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44-654: The Open Canada Cup was an annual knock-out cup competition in Canadian Soccer . The competition was first held during the 1998 season as the CPSL League Cup. It was organized by the Canadian Soccer League (formerly the Canadian Professional Soccer League) originally as a League Cup for CSL member clubs. After operating the competition for several seasons as an exclusive tournament,

88-646: A federal grant with intentions to promote the tournament across the country. As a result, the league began to take the initiative of providing a potential candidate for the CONCACAF Champions' Cup as the Canadian Soccer Association and other provincial governing bodies neglected in organizing an open cup tournament. The previous time a Canadian club competed in the Champions' Cup was in the 1976 CONCACAF Champions' Cup represented by Toronto Italia of

132-420: A draw may be settled in extra time and eventually by a penalty shootout or by replaying the fixture. Another perceived disadvantage is that most competitors are eliminated after relatively few games. Variations such as the double-elimination tournament allow competitors a single loss while remaining eligible for overall victory. However, losing one game requires the competitor to win more games in order to win

176-451: A match between the losers of the semifinal matches called third place playoffs , the winner therein placing third and the loser fourth. Many Olympic single-elimination tournaments feature the bronze medal match if they do not award bronze medals to both losing semifinalists. The FIFA World Cup has long featured the third place match (since 1934 ), though the UEFA Euro has not held one since

220-561: A penalty shootout. Historically, attempts at organizing a national open cup competition between professional and amateur clubs in Canadian soccer was a concept largely ignored by the national and provincial associations. One such exception is the Challenge Trophy , which continuously operates at a national level but solely for amateur clubs. A tournament was formed by the CSL's predecessor league

264-494: A possible match-up with the top seed until one round later. MLS' format is identical, except that the conference quarterfinals is a best-of-three series. In some situations, a seeding restriction may be implemented; from 1975 until 1989 in the NFL , and from 1994 until 2011 in MLB there was a rule where at the conference or league semifinal, should the top seed and last seed (wild card) be from

308-437: A quarter-final from the previous year . Sometimes the remaining competitors in a single-elimination tournament will be "re-seeded" so that the highest surviving seed is made to play the lowest surviving seed in the next round, the second-highest plays the second-lowest, etc. This may be done after each round, or only at selected intervals. In American team sports, for example, the NFL employs this tactic, but MLS , NHL and

352-486: A random factor is always present in a real-world competition, this might easily cause accusations of unfairness. Variations of the single-elimination tournament include: Other common tournament types include: Canadian National Soccer League The National Soccer League was a soccer league in Canada that existed from 1926 to 1997. Teams were primarily based in the provinces of Ontario and Quebec . The league

396-674: Is 1 v 8, 2 v 7, 3 v 6 and 4 v 5, for example this is used for 16 seeds in the World Snooker Championship and 32 seeds in the World Darts Championship . Some tournaments stray from this, for example it is not the procedure that is followed in most tennis tournaments, where the 1 and 2 seeds are placed in separate brackets, but then the 3 and 4 seeds are assigned to their brackets randomly, and so too are seeds 5 through 8, and so on. This may result in some brackets consisting of stronger players than other brackets, and since only

440-533: Is first - for example, if sorting the numbers 1-4 ascending, if 4 and 3 meet in the first round, 3 and 1 will lose in the first round and 2 will lose in the second, selecting 4 as the largest number in the set, but insufficient comparisons have been performed to determine which is greater, 1 or 3. Despite this, the candidate that loses in the final round is commonly considered to have taken second place (in this case, 2). When matches are held to determine places or prizes lower than first and second, these typically include

484-507: Is rare in English itself, with noticeable use in American debate tournaments. The round before the round of sixteen is sometimes called round of thirty-two in English. Terms for this in other languages generally translate as "sixteenth final". Earlier rounds are typically numbered counting forwards from the first round, or by the number of remaining competitors. If some competitors get a bye ,

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528-421: The 1980 edition . Sometimes, contests are also held among the losers of the quarterfinal matches to determine fifth to eighth places. In one scenario, two "consolation semifinal" matches may be conducted, with the winners of these then facing off to determine fifth and sixth places and the losers playing for seventh and eighth; those are used often in qualifying tournaments where only the top five teams advance to

572-641: The 2003 Open Canada Cup the tournament managed to entice clubs from the Ontario Soccer League , Ottawa Carleton Soccer League, Western Ontario Soccer League, and the Ligue de Soccer Elite Quebec to participate. The competition was won by London City in a penalty shootout against the Metro Lions played at Cove Road Stadium , London, Ontario . Despite the CPSL's successful attempt at organizing an open cup tournament,

616-562: The NBA do not (and neither does the NCAA college basketball tournament ). Although MLB does have enough teams (12) in its playoff tournament where re-seeding would have made a large difference in the matchups; only the WNBA's at the minimum, which is at least four from each conference for a total of 8. The NBA's format calls for the winner of the first-round series between the first and eighth seeds (within each of

660-811: The National Soccer League (NSL) in the 1986 season known as the NSL Canada Cup which crowned a national league cup champion with the Pacific Rim Soccer League of British Columbia, and the Quebec National Soccer League as participants. The NSL also promoted the NSL Canadian Championship to provide a national champion and a Canadian representative to the CONCACAF Champions' Cup . Proposals were suggested in 1996 by

704-599: The Superior Court of Justice which ruled in favor of the CPSL decision and allowed the tournament to proceed without the participation of Ottawa. The tournament continued to expand, and in 2004 attracted a record amount of 24 participants throughout Ontario. It would grow to include clubs with Challenge Cup , and Ontario Cup honors. Meanwhile, the on-field performance was dominated by the Windsor Border Stars with consecutive championships from 2004 to 2005. In 2006,

748-746: The USL A-League by presenting a trophy to its Canadian franchises to establish a Canadian open cup competition, but the idea failed to materialize. In 1998, the Canadian National Soccer League and the Ontario Soccer Association collaborated to form the Canadian Professional Soccer League (CPSL) an attempt to form a national league. Initially, the CPSL ran a league cup known as the CPSL League Cup but

792-1423: The quarter-final round; this is followed by the semi-final round, in which only four are left, the two winners of which then meet in the final or championship round . The round before the quarterfinals has multiple designations. Often it is called the round of sixteen , last sixteen , or (in South Asia) pre-quarterfinals . In many other languages the term for these eight matches translates to eighth-final (e.g., in these European languages: "huitième de finale" in French , "achtste finale" in Dutch, octavos de final in Spanish , Achtelfinale in German , åttondelsfinal in Swedish , ottavi di finale in Italian , oitavos-de-final in Portuguese , optimi de finală in Romanian , osmifinále in Czech , osemfinále in Slovak , and osmina finala in Serbo-Croatian ), though this term

836-549: The National Soccer League. In 2003, the CPSL opened their league cup to all Canadian professional and amateur clubs with the intent of providing the potential Canadian candidate to the continental tournament. The competition was renamed the Open Canada Cup with the government of Canada as the initial title sponsor, and the inclusion of a $ 10,000 reward for the champion. As the restrictions on eligibility were lifted for

880-463: The champion in September. The arrangement of teams for the group stages was determined by the geographical locations of the clubs to accommodate the travel distances. In 2002, the format was revised with the introduction of a qualifying round with a home and away two-game series followed by a quarterfinal, semifinal, and championship final round. While the hosting club was granted a wildcard privilege. When

924-669: The competition reached a new milestone as it managed to draw the attention of the Toronto Lynx of the USL First Division , the country's top-tier league. The 2006 edition made headlines as Ottawa St. Anthony Italia became the first amateur club to claim the championship after defeating the Toronto Lynx in the finals. The tournament reached its apex in 2007 as it broaden to include professional and amateur teams from British Columbia , Ontario , and Quebec . Trois-Rivières Attak became

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968-403: The competition was not without controversy. The controversy stemmed from a dispute involving Ottawa Wizards with the CPSL's board of directors over the hosting rights for the finals. After failing to confirm their participation in the later rounds of the tournament the league removed Ottawa from the competition, and in return, Ottawa threatened to obtain an injunction. The dispute eventually reached

1012-453: The competition, seeding is often used to prevent this. Brackets are set up so that the top two seeds could not possibly meet until the final round (should both advance that far), none of the top four can meet prior to the semifinals, and so on. If no seeding is used, the tournament is called a random knockout tournament. Standard seeding pairs the highest and lowest, then second highest and second lowest and so on, for an 8 seed tournament this

1056-485: The first Quebec champion in 2007 after defeating Columbus Clan F.C. In 2008, the CSL increased the prize money to $ 25,000 with the top amateur club receiving $ 10,000, but shortly after the creation of the Canadian Championship the competition was disbanded. Single-elimination tournament In English , the round in which only eight competitors remain is generally called (with or without hyphenation)

1100-486: The league's ownership decided in 2003 to grant accessibility to all Canadian professional and amateur clubs. The decision was influenced by the lack of initiative by the Canadian Soccer Association in providing a potential candidate for the CONCACAF Champions' Cup . Further reforms consisted of title sponsorship with the Government of Canada and the inclusion of a financial reward for the overall champion. Subsequently,

1144-399: The next round; or some method of ranking the four quarterfinal losers might be employed, in which case only one round of additional matches would be held among them, the two highest-ranked therein then playing for fifth and sixth places and the two lowest for seventh and eighth. The number of distinct ways of arranging a single-elimination tournament (as an abstract structure, prior to seeding

1188-414: The opportunity to face every other player/team. Also, if the competitors' performance is variable, that is, it depends on a small, varying factor in addition to the actual strength of the competitors, then not only will it become less likely that the strongest competitor actually wins the tournament, in addition the seeding done by the tournament organizers will play a major part in deciding the winner. As

1232-593: The other. If a small number of teams play in a single elimination tournament, sometimes a consolation bracket is included to allow the eliminated teams to play more than once. This was the format of the Little League World Series until 1992. The format is less suited to games where draws are frequent. In chess , each fixture in a single-elimination tournament must be played over multiple matches, because draws are common , and because white has an advantage over black. In association football , games ending in

1276-583: The players into the tournament) is given by the Wedderburn–Etherington numbers . Thus, for instance, there are three different arrangements for five players: However, the number of arrangements grows quickly for larger numbers of players and not all of them are commonly used. Opponents may be allocated randomly (such as in the FA Cup); however, since the "luck of the draw" may result in the highest-rated competitors being scheduled to face each other early in

1320-582: The prize money was increased, but after the creation of the Canadian Championship , the competition was disbanded. Since the establishment of the Canadian Championship, CSL teams have not participated in the tournament which determines the Canadian entry into the CONCACAF Champions League. Canadian Soccer League teams dominated the competition throughout its history; the only non-CSL champion

1364-571: The regular season (or did not take place, in some cases). In international fencing competitions, it is common to have a group stage . Participants are divided in groups of 6–7 fencers who play a round-robin tournament, and a ranking is calculated from the consolidated group results. Single elimination is seeded from this ranking. The single-elimination format enables a relatively large number of competitors to participate. There are no "dead" matches (perhaps excluding "classification" matches), and no matches where one competitor has more to play for than

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1408-446: The round at which they enter may be named the first round , with the earlier matches called a preliminary round , qualifying round , opening round , or the play-in games . Examples of the diverse names given to concurrent rounds in various select disciplines: Notes: The knockout round of the 2002 FIFA World Cup tournament: Without any additional matches, the only position a single-elimination tournament can reliably determine

1452-483: The same club or not has not been made clear by the source used for compiling this list. Note as well that the same source does not include information for the Eastern Division of the league from the 1930s through to the 1950s, nor any information at all for the following seasons: 1968, 1969, from 1983 through 1992, and 1994. Moreover, the source provides only an incomplete list of teams for 1947 through 1949, and, for

1496-399: The same division, they cannot play each other; in that case, the top seed plays the worst division champion; the second-best division champion plays the wild card team. This is due to the scheduling employed for the regular season, in which a team faces any given divisional opponent more often than any given non-divisional opponent – the tournament favors match-ups that took place fewer times in

1540-468: The top 32 players of 128 are seeded in Tennis Grand Slam tournaments, it can happen that the 33rd-best player in a 128-player field could end up playing the top seed in the first round. An example of this occurring was when World No. 33 Florian Mayer was drawn against, and defeated by, World No. 1 Novak Djokovic in the first round of the 2013 Wimbledon Championships , in what was also a rematch of

1584-571: The tournament managed to attract several notable amateurs, and professional clubs with credentials from the USL First Division , Canadian National Challenge Cup , Ligue de Soccer Elite Quebec , and the Ontario Cup . In 2007, the competition reached its zenith as it expanded westward to include clubs from British Columbia with the inclusion of the champion of the British Columbia Provincial Soccer Championship . In 2008,

1628-571: The tournament revolved around the summer holiday long weekends. The opening round was played around Victoria Day the second round during Canada Day , the quarterfinals on the Civic Holiday weekend, and the tournament would conclude during the Labour Day long weekend. The matches were generally decided on a one-legged tie that lasted 90 minutes plus any additional stoppage time . Drawn matches went directly to extra time, and if necessary, they went to

1672-414: The tournament transitioned into an open cup competition, the first round consisted of amateur league clubs. CSL and later USL clubs entered play into the second round. When the competition expanded westward, British Columbia teams held separate qualifying matches through the British Columbia Provincial Soccer Championship where the champion received a bye into the semifinals. Traditionally, the schedule of

1716-470: The tournament. In a single-elimination tournament without any seeding, awarding the second place to the loser of the final is unjustified: any of the competitors knocked out before getting to play the losing finalist might have been stronger than the actual losing finalist. In general, it is only fair to use a single-elimination tournament to determine first place. To fairly determine lower places requires some form of round-robin in which each player/team gets

1760-438: The two conferences the league has) to face the winner of the first-round series between the fourth and fifth seeds in the next round, even if one or more of the top three seeds had been upset in their first-round series; critics have claimed that this gives a team fighting for the fifth and sixth seeding positions near the end of the regular season an incentive to tank (deliberately lose) games, so as to finish sixth and thus avoid

1804-418: Was Ottawa St. Anthony Italia in the 2006 . Toronto Olympians were the most successful club, winning three titles. David Gee is the most successful head coach in the history of the competition, having won three titles as head coach of Toronto Olympians. Originally, the format of the competition was organized into a group stage with the two top teams advancing to the semifinals and a final match to decide

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1848-761: Was renamed to Canadian National Soccer League in 1993 following the folding of the Canadian Soccer League , and the accepting of the Winnipeg Fury , making the league more national. In the 1960s, the Canadian National Soccer League was one of four major leagues in Canadian soccer alongside the Pacific Coast League , the Eastern Canada Professional Soccer League and the Western Canada Soccer League . It

1892-447: Was replaced by the Canadian Professional Soccer League in 1998, after an agreement between the CNSL and the Ontario Soccer Association . thecnsl.com – Canadian National Soccer League / Update: 6 June 2022 RSSSF – Canadian National Soccer League / Update: 6 June 2022 Clubs are listed by name and year that a club by that name participated. Whether clubs by the same name were indeed

1936-469: Was restricted to member clubs. Shortly after the tournament attracted sponsorship deals from Primus Canada , and in 2001 received a title sponsor from Oz Optics Ltd. In the initial years, the league cup was dominated by the Toronto Olympians , which later was assumed by the heavily invested Ottawa Wizards . In 2002, the competition received financial aid from the Canadian government in the form of

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