ladder tournament

Ladder tournaments suffer from two problems, both resulting from the challenge system.

In a ladder tournament, players are listed as if on the rungs of a ladder.

The Sports Center organizes fitness training, club sports, intramural and ladder tournaments, instructional programmes and seminars.

The eight survivors were then staggered in a ladder tournament whereby the lower six teams contended for a shot to take on the number two seed (Harker School).

The Bluff Cup is the 'week to week' ladder tournament held between teams of debaters at OUDS each week aiming to strengthen speakers.

When first setting up a ladder tournament, usual practice is to place the more skilled players at the bottom of the ladder, so that they have to play to work their way up.

A ladder tournament is similar to a pyramid tournament, except that unlike a pyramid tournament, only one player can occupy any given rung and whom a player may challenge is not as tightly restricted as in the pyramid system.