Number of players advance in each round

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I am trying to understand to determine how many players will advance into the next round. Please help, thank...

I was in a tournament with the following format 6(1)-->3

From what I understand, it means 6 players per group, play 1 game at a time, and 3 advance to the next round. In one tournament I advanced to round 3, but the number of players go to the round 4 is only 2. So I question is, how do I know how many players will advance in the future rounds, and all the way to the final? I was expecting 3 players in each round be advanced. I guess I am wrong. Is there a standard I am not aware or reading the code wrong? Please explain. Thanks in advance.

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I don't think it is in the final yet. In round 3 there are 5 groups, so if 2 players advanced to round 4, there should be at least 10 players left. To make it more complicated, I saw there is 1 group with 3 players highlighted in yellow to advance. However, in that group there are 2 players tie at 2nd, which I sort of understand all 3 should advanced. But why early rounds are 3 but then change to 2, how do I know when and where is the transition?