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Tournament bracket generator
Paste your entrants, pick single or double elimination, and get a tournament bracket for 2–128 entrants with seeding and byes handled for you. Add a third-place match, click teams through to the final, then print it or copy a share link.
How it works
Three inputs, one printable sheet
- 1
List the entrants
One per line, best first if you want a seeded draw. Or type a bracket size and let the sheet number the slots.
- 2
Choose the format
Single elimination with an optional third-place match, or double elimination with winners and losers brackets and a grand final. Byes are placed automatically.
- 3
Play it through
Click a team to advance it. Print the sheet or copy the link — every pick travels with the URL.
Questions
Bracket questions, answered
How do byes work in an 8-team bracket — or a 6-team one?+
Eight entrants fill a bracket exactly: four first-round ties, no byes. Any other number is rounded up to the next power of two (6 → 8, 12 → 16, 20 → 32) and the empty slots become byes. Byes go to the top seeds — with six teams, seeds 1 and 2 skip straight to the semi-finals and seeds 3–6 play the first round.
What is a double elimination bracket?+
A format where a team has to lose twice to be out. Losing in the winners bracket drops you into the losers bracket; win through that and you meet the winners-bracket champion in the grand final. With N entrants it takes 2N − 2 ties (one fewer if the winners-bracket champion takes the grand final). Some events add a bracket reset — a second grand final if the losers-bracket team wins the first — this sheet draws the single grand final and you add the reset on the day if you use it.
How does seeding work here?+
The first line of the list is seed 1, the second seed 2, and so on. The draw uses the standard fold: 1 plays the lowest seed, 2 the next lowest, and the top two can only meet in the final. Untick "seeded order" to shuffle the list into a random draw instead — the shuffled order is what ends up in the share link.
How many games are in a 16-team single elimination bracket?+
Fifteen — every tie eliminates exactly one team, so N entrants always need N − 1 ties to leave one champion. Add one more if you play a third-place match. Double elimination with 16 teams is 30 ties (31 with a bracket reset).
Can I fill in the results and share the bracket?+
Yes. Click a team to advance it; the next round fills in and the champion appears when the final is decided. Every pick is written into the page URL, so "Copy share link" sends the bracket exactly as you left it. Nothing is stored on a server — the link is the save file.
Can I print it?+
Press Print (or Ctrl/Cmd+P). The page hides its menus and forms and prints only the bracket. For 32 entrants and up, landscape paper fits the rounds better.
Is this bracket maker free? Do I need an account?+
Free, no account, no watermark, no entrant limit below 128. If you later want scores entered once and the bracket, standings and a public page to update themselves, the EasyChamp free plan runs single and double elimination, round robin and group stages for real — that part needs a sign-up.
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