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The authors study a multi-species discrete-time Lotka-Volterra competition model where each species is governed by Ricker's model. The competition model exhibits weak extinction if each omega limit point is in a regime where at least a species is missing. Weak extinction does not imply species extinction. The authors proved that no interior (positive) equilibrium population is equivalent to weak extinction. A species weakly dominates its competitor if it is not decreasing in density whenever the competitor is increasing in density. \textit{J.E. Franke} and \textit{A.-A. Yakubu} [J. Math. Biol. 30, No. 2, 161-168 (1991; Zbl 0735.92023)] proved that a weakly dominated species goes extinct, and the present authors proved that a species goes extinct whenever it is weakly dominated by a group of species. In addition, the authors obtained sufficient conditions for species persistence.