Eight players and twenty-eight decisive games. The challenge is not to identify the best player, but to chain the victories.

The Winning Line

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Riddle statement

Eight chess players play a round-robin tournament. Each pair plays once, and no game ends in a draw.

After the tournament, you want to arrange them in a line so that every player has beaten the player immediately behind them.

Is this always possible, whatever the results, or can some tournament make such a line impossible?