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Bracket templates
The short version: 10 ready-made starting points for a single-elimination bracket. Each one fills in the new-bracket form — field size, seeding, palette and layout — and then gets out of the way: change anything before you create it, and nothing about the template stays attached to the bracket you end up with.
Who this is for: Anyone starting a new bracket who would rather begin from a common shape than a blank form.
Start from a shape
Pick the closest, then make it yours.
Most knockouts fall into a handful of shapes: a small weekly cup, a seeded open, a large qualifier where only advancing matters, a final four for a results graphic, or a draw that was made somewhere else. The templates below cover those, with layout choices that suit each one. Pick the one closest to your event, paste your own entrants over the sample names, and create the bracket.
A template is only a prefill. It does not limit the field — a sixteen-entrant template takes twelve names or forty just as well, and the byes are worked out for whatever you paste — and every setting it chose can be changed later from the editor’s Customize panel.
Templates
All templates
8 entrants · 3 rounds · Seeded
Weekly cup
Eight entrants over three rounds, seeded off the list order — the shape of a regular Friday night.
16 entrants · 4 rounds · Seeded · Third-place playoff
16-team open
Sixteen seeded entrants with a third-place playoff, so the losing semifinalists still have a match to play.
32 entrants · 5 rounds · Random draw
32-team qualifier
Thirty-two names drawn at random and packed tight with scores hidden, for a qualifier where only advancing matters.
4 entrants · 2 rounds · Seeded · Third-place playoff
Final four
The last four with their own round names and a third-place playoff, set roomy for a results graphic.
16 entrants · 4 rounds · Seeded
Broadcast overlay
A transparent background and no seed numbers, so the tree sits straight over a live feed with no card behind it.
16 entrants · 4 rounds · As entered
Club ladder
A draw made somewhere else, paired straight down the list and running top to bottom so it reads on a phone.
64 entrants · 6 rounds · Random draw
Community showdown
Sixty-four sign-ups drawn at random over six rounds, with no seeding for anyone to argue about.
8 entrants · 3 rounds · Seeded · Third-place playoff
LAN finals
Eight teams on stage: roomy nodes, a wordmark along the top edge and named rounds.
12 entrants · 4 rounds · Seeded
Uneven field
Twelve entrants into a sixteen-slot bracket, where the four byes land on the top seeds automatically.
16 entrants · 4 rounds · Seeded
Mirrored
The same seeded sixteen, drawn right to left for a layout where the tree hangs off the right edge.
Each template opens the new-bracket form with its settings filled in.
Choosing
Choosing a template
Seeded or random? Seed when you have a ranking you trust, so the strongest entrants do not knock each other out in round one. Draw at random when there is no fair ranking, or when the point is that anyone can meet anyone.
Where will it be seen? Top-to-bottom layouts read on a phone; roomy left to right suits a projector or a results post; a transparent background suits a stream overlay.
Is a third-place match worth playing? Only if somebody cares who finishes third. Without it, both losing semifinalists share third place.
How the bracket maker works explains seeding, byes and every customisation option in detail, and seeding a bracket by rating covers how to build a fair seed list.