User:Kirkpcarlson/Elimination contest

An elimination contest (non-tournament) is a type of game that starts with many players and ends with one sole winner. Elimination contest by nature rarely produce the "best" winner, but provide perhaps the "best" experience for groups of people. Examples of elimination contests include TV's Survivor, Big Brother all the way to political races and your average game of poker.

Research shows that elimination contests have different reasults dependant on the information released on the interim between the contests or challenges.

Games
Poker

TV Gameshows
Survivor

Big Brother