Double eliminationPro
Everyone gets a second life in the losers bracket.
Two brackets run side by side: lose in the winners bracket and you drop to the losers bracket, where a second defeat is final. The survivors of each meet in the grand final — and a losers-bracket champion must beat the winners-bracket champion twice.
Beloved in esports, TT and pool: fairer than single elimination, still bracket-shaped, at about twice the match count.
- Best for
- Competitive brackets where one bad match shouldn't end a tournament.
- The trade-off
- Roughly double the matches of a knockout; the grand final can need two games.
What you get with 8 entrants
Generated by the same engine that will build your real fixtures.
Double elimination
Quarter-finals
- AvsH
- EvsD
- CvsF
- GvsB
Semi-finals
- Winner of R1 #1vsWinner of R1 #2
- Winner of R1 #3vsWinner of R1 #4
Final
- Winner of R2 #1vsWinner of R2 #2
Semi-finals
- Loser of R1 #1vsLoser of R1 #2
- Loser of R1 #3vsLoser of R1 #4
Semi-finals
- Winner of R7 #1vsLoser of R2 #1
- Winner of R7 #2vsLoser of R2 #2
Final
- Winner of R8 #1vsWinner of R8 #2
Final
- Winner of R9 #1vsLoser of R3 #1
Final
- Winner of R3 #1vsWinner of R10 #1