[Vocabulary] Tournament table name in English

[imakedon]

What is the correct American and British words for all the tables examples of which you can see on the attached images please?

 

[Rover_KE]

I'd call them results tables.

Rover

 

[SoothingDave]

I've never seen such a thing.

If those are supposed to be the scores of the matches played, I'm not sure I quite understand it. For example, Ireland cross references with Russia at "2-3," but Russia references to Ireland at "0-0." Does this mean everyone played everyone else twice?

In any event, I don't know what to call it, cause I've never seen it before. There's a certain elegance to it, but it could become unwieldy with a larger amount of teams.

In American sports we usually play long regular seasons and then the best teams qualify for playoff tournaments and these are single elimination.

 

[Rover_KE]

If those are supposed to be the scores of the matches played, I'm not sure I quite understand it. For example, Ireland cross references with Russia at "2-3," but Russia references to Ireland at "0-0." Does this mean everyone played everyone else twice?

That's right—they played each other at home and away in a European football tournament.

The first match result was Ireland 2, Russia 3 and the second Russia 0, Ireland 0.

Rover

 

[imakedon]

I'd call them results tables.

Rover

When the tournament is in progress, the table may be half empty, well, half full. Is it still "results table"? How about newly attached (quite different) table? Is it "result table" either? The fact of the matter is that I was unable to "Google" a search to find tables I mentioned in my original message, for EURO 2012. I did not want tables like the one attached to this reply.

 

[imakedon]

Exactly.

 

[SoothingDave]

When the tournament is in progress, the table may be half empty, well, half full. Is it still "results table"? How about newly attached (quite different) table? Is it "result table" either? The fact of the matter is that I was unable to "Google" a search to find tables I mentioned in my original message, for EURO 2012. I did not want tables like the one attached to this reply.

Those are called "standings," that give the team's record in wins and losses.

 

[imakedon]

The tables used to be ubiquitous for all round-robin tournaments with under about 2 dozen participants in Euorope.

 

[imakedon]

Thanks, I got the point.
Sincerely,

--Igor

 

[Rover_KE]

When the tournament is in progress, the table may be half empty, well, half full. Is it still "results table"? Such tables are not printed until all the results are known.

How about newly attached (quite different) table? This is a league table. The top two teams would have qualified for the next stage of the competition.

Rover

 

[birdeen's call]

When the tournament is in progress, the table may be half empty, well, half full. Is it still "results table"? Such tables are not printed until all the results are known.

Not necessarily. In small tournaments, the table may be printed completely empty and then filled out with a pen as the tournament progresses.

 

[SoothingDave]

Such tables are not printed until all the results are known.​

Really? So half way through a soccer tournament the newspaper doesn't print a half way complete table?

 

[imakedon]

Rover

"League table, standings, ranking chart, or ladder " look like a well defined concept (Wikipedia). Thanks, Rover. As to "Results Table" I still could not find what I was looking for, on the Web with Google.
see "result table" - Google Search / Images

 

[charliedeut]

Really? So half way through a soccer tournament the newspaper doesn't print a half way complete table?

They do indeed. In fact, I know many people who will cut it out after the first day of comtetition and fill the rest in themselves.

Greetings,

charliedeut

 

[imakedon]

]...who will cut it out ...[/I]
charliedeut

What "it"? Could you please name it, Charliedeut?

 

[charliedeut]

What "it"? Could you please name it, Charliedeut?

Sorry for the misunderstanding. "It" meant, of course, the table printed in hte newspaper. :up:


Greetings,

charliedeut

 

[emsr2d2]

Sorry for the misunderstanding. "It" meant, of course, the table printed in hte newspaper. :up:


Greetings,

charliedeut

Yes, but what is "it" called? Surely you're not suggesting that if you said "the table printed in the newspaper" with no other context, that people would know what you are talking about?