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4 Team Round Robin Schedule

Four teams playing everyone is six matches across three rounds, with two matches running at once in each round and nobody sitting out. It is the shortest schedule where every team plays every other team, which makes it the fairest possible way to separate four teams.

Points are three for a win and one for a draw. With only three matches each, ties on points are common at this size, so decide in advance how you will break them: the head to head result is the usual rule, and it is always decisive between two teams here.

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How the draw is structured

4

Entrants

6

Matches played

3

Rounds

3

Per entrant

Round by round

RoundMatchesEntrants left after it
Round 12all still playing
Round 22all still playing
Round 32all still playing

How long it takes

Rounds run one after another, because a round cannot start until the one feeding it has finished. Matches inside a round can all run at once, so the number of courts you have decides the day more than the number of entrants does.

Courts10 min matches20 min matches30 min matches
11h2h3h
230m1h1h 30m
430m1h1h 30m

Playing time only. Add changeovers, warm-ups and the gap between rounds.

Questions

How many games in a 4 team round robin?
Six. Each of the four teams plays the other three, and six matches cover every pairing exactly once.
How do you break a tie in a 4 team round robin?
The table ranks on points, three for a win and one for a draw. Where two teams are level, the usual tiebreak is the result of the match between them.

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