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9-player double elimination bracket

A 9-player double elimination bracket has 16 matches, or 17 if the grand final goes to a bracket reset. A player is out after two losses. The same bracket works for 9 teams.

Players
9
Places in the bracket
16
Byes
7
Matches
16, or 17 with a reset
Winners’ bracket rounds
4
Losers’ bracket rounds
5
Most matches one player can play
8
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 M2 · Loser to M6

  2. Winners’ round 2

    M2
    Seed 1
    Winner of M1

    Winner to M7 · Loser to M10

    M3
    Seed 4
    Seed 5

    Winner to M7 · Loser to M10

    M4
    Seed 2
    Seed 7

    Winner to M8 · Loser to M9

    M5
    Seed 3
    Seed 6

    Winner to M8 · Loser to M6

  3. Winners’ round 3

    M7
    Winner of M2
    Winner of M3

    Winner to M13 · Loser to M11

    M8
    Winner of M4
    Winner of M5

    Winner to M13 · Loser to M12

  4. Winners’ final

    M13
    Winner of M7
    Winner of M8

    Winner to M16 · Loser to M15

Losers’ bracket

  1. Losers’ round 1

    M6
    Loser of M1
    Loser of M5

    Winner to M9 · Loser is out

  2. Losers’ round 2

    M9
    Winner of M6
    Loser of M4

    Winner to M11 · Loser is out

    M10
    Loser of M3
    Loser of M2

    Winner to M12 · Loser is out

  3. Losers’ round 3

    M11
    Winner of M9
    Loser of M7

    Winner to M14 · Loser is out

    M12
    Winner of M10
    Loser of M8

    Winner to M14 · Loser is out

  4. Losers’ round 4

    M14
    Winner of M11
    Winner of M12

    Winner to M15 · Loser is out

  5. Losers’ final

    M15
    Winner of M14
    Loser of M13

    Winner to M16 · Loser is out

Finals

  1. Grand final

    M16Grand final
    Winner of M13
    Winner of M15

    Winner takes the title, unless M17 is needed

  2. Bracket reset

    M17Bracket reset
    Winner of M16
    Loser of M16

    Winner takes the title

    Played only if the player from the losers’ side wins M16.

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

9 players fill a bracket of 16 places, so 7 places are byes. Byes go to the top seeds: seeds 1 to 7 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 9 players means 2 × 8 = 16 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: 17 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 →