TH-TMO 2023 Problem 4
A table tennis tournament has contestants, where each pair of contestants will play each other exactly once. In each match, the player who gets points first is the winner, and the other the loser. At the end of the tournament, it turns out that there exist matches with scores to and to . Show that there exists 3 contestants such that the score of the losers in the matches between and are equal, but different from the score of the loser in the match between .
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