Tournament Bracket Maker
Paste your entrants, pick a bracket size, and get a single-elimination draw the whole group can follow from one link. Tap a name to advance it, and the winner moves up instantly.
Set up the bracket
Saving replaces the shared copy. If several people are recording results, reopen the link before you save so you don't overwrite each other.
The bracket
Tap a name to advance it. Tap the highlighted name again to undo. Scroll sideways on a phone — the later rounds are off to the right.
How to use this bracket maker
1. List the entrants
Type or paste one name per line — players, teams, pairs, board-game factions, anything. The first line is treated as the top seed, so paste the list in ranking order if the group already has one. Duplicate names are numbered automatically so two people called Sam never get mixed up in a matchup.
2. Choose a size and a draw
Pick 4, 8, 16, or 32 slots. Anything left over becomes a BYE, placed the way real tournaments place them: on the highest seeds, who then skip straight into round two. If your list outgrows the bracket, the size steps up on its own so nobody gets dropped. Switch to a random draw when there is no agreed ranking — the shuffle happens once and sticks, so reloading the page does not scramble the pairings.
3. Play, tap, and share
As each matchup finishes, tap the winner. They light up and drop into the next round straight away, and the champion box fills in once the final is decided. Copy the share link and send it to the group so everyone is looking at the same bracket instead of five different screenshots.
Printing the bracket
Use the print button to get a clean sheet with the buttons and toolbars stripped out — handy for pinning an empty draw to the office wall before a single game is played.
Tournament bracket FAQs
What happens when my entrant count is not a power of two?
Empty slots become BYEs. Seeds are placed in the standard bracket order, so the byes land on the highest seeds first and those entrants advance without playing. Nine entrants in a 16-slot bracket means seven byes, so seeds 1 through 7 skip the opening round. However many byes there are, the total number of real matches is always one fewer than the number of entrants.
How do I advance someone to the next round?
Tap or click the name inside a matchup. The winner is highlighted, the loser is struck through, and the winner appears in the next round immediately. Tap the same name again to undo the pick. A matchup stays locked until both of its slots are filled, so you cannot accidentally advance someone into a round that has not been reached yet.
What happens to later rounds if I change an earlier result?
Only the branch you touched is affected. Any later pick that named an entrant who is no longer in that matchup is dropped automatically, and everything else stays put — so correcting a first-round result does not wipe out the other half of the draw.
Can the whole group follow the same bracket?
Yes. The share link carries the tournament name, the entrants, the seeding order, and every pick, so everyone who opens it sees the bracket at exactly the same point. Reopen the link to pull in the latest version, and share again after you record new results to update the copy everyone else sees.
What is the difference between as-entered and random seeding?
As-entered treats line 1 as the number 1 seed, line 2 as the number 2 seed, and so on — right when the group already has a ranking or a ladder. A random draw shuffles the list once and remembers the result, so a refresh or a share link never produces different pairings. Hit "Shuffle draw" when you want a genuinely new draw.
Is my bracket private?
It lives in your browser until you create a share link. Creating one stores the current bracket behind an unguessable key so friends can load it. Anonymous links last 30 days; signed-in links last two years.