Single Elimination Bracket
Lose once and you are out. The fastest way to get from a field of teams to one champion.
Quarterfinals
Semifinals
Final
Type a score, or tap a team to send it through.
How single elimination works
Teams are paired off, the winners play each other, and this repeats until one team is left. Every game removes exactly one team, so a tournament with n teams always takes n − 1 games: 7 games for 8 teams, 15 for 16, 31 for 32.
The number of rounds is the number of times you can halve the field: 3 rounds for 8 teams, 4 for 16, 5 for 32. Sizes in between take the round count of the next size up, with byes filling the gap.
Games, rounds and byes by size
Third-place game
A single elimination bracket decides first and second place and nothing else. If third matters, switch on the third-place game: the two semifinal losers play once more, usually just before the final.