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2023–24 Pro Kabaddi League
The 2023–2024 Pro Kabaddi League was the tenth season of the Pro Kabaddi League, a franchise based kabaddi league in India. Jaipur Pink Panthers were the defending champions. In the final, Puneri Paltan defeated Haryana Steelers to win their maiden title. Background The fixtures of the tournament were announced on 19 October 2023. The league returned to its original traveling caravan format returning after the 2019 season. Each team plays against all the other teams twice, and the top 6 teams proceed to the play-offs with the season beginning on 2 December 2023. All the playoff matches were played in Hyderabad and final was played on 1 March 2024. Participating teams The same 12 teams from the previous season returned with few changes to the team personnel. Personnel The player auction happened on 9 and 10 October 2023 in Mumbai. The salary purse available to each franchise was increased from to . Foreign players Each team can sign a maximum of three non-Indian pla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Round-robin Tournament
A round-robin tournament or all-play-all tournament is a competition format in which each contestant meets every other participant, usually in turn.''Webster's Third New International Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged'' (1971, G. & C. Merriam Co), p.1980. A round-robin contrasts with an elimination tournament, wherein participants are eliminated after a certain number of wins or losses. Terminology The term ''round-robin'' is derived from the French term ('ribbon'). Over time, the term became idiomized to ''robin''. In a ''single round-robin'' schedule, each participant plays every other participant once. If each participant plays all others twice, this is frequently called a ''double round-robin''. The term is rarely used when all participants play one another more than twice, and is never used when one participant plays others an unequal number of times, as is the case in almost all of the major North American professional sports leagues. In the United Kingdom, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
