Tournament Bracket Generator
← All toolsPaste in everyone playing and get a proper single-elimination bracket — drawn at random or seeded in the order you listed, with the byes handed out the way a tournament actually hands them out. Print it and pin it up.
How to use the Tournament Bracket Generator
- Paste or type the entrants, one per line.
- Choose a random draw, or “as listed” if the order you typed is the seeding.
- Click “Draw the bracket” — the sheet appears with every round and every line to fill in.
- Print it, or copy the link to send the same entrant list to someone else.
FAQ
- What happens when the number of entrants isn't a power of two?
- The bracket is expanded to the next power of two and the empty places become byes — a free walkover into round two. They are not scattered at random: they go to the top seeds, one each. With six entrants in a bracket of eight there are two byes, and they belong to seeds 1 and 2. With five entrants there are three, and seeds 1, 2 and 3 sit out the first round.
- How does the seeding work?
- The standard draw order, the one printed on every tournament sheet: seed 1 and seed 2 can only meet in the final, seeds 3 and 4 can only reach them in the semis, and seed 1 opens against the lowest seed in the draw. Pick “random” and the entrant list is shuffled first, so the seeding is a fair draw rather than the order you happened to type.
- Is double elimination supported?
- No — this draws single elimination only. A losers' bracket is a genuinely different sheet rather than an option on this one, so rather than half-do it, it is left out.
- Can I print the bracket?
- Yes. Printing the page gives you the bracket on its own — the nav, the form and the notes are all dropped — so it comes out as a sheet you can pin up and write results on.
