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title: Terminology
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# Terminology
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Here is a list of commonly used terms and their meanings:
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- **Club**: A collection of tournaments that a user has access to.
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- **Court:** A court represents a physical court (e.g. badminton court) but can be generalized to
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any resource that's needed to play a match (e.g. a map in an online game).
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- **Dashboard**: A page accessible by the public where they can see the progression and results of a
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tournament.
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- **Ranking:** A ranking determines the calculation of the final standings of a stage item. For
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example, how many points a team gets when they win a match.
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- **Round Robin:** Every team plays against every other team exactly once.
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- **Single Elimination:** Teams compete in matches, and the loser is eliminated after each round.
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- **Stage:** A stage is simply a collection of stage items. Winners of these stage items proceed to
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the next stage. A common tournament consists of a group stage which contains multiple round-robing
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stage items (called pools), followed by a knock-out stage that consists of one or more single
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elimination stage items.
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- **Stage Item:** A stage item is part of a stage and can be of type round robin, single elimination
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etc.
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- **Swiss:** Teams play a set number of rounds, and the number of rounds is based on the number of
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teams.
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