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Originally Posted by Nathan Streeter
I'm guessing there's nothing too special about the order of each round?
If not, by switching 3v4 and 6v1 within Round 2 and switching 6v2 and 4v1 within Round 4, you could avoid having a team ever play a match back-to-back.
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Correct. The above schedule could be optimized as you describe. There's actually some cool math behind optimal scheduling of round robin tournaments. Take a look:
http://mathforum.org/library/drmath/view/54715.html