elimination tournament

English Thesaurus

1. a tournament in which losers are eliminated in successive rounds (noun.event)

hypernym	:	tournament, tourney,
definition	:	a sporting competition in which contestants play a series of games to decide the winner (noun.event)

part holonym	:	final,
definition	:	the final match between the winners of all previous matches in an elimination tournament (noun.event)

part holonym	:	quarterfinal,
definition	:	one of the four competitions in an elimination tournament whose winners go on to play in the semifinals (noun.event)

part holonym	:	semi, semifinal,
definition	:	one of the two competitions in the next to the last round of an elimination tournament (noun.event)