Tournament contained in vertex transitive tournament Is it true that every finite tournament is contained in some finite vertex-transitive tournament? If not, is it known which tournaments satisfy this property? This seems like a basic question, but I have not been able to find a relevant reference.
In a comment @bof claims that every finite tournament is contained in some finite cyclic tournament. Why is that?
 A: bof got it right in a comment; here are the details. Let $T$ be a tournament with $n$ vertices. Label the vertices $v_1,\ldots,v_n$ in any way such that the $\binom n2$ values $|v_i-v_j|$ are distinct. Example: $v_i=2^i$. Now, for any odd (per bof) $N$ greater than twice the largest label, make a cyclic tournament where for each $1\le i,j\le n$ and $0\le k\lt N$ the edge from $k$ to $k+v_j-v_i \pmod N$ has the same direction as the edge from $i$ to $j$ has in $T$.
The next question is whether the transitive tournament must sometimes be exponentially larger than $T$. I'm guessing yes. As bof notes in comment this is not so.
Regarding Andreas' answer, note that my answer is only for the finite case, though maybe it works in the countable case too.
A: It was shown in [Bernhard Herwig and Daniel Lascar, Extending partial automorphisms
and the profinite topology on free groups, Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 352 (2000), 1985-2021] that every finite tournament is contained in a finite tournament with the extension property for partial automorphisms if and only a certain question about the profinite topology of the free group has a positive answer. The questions asks if it is equivalent that a finitely generated subgroup $H$ of a free group is closed in the odd-topology (arising from all quotients of odd order) and that the implication $a^2 \in H \Rightarrow a \in H$ holds.
In particular, this (slightly stronger assertion than just vertex transitivity) is an open problem.  
