I'm not saying RCV failed, I agree it worked as intended. "Condorcet failure" is a phrase meaning a failure of the voting system to select the Condorcet winner

I'm not saying RCV failed, I agree it worked as intended. "Condorcet failure" is a phrase meaning a failure of the voting system to select the Condorcet winner. If a candidate beats all other candidates in a 1-on-1 election, they are what is referred to as the Condorcet winner [1]. If a Condorcet winner exists, and an election system fails to select that candidate, that is a Condorcet failure. Whether or not you think Condorcet failures are important or not is a matter of opinion. But they are important to many people (at least on an intuitive level). [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condorcet_winner_criterion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condorcet_winner_criterion