OMM 2004 Problem 4
At the end of a soccer tournament in which any pair of teams played between them exactly once, and in which there were not draws, it was observed that for any three teams and C, if defeated and defeated , then defeated . Any team calculated the difference (positive) between the number of games that it won and the number of games it lost. The sum of all these differences was . How many teams played in the tournament? Find all possible answers.
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