From: Daniel Finnie <danfinnie@...>
Date: 2006-12-11T04:45:03+09:00
Subject: Re: [QUIZ] Tournament Matchups (#105) (Not a spoiler)

I assumed the extended bracket for 2 and 3 was done on purpose by the 
program to have the output look nicer.

1 vs. bye
4 vs. 5
2 vs. 3
This has 4 games, a power of 2.

1 vs. bye
2 vs. bye
3 vs. bye
4 vs. 5
This has 2 games, a power of 2, but doing it this way seems stupid, 
especially when for other problems it seems to give solutions with the 
least amount of byes, or the highest power of 2 possible games.

Basically, either way you interpret the online version, I think 
something's wrong.

Dan

Louis J Scoras wrote:
> On 12/10/06, Daniel Finnie <danfinnie@optonline.net> wrote:
>> I have some questions about this problem.
>>
>> First http://www.crowsdarts.com/brackets/playoff-chart.html, for 5
>> teams, is the output correct?  It gives the following match-ups for the
>> 1st round:
>> 1 vs. bye
>> 4 vs. 5
>> 2 vs. 3
> 
> I think you're misreading this.  It says that all teams have a 'bye'
> in the first round excepting teams 4 and 5.  You could argue that the
> correct answer would have the least amount of 'bye's in it, but the
> quiz I don't think mentions that.
> 
>