's saying there can never be more than 33 rounds in any bracketed tournament because you would run out of people.
I think people are getting confused by the special property of 2. For example, 613 is way over 8.5 billion. They doesn't mean you can have 13 round of 6 people and the whole population of the earth competes. Think what that would mean for baseball and football.
What the fuck are you even saying?? Lmao. If you created a tournament that required 6 people to compete in each match and at the end of the match only one person advanced to the next round, and it was required to have 6 participants in the final round, then you could NOT have more than 13 rounds before you ran out of people on the earth.
The final round would have 6 people competing. In order to reach that final round, the previous round would’ve required 36 people. The round before that would’ve required 6x36=216 people. The round before that would’ve required 6x216=1,296 people. A tournament in your proposed style would require 1,300 just to play FOUR rounds. Keep going and eventually you reach round 13 which requires 13 billion people.
A bracketed tournament of 1on 1 matches DOES correlate to 2n, where n is the number of rounds in the tournament, and 2n is the number of participants. Idk how it could be simpler than that.
That's saying there can never be more than 33 rounds in any bracketed tournament because you would run out of people.
If you had a bracketed 1 on 1 tournament where the loser was eliminated each round, you could NOT have more than 33 rounds. That is exactly what that means. How is this a difficult concept to wrap your head around?
The NCAA tournament lasts four weeks and has six rounds. The NFL Playoff tournament lasts six weeks and has four rounds. MLB World Series playoffs last for six weeks and are only three rounds. Yes each team plays multiple games in each round, but each round still only produces one winner for the next round.
The number of competitors required for 33 rounds is exponentially (see how that word works?) higher than the number of competitors required for 3 or 4 or 6 rounds.
Think what that would mean for baseball and football.
Just because you have 9 or 11 players does not turn the equation into 9n or 11n, because the players aren’t being individually eliminated. Baseball and football have multiple players on each team, but the tournament is still 1 on 1 between teams and still correlated to 2n
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