In which sport or game can there be 'Open Pairs' and 'Swiss Teams' tournaments?
"Fast Open Pairs The Fast Open Pairs national bridge championship is held at the summer American Contract Bridge League (ACBL) North American Bridge Championship (NABC). The Fast Open Pairs is a four session MP pairs event, two qualifying sessions and two final sessions. Each set of two sessions is played on one day. The event typically starts on the second Thursday of the NABC. The event is open. Players are required to play each two round board in eleven minutes. Typically, there is only a small (30–45 minutes) break between the two sessions. The NABC+ Fast Open Pairs is a"
"ELEAGUE Major 2017 qualifier and the ELEAGUE Major itself. The format was also used for the ""Dota 2"" Kiev Major tournament in 2017. Overwatch Open Division also makes use of the Swiss system, as well as the Hearthstone Global Games tournament. Relatively few Go tournaments use the Swiss system. Most amateur Go tournaments, at least in Europe and America, now use the McMahon system instead. Swiss-system tournaments must start with very unequal matches in the early rounds—""slaughter pairing"" is the name of one initial pattern used—if the Swiss pairing rules applied subsequently are to allow the top players to meet"
"to the qualification of the top four teams for knockout semifinals and finals. The World Mixed Swiss Teams is another world championship series for mixed teams, now conducted in non-leap even years as part of the World Bridge Series. Both now permit transnational entries. The difference is between KO and Swiss format. The leap years event is a knockout for 16 teams that survive preliminary play while is a Swiss. (All teams play several short matches every day throughout the contest, never facing the any team for a second time.) At the second World Mind Sports Games, August 2012, the"
"Unlike the World Team Championships, this event is also stages across different age groups. In 2010 IMGA introduced a Southern Hemisphere Championship as a regional international championship similar to the European Team Championships. This was then expanded to include all non-European members in 2014 and rebranded as the Nations Championships. The World Pairs Championships started in 1992, originally as an Open competition with an Under 17 class being added in 1993, an Under 12 class in 1998 and finally an Under 14 class in 2013. Until 2016 the championships were always held in Great Britain. 2016 was the first time"
"ranking pair with both players from Europe, second place in Europe was the second-ranking such pair, and so on. In fact, all eighteen of the World medalists were European pairs. <br> European Youth again, 2008 9th European Youth Pairs Championship, 2008. EBL. and 2010 10th European Youth Pairs Championship, 2010. EBL. The predecessor European event was held 1991 in Fiesch, Switzerland and 1993 in Oberreifenberg, Schmitten, Germany. (, German Wikipedia) Youth pairs tournaments contested in even-number years are officially separate from the ""World Youth Pairs"" series. At the official world championship level, the recent instances have been under-28 pairs and"
"the Indian claim to NSG membership which later Switzerland refuted and took a U-turn on India's NSG (Nuclear Supppliers Group) bid. Later, the Swiss President Doris Leuthard visited New Delhi, India in August 2017 to improve relations. There is a relation in Indo-Swiss tennis pair of Leander Paes-Martina Hingis who has completed a Career Grand Slam in Mixed Doubles category-2015 Australian Open,2016 French Open,2015 Wimbledon and lastly 2015 US Open (tennis). Leander Paes(India) with Martina Hingis(Switzerland) has completed Grand Slam of tennis by wining mixed doubles categories of Australian Open(2015), French Open(2016), The Wimbledon(2015) and US Open(2016). India–Switzerland relations India–Switzerland"
"as they will be unbeaten. The remaining seven places are decided after a series of round robins and play-offs. Compared with a round-robin tournament, a Swiss can handle many players without requiring an impractical number of rounds. An elimination tournament is better suited to a situation in which only a limited number of games may be played at once, e.g. in tennis. In a Swiss system, all players can be playing at the same time. The method of accelerated pairings also known as accelerated Swiss is used in some large tournaments with more than the optimal number of players for"
"paired with opponents who have done equally well. For example, players with six points will play other players with six points (if possible), so that the player with the most points at the end of the tournament is the winner. Pairing players for Swiss system tournaments is often quite complicated due to some nontrivial constraints: Nowadays, tournament organizers commonly use a chess tournament software to pair players, such as Swiss manager. Due to the high percentage of draws and the small granularity of the scoring system which is entirely based on the final results, it is relatively common for players"
"of the World Team Olympiad and its successor meet, the World Mind Sports Games. With the Olympiad, the Mixed Teams has started after the latter's qualifying stage has been concluded. Teams that failed to qualify in the main event as well as new teams may enter. Each team must comprise at least two men and two women. The maximum number of team members is six. During play each pair must consist of one woman and one man. It is not necessary that all team members be from the same country – hence the transnational. A series of Swiss matches leads"
"odd number of players. A Swiss system is used for competitions where the number of entrants is considered too large for a full round-robin to be feasible, and eliminating any competitors before the end of the tournament is undesirable. Round-robin pairings are suitable for a small number of competitors and rounds, as most or all players will play each other; the underlying assumption is that the player who has played all possible opponents and ends with the highest score must be the winner. Knockout, or elimination, pairings rapidly reduces the number of competitors, but may not necessarily result in the"
"each other twice. The first national event in the United States to use the Swiss system was in Corpus Christi, Texas in 1945; and the first Chess Olympiad using it was held in Haifa in 1976. In chess, the terms Swiss and Monrad are both used, and denote systems with different pairing algorithms. The Monrad pairing system is commonly used in Denmark and Norway, while most of the rest of the world uses one of the Swiss systems defined by FIDE. In most other sports, only one format is used, and is known either as Monrad or Swiss. Curling uses"
"to the Swiss system. The open division was played over four boards per round, whilst the women's was played over three. In the event of a draw, the tie-break was decided by 1. The Buchholz system; 2. Match points; 3. The Sonneborn-Berger system; and 4. The Median Buchholz system. The time control for each game permitted each player 90 minutes for all their moves, with an additional 30 seconds increment for each player after each move, beginning with the first. The open division was contested by 129 teams representing 125 nations. Spain, as hosts, fielded three teams, whilst the ""International"
"identify doping in chess. Each FIDE recognized chess association can enter a team into the Olympiad. Each team is made of up to five players, four regular players and one reserve (prior to the tournament in Dresden 2008 there were two reserves). Initially each team played all other teams but as the event grew over the years this became impossible. At first team seeding took place before the competition. Later certain drawbacks were recognized with seeding and in 1976 a Swiss tournament system was adopted. The trophy for the winning team in the open section is the Hamilton-Russell Cup, which"
"pairs, the McConnell teams were reduced from sixteen to four, and players from the twelve ""knocked out"" teams were eligible to enter pairs competition at the semifinal stage. There were 109 pairs in the qualifier, 63 in the semifinal, and 36 in the final. United States pairs have won ten of 14 tournaments through 2014, Great Britain two, Netherlands one, China one. Fritzi Gordon and Rixi Markus of Great Britain (native Austrians) are the only two-time champion pair; Americans Karen McCallum and Kerri Sanborn/Shuman also have two wins each including one as partners in 1990. Sanborn is also the only"
"a system known variously as ""modified Swiss"", ""Portland Swiss"", ""Fontes Swiss"" or ""speed pairing"" is used, whereby first players are placed in groups of four, and play three rounds of round-robin play, and subsequently are paired as in Swiss pairing, but using the standings as of the second to last round, rather than the last round. This has the advantage of allowing the tournament directors to already know who plays whom by the time given players are finished with a round, rather than making the players wait until all players have finished playing a given round before being able to"
"in the same competitions as for the Singles tournament. However, for Doubles teams there are no commitment tournaments, so teams are ranked according to their 18 highest points scoring results from any tournaments. On June 4, 2015, Novak Djokovic was announced as the tournament's first qualifier upon reaching the semifinals of the 2015 French Open. Novak Djokovic began his season in Qatar ExxonMobil Open, where he reached the quarterfinals before losing to Ivo Karlovic in a tight three set match. He then went on to reach the final of every subsequent tournament he played, beginning with reclaiming the Australian Open"
"between 12.5 and 25 percent of the original number of participants (e.g. if there were 64 to 127 players, there would be a Top 16). As of the 2013-2014 season, Swiss rounds in City, State, Regional, National, and World Championships are played best-of-three, with a 50-minute plus three-turn time limit. Ties were introduced into the Swiss round portion of the tournaments in the 2013-2014 season for the first time since 2002-2003. A win is worth 3 match points, a tie is worth 1 match point, and a loss is worth 0 match points. Top Cut rounds are played best-of-three, with"
"the 2000s centred on team competition, with teams consisting of several (two to four) pairs. There were a number of university teams, and international matches were also played. More recently, singles and pairs tournaments have come to be the focus of competitive tiddlywinks, with only a few team matches being played each year. The four most prestigious tournaments are the National Singles and National Pairs tournaments held in England and the United States. The World Singles and World Pairs championships operate on a challenge basis; anyone winning a national tournament (or being the highest-placed home player behind a foreign winner)"
"tournament for national teams, held annually since 1985. The BNP Paribas World Team Cup World Group event is played once a year, for men, women, quads and juniors. There are four continental qualification events in Europe, Africa, Asia and Americas, in which men and women compete to qualify for the main event. The last two major tournaments of the year are the Wheelchair Tennis Masters (singles event) and Uniqlo Wheelchair Doubles Masters. The top eight men, top eight women and top six quads based on ranking are invited to compete there each year. Wheelchair tennis is played at the Paralympic"
"for the second day of the tournament. If less than 64 players (or 40 Teams) achieve such a record the best 64 players (40 teams) are qualified for the second day instead. On the second day seven rounds (six for team and individual Limited) of Swiss are played, These competitors determine the winner of the tournament by playing an additional three rounds of single elimination. The only special case is individual Limited: 9 Rounds will still played in Day 1, but before Round 9 started, players not achieving a 6-2 or better are eliminated. The remaining players will play the"
"which is more than any men's team in the Open Era. These include victories at the Australian Open (2006, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2013), the French Open (2003, 2013), Wimbledon (2006, 2011, 2013), and the US Open (2005, 2008, 2010, 2012 and 2014). They are the only doubles pairing in history to have completed the ""Double Career Grand Slam"", having won all four Grand Slam titles at least twice as a team. They won the ATP World Tour Finals doubles tournament four times (2003, 2004, 2009 and 2014). They won the gold medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics in"
"competitions, is one of the world's top figure skaters. Bandy exists in minor form. In September 2017 Switzerland made its debut at the annual rink bandy tournament in Nymburk, Czech Republic. At the 2018 Women's Bandy World Championship, Switzerland will participate. Most Swiss people follow ice hockey and support one of the 12 teams of the National League which, as of 2017, is the most-attended European ice hockey league. In April–May 2009, Switzerland hosted the Ice Hockey World Championships for the 10th time. The Swiss national ice hockey team's latest achievements are two silver medals at the 2013 World Ice"
"In the Mixed Doubles category pairings have traditionally been decided by drawing names out of a hat. Where seeded players are drawn together those names are placed back in and redrawn, the aim being to allow for no team to be excessively dominant and for the random pairing of experienced and inexperienced players or those of differing ability in the same competition. At some tournaments Doubles pairs are pre-chosen. This is generally the case in Germany where separate Men's Doubles, Women's Doubles and a Mixed Doubles competitions have been held. Typically there are children's tournaments that take place at the"
"as is done in seeding of pre-ranked players for a single elimination tournament. In subsequent rounds, competitors are sorted according to their cumulative scores and are assigned opponents with the same or similar score up to that point. Some adjustments may be made to assure that no two players ever oppose each other twice, or to even out advantages a player may have due to chance. The detailed pairing rules are different in different variations of Swiss system. They may be quite complicated, so to make the task easier, quicker and more accurate, the tournament organizer often uses a computer"
"Plate on the third day, or almost 80% of the non-qualifiers. The 2010 champions Donna Compton and Fulvio Fantoni, from the U.S. and Italy, were the first transnational winners, but they were succeeded by 2014 champions Kerri Sanborn and Jack Zhao from the U.S. and China. United States pairs had won seven of the preceding 11 tournaments. Sanborn also won the gold medal as Kerri Shuman in 1978, playing with Barry Crane, and she is the only double winner. Sanborn/Shuman and Sabine Auken/Zenkel of Germany have won three medals. Five champions have also won the Open or Women Pairs: Mary"
"event for teams (all that Monday to Saturday), and three-day pairs, Sunday to Tuesday. The Junior Pairs event (or ""tournament"" in a narrow sense) became part of the plural ""World Youth Pairs Championships"" in 2003 when a tournament for under-21 Youngster Pairs was initiated, pending sufficient entries by eligible players. Officially, that meet was discontinued and its two main events became part of the ""World Youth Congress"" in 2009, when teams events were added to the youth program for odd-number years, contested immediately prior to the older events for pairs. Odd-year teams events are distinct from the older series of"
"on the number of teams competing and the structure of the tournament, a relatively larger number of boards may be played in each round of the movement (usually six to eight for ""Swiss teams"", usually 12, 24, or more for knockout events). The boards are moved (sometimes by a caddy) so that they are all eventually played at both tables (or more if there are four teams or more). Suppose Team A plays Team B. The first time a hand is played, one partnership from Team A (say) takes the North-South cards and one partnership from Team B takes the"
"Switzerland qualified a men's team by being one of the 9 highest ranked teams in the IIHF World Ranking following the 2012 World Championships. The women's team qualified by being one of the 5 highest ranked teams in the IIHF World Ranking following the 2012 Women's World Championships. ---- ---- Switzerland qualified two athletes (one man and one woman) in the luge. 24 Swiss snowboarders were competing in 5 disciplines, including the new events of parallel slalom and slopestyle. It will be the largest team competing in Sochi along with Canada and the United States. The two-time Olympic champion Philipp"
"for the Venice Cup when it was contested for the second time. They also won the Mixed Teams world championship at the first Olympiad Pairs meet in 1962, an event that was not repeated. Triple crown of bridge The triple crown of bridge is a career achievement in duplicate bridge, namely winning the three marquee Open world championships conducted by the World Bridge Federation. The Bermuda Bowl is now contested by national teams in odd-number years. The Olympiad Open Teams, contested by national teams in Olympic years, has been incorporated in the World Mind Sports Games (WMSG). The Olympiad Open"
"Swiss Open (tennis) The Swiss Open (currently sponsored by J. Safra Sarasin and called the J. Safra Sarasin Swiss Open Gstaad) and originally known as the Swiss International Championships is a tennis tournament held in Gstaad, Switzerland. Held since 1898 , the tournament is played on outdoor clay courts. Between 1970 and 1989 it was an event of the Grand Prix tennis circuit and is now a part of the ATP Tour schedule as an ATP World Tour 250 series event. The first edition of the tournament was played in 1915 at the ""Gstaad Palace Hotel"", which was known at"
"Swiss-system tournament A Swiss-system tournament is a non-eliminating tournament format which features a set number of rounds of competition, but considerably fewer than in a round-robin tournament. In a Swiss tournament, each competitor (team or individual) does not play every other. Competitors meet one-to-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 not the same opponent more than once. The winner is the competitor with the highest aggregate points earned in all rounds. All competitors play in each round unless there is an"
"losers: The following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw: The following pair received entry as alternates: 2018 Swiss Open Gstaad The 2018 Swiss Open Gstaad (also known as the 2018 J. Safra Sarasin Swiss Open Gstaad for sponsorship reasons) was a men's tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts. It was the 51st edition of the Swiss Open, and part of the ATP World Tour 250 Series of the 2018 ATP World Tour. It took place at the Roy Emerson Arena in Gstaad, Switzerland, from 23 July through 29 July 2018. The following players received wildcards into the"
"in all categories. FISTF began in 1994 with a World Championship for National Team, which was such a great success that over the years in all categories the Team event were introduced. FISTF is the only sport worldwide which has also U-12 World Champions in individual and in team events. A world tournament (non-official) was played in 1987, Paris (FRA) which was an initiative to promote team events for coming world championships. The teams where mixed with 2x Open, 1x Feminine and 1x Junior player. 7 Nations and France'B' participated in the quarter Finals. Results will follow. FISTF decision: The"