Defeat-dropping Condorcet methods

The overarching goal of defeat-droppers is to elect a candidate who is "closest" to being a Condorcet winner i.e. to minimize the number of "overruled" voters.

These are Condorcet methods which reduce to Minimax in situations when there are 3 or fewer candidates (except possibly if there are any pairwise ties). Defeat-dropping Condorcet methods that pass Independence of Smith-dominated Alternatives are equivalent to Smith//Minimax with a Smith set of 3 or fewer candidates (except possibly if there are pairwise ties).