Round robin when the day is about play time and everyone should get a guaranteed number of games. Bracket when the day is about crowning a champion inside a hard time limit.
Most organizers pick wrong because they start from tradition instead of from three numbers: how many teams, how many courts, and how many hours.
Every team meets every other team once. N teams means N−1 rounds and N(N−1)/2 total matches. Standings come from wins first, then point differential.
Strengths: guaranteed game count, no early exits, ratings-friendly results, and it works with an odd number of teams (one bye per round).
Weaknesses: match count grows quadratically. 8 teams is 28 matches; 12 teams is 66. Ties in the standings need a published tiebreaker before the first serve.
For worked schedules, see round robin schedules by team count .
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