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Post #1 Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2017 11:19 am 
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http://www.intergofed.org/igf-news-feed ... korea.html

What is a pk?

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Post #2 Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2017 12:45 pm 
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professional knockout ?

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Post #3 Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2017 2:35 pm 
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From Wikipedia "The round before the quarter-finals is sometimes called the "round of sixteen", "Last Sixteen", or (in South Asia) "pre-quarterfinals";" so maybe Pre-quarterfinal Knockout? Or Preliminary Knockout?

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Post #4 Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2017 9:48 pm 
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Uberdude wrote:
Preliminary Knockout?


I haven't heard the acronym before in this context, but Uberdude's analysis seems correct to me.

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Post #5 Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2017 10:06 pm 
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Kirby wrote:
Uberdude wrote:
Preliminary Knockout?


I haven't heard the acronym before in this context, but Uberdude's analysis seems correct to me.


I haven't heard this acronym before either, but Kirby's analysis of Uberdude's analysis seems correct to me.


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Post #6 Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2017 10:35 pm 
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So a PK is or is not in the Top 32 knockout? I imagine that it is, which means the article is choosing to ignore the other countries in its focus.

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Post #7 Posted: Wed Sep 13, 2017 12:45 am 
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Samsung cup is at top 16 stage so I think they want to say there are 8 pairings, 5 of which are China vs Korea. However, according to https://gotoeveryone.k2ss.info/wr/sc/ 6 of them are, plus they missed the n off An Sungjoon's name.

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Post #8 Posted: Wed Sep 13, 2017 1:19 am 
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I suppose that's clearer to me know, thanks for the explanations. The IGF's website was never particularly very good, but it really seems to be getting worse these days.

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Post #9 Posted: Wed Sep 13, 2017 1:39 am 
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PK is just a supposedly zippy way of saying "(elimination) match". We older people would say something like "shoot out" or "duel". I've read that it comes from gaming (player killing) but for at least some people it's associated with a penalty kick (PK) shoot out. It seems to be an Asian thing. In knockout tables for football after draws, deciding scores are often given as e.g. 5PK4.

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