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IL-GILLIS 2021 Problem 6

    21 players participated in a tennis tournament, in which each pair of players played exactly once and each game had a winner (no ties are allowed). The organizers of the tournament found out that each player won at least 9 games, and lost at least 9. In addition, they discovered cases of three players A,B,CA,B,C in which AA won against BB , BB won against CC and CC won against AA , and called such triples "problematic".a) What is the maximum possible number of problematic triples?b) What is the minimum possible number of problematic triples?

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