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===Tournament structure=== The current tournament format used for each series is that of a direct [[tournament#Knockout tournaments|knockout tournament]] starting with 28 teams. The fourteen first-round winners progress directly to the last sixteen. Two [[repechage]] matches, involving the four highest scoring losing teams from the first round, whose losing scores often exceed winning scores in other first-round matches, fill the remaining places in the last sixteen. Teams in the quarter-final round (last eight teams) have to win two matches in the round to progress to the semi-finals. Equally, teams must lose two quarter-final matches in order to be eliminated from that round. The pairings for matches are often chosen in order to keep stronger teams apart.<ref>{{Cite book|title=On University Challenge (Illustrated) |url=http://lystellion.livejournal.com/84288.html |publisher=Jacob Funnell |access-date=15 July 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110820093946/http://lystellion.livejournal.com/84288.html |archive-date=20 August 2011}}</ref>
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