We propose a theoretical model of round-robin tournament with limited resources motivated by the fact that in real-world sport tournaments, participating teams are sometimes forced to distribute their effort over multiple matches. assume have amount must be distributed between all matches tournament. outcome each match as first-price all-pay auction. The prizes awarded according ranking at end ...

Rationale/purpose: This research attempts to measure the motivation for football fans travel abroad short periods on multiple occasions attend small-scale events.Design/methodology/approach: Fans of an English team who travelled away matches in 2019/20 Europa League were surveyed (n = 235). A Sport Short Visit Tourism scale is developed through confirmatory factor analysis (CFA).Results and fin...

In sports, fandom is on the rise, which mirrored in table tennis matches as well. The paper intends to analyze how popularity of impacts Chinese players through some specific cases social media, athlete brand image and sport environment. Taken together, these findings imply that media can motivate fandom, encourages players, promotes development but turn exacerbates cyberbullying. Moreover, fan...

In judo, making the opponent uncertain requires the mastery of several throws in 3 or 4 different directions and a firm grasp to secure the throw. The system of attacks for 28 judoka (18 men, 10 women) during their 185 respective matches over the competition season of 2001-2002 was analyzed. Practice was regional or interregional. The mean number of matches was 3.3+/-1.1. The mean number of suc...

Technology continues to find new ways influence how sport is consumed and experienced. Online forums, for example, offer fans the opportunity spectate, debate, celebrate their favourite sports, competitions, athletes. Sport enthusiasts can use them post information, ask questions, opinions, or share comments as they seek communicate with like-minded individuals. We were interested in interperso...

Increase in application fields of video has boosted the demand to analyze and organize video libraries for efficient scene analysis and information retrieval. This paper addresses the detection of shot transitions, which plays a crucial role in scene analysis, using a novel method based on fractal dimension (FD) that carries information on roughness of image intensity surface and textural struc...

To the Editor: I read the recent article on sound exposure during football matches in the SAMJ with great interest.1 Swanepoel et al. concluded that ‘exposure levels exceeded limits of permissible average and peak sound’1 and ‘Public awareness and personal hearing protection should be prioritised as preventive measures’.1 It is interesting that sound from sports competitions could be an importa...

Computational algorithms for measuring thread counts from scanned x-rays produce warp and weft thread count “maps” across entire paintings. Within the database of over 300 van Gogh paintings, we found a clique of 44 warp-weave-matched paintings. By reconstructing the smallest canvas section that could have produced this match, they must span the entire width of a commercial canvas roll (2+ mete...

To the Editor: I read the recent article on sound exposure during football matches in the SAMJ with great interest.1 Swanepoel et al. concluded that ‘exposure levels exceeded limits of permissible average and peak sound’1 and ‘Public awareness and personal hearing protection should be prioritised as preventive measures’.1 It is interesting that sound from sports competitions could be an importa...