History Main / TeamBasedTournament

** The S-Class exams involve teams of two- one person being the mage who is seeking promotion, and the other being a chosen partner who can be anyon besides another candidate.

* ''Film/{{Sidekicks}}'' has a tournament near the end of the film. The main characters needed four team members in the tournament, and they only had three - before recruiting Creator/ChuckNorris.

* ''Literature/ReignOfTheSevenSpellblades'': The "combat leagues" take up the bulk of the year 3 books, consisting of teams of three students each (in tiers of second- and third-years, fourth- and fifth-years, and sixth- and seventh-years) competing to qualify for the team battle rounds, wherein the team that wins the most victories in the round-robin format final round is crowned champion. In volume 9, however, Team Valois and Team Cornwallis are forced to withdraw, which leads to the faculty switching to a winner-take-all format for the match between the protagonist Team Horn and Team Andrews. {{Justified|Trope}} because one of the major purposes of Kimberly Magic Academy is to train an order of {{Military Mage}}s called the Gnostic Hunters, whose job is to protect the world from {{Alien Invasion}}s and {{cult}}s.

* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIIRemake'': part of Cloud and Aerith's "date" involves fighting together against various teams in the Corneo Colosseum.

# {{The Hero}}'s and {{The Rival}}'s/{{Big Bad}}'s teams' match being the final one.

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* During ''ComicBook/AvengersVsXMen'', students from the Xavier School were sent to ComicBook/AvengersAcademy to keep them out of the conflict. In the hopes of keeping tensions between the two schools to a minimum, the staff at Avengers Academy arranged a tournament between the two groups with multiple categories (like racing, surfing, etc.)

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* Film/{{Sidekicks}} has a tournament near the end of the film. The main characters needed four team members in the tournament, and they only had three - before recruiting Creator/ChuckNorris.

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# The most important characters' teams will be more varied both theme-wise and ability wise, while less important teams tend to have a focused theme or gimmick. Sometimes only the main characters are unique, while every other team follows a gimmick

# A dishonorable team might decide to [[CripplingTheCompetition cripple one or more of the other teams]] by taking out one of their members. This will either lead to disqualification or having to compete with less members. In the case of the former, this is resolved by either having a substitute take over or by having the crippled teammate [[ICanStillFight insisting on competing despite their injury]].

** ''Five Most Evil Death Rown Innmates'' arc is technically one, with the Innmates forming one team and the fighters of undergroudn arena forming another. The rules stated the fighters can attack members of other team anywhere, at any time and fights are full no-holds barred, leading to situations like two fighters teaming up on a single opponnent or other characters inteffering in the fights.
** ''The Great Chinese Challenge'' arc starts as a standard tournament...up until Kaku Kaioh doesn't get fed up with Japanese and American fighters humilating Chinese fighters, takes over and declareing it a team tournament between Team China and Team Foreigners.
** ''Baki Dou'' manga is entierly about one of those, when appearance of Nomi no Sukune the Second shakes underground martial arts scene so much it leads to a group tornament between underground arena fighters and strongest of sumos.

* Purgatory Tournament from ''[[Manga/KenganAshura Kengan Omega]]'' is a result of conflict between Kengan Association and its Chinese equivalent, the Purgatory. Being two associations allowing corporations to resolve their conflicts through CombatByChampion, they decide to put up a tournament between their best fighters, with the winning organisation absorbing the loser into itself. Kengan Team actually ends up struggling due to tournament using Purgatory rules, which are more restrictive than what they're used to.
* Whole premise of ''Manga/RecordOfRagnarok'', where Valkyrie Brunhilde convinces [[CrossoverCosmology the Gods]] to, instead of destroying humanity, put a tournament between thirteen gods and thriteen greatest of men, empowered by valkyries to be able to harm the gods.

** Teammates transfer cards that are on the field to the next player, but otherwise aren't allowed to share cards with one another, which results in many teams keeping important cards on the field as part of a larger strategy, or try to stop their opponent's team from using dangerous cards by destroying them.

* ''Anime/YuGiOhZexal'': The "Sports Duel Cup" is a Tag-Duel based tournament that Girag tricks Yuma into hosting as part of a plan to get his hand on the Number cards. During the final duel, Shark, who was supposed to be Yuma's partner, [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere leaves]], meaning that Girag has to sub for him, which is bad because 1: If Girag loses to a "CXYZ" user (which Kotori and Cathy are thanks to Girag), he will die and 2: ''Girag convinced Yuma to [[ThrowingTheFight lose on purpose]]'', which Yuma tries to do by sabotaging Girag. Fortunately, once Yuma figures out that Kotori and Cathy are [[BrainwashedAndCrazy possessed]], he works with Girag to win the duel.

* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIIRemake'': part of Cloud and Aerith's "date" involve fighting together against various teams in the Corneo Colosseum.
* ''VideoGame/TheKingOfFighters'': The plots of the games typically involve tournaments consisting of three-person teams of fighters from all over the world. Some of the earlier games used the "Striker" system, which allowed teams to have a fourth teammate who acted as an AssistCharacter, but didn't actually fight. The FinalBoss of the games typically fights alone ([[SNKBoss not that it makes them a cakewalk]]).
* ''VideoGame/PaperMarioTheThousandYearDoor'': The Glitz Pit is a colosseum that allows competitors to compete either alone or in teams. At one point in the story someone [[spoiler:Rawk Hawk]] sends Mario a cake, and if he decides to eat it, he won't be able to use his partner for one battle due to the cake being poisoned.

* ''VideoGame/AVeryLongRopeToTheTopOfTheSky'': Terranoire's Coliseum's Standard and Expert Arenas where "Multiple participants can enter" as the explanation lady says, and the explanations signs say "Participants must fight four battles without resting."

* ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfJimmyNeutronBoyGenius'': The plot of the "[[Recap/TheAdventuresOfJimmyNeutronBoyGeniusS2E18WinLoseAndKaboom Win Lose and Kaboom!]]" three-parter is about an interplanetary game-show in which teams from various planets compete with each other for the grand prize of ''not'' [[EarthShatteringKaboom having their planets destroyed]]. The Earth Team (consisting of Jimmy, Cindy, Carl, Sheen, Libby, and Bolbi) struggle at first due to Jimmy's insistence on calling all of the shots, but later start doing better once Jimmy puts his ego aside and starts listening to the others.

Administrivia/NoRealLifeExamplesPlease as they're too numerous - any team sports tournament would qualify for this trope, but the site would only list them on Useful Notes pages.

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* Purgatory Tournament from ''[[Manga/KenganAshura Kengan Omega]]'' is a result of conflict between Kengan Association and its Chinese equivalent, the Purgatory. Being two associations allowing corporations to resolve their conflicts through CombatByChampion, they decide to put up a tournament between their best fighters. Kengan Team actually ends up struggling due to tournament using Purgatory rules, which are more restrictive than what they're used to.

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