Single-elimination tournament

Single-elimination tournament is a format generally used in different sports to determine a champion. Single elimination means if they lose 1 game they are eliminated from the tournament. An example of this is the NFL playoffs.

Example

Here is an example of the knockout round of the 2002 FIFA World Cup tournament:

Round of 16

Quarter-finals

Semi-finals

Final

15 June – Seogwipo

Germany

1

21 June – Ulsan

Paraguay

0

Germany

1

17 June – Jeonju

United States

0

Mexico

0

25 June – Seoul

United States

2

Germany

1

16 June – Suwon

Korea Republic

0

Spain (p)

1 (3)

22 June – Gwangju

Ireland

1 (2)

Spain

0 (3)

18 June – Daejeon

Korea Republic (p)

0 (5)

Korea Republic Template:GoldenGoal

2

30 June – Yokohama

Italy

1

Germany

0

15 June – Niigata

Brazil

2

Denmark

0

21 June – Shizuoka

England

3

England

1

17 June – Kobe

Brazil

2

Brazil

2

26 June – Saitama

Belgium

0

Brazil

1

16 June – Ōita

Turkey

0

Third place play-off

Sweden

1

22 June – Osaka

29 June – Daegu

Senegal Template:GoldenGoal

2

Senegal

0

Korea Republic

2

18 June – Miyagi

Turkey Template:GoldenGoal

1

Turkey

3

Japan

0

Turkey

1