Assign Sports Ranking Crossword

Assign sports ranking crossword clue. Two speed crossword Daily Telegraph Sydney and Herald Sun newspaper on Thursday, 22 Juni 2017. 4 letters.

Answer: SEED

A seed is a competitor or team in a sport or other tournament who is given a preliminary ranking for the purposes of the draw. Players/teams are “planted” into the bracket in a manner that is typically intended so that the best do not meet until later in the competition. The term was first used in tennis, and is based on the idea of laying out a tournament ladder by arranging slips of paper with the names of players on them the way seeds or seedlings are arranged in a garden: smaller plants up front, larger ones behind.