Round Robin

VANCOUVER Skip John Shuster knew his team let one slide away in its Olympic curling debut, something Team USA can't afford very often in the 10-team round-robin qualifying tournament. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The tournament is comprised of four six-team pools in a round-robin format. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Canada's closest call was a 7-6 victory in 11 ends against Norway in round-robin play. ❋ Unknown (2010)

This faux-musical structure doesn't really introduce any startlingly innovative changes into fictional form; it essentially just allows a kind of round-robin narration, one episode of which picks up on the previous and makes possible a multi-perspective chronicle of the PFE s activities and of university life in general. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Various authors who've written in the line are participating in a round-robin interview, including, starting this week, me. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Norberg, whose team had lost to Canada 6-2 during round-robin action, knew her team had escaped. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The Russian Sharapova, who began the day as the only player still able to topple Wozniacki from the top of the rankings, quit after losing 7-6 6-4 to China's Li Na, her second round-robin defeat at the tournament. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Whether you choose to call it a round-robin scheme in house trading, a financial game of "Tag, You're It!" or a real estate-based Ponzi scheme, the last person to sign the papers comes out with a property that has been assessed at a ridiculously inflated value. ❋ George Heymont (2011)

It was four groups of six teams in round-robin play. ❋ Unknown (2010)

He routed Nadal, 6-3, 6-0, inside London's O2 arena in the round-robin stage of the ATP World Tour Finals, running his career record indoors against Nadal to 4-0. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Ivory Coast's Laurent Gbagbo is still holed up in Abidjan taunting U.N. peacekeepers and playing round-robin with various African leaders. ❋ Alemayehu G. Mariam (2011)

The tour final is a bit different, because a player can win it all yet emerge with a round-robin loss—or even lose three matches, by getting swept in the round-robin phase or by advancing to the knockout stage with two losses and then getting knocked out. ❋ Carl Bialik (2011)

It's a sort of round-robin competition between 16 national Division I mascots, and Testudo is about to lose his eighth of eight head-to-head battles. ❋ Dan Steinberg (2010)

Rather a two-fold plot scheme with the drama split evenly, done round-robin style with the tense shifts. ❋ Marshallpayne1 (2009)

We both took a nap after that (I'm running on about three hours 'sleep here) and then met up with Paul McCall and Laksen Sirimanne for dinner, over which we had a humorous, round-robin discussion of the early days of the mission. ❋ Unknown (2010)

He added one of his own—one that randomly cooperates and defects—and pitched all of them against each other in a round-robin tournament. ❋ Martin A. Nowak (2011)

After the round-robin play on Saturday, we ended up in a five-way tie for first place in our group, which is crazy. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The guests at the event were divided into three groups and given a round-robin tour of the 70,000-square-foot facility and its three theaters. ❋ Barbara Chai (2012)

This has nothing to do [with the bird]. Robin in this expression is a corruption of the French [ruban], meaning 'ribbon'.In 17th and 18th century France, there was a good deal for the average peasant to complain about, but complaining to the King in particular was not a good idea. The [monarch's] usual reaction to a [petition] from his subjects was to seize the first two or three signers and have them beheaded. Not wishing to lose their heads, but bent nonetheless on petitioning for justice, clever peasants came up with the [expedient] of signing their names on the petition in a circle, like a ribbon. That way, no one's name came first, and, assuming that there were hundreds of signatures on the petition, it was impractical for the King to punish all the signers. A similar method was adopted by disgruntled sailor in the 18th century British Royal Navy, another institution not known for welcoming criticism. Sailors often signed their names to a petition like the spokes of a wheel, so that no one of them could be considered the leader of a [mutiny] and hanged. ❋ Pdawg (2003)

So we'll [pull] the round robin [tonight]? ❋ Laine (2004)

A: How did you and dave [get on with] those [2 girls] last night? B: Oh man, it was crazy we went back to their flat, and had some [round robin] action with their roommates...! ❋ IKielo1 (2009)

[Kathy]: Hey I wanted to see Rick this Saturday didn't you say you wanted to see [Devan]? Sarah: Yeah I did say that. What're you thinking? Kathy: I'll tell my mom I'm over your place, you tell yours you're at my house. Sarah: [Round robin]? Kathy: Exactly. ❋ Anonymous74 (2013)

“Yo did you get that Round Robin last night?” “[Nah bro] [Nimbus] was [being a bitch] and kept refusing” ❋ Joey, Lover Of Eggs (2023)

We had [a round] [robin] [last night]. ❋ Matty Boy Who Likes Teh Pie (2006)

i hit her with [a round] [robin] before [i nutted] ❋ Roll Cage (2018)

Matt didn't know that giving Paul [a round] [robin] would be so [messy]. ❋ Sir Shits-A-Lot (2003)

"So they want to play a round [robin] match?" "Yeah, but they're too retarded to know how to do it themselves so we have to [officiate]." "Oh, [CANADIAN round robin]." ❋ Buttcheeks5000 (2017)

Yo, I heard [Sal] gave Nasty [Nigrelli's] Mom and Sis the old [Jersey City Round Robin] this weekend. And they LOVED IT! ❋ The_skipper (2008)