Tournament documentation

Practical guides to running a tournament — formats, seeding, byes, Swiss rounds, scheduling and event day.

• How to Make a Tournament Bracket — Learn how to make a seeded tournament bracket, calculate rounds and byes, pair round one, and advance winners correctly.
• How Many Swiss Rounds Do You Need? — Calculate Swiss rounds with ceil(log2 players), from 8 to 256 entrants, and learn how pairings, cuts and tiebreakers work.
• Double Elimination Brackets Explained — Learn double elimination bracket structure, 6-team game counts, winners and losers brackets, byes, finals and bracket resets.
• Tournament Brackets, Odd Teams and Byes — Learn how to bracket 5, 6, 7, 9 or 12 teams, calculate byes, assign them by seed and handle odd field sizes correctly.
• Round Robin Tournaments and Scheduling — Learn round robin tournament rules, match counts, rounds, the circle scheduling method, odd fields, standings and tiebreakers.
• Free Bracket Makers: What Free Really Means — Compare free bracket makers by participant limits, live results, viewing, exports and paid restrictions before choosing tournament software.
• Sharing a Tournament Bracket Online — Learn how to share a tournament bracket, publish live results, support spectators and update an event from a phone.
• How to Seed a Tournament Bracket — Learn tournament seeding, standard first-round placement, bye allocation, unranked fields and snake seeding for pools.
• Top 8 Tournament Cuts and Results Graphics — Learn what a Top 8 is, how to make a tournament cut, choose cut size and create a clear Top 8 results graphic.
• Printable and Blank Tournament Brackets — Find and use printable blank tournament brackets, choose the right bracket size and understand when paper is better than a live bracket.
• How to Run a Tournament With Discord — Learn how Discord tournament bots handle match calls, updates and results, what permissions they need and how to run without a bot.
• Tournament Organizer Checklist — A practical checklist for local and esports tournaments: registration, check-in, seeding, setups, timing, no-shows and disputes.
• Add a Tournament to Your Calendar — Add a Brackify tournament, or a whole seasonal or league schedule, to Apple Calendar, Google Calendar, or Outlook with times shown correctly in every timezone.