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=== Examples ===
Many classical games, e.g., [[Chess]] and [[Go]], have many types of [[Tournaments]] arranged around them. Sports have been described as games that have organizations arranging tournaments in them and upholding their "official" rules (typically expanded by "tournament rules")<ref name="Sports@Wikipedia"/>

More recent examples of games which have [[Tournaments]] include [[Magic: The Gathering]] and [[Bloodbowl]] (which supports single players to have [[Tournaments]] through AI players in the [[Bloodbowl (computer game)|computer]] version).


==== Anti-Examples ====
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== Using the pattern ==

=== Diegetic Aspects ===

=== Interface Aspects ===

=== Narration Aspects ===

== Consequences ==

== Relations ==
=== Can Instantiate ===
[[Combat]], 
[[Closure Points]], 
[[Drop-In/Drop-Out]], 
[[Extra-Game Consequences]], 
[[Goal Hierarchies]], 
[[Higher-Level Closures as Gameplay Progresses]], 
[[Illusionary Rewards]], 
[[Late Arriving Players]], 
[[Meta Games]], 
[[Overcome]], 
[[Polyathlons]], 
[[Repetitive Gameplay]], 
[[Replayability]], 
[[Self-Facilitated Games]], 
[[Spectators]], 
[[Tension]], 
[[Tiebreakers]]

=== Can Modulate ===
[[Betting]], 
[[Gameplay Mastery]], 
[[Multiplayer Games]], 
[[Player Balance]]

=== Can Be Instantiated By ===
[[Last Man Standing]], 
[[Minigames]], 

=== Can Be Modulated By ===
[[Back-to-Back Game Sessions]], 
[[Main Goals]], 
[[Player Elimination]], 
[[Scores]], 
[[Tiebreakers]], 
[[Tied Results]], 
[[Time Limited Game Instances]]

=== Possible Closure Effects ===
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=== Potentially Conflicting With ===
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== History ==
An updated version of the pattern ''Tournaments'' that was part of the original collection in the book ''Patterns in Game Design''<ref name="Bjork & Holopainen 2004"/>.

== References ==
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<ref name="Sports@Wikipedia">[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sport Wikipedia's entry on Sports].</ref>
<ref name="Bjork & Holopainen 2004">Björk, S. & Holopainen, J. (2004) ''Patterns in Game Design''. Charles River Media. ISBN1-58450-354-8.</ref>
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== Acknowledgements ==
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