Question
What is 'Bye? What is the method of fixing Byes?

Answer

Bye: Bye is a privilege given to a team by drawing lots, exempting it from playing match in the first round. While drawing the fixture for teams competing if the number of teams is power two i.e., $2^2, 2^3, 2^4, 2^5$, or $2,4,8,16,32$, in that case Bye shall not be given. Another case: When number of teams competing is not in the power of two i.e., 5, 6, 7, $8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,17$ etc, Byes have to be given to a specific number of teams or players.
Bye-Next highest power of 2 - No. of teams
Method of fixing byes:
(i) First Bye shall be awarded to last team of the lower half.
(ii) IInd bye to the Ist team of first half.
(iii) IIIrd bye to the upper most team of lower half.
(iv) IVth bye to the lower most team of first half.
(v) The rest are awarded in the same order.

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