Planning in Sports

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Tournament: A series of sports competitions, in which, a team finally wins and rest of the participating lose the matches. It depends on various factors i.e. - No. of participating teams, availability of grounds and equipment, No. of days and funds.

Importance of tournament:

1. The sportsman learns the discipline by playing tournaments.
2. The sportsman meets other sportsmen at a single platform.
3. He learns ethical values such as honesty, fair play, respect for others.
4. Tournaments provide recreation to all, i.e. organizers, spectators, students.

Types of Tournament:

Knock out: In this type of tournament, the team once defeated, gets eliminated from the tournament. Only the winning teams contest in the next rounds. Opportunities are given to the winning players/teams.

League: In single league tournament all participating teams compete once, with each other, whereas in the double league, each team plays with every as in the double league, each team plays with every other team twice, without any consideration of victory or defeat.

Combination Tournaments: Combination tournaments are organized in a group or zonal matches. Whenever there is a large number of teams, combination tournaments facilitate the Physical Education Teachers, job. It gives them elbow room to try out new experiments.
There are mainly four types of combination tournaments.
(a) Knock out cum knock out
(b) League cum league
(c) Knock out Cum league
(d) League cum knock out

Challenge Tournament: This type of tournament comes handy when there are one to one contests or there are two players on each side. One player challenges the other and the other player accepts the challenge. Games in which such tournaments are held
are - Boxing, Tennis, Table Tennis, Badminton etc. Fixtures in such tournaments are decided according to :
(a) Ladder Method
(b)Physical method
(c) Cobweb Method.