A crazy thought I saw online that had me not believing it, until I did the math

Go ahead and look at this statement and think about it for a second.

Sorry for the horrible resolution, I don't know what I did wrong there but I think the point still gets across.

What he is saying is that if every single person on Earth had to compete in a fight tournament, there would be only 33 rounds before the tournament was over.

When we think about a number like 8 billion, the amount of people on earth, that seems impossible, right? Surely it would be many more rounds than that! There are some sport tournaments that seem as though they take more rounds than this.

But lets dig into the math shall we?

1. 8 billion in one-on-one fight, 4 billion emerge victorious
2. 4 billion in next round, 2 billion emerge victorious
3. 2 billion: 1 billion remain
4. 1 billion: 500 million remain
5. 500 million: 250 million remain
6. 250 million: 125 million remain
7. 125 million: 62.5 million remain
8. 62.5 million: 31.25 million remain
9. 31.25 million: 15,625,000 remain
10. 15,625,000: 7,812,500 remain
11. 7,812,500 : 3,906,250 remain
12. 3,906,250: 1,953,125 remain
13. 1,953,125: 976,562 (one person gets kicked out because that doesn't divide by 2.
14. 976,562 : 488,281
15. 244,140 (another kicked out because of division problems)
16. 122,070
17. 61,035
18. 30,517 (another kicked out)
19. 15,258 (another kicked out)
20. 7,629
21. 3,814 (another random kicked out)
22. 1907
23. 953 (1 kicked out)
24. 476
25. 238
26. 119
27. 59 (1 kicked out, which sucks for them because it was a long road to get here)
28. 29 (same as before)
29. 14 (again)
30. 7
31. 3 (I would sue for getting kicked out in these next rounds)
32. 2
33. 1

Once we got to 3 people remaining I think it would be more fair to just have all 3 of them duke it out at the same time and only one can win... can just be kicking people out after they have fought 30 bouts to get to that point!

I've been told there is a championship called the "One" championship and I wonder if he fought 33 times to get there.

This might seem stupid to you but I don't often see Tweets so when I do see them I like for them to be interesting.

I am also one of those people that automatically presumes most of what I see on the internet is just someone trolling and am a big subscriber to the "dead internet theory."

But anyway, I don't think many people will care but I did the math and yeah, whoever posted that, whoever Dan Go is, his information is correct.

So just rest easy if we are ever faced with a global fighting tournament, at least it will be over in less than a year provided everyone fought once a week or so.

Here's another thought though and I have come up with this after being in a part of the world where the drunken expat community regularly decides to whallop one another after they drink too much: Most people are pretty horrible at fighting. So if you do find yourself getting near a scrap one day be honest with yourself: Can you really do this? Because untrained hands, even if you win, you are probably going to get hurt as well.

I am one of those people that is pretty big but I never really studied any sort of actual fighting. I'm pretty sure if I faced an actual fighter that I would get KO'd pretty rapidly.