Tournament

Tournament formats

From single-elimination brackets to group-stage + knockout. Start with a generic bracket, or jump to a pre-built playoff bracket for your favorite league.

Tournament formats

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Single Elimination

Free single-elim bracket maker. Lose once, you're out. That's the whole rule, and it's why almost every weekend tournament runs this way. Type teams in, score the games, print the wallchart. Works for 4 teams or 64.

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Double Elimination

Free double-elim bracket maker. Builds the Winners Bracket, the Losers Bracket, and the Grand Final, with drop-in rounds wired automatically. The trade-off vs single elim: about twice the games, but nobody gets sent home on one bad set.

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March Madness

Free March Madness bracket maker. The 64-team field, four regions of 16, six rounds. Print one for the office pool, fill it out for the watch party, or score it as the real games play out.

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Round Robin

Round-robin isn't strictly a bracket. It's a league. Every team plays every other team, and the standings decide the winner. The generator handles fixtures, scores, and standings, and exports the schedule to CSV or your calendar.

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Group Stage

World Cup format. Split teams into groups, play a round-robin inside each, send top finishers into a single-elim knockout. Build each piece below.

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Predictions

Fill in your picks before the games happen, then watch the bracket score itself as the real results come in. For now: print a blank 64-team bracket and use it as a picksheet. Auto-scoring coming soon.

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Brackets with Images

Attach a logo or photo to every bracket entry. Useful for esports brackets, fighting-game grand finals, fan polls, anywhere the visual matters as much as the matchup. Image upload coming soon.

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Voting Brackets

Crowd-decides every match. Share a public bracket link, the higher vote count advances each round, and you end up with a winner the audience actually chose. Coming soon.

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Swiss Bracket

Free Swiss bracket generator for chess, Magic, Counter-Strike majors, and anything where you want every player to keep playing without committing to a full round-robin. Each round, you're paired against someone with a similar record.

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Random Bracket

Free random bracket generator. Shuffle your team order, build the bracket, and let the draw decide matchups. Useful for pickup tournaments and bar pools where 'who's the #1 seed' would be an argument.

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Gaming Bracket

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.

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Consolation Bracket

A consolation bracket keeps everyone playing. Lose in the main bracket and you don't go home. You drop into the consolation side and keep going. Every team finishes the day with the same number of games.

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Need a group stage + knockout?

A combined format is on the roadmap. For now, build the group stage with the round-robin editor and feed top finishers into a knockout bracket.