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"I den här turneringen ska alla lag spela tjugo matcher."
Translation:In this tournament all teams shall play twenty matches.
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I wrote "games" instead of "matches" and was marked wrong - in a question shortly before Duolingo accepted both. In Canada and USA we don't usually refer to matches, we refer to games.
"In this tournament, all teams will play twenty games." is accepted now, so other variations using "games" most likely is/should be too.
What is the difference between 'will play' and 'will be playing'? The latter seems more appropriate here. Why is it not acceptable, when the present continuous is often accepted elsewhere in the teaching material?
They are not exactly the same. Tournament implies a structured game schedule.
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Does this phrase comply with the V2 rule? It seems to me that spela appears very late in the sentence.
Well, it's a modal verb whose present tense "ska" is used to indicate future.
In what tournament all teams play twenty matches? It sounds more like a league.
Some eSports have tournament schedules like this, or possibly even more, but they also usually have a split tournament schedule with a Swiss-style initial portion with the highest ranked teams moving to single elimination on a best-of-three system.
Of course, they also sometimes call themselves a league, but that's really just semantics (a league is just a regularly recurring well organized tournament with strict special entry requirements).
Except that 'They shall' is actually perfectly good English, it's just very uncommon in modern usage.
