A tournament is a structured, human-made competition in which participants or teams advance through successive rounds or brackets to determine a champion. Parameters: (1) formal eligibility rules, (2) bracket or round-based progression structure, (3) elimination or scoring mechanism, (4) victory condition that crowns a winner or winner-set. Persistence mechanism: institutional organization, codified rules, published brackets, and maintained records across competitive events. [formal: tournament | substrate: behavior | horizon: hours | explicit: yes | epoch: 0.01]
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tournament
A tournament is a structured, human-made competition in which participants or teams advance through successive rounds or brackets to determine a champion. Parameters: (1) formal eligibility rules, (2) bracket or round-based progression str…
Definition
Why it is in scope
A human-made organized competition in which participants compete in successive rounds or brackets to determine a champion. Created through institutional rules, scheduling, and record-keeping that define eligibility, progression, and victory conditions.
Names and aliases
- tournamenten · CANONICAL
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- cmrg6592d00ns2a1n78okbin4CONTAINS →
A tournament is a structured competitive event whose constituent parts are individual games or matches. Law 10: CONTAINS is whole-and-part only. A tournament literally contains games as its structural parts — removing a game changes the tournament's structure.
- cmrg6592d00ns2a1n78okbin4INSTANCE_OF →
A tournament is a structured competitive game or series of games with rules, participants, and a winner. Clean specific→general INSTANCE_OF. Note: a tournament IS a kind of game.
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- cms3muhg0006jl3bm4yo38upq← DERIVED_FROM
Leagues evolved from tournament structures: a tournament is a single-event or limited-competition format, while a league is a sustained competitive structure that derives from and extends tournament logic. Which-came-first: tournament (epoch 0) predates league (epoch 0.48).
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- Jul 28, 2026, 6:50 PM UTC
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