Abstract: A system and method for conducting a tournament having an unlimited number of participants. The system includes a mechanism for selecting performance criterion against which individual results are judged; a mechanism for fixing a number of winners of the tournament; a mechanism for applying the criterion to each participant, thereby ranking the participants from highest to lowest performer in one or more rounds; and a mechanism for determining the top participants as the tournament winners. The highest-ranked participants at the end of the tournament are declared winners, as based on the participants' performance.