With an even number of participants, all competitors play in each round. The winner is the competitor with the highest aggregate points earned in all rounds.
Competitors meet one-on-one in each round and are paired using a set of rules designed to ensure that each competitor plays opponents with a similar running score, but does not play the same opponent more than once. Non-eliminating tournament format, without playing every competitorĪ Swiss-system tournament is a non-eliminating tournament format that features a fixed number of rounds of competition, but considerably fewer than for a round-robin tournament thus each competitor (team or individual) does not play all the other competitors.
