Question

Match the types/steps involved in organizing a tournament listed in List-I with their correct associations listed in List-II:

List-I	(Types/Steps involved in organising a tournament)	List-II	(Associations)
A	Bye	(I)	\(\frac{Number of teams +1}{2}\)
B	Knock-out	(II)	Next highest power of 2 – number of teams
C	Number of byes	(III)	Team once deafeated is out of tournament
D	Number of teams in upper half of a knock-out tournament when number of teams are odd	(IV)	Advantage given to team in which team will not play first round and directly reaches next round

• (A) - (I), (B) - (II), (C) - (III), (D) - (IV)
• (A) - (II), (B) - (IV), (C) - (III), (D) - (I)
• (A) - (III), (B) - (I), (C) - (II), (D) - (IV)
• (A) - (IV), (B) - (III), (C) - (II), (D) - (I)

Answer 1

The Correct Option is A

The objective is to match the tournament organization steps in List-I with their corresponding definitions in List-II. The associations are as follows:

List-I (Types/Steps involved in organising a tournament)	List-II (Associations)
A. Bye	IV. Advantage given to team in which team will not play first round and directly reaches next round
B. Knock-out	III. Team once defeated is out of tournament
C. Number of byes	II. Next highest power of 2 – number of teams
D. Number of teams in upper half of a knock-out tournament when number of teams are odd	I. \(\frac{Number of teams +1}{2}\)

The correct pairings are:

• (A) corresponds to (IV): A bye grants an advantage where a team skips the first round and proceeds directly to the next.
• (B) corresponds to (III): In a knock-out format, a team is eliminated upon its first defeat.
• (C) corresponds to (II): The quantity of byes is determined by subtracting the number of teams from the next highest power of 2.
• (D) corresponds to (I): For an odd number of teams in a knock-out tournament, the number of teams in the upper half is calculated using the formula \(\frac{Number of teams +1}{2}\).

The definitive answer is: (A) - (IV), (B) - (III), (C) - (II), (D) - (I)