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15-player double elimination bracket

A 15-player double elimination bracket has 28 matches, or 29 if the grand final goes to a bracket reset. A player is out after two losses. The same bracket works for 15 teams.

Players
15
Places in the bracket
16
Byes
1
Matches
28, or 29 with a reset
Winners’ bracket rounds
4
Losers’ bracket rounds
6
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 M8 · Loser to M15

    M2
    Seed 4
    Seed 13

    Winner to M9 · Loser to M12

    M3
    Seed 5
    Seed 12

    Winner to M9 · Loser to M12

    M4
    Seed 2
    Seed 15

    Winner to M10 · Loser to M13

    M5
    Seed 7
    Seed 10

    Winner to M10 · Loser to M13

    M6
    Seed 3
    Seed 14

    Winner to M11 · Loser to M14

    M7
    Seed 6
    Seed 11

    Winner to M11 · Loser to M14

  2. Winners’ round 2

    M8
    Seed 1
    Winner of M1

    Winner to M19 · Loser to M18

    M9
    Winner of M2
    Winner of M3

    Winner to M19 · Loser to M17

    M10
    Winner of M4
    Winner of M5

    Winner to M20 · Loser to M16

    M11
    Winner of M6
    Winner of M7

    Winner to M20 · Loser to M15

  3. Winners’ round 3

    M19
    Winner of M8
    Winner of M9

    Winner to M25 · Loser to M23

    M20
    Winner of M10
    Winner of M11

    Winner to M25 · Loser to M24

  4. Winners’ final

    M25
    Winner of M19
    Winner of M20

    Winner to M28 · Loser to M27

Losers’ bracket

  1. Losers’ round 1

    M12
    Loser of M2
    Loser of M3

    Winner to M16 · Loser is out

    M13
    Loser of M4
    Loser of M5

    Winner to M17 · Loser is out

    M14
    Loser of M6
    Loser of M7

    Winner to M18 · Loser is out

  2. Losers’ round 2

    M15
    Loser of M1
    Loser of M11

    Winner to M21 · Loser is out

    M16
    Winner of M12
    Loser of M10

    Winner to M21 · Loser is out

    M17
    Winner of M13
    Loser of M9

    Winner to M22 · Loser is out

    M18
    Winner of M14
    Loser of M8

    Winner to M22 · Loser is out

  3. Losers’ round 3

    M21
    Winner of M15
    Winner of M16

    Winner to M23 · Loser is out

    M22
    Winner of M17
    Winner of M18

    Winner to M24 · Loser is out

  4. Losers’ round 4

    M23
    Winner of M21
    Loser of M19

    Winner to M26 · Loser is out

    M24
    Winner of M22
    Loser of M20

    Winner to M26 · Loser is out

  5. Losers’ round 5

    M26
    Winner of M23
    Winner of M24

    Winner to M27 · Loser is out

  6. Losers’ final

    M27
    Winner of M26
    Loser of M25

    Winner to M28 · Loser is out

Finals

  1. Grand final

    M28Grand final
    Winner of M25
    Winner of M27

    Winner takes the title, unless M29 is needed

  2. Bracket reset

    M29Bracket reset
    Winner of M28
    Loser of M28

    Winner takes the title

    Played only if the player from the losers’ side wins M28.

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

15 players fill a bracket of 16 places, so 1 place is a bye. Byes go to the top seeds: seed 1 starts 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 15 players means 2 × 14 = 28 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: 29 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.

Run it free in the organizer console →