In the following algorithm, what is the "conquer" step of the divide and conquer approach?
You are trying to sort a list of basketball players by the number of points they scored in a game. To do this you divide the list into smaller lists consisting of two players each. You compare the two players in each list and sort them by who has the higher number of points. You do this comparison for every pair of lists and combine the lists to make bigger sorted lists until the entire list is sorted.