Winner takes all

Winner takes all

Winner Takes All, sometimes written as "Winner Take All" can be:

* "Winner Takes All" (Doctor Who), a BBC Books original novel
* "Winner Takes All" (game show), on the ITV network from 1976 to 1988, and on Challenge TV from 1997
* "Winner Take All", a 1940s and early '50s American game show
* Plurality voting system, a single-winner voting system
* A natural monopoly
* "Winner Takes All" (1982 film), a Chinese film
* "Winner Takes All" (Clifton Ko film), a 2000 Hong Kong film directed by Clifton Ko
* Winner Takes All (album), a 1979 album by The Isley Brothers
* The Winner Takes It All, a 1980 song by ABBA
* Kohonen Learning Rule, the "Winner Takes All" algorithm
* A book on economics and tournaments by Robert H. Frank
* A type of wrestling match staged between groups.
* A situation where many people strive but only only a few succeed. For example, many people are attracted by the glamour of stardom and celebrity and train as actors, but only an extremely small proportion succeed in becoming stars.


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