World Cup Tournament
Although not strictly speaking a knock-out as - in theory - a team losing a game on Day 1 could still qualify dependent on results on Day 2, in practice this was a complex tournament that is best understood by means of the following graphics. Note that this should not be taken to imply that the draw for any round of games was predetermined - each successive round was drawn using seedings and rankings based on previous matches:
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