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#544 - Output Contest Matches
Problem Description
During the NBA playoffs, we always set the rather strong team to play with the rather weak team, like making the rank 1 team play with the rank nth team, which is a good strategy to make the contest more interesting.
Given n teams, return their final contest matches in the form of a string.
The n teams are labeled from 1 to n, which represents their initial rank (i.e., Rank 1 is the strongest team and Rank n is the weakest team).
We will use parentheses '(', and ')' and commas ',' to represent the contest team pairing.
We use the parentheses for pairing and the commas for partition. During the pairing process in each round, you always need to follow the strategy of making the rather strong one pair with the rather weak one.
Solution
/**
* @param {number} n
* @return {string}
*/
var findContestMatch = function(n) {
const teams = Array.from({ length: n }, (_, i) => (i + 1).toString());
return pairTeams(teams);
function pairTeams(arr) {
if (arr.length === 1) return arr[0];
const nextRound = [];
for (let i = 0; i < arr.length / 2; i++) {
nextRound.push(`(${arr[i]},${arr[arr.length - 1 - i]})`);
}
return pairTeams(nextRound);
}
};