Coding Interview Prep: The Tournament Winner Problem
3 min readNov 14, 2023
Another Day, Another Dollar. I mean Problem.
Let’s get started. This problem is used to determine the “winner” of a tournament.
Problem Statement:
In a competitive algorithms tournament, teams of programmers engage in round-robin matches, facing off against each other to solve algorithmic problems. Each match has a designated home team and away team, with a clear winner and loser, earning 3 points for a win and 0 points for a loss. The team with the highest total points at the end of all…