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Tournament Champion Probability

Algorithm · Google · Hard

Tournament Victory Probability Medium A single-elimination tournament has N teams, where N is a power of two. The teams are labelled 0 through N - 1 and are seeded in the bracket according to their indices. In the first round, the matchups are (0, 1), (2, 3), (4, 5), …, (N‑2, N‑1). In each subsequent round, the winner of one pairing plays the winner of the adjacent pairing in the previous round, and the bracket is never reseeded. You are given a matrix P of size $$N \times…

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