Abstract: We call a partition of a $c$-partite tournament into tournaments of order $c$ strong if each tournament is strongly connected. The strong partition number, denoted as $ST(r)$, represents the minimum integer $c'$ such that every regular $r$-balanced $c$-partite tournament has a strong partition for all $c \geq c'$. Figueroa, Montellano-Ballesteros, and Olsen showed the existence of $ST(r)$ for all $r\geq 2$ and proved that $5\leq ST(2)\leq 7$. In this note, we establish that $ST(2)=6$ and we also show the unique $2$-balanced $5$-partite tournament which has no strong partition.

Key words: multi-partite tournament, strong partition, control