Bracket format
PresetGaming Bracket
Esports, FGC, and LAN tournament brackets.
Free gaming bracket maker for esports, fighting game majors, LAN events, and Friday-night online matches. Single-elim for quick brackets, double-elim for FGC-style events. Pre-built templates for VALORANT, FIFA, League of Legends, Tekken 8, and more.
Walkthrough
How this format works
Winners Bracket
every team that loses drops down
Losers Bracket
A Winners Bracket up top and a Losers Bracket below. One loss drops you down, a second loss puts you out.
Build one step by step
From an empty editor to a finished, printable gaming bracket.
- 1
Add your teams
Enter every team or player. Double elimination handles 4 up to 64 entries, odd counts included.
- 2
Choose double elimination
In Step 1 of the editor, switch the format to Double elimination. It will build a Winners Bracket and a Losers Bracket.
- 3
Generate both brackets
Generate wires up the Winners Bracket, the Losers Bracket, and the Grand Final. Teams that lose drop into the Losers Bracket at the correct round for you.
- 4
Score across both sides
Score the Winners Bracket games. Each loser falls to the Losers Bracket and keeps playing. Lose there too and that team is eliminated.
- 5
Play the Grand Final
The Winners Bracket champion meets the Losers Bracket champion. Print landscape so both brackets fit on one page.
About
About this format
Gaming brackets cover a huge range. Your roommate's Smash setup, a Worlds Group Stage, EVO. Most FGC tournaments run double elim so one rough set doesn't send a contender home. Most esports leagues run group stage into knockout (Worlds, CS majors, VCT). Casual online events tend to stick with single elim because nobody's flying anywhere. This page is the hub for every gaming format on My Bracket App, plus ready-made templates for the most-run games.
Features
What you get
- Single-elim for quick brackets and online events
- Double-elim for FGC majors and serious LAN tournaments
- Pre-built templates for VALORANT, FIFA, LoL, Tekken 8, Minecraft
- Print for the venue, share a link with online players
- Coming soon: live vote results for in-stream polls
FAQ
Frequently asked questions
What format do most FGC tournaments use?
Double elim, almost without exception. Losing one set drops you to Losers; losing again sends you home. EVO, CEO, and every major run it.
What about esports leagues?
Group stage into knockout. LoL Worlds, CS majors, VCT. All of them. Build the group stage with the round-robin editor and the knockout with the bracket editor.
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