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Subtypes include:
 
* Leaderboards: Players compete with other single players for performance in the game. Heavily based on [[Scoring Points]].
;Leaderboards
* [[Succession Game]]: Players take a turn in a single-player game, then relinquish control to another at a certain point in the game's progress.
:Players compete with other single players for performance in the game. Heavily based on [[Scoring Points]].
* Non-Preemptive Multiplayer: Two individual games that take turns. The two game sessions are kept entirely separate. Both scores may be tracked and directly compared for competition.
;[[Succession Game]]
* Recorded/Ghost Matches: One player's game is recorded from start to finish, and another player competes directly against the recorded game.
:Players take a turn in a single-player game, then relinquish control to another at a certain point in the game's progress.
;Non-Preemptive Multiplayer
:Two individual games that take turns. The two game sessions are kept entirely separate. Both scores may be tracked and directly compared for competition.
;Recorded/Ghost Matches
:One player's game is recorded from start to finish, and another player competes directly against the recorded game.
 
Compare [[Competitive Multiplayer]], [[Co-Op Multiplayer]] and [[Massively Multiplayer]].
 
These are not exclusively video game tropes - for example, Baseball is Massively Multiplayer, Golf is Leaderboard Meta Multiplayer, and Air Racing (at least the way that Red Bull used to sponsor it) is Ghost Match Meta Multiplayer - but All The Tropes tends to avoid covering sports because they rarely exhibit tropes.
 
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