Enter team names, pick a format, and click team names to advance winners round by round.
Click a team name to advance them as the winner.
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In single elimination, one loss ends your tournament. In double elimination, you must lose twice: a second defeat in the Losers Bracket ends your run. The Losers Bracket champion faces the Winners Bracket champion in the Grand Final.
Top seeds receive first-round byes when team count isn't a power of 2. Click any team name to advance them through the bracket.
Six teams in single elimination: seeds 1 and 2 get a bye, 3 plays 6 and 4 plays 5, and the tournament takes 5 games. Eight teams in double elimination take 14 or 15 games.
Single elimination is the quickest format and needs the fewest games, but one bad game ends a team's day. It suits large fields and limited field time. Double elimination guarantees every team at least two games and does a better job of finding the best team, at roughly twice the number of games. If teams have paid for a tournament day, double elimination or a consolation game usually goes down better.
The number of rounds is the number of times you can halve the bracket: 3 rounds for 8 teams, 4 for 16, 5 for 32. An 8-team single elimination is 7 games. On one field with one-hour games that is 7 hours; on two fields it is 4 hours, because the quarterfinals take two time slots and the semifinals and final take one each.
Seed from regular-season standings so the strongest teams cannot meet until the later rounds, and so the byes reward the teams that earned them. For a social or one-day event with no standings, tick "Randomize seeding" for a blind draw.
A single elimination bracket decides first and second. If you want a third-place finisher, have the two semifinal losers play each other before the final.
One fewer than the number of teams, because every game eliminates exactly one team. 8 teams play 7 games and 16 teams play 15.
Either 2N − 2 or 2N − 1 for N teams. The extra game happens when the team from the losers bracket wins the first final, which forces a deciding game.
When the team count is not 2, 4, 8, 16, 32 or 64, the highest seeds skip the first round so the second round has a full set of matchups.
Seed by regular-season standings so the best teams meet latest. The standard pairing is 1 v last, 2 v second-last, and so on, which is what this generator uses.