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The result was merge to Round-robin tournament. Sandstein 09:26, 9 August 2018 (UTC) reply

Circle of Death (sporting)

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Unreferenced since 2009. May be WP:OR. Natg 19 ( talk) 16:50, 1 August 2018 (UTC) reply

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Sports-related deletion discussions. Natg 19 ( talk) 16:51, 1 August 2018 (UTC) reply

• Merge to Round-robin tournament as a section. This can be sourced pretty easily [1] but it's not really notable. It's not a topic unto itself, it's just a well-known issue that can arise with RR tournaments (anyone who runs tournaments will be familiar with it, and it's one reason that people move quickly away from RR to double-elimination instead, when feasible). I even devised a "demi-finals" system for resolving it, before I learned better, and I'm sure I'm not alone. The kind of silly name originates, from what I can tell, from ACUI and their College Bowl competitions (they also do concurrent pool tournaments and several other intramural competitions between various North American colleges and universities). College students are precisely the kind of crowd who would come up with such a name, so it's not particularly dubious, especially since a fair amount has been written about it. But it's not significant coverage in high-quality, independent, reliable, secondary sources. It's enough to pass WP:NOT#INDISCRIMINATE as article content, but not enough to pass WP:N as its own page. PS: Regardless, remove the over-capitalization and render this as "circle of death" per MOS:CAPS. If "round-robin tournament" is not a proper-noun phrase, then a round-robin tournament gone awry isn't one either. See also WP:SPORTCAPS.  —  SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  01:24, 2 August 2018 (UTC) reply
• Merge to Round-robin tournament - I've taken action and rewrote the round robin tournament page already in order to incorporate the idea presented here, so the article can be safely deleted. SportingFlyer talk 10:53, 2 August 2018 (UTC) reply

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