11-player double elimination bracket

An 11-player double elimination bracket has 20 matches, or 21 if the grand final goes to a bracket reset. A player is out after two losses. The same bracket works for 11 teams.

Players
11
Places in the bracket
16
Byes
5
Matches
20, or 21 with a reset
Winners’ bracket rounds
4
Losers’ bracket rounds
5
Most matches one player can play
9
The sheet prints on its own, without the rest of this page.

Winners’ bracket

  1. Winners’ round 1

    M1
    Seed 8
    Seed 9

    Winner to M4 · Loser to M8

    M2
    Seed 7
    Seed 10

    Winner to M6 · Loser to M9

    M3
    Seed 6
    Seed 11

    Winner to M7 · Loser to M10

  2. Winners’ round 2

    M4
    Seed 1
    Winner of M1

    Winner to M11 · Loser to M10

    M5
    Seed 4
    Seed 5

    Winner to M11 · Loser to M9

    M6
    Seed 2
    Winner of M2

    Winner to M12 · Loser to M13

    M7
    Seed 3
    Winner of M3

    Winner to M12 · Loser to M8

  3. Winners’ round 3

    M11
    Winner of M4
    Winner of M5

    Winner to M17 · Loser to M15

    M12
    Winner of M6
    Winner of M7

    Winner to M17 · Loser to M16

  4. Winners’ final

    M17
    Winner of M11
    Winner of M12

    Winner to M20 · Loser to M19

Losers’ bracket

  1. Losers’ round 1

    M8
    Loser of M1
    Loser of M7

    Winner to M13 · Loser is out

    M9
    Loser of M2
    Loser of M5

    Winner to M14 · Loser is out

    M10
    Loser of M3
    Loser of M4

    Winner to M14 · Loser is out

  2. Losers’ round 2

    M13
    Winner of M8
    Loser of M6

    Winner to M15 · Loser is out

    M14
    Winner of M9
    Winner of M10

    Winner to M16 · Loser is out

  3. Losers’ round 3

    M15
    Winner of M13
    Loser of M11

    Winner to M18 · Loser is out

    M16
    Winner of M14
    Loser of M12

    Winner to M18 · Loser is out

  4. Losers’ round 4

    M18
    Winner of M15
    Winner of M16

    Winner to M19 · Loser is out

  5. Losers’ final

    M19
    Winner of M18
    Loser of M17

    Winner to M20 · Loser is out

Finals

  1. Grand final

    M20Grand final
    Winner of M17
    Winner of M19

    Winner takes the title, unless M21 is needed

  2. Bracket reset

    M21Bracket reset
    Winner of M20
    Loser of M20

    Winner takes the title

    Played only if the player from the losers’ side wins M20.

How to read the sheet

Matches are numbered in a playing order. Each slot says who plays there: a seed, or the winner or loser of an earlier match. Under each match, the sheet says where its winner and its loser go next. Write the names beside the seeds and the scores in the boxes.

Byes

11 players fill a bracket of 16 places, so 5 places are byes. Byes go to the top seeds: seeds 1 to 5 start in round 2 of the winners’ bracket. A bye is not a match and not a loss, so nobody drops into the losers’ bracket from one.

How many matches

Every player except the champion loses twice, so 11 players means 2 × 10 = 20 losses, one in each match. If the player from the losers’ side wins the grand final, the other finalist has a first loss too, and one more match decides the title: 21 matches.

Run this bracket live

The Bida Nào organizer console draws this same bracket, and any field from 2 to 128 players, with byes to the top seeds. Players score their matches from the table in the app, and the bracket updates itself. Running a tournament is free at any size. You can also choose a single deciding final instead of a reset.