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Why do we describe as round robin a tournament in which everyone plays everyone else? (answer below)

When Soviet Communist Party leader Nikita Khrushchev spoke to the Party elite about the terrible crimes of his predecessor, Joseph Stalin, someone called out: "Where were you?" Khrushchev looked up from his speech, demanding, "Who said that?" There was silence. "That's where I was," said Khrushchev.

Similarly, on British warships centuries ago, complaining to the captain might get you hanged as mutineer if your name was at the top of a petition. The solution: arrange the signatures in a circle so nobody could be singled out. This was called "round robin," for the circle and the ribbon (modified in the expression to robin) that tied the document.

When diagrammed, a tournament with everyone playing everyone else, as opposed to an elimination tournament, looks like that circle of signatures. And you thought round robin was a portly bird that had overindulged on worms.
Source: A BROWSER'S DICTIONARY by John Ciardi

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