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Math and Puzzles Quiz 7
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A tennis championship is played on a knock-out basis, i.e., a player is out of the tournament when he loses a match.How many players participate in the tournament if 63 matches are totally played?
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64
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In a knockout tournament, each match eliminates exactly one player. With 63 matches played, 63 players are eliminated. To determine the winner, we need one player remaining, so total players = 63 + 1 = 64. This is a fundamental principle of single-elimination tournaments - the total number of players is always one more than the number of matches.