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Chain in a turnament

Source: QEDMO 2005

November 8, 2005
induction

Problem Statement

At a turnament between nn persons, everyone playes exactly one time against everyone else, and at one game there is everytime a winner and a looser. Prove that one can arrange the participants in a chainP1P2...PnP_1 \to P_2 \to ... \to P_n such that the ii-th person has won against the (i+1)(i+1)-th person.