Double Elimination Bracket Generator
Nobody goes home after one bad game: a first loss sends you to the losers bracket, a second one ends your tournament. Type the names, tap who won each match, and the winners and losers move to the right place by themselves.
- Free
- No sign-up
- Runs in your browser
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From 3 to 32, one per line, up to 40 characters each. A numbered list pasted from the group chat works too. Repeated names count once.
Everything stays in your browser and nothing is saved. Closing the page loses the results: copy the link now and then, it also works as your backup.
Bracket
Type the names and press "Create bracket".
Tap the name of who won. Tap it again to clear that result, or tap the other name to correct it: later results that depended on it are cleared.
Cameras on the court, clips for the players: See VISU Replay
The bracket shows who survived. The clip shows how.
VISU Replay puts cameras on the court, and the players get the clips of their game to share. A long tournament day has plenty of points worth seeing again. Show it to the club where your tournament is played.
See VISU ReplayHow to use it
- Type the players, pairs or teams, one per line, or paste the list from the group chat.
- Choose seeding by list order or a random draw. A random draw shows its seed, and the link keeps it.
- Press "Create bracket" and tap the winner of each match. "Ready to play" lists the matches that can be decided now.
- After each round send the new link or the image to the group, or print the bracket for the wall.
Examples
6 pairs on a Friday night
The bracket has 8 places, so seeds 1 and 2 skip the first round. That means 10 matches, or 11 if the pair coming from the losers bracket wins the grand final.
16 teams at a school
A full bracket with no byes: 30 matches, or 31 with a deciding game. Print it for the gym wall: nobody goes home after one game.
3 friends and an afternoon
The top seed waits while 2 and 3 play. The loser goes to the losers bracket, and after 4 or 5 matches there is a champion.
Add this tool to your site
Put this tool on your blog, store or club site. It runs inside your page, free, with no account, and a small "by VISU" credit line under it.
Questions
How does double elimination work?
Everyone starts in the winners bracket. A first loss sends you to the losers bracket, where a second loss ends your tournament. The winners of the two brackets meet in the grand final.
What is the deciding game, or bracket reset?
The player from the winners bracket has not lost yet, and the player from the losers bracket has lost once. If the player from the losers bracket wins the grand final, both have one loss, so one more game decides the champion. If the player from the winners bracket wins, the tournament is over.
How many matches does it take?
With n entrants, 2n - 2 matches, or 2n - 1 if the deciding game is played. Eight players play 14 or 15 matches. Each match removes one life, and everyone except the champion loses two.
What happens when the number of entrants is not 4, 8, 16 or 32?
The bracket grows to the next of those sizes and the empty places become first-round byes, given to the top seeds. A bye sends no loser down, so the losers bracket has fewer matches and only the ones really played are shown.
Why can someone meet the same opponent twice?
After a loss you can meet that opponent again later, and that is part of the format. Losers coming down are placed in reverse order to make an immediate rematch less likely, but with few entrants it can happen.
I tapped the wrong winner. What now?
Tap the right name. If that changes who went on, the later matches on that path are cleared, because they were played by someone else on paper. "Undo last change" brings back what was there.
Do the participants see updates by themselves?
No. The link is a snapshot of the tournament at the moment it was made, and nothing is kept on a server. The organizer sends a new link after each round. Whoever opens it sees the bracket read-only.
What does the link contain?
The tournament name, the names you typed, the seed of the draw and the results, written into the link itself (the part after #). Anyone with the link can read them, so share it with the people who are playing.